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.

Date:
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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    tropical climates and at sea, inay now be considered as es- tablished. For the first, we have the above authority from the pen of Dr Scott of Bombay, quoted as decisive upon that subject by Dr Marcet, p. 46. And considering how im- mediate the sympathy is known to be between the skin and the urinary organs, this fact is very important. For the second, we have the authority of Mr Copland Hutchinson, a Surgeon in the Navy, On the comparative infrequency of Urinary Calculi among Sea-faring People. The extensive and invaluable researches of this gentle- man, who is an honour to his profession, may be found in the ninth volume of the Medico-chirurgical Transactions, p. 443. Mr Hutchinson has proved, that only five cases in the Naval Hospitals, from 1800 to 1815, both years in- cluded, can be considered as having originated among the vast mass of individuals composing the British Navy in the eventful space of sixteen years, and these years of un- exampled efforts and more strenuous exertions than any in the British annals and he observes, that five cases of stone occurring out of 86,000 hospital patients gave only one in 17,200. From Dr Armstrong he ascertained, that in his time there was no instance of any sea-faring man having this disease in the Dispensary at Sunderland; from Dr Ramsay the same, in the Infirmary at Newcastle-upon- Tyne for ten years ; from Dr Bostock the same in the In- firmary at Liverpool; from Dr Rigby the same in the Hospital at Norwich since 1772; from Mr Bayn the same in the Infirmary at Bristol for 83 years. Mr Hutchinson also gives us the following important piece of information, which confirms the Author in his opinion of the great value of the Vapour Bath in this disease. The lower deck being always the part allotted for repose, the ports are, for the safety of the ship, necessarily closed all night, and the temperature of the surrounding air is thereby so