Vindication of the introduction in Edinburgh of vapour and medicated baths, for diseases of the skin, rheumatism, etc . about five years ago / by Mr Scott.

  • Scott, William.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Vindication of the introduction in Edinburgh of vapour and medicated baths, for diseases of the skin, rheumatism, etc . about five years ago / by Mr Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '6 afford it the benefit of these remedies, the authority of a few able and well-known medical writers is here referred to. In the Edinburgh Monthly Review for June 1820, the First Number of the Work on this subject (above alluded to,) with a Proposal for this Institution, is reviewed in a very full and superior manner, and is thus spoken of at page 389. It (the Pamphlet) has for its object the restoration in an improved state, or rather, as it relates to this country, the introduction and establishment of a mode of treatment, which is known to have proved highly serviceable in for- mer times, and in other countries, as a cure for several dis- eases. A brief notice of its contents is all that we think necessary to excite the public mind, so far as our influence extends, to a duly interested consideration of the subject, if not to decisive patronage.—And again, at page 690: The manner in which this (Establishment) is to be conducted, is specified, and we think affords reasonable ground for hoping that some important benefits will be the result of public encouragement—more especially as the in- tention is avowed of extending its application to the poor, m the event of adequate subscriptions being obtained.'1 Dr Johnson, in his Medico-Chirurgical Review for Sep- tember 1820, speaks of it thus, (page 336.) This is the First Number of a Work which is design- ed to be published, not exactly periodically, but as mate- rials may accumulate or present themselves. TheEstablishment forVapourBaths in Edinburgh has been got up under the direction of Mr Scott, and we are informed is patronised by the Faculty, and likely to be generally encouraged by the public at large. « Mr Scott has traced the origin and importance of these Baths from Hippocrates downwards, and gives numerous extracts from, or rather an analysis of, Dr Dc Carro's work, Sur les Fumigations Salfureuses, lately published at Vienna. The Pamphlet contains many judicious and