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

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

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    39 (p)—The line of direction, in which the hot hearth or metal plate runs; which is placed over the fire place kt and over the flue which leads to the tube q, and serves to separate them from the chamber of the apparatus already described. (y)—A tube which communicates by its lower end with the flue of the fire place k. This flue runs under the hot hearth placed in the direction of the line p, and is separated from the floor of the room by two courses of bricks. The upper end of the tube q is bent at an obtuse angle, to enable it to pass into the funnel of the chimney of the room, in which the appara* tus may be placed. (r)—One of the tubes, (the other not being seen,) which serves to convey the vapour or gas from the box, in which it opens, into the tube y, and thence into the chimney of the apartment. (5)—The handle of the valve of the tube q, by means of which this tube may be shut or opened, entirely or in part, and thus diminish or encrease the draught of the fire place. (*)—The handle of the valve of the tube r, by means of which the draught from the box, by the tube r, into the tube q, is re« gulated. (w)—The ladder by which the patient ascends into the apparatus. MODE OF USING THE APPARATUS. It is supposed that the apparatus is cold and in good repair, and that we wish to administer a fumigation of sulphureous acid saturated with w*atery vapour. We commence by closing the valves t of the tubes r; we open the valve 5 of the tube q, and kindle the fuel on the grate of the fire place k. When the interior of the box is heated to a proper temperature, which will be denoted by the thermometer h, we introduce the patient into it by the ladder u. Having regulated the height of the stool b by means of its screw, so that when the patient is sitting, the top of his shoulder shall be about half an inch below the level of M