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

Date:
1868
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    broken down by long continued internal courses of mercury or iodine; but it very rarely occurs, if the first symptoms of consti- tutional disease, and the earlier relapses, have been thoroughly treated by the mercurial vapour bath. In this case again, it must be observed, that the vapour arrested the ulcera- tion at once, and in such instances it almost invariably does so. Efficacy of X have so frequently seen secondary ulcera- tbe baths In such cases ^jg^^g ^]^g gQfj. palate, such as those just described, arrested at once by the mercurial vapour bath, that I should have hardly thought this case worth recording, but for another circumstance attending it. When this patient first consulted me, he said, Doctor, I have lost the sight of the right eye for some years, owing to an attack of iritis, I suppose you can do nothing for that? I replied, « I am afi-aid not. But