Shampooing; or, benefits resulting from the use of the Indian medicated vapour bath, as introduced into this country ... containing a ... view of the effects produced by ... the warm bath, in comparison with steam or vapour bathing ... To which is subjoined an alphabetical list of names ... in testimony of the ... general approval of the Indian method of shampooing / [Sake Deen Mahomed].

  • Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851
Date:
1822
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Credit: Shampooing; or, benefits resulting from the use of the Indian medicated vapour bath, as introduced into this country ... containing a ... view of the effects produced by ... the warm bath, in comparison with steam or vapour bathing ... To which is subjoined an alphabetical list of names ... in testimony of the ... general approval of the Indian method of shampooing / [Sake Deen Mahomed]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    people chiefly, this art originated, with them the medicated Bath has been brought to such perfection as to supersede the ne¬ cessity of internal remedies for disease. Many complaints to which we are subject, arise from languid circulation and from an inactive state of the animal functions, and which, in most instances, resist the use of medicine and beget consequences the most protracted and fatal. The native practitioners of India, are aware of this, and act upon it as a principle, and Shampooing has always proved a most salutary and eifec- tive remedy. It does not become me, perhaps, to say anything against warm and cold Bathing, they are both useful in their way, particularly the latter. Sudden immersion in cold water pro¬ duces in some cases, a most powerful effect on the system, it is bracing and wholesome, but ought to be used with great caution by people at all advanced in years. The sea water warm Bath, has more the quality of a luxury, than for any real virtue which it possesses in a medicinal point of view, and is always attended with danger, from the liability to take cold after. Not so with vapour, during our exposure to which, a profuse perspiration natural takes place, but we are no sooner out of the Bath than we cease to perspire and gradually cool. / have never known an instance of taking cold after the use of this Bath, but I can recite innumerable cases after the application of the warm Bath. The reason of this is simple 5 the pressure of the water during immersion prevents exsudation ^ the pores, are, as it were, incased by the weight of the external fluid, and when that pressure ceases, copious extillation follows from the whole system 3 this takes place as soon as we remove from the Bath, and by the exposure to the air, we naturally, by the sudden transition, subject our¬ selves to cold. Now, in the use of the Vapour Bath, I have before observed, exsudation takes place during the process, from their being no pressure to confine free emission from the pores, and as soon as the Bath is left, even the common air, which were it warmed to the same degree of heat as the Va-