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.

  • Scott, W. (William), active 1831.
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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SI Gibosite, traitee avec beaucoup de succ^s par les douches de vapeurs. Maigreur extreme, occasionee par la trop grande ac- tivite des organes digestifs et guerie par les bains de va-i peurs sulfureuses. Mai'asme ou maigreur extraordinaire, liee h une sorte d'irritation habituelle du foie, et guerie par les bains de vapeurs. Catarrhe pulmonaire chronique, gueri par les fumiga- tions sulfureuses et les frictions. Symptomes precurseurs de fievre muqueuse,* produits par une suppression de transpiration et gueris par Pusage des bains de vapeurs. Pleuro-peripneumonie commen^ante, guerie par les bains de vapeurs aromatiques. Catarrhe pulmonaire aigu, gueri par I'usage d'un bain de vapeurs aromatiques. Irritation chronique de la muqueuse gastro-intestinale, avec fievre hectique, guerie par les bains de vapeurs. Doleur pleurodinique, guerie par F usage de trois douches de vapeurs. M. Rapou has very properly published, at the end of his book, the Keports of two Commissions appointed to examine his apparatus and his practice. The first is the Report of a Commission ap- pointed by the Prefect of the department of the Rhone, and in it there is the following passage. The application of external remedies is of ex- treme importance in the cure of tetters and other * Huxham's low nervous fever. PInel says, La fievre que Huxham designe sous le nom de fievre lente nerveuse, montre une certaine serie de symptomes qui conviennent par- faitment a la fievre pituiteuse ou muqueuse. 1 Nosographie,! 18.