Observations on sulphureous fumigations, as a powerful remedy in rheumatism and diseases of the skin / by William Wallace.

  • Wallace, William.
Date:
1820
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    doingevery thing in my power to assist in its perfecti- on, and to propagate its appl ication. A s the most cer* tain mode of accomplishing this last object, I shall proceed to communicate a succinct history of the origin of the invention ; of its progress on the Con- tinent ; of the investigations to which it has been submitted ; of the results of these investigations ; and content myself, for the present, with adding, in conclusion, some general observations and re- flections, derived from my own experience in its application, as well in Hospital as in private practice.* Although we find artificial sulphureous fumi- gations mentioned, since the earliest ages of medi- cine,t as a remedy for diseases of -the skin, and even in some authors apparatuses described for * For facts connected luith the history of the invention see “ Memoire et Rapports sur les Fumigations Sulfureuses, appliquees au Traitement des Affections Cutanees, et de pJu- sieurs autres Maladies, par J. C» Gales, imprimes par ordre du. Gouvernement.” Paris, 1816.—“ Essai sur la Gale, brochure in-4o. avec Figures, a Paris,par J.'C* Gales.”—“Description des Appareils a Fumigations, etablis, sur les Dessins de M. D’Ar- cet, a THopital Saint Louis, en 1814, et successivement dans plusieurs Hopitaux de Paris, pour le Traitement des Maladies de la Peau, a Paris, 1818.”—“ Observations Pratiques sur les Fumigations Sulphureuses par Jean de Carro.” Vienne, 1819. “ Essai sur L’Atmidiatrique ou Medicine par les Vapeurs, par T. Rapou, de Lyon, D. M. P.” and also “ Dictionaire des Scien- ces Medicales,” articles Gale et Fumigation. f See Celsus lib. 3. xxvii. 2.—lib. 4. xx. 1. Hippocrates de Morbis muliebribus ; the “ Dictionaire Encyclopedique” of 1753, article “ Fumigation.”—J. P. Frank “ De Curandis Ho- minum Morbis,” Lib. iv. de Impetiginibus, “ Gazette de Sals- burg” of 1792.—See also a work, published by Glauber in 1659, entitled “ FurniNovi Philosophici.”