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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    37 running from the neck, down the spine. I then had him placed in the bath, having previously observed his increasing anxiety, and the usual altered appearance of his face. For eight minutes he still complained of cold, but no rigor; his face remaining as when he went in. The heat was encreased agreeabl}'^ to his feelings, and his countenance gradually assumed a mottled appear- ance : it then became slightly flushed, which went on increasing. I now could calculate the fit would be averted: it was so, for whatever breaks through the chain of recurrence of these fits, frequently cuts short the disease. This gen- tleman recollecting the long continuance of his disorder, and the severity of the attacks, was in isuch apprehension, that he came every other day^ a little previous to the expected return, till he had had six baths. Suffice it to say, the first bath cured the ague, as he never had a fit subsequently : and by the time he had taken the sixth, he had lost all dropsical swellings, and was perfectly conva- lescent. Ague generally leaves much debility; but this gentleman recovered his strength with a ra- pidity truly astonishing. He sometimes calls on me, always declaring he never was in better health in his life, which he believes was saved by this mode of bathing.