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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    which too often oppose and retard every deviation, from tlie beaten track, our opinion of human nature is seldom elevated. The prejudices against this mode of bathing in England have began to subside. Indeed that there should have been any objections to a remedy, which is urged and recommended by commissioners appointed to deliberately inves- tigate, and report on its merits, and those com- missioners too selected from the most talented men that ever adorned the faculty of medicine,* is not a little surprising, particularly when that commission has positively declared, for the cure of cutaneous and chronic diseases, it is infi- nitely superior, in respect to eifficacf/, innocency^ and economy^ to all other methods previously resorted to, till the present time.* I shall conclude this address with a short quotation from a work lately published by my friend Mr. Gaskoin. Although the diseases with whose treatment I had already commenced, had resisted all other remedies, the results are very satisfactory. With respect to herpetic diseases, I have cured, without any internal remedy, many of the most obstinate, which had been for years the torment of those they afflicted. However effi cacious these fumigations may be, in different diseases of the skin, they are still more so in chronic rheumatism, in a variety of pains in the * See Copies of Documents in the Pamphlet, quoted in page 2.