The mercurial vapour bath : being an account of its successful mode of employment / by Langston Parker.

Date:
1868
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Credit: The mercurial vapour bath : being an account of its successful mode of employment / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    under treatment the eruption upon the skin disappeared; the ulceration of the tongue did not yield at all; when however he resumed his ordinary mode of living, the disease returned, and in a few weeks was as bad as ever. Previous to this treatment by Zittman's decoction, this gentleman had taken so much iodine that, during the sweating process, it, could be smelt, and the perspira- tion turned his linen brown. A month's treatment by the vapour of calomel and the bi-sulphuret, entirely removed every symptom of disease, and the patient has never relapsed, confimment The plan of treatment by the mercurial to the house not necessary yapour bath does Hot imperatively require during treat- ment in most j-]^g^|- fjjg patient should be confined to the cases house during its use. He should, of course, take rather more than the ordinary precau- tions against cold, damp, and night air. It must be admitted that its efficacy would be