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 mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

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 mode of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    that mercury had been used occasionally for a year back, and many other of the remedies recommended in this disease, but without any good etfect. As those . from whom I derived the best information I possess, always instructed me to look to the liver and bowels for the origin and cure of dropsy of the brain, I con- sequcntly proposed to put the child (J'orlot'ti as the case was) into the nitro-muriatic bath twice a day, with the hope of its producing a discharge from the bowels. The medical gentleman, and friends of the child, readily agreed, as indeed they were disposed to do whatever was proposed. I put the child sitting in a bath which contained six gallons of water, to which upwards of six ounces of the compound acid were added—the heat of the water was be- tween 96 and 98 degrees, and I kept the child in for twenty minutes. After this, the skin felt more natural, lost the clammy feel, anti the pulse was quicker by six beats ; these were the only per- ceptible changes. In ten hours I repeated the bath, ami kept him in for half an hour; and after he was put to bed, he fell into an apparently sound sleep, without the moaning which he was lately in the habit of. I roused him from this sleep in two hours, add he swallowed two or three tea-spoon- fuls of arrow-root and wine, without any difficulty.* He closed his eyes when the candle was applied, and on the whole appeared more alive. I ordered him a simple injection, from which • Previous to this, for two day*, a tea-spoonful of arro-wroot would remain in his mouth for nearly a minute, aud then »Up down, as if without his assistance, or power of prevention.