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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    -i 4 are attended by a copious expectoration in the mornings, and this continues, from time to time, throughout the dayand the disease going off at last, the patient enjoys his usual rest by night, without farther disturbance. The pulse is not necessarily affected in this disease, though often quickened by the dif¬ ficulty of breathing. In plethoric habits, the countenance is flushed and tinged during the fit 3 but in others, rather pale and shrunk: in the former too, some difficulty of breathing and wheezing usually remain in the interval 3 in others, the re¬ covery is more complete. On this is founded the common dis¬ tinction of asthma into the humid, pituitous, or catarrhal, and the dry, spasmodic, or nervous forms. The exciting causes are various :—accumulation of blood, or viscid mucus in the lungs, noxious vapours, a cold and foggy atmosphere, or a close hot air, the repulsion of eruptions, or other metastatic diseases, flatulence, accumulated faeces, violent passion, organic diseases in the thoracic viscera, &c. Sometimes the fits return at pretty regular periods 3 and it is generally dif¬ ficult to obviate future attacks, when it is once occurred : but it often continues to recur for many years, and seldom proves fatal, except as inducing hydrothorax, phthisis, &c. The treatment of this disease by the faculty, varies ma¬ terially, and is guided in general by the nature of its appear¬ ance, and in young persons of plethoric habits, the abstraction of blood is successfully resorted to. In ambiguous cases cup¬ ping is preferable, or leeches to the chest, with blisters. Mild cathartics are also serviceably employed. Nauseating emetics have been found of great use. Squill combined with ipecacu¬ anha, opium, fetid gum resins, smoking and chewing tobacco, strong coffee^ and various other things, compounds and sim¬ ples, are administered with effect at times 3 but much depends on the age and disposition of the patient, and more on the at¬ mosphere as to temperature, dryness, purity, &c. The regimen bf course is a material point, and must be paid the most rigid attention to in all stages of the disease. B