Baths of warm air, vapour, sulphur, chlorine, camphor, and other fumigating, &c. at Mr Green's.

  • Jonathan Green
Date:
[1827?]
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Credit: Baths of warm air, vapour, sulphur, chlorine, camphor, and other fumigating, &c. at Mr Green's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Qb 6 o/P BATHS, f OF WARM AIR, VAPOUR, SULPHUR, CHLORINE, CAMPHOR, AND OTHER FUMIGATING, &c. AT MR. GREEN’S, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON, Established 1822. 40, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, REGENT-STREET, Improved upon the plan of those directed by the French Institute. three baths for a guinea, a single bath seven shillings and sixpence The left division of the plate represents a Patient about to take a Bath • th@ division on the right shows the manner in which these Baths are given. No water is used in these Baths except for vapour. The Medicines employed are such as the case may require, viz. sulphur, camphor, ammonia, mercury, &c., which bein°- converted by heat into the gaseous form, surrounds the Patient’s body, the face only being excluded; and, as the heat occasions absorption of medicine, these Baths are particularly useful in those cases where the coats of the stomach and bowels are too weak to receive the requisite remedies. The .patient thus seated in a rarefied medium, an increased vigour is given to all the functions of the body; and the pores of the skin being open, nature is assisted in throwing off' whatever may he wrong in the system, giving thereby much aid to the operations of medicine. Their efficacy may be inferred from a knowledge of the fact, that the milder forms of dis¬ ease commonly give way to the use of these Baths alone. Many persons take them, merely as a salutary process, as they produce the good effects of exercise, viz. in¬ creased circulation and perspiration, a desideratum to those who from age or other causes are prevented taking it. They are now taken and patronised by the leading Medical Men in London, being simple and safe in their operation, the most delicate of either sex and children use them, and they may he taken at any season, as persons from their use are less liable to take cold.* They are particularly indicated for those diseases which do not readily give way to medical treatment, and there is no similar Establishment in the Kingdom. * See Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. LXV. p. Ill, 484, and 494.