The utility and importance of fumigating baths illustrated, or, A series of facts and remarks, shewing the origin, progress, and final establishment (by order of the French Government) of the practice of fumigations for the cure of various diseases, of the joints, paralytic affections, gout, rheumatism, bilious and nervous disorders, all complaints of long standing, and diseases of the skin / by Jonathan Green.

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.
Date:
1823
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Credit: The utility and importance of fumigating baths illustrated, or, A series of facts and remarks, shewing the origin, progress, and final establishment (by order of the French Government) of the practice of fumigations for the cure of various diseases, of the joints, paralytic affections, gout, rheumatism, bilious and nervous disorders, all complaints of long standing, and diseases of the skin / by Jonathan Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The return of Napoleon, however, arrested further investigation at that time; for the hospital of St. Louis, where the apparatus was erected for conduct- ing the experiments, was converted into a manufac- tory of arms, and filled with soldiers, in lieu of patients; and, as it is well known, the country be- came in so disturbed a state as to prevent the assem- bling of the Faculty of Physic, who had already ap- pointed a committee from its members to pursue the required investigation, but they were not able to make their report till August, 1815. Medical practitioners, however, when opportunity offered, from what had already been elicited, were induced to send those patients whom they thought were likely to be benefitted; and not a few, I have been informed by Dr. Gales, of the most obstinate, and seemingly desperate cases, were subjected to this treatment, with the most surprising success. On the 22d of August, 1815, the Faculty of Physic made the following Report, which was published on the concluding day of that month. REPORT OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSIC OF PARIS. By a letter, dated the 17th of July, 1813, his1 Excellency the Minister of the Interior charged the Faculty to occupy themselves with positive experi- ments, and to make known to him the advantages in the healing art to be derived from the different new methods proposed by Dr. Gales. 3