Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

  • Coyne, Phineas.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    country, wherein the external application of the “ nitro-muriatic acid1’ would be found most mate¬ rially to assist in the restoration of their health. As my opportunities for observations and trials were very considerable, I lost as little time as the nature of the information, and proofs necessary, would admit; and when I had what I considered a sufficient number of cases, I wrote, and got printed, and meant to immediately publish, the result of my experience; but about the period I allude to, (three years ago) in a conversation with the late Dr. Scott, (my much lamented and parti¬ cular friend, the discoverer of the remedy now in question,) he told me, that “ if his health permitted, he would certainly publish some remarks upon “ the effects of the nitro-muriatic acid bath, and “ several cases wherein he had used it.” After such communication, let me ask, would it not have been the very acm6 of presumption in me, to forerun, by any publication on the subject, such a man? Independent of which, I have no hesitation in saying, that I willingly abandoned the field, from a sense of my own incompetency to combat the attacks (undeserved attacks) then made upon it, and of his superior knowledge in every respect. Dr. Scott’s health daily declined, and his con¬ stitution (so shaken by a long residence in India) evinced no power to rally. He believed that the sudden vicissitudes of this climate were extremely injurious to his constitution, and he determined to