Proposal for establishing in Edinburgh, and other towns, a newly improved apparatus, for the application of the vapour of water, sulphur, and other medicinal substances, found so efficacious in the cure of rheumatism and diseases of the skin. With a paper upon the subject, which has been submitted to the perusal and received the approbation of Dr Hamilton, Sen. Dr Gregory, Dr Barclay, Dr Farquharson, and Mr Bryce / [William Scott].

  • Scott, William, -1841.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Proposal for establishing in Edinburgh, and other towns, a newly improved apparatus, for the application of the vapour of water, sulphur, and other medicinal substances, found so efficacious in the cure of rheumatism and diseases of the skin. With a paper upon the subject, which has been submitted to the perusal and received the approbation of Dr Hamilton, Sen. Dr Gregory, Dr Barclay, Dr Farquharson, and Mr Bryce / [William Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the first place, although it is but of late years that we have heard much about it even upon the continent, it is a very ancient remedy. Celsus says, that where a pain of the nerves occurs, the part that suffers must be anointed with nitre and water without oil, then wrapped up, and a slow fire of live coals and sulphur placed beneath it, and that so it is to be fumigated; and that this is to be done for some time, but fasting, and when the digestion is completed. Si dolor est} ea ipsa pars sine oleo9 nitro ex aqua perungenda est; deinde mvolvenda, et sub- jicienda pruna lenis, et sulphur, atque ita id suf- fimigandum: idque aliquamdiu faciendum, sed jejuno, cum bene jam concoxerit,” (lib. 3. xxvii. 2.) So in lib. 4. xx. 1. he says, “ Dolens vero ea sul¬ phur e sujfumigari debet” And upon the same subject, see Hippocrates in the beginning of his first book, De Morins Muliebribus. That sulphur is a most powerful remedy, in many affections of the skin, is well known. In the itch, it is admitted to be a specific. It is also known to our army surgeons who were with the troops in Portugal, Spain, and France, that natural hot Baths impregnated with sulphur, do produce ef¬ fects which hot Baths not impregnated with sul¬ phur do not produce. They know not by report, but by their own observation and experience, as the author of this paper has been informed by some, upon whose judgment and veracity he can rely, that * Celsus uses nervus for ligament or tendon, as Hippocrates does vtvgov.