The treatment of syphilitic diseases by the mercurial vapour bath : comprising the treatment of constitutional and confirmed syphilis by this safe and successful method, with numerous cases and clinical observations / by Langston Parker ; compiled from the 5th London ed. by John W. Foye.

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The treatment of syphilitic diseases by the mercurial vapour bath : comprising the treatment of constitutional and confirmed syphilis by this safe and successful method, with numerous cases and clinical observations / by Langston Parker ; compiled from the 5th London ed. by John W. Foye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN' THE EXHIBITION OF THE VAPOUR BATH. [See Frontispiece.] Fig. 1. — Cabinet having a capacity of twenty- two cubic feet, air tight, where not perforated for ventilation, and sufficiently commodious to aUow the patient to stand or sit at will. Light is admitted through two plates of glass at oppo- site points; and the lamp is lighted through a small door (not seen in the plate), which opens on the floor of the cabinet, opposite the entrance. It is fixed upon castors, and easily moved to any part of the room. Fig. 2. — Heating apparatus complete, with a short section of rubber tube attached. Fig. 3. — Copper boiler of the capacity of twelve ounces. It is heated by a jet of gas, which passes through a Bunsen burner to ignite on the surface of a perforated disk two inches in diameter, fur- nishing a blue flame equal in intensity to that of alcohol, and capable of evaporating ten ounces of water in twenty minutes. A funnel passes through the boiler, and supports upon its sum- 1* 6