An account of the new institution in Edinburgh for the application of vapour, mineral water baths, &c. &c., No. 8 Broughton Street : with the history of the successful cases that have occurred at it in the following diseases.

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1822
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Credit: An account of the new institution in Edinburgh for the application of vapour, mineral water baths, &c. &c., No. 8 Broughton Street : with the history of the successful cases that have occurred at it in the following diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pumping, and Douche cle Vapeurs. Pumping mineral waters on weak limbs has been used with such success at Bath, as to require nothing farther to be said upon it; but the Douche de Vapeurs is still more important, and for this we are indebted to M. Rapou of Lyons. See the First Number of this Work, page 28. It can be used in all cases where pumping is employed, and in many others. Considerable benefit has been ob- served from it at this Institution, as it can be applied locally in ringworm, to the hairy scalp in scaldhead, to the eye, to the ear, and to any joint where stiffness or the loss of vital power has taken place. By this remedy a blister may be raised in a few minutes, and much more conveniently than by a cupping-glass, which was the practice adopted by Burnet in a dangerous case of apoplexy; and by the promptness with which it was done (an hour,) he considered that he had saved his patient's life; whereas by the Douche a bhster may be raised not only in much less time, but with much less pain. Cupping. This was a very favourite remedy with the ancients, particularly with Celsus and Galen. It was highly com- mended by the late Dr Gregory in all those diseases in which Celsus advises it, particularly in apoplexy, as the Doctor considered leeches in that disease to be quite trifling. Dr Hamilton, junr. also regrets to his class that he is pre- vented from prescribing this remedy, as there is no one in this place that practises it so as to do it with neatness and dexterity. This objection is now removed. A gentleman of skill, who adopts the method of Mr Mapplcson in London, has been engaged to cup for this Establishment.