Shampooing, or, Benefits resulting from the use of the Indian medicated vapour bath, as introduced into this country, by S.D. Mahomed, (a native of India) : containing a brief but comprehensive view of the effects produced by the use of the warm bath, in comparison with steam or vapour bathing : also a detailed account of the various cases to which this healing remedy may be applied, its general efficacy in peculiar diseases, and its success in innumerable instances, when all other remedies had been ineffectual : to which is subjoined an alphabetical list of names (many of the very first consequence,) subscribed in testimony of the important use & general approval of the Indian method of shampooing.

  • Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Shampooing, or, Benefits resulting from the use of the Indian medicated vapour bath, as introduced into this country, by S.D. Mahomed, (a native of India) : containing a brief but comprehensive view of the effects produced by the use of the warm bath, in comparison with steam or vapour bathing : also a detailed account of the various cases to which this healing remedy may be applied, its general efficacy in peculiar diseases, and its success in innumerable instances, when all other remedies had been ineffectual : to which is subjoined an alphabetical list of names (many of the very first consequence,) subscribed in testimony of the important use & general approval of the Indian method of shampooing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    even more singular services to the afflicted, than I have yet, from time and circumstances, had it in my power to perform. r <. . <• ! ... • . . CASE I. Sir,—I have the pleasure to inform you that my son. remains in good health, and happy am I to say, that I am fully persuaded his recovery, under the blessing of Pro- vidence, was owing to the use of your Vapour Bath. He had, before placing himself under your care, tried every thing the first medical practitioners could recommend, but got no relief.— It is therefore due to you, and proper for the public to know the great advantage that has resulted to him by the use of your Baths. I have referred a gentle- man to you this day,—his name is Hamilton. I hope your advice may prove similarly beneficial. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, WM. SLARK. 16, Cockspur-street, Haymarket, London. CASE II. My dear Sir,—Being now on the point of (putting this place, after a residence of six weeks, during which I have taken sevcn-and-thirty of your Vapour Baths, accompanied by the usual routine of Shampooing, or rubbing the limbs, for an obstinate chronic rheumatism, and general debility