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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    original observations besides, and is deserving of the reader s attention. The Institution itself is, we conceive, entitled to the grateful patronage of all classes in the Scot- tish Metropolis.11 The Edinburgh Medical Journal for October 1S20, speaks of this Institution in the following manner, (p. 612.) Vapour Baths in Edinburgh. « The application of water, sulphur, mercury, and other medicinal substances, to the human body in a state of va- pour, still continues to be employed at the newly erected Vapour Bath Establishment in this city. We understand that these Baths have been successfully used in some se- vere cases of catarrh, with symptomatic fever,—in gout, rheumatism, and stiff-joints,—in syphilis, and in lepra. They have also been used in some cases of paralysis, where apoplexy was threatened, and were found not to produce that determination of blood to the head which baths of hot water at a lower temperature had done: but, on the con- trary, to give immediate relief to the giddiness and painful feelings in the head, and with decided benefit to the weak limbs. « The vapour of opium has also been tried with good effect in a case of great irritability, and without any of the inconveniences which frequently follow when it has- been received into the stomach. It is now trying m a case of neuralgia (tic douloureux.) The First Number of a Work upon the subject, by Mr Scott, has been recently, published by Messrs Waugh and Innes : the second is m. . course of publication, in which cases illustrative of the practice will be given. Medicated, and Sea-Water Baths, are thus announced: « There are other Baths administered at this Establish- ment, which have been considered useful in certain cases, by the most eminent physicians, from Hippocrates to the