Remarks on baths, water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold and vapor baths / By M.L. Este.

  • Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Remarks on baths, water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold and vapor baths / By M.L. Este. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this country, as they are commonly in India, and the Levant, or as they should be, according to the intended methods. And I must further observe, that however well understood they may have been in forn)er times, they certainly are neither duly appreciated, nor gene- rally resorted to at present. In the schools in Edin- lurghj in Lo7idon, and vpon the Continent, these expe¬ dients Avere seldom named, when I attended them between 1793 and 1800. Though the use of cold effusions has since been recommended in the lectures at Edinburgh, as appears by Dr. Gregory’s letter to Dr. Curry, dated Edinburgh, November 9th, 1803. Dr. Gregory’s letter relates to the success of cold affusions in Scarlatina. He therein states, your obser- vations appeared to me very interesting. I transcrib- ed into one of my note-books that part ofyour letter 4 “ verbatim, and have read it the two last winters in “ college, when treating of the cynanche maligna; tell- “ ing my pupils that I had no personal experience of the practice, but that I thought your testimony in its favour, and analogy of the good effects of the