A short illustration of the advantages derived by the use of sulphurous fumigating, hot air and vapour baths, in a variety of obstinate diseases / by Jonathan Green.

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.
Date:
1825
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    get well. This gentleman commenced taking- the Sulphur Fumigating Baths; the progress of his improvement was watched by several medi.- cal gentlemen in London, till his cure appeared certain. He took very little medicine, and that only purgative. He had in all one hundred and twenty-seven baths, and became quite well: nearly two years have elapsed and he still remains so.* Case 38. Lady 'C. a patient of Mr. Davis, had been sorely afflicted with a cutaneous affection in the hands, for some months: previous to her lady- ship being advised to try my baths, all other rem- edies had been of no avail; the hands, particularly the palms, were aftected with deep cracks, very painful and frequently attended with extreme itching. Her ladyship used thirty baths and was cured. Case 39. Mr. J. a patient of Dr. Yates and Mr. Brodie, aged sixty-seven, was covered with a trou- blesome itching complaint of the skin, (prurigo) for which he was advised by those gentlemen, to try my baths. This patient's case was con- sidered a forlorn one ; he had long been subject to a liver complaint; his debility was great, and he had dropsical swellings of the legs and abdomen. He began by taking the baths every other day^ with so much amendment, that he resolved to take them every day: he took thirty-six baths, and * See Medical and Physical Journal, December, 1823.