Some observations on the utility of fumigating and other baths, applied for the cure of various diseases; with a summary of ninety-two important cases, treated at the Establishment, 40, Great Marlborugh Street, London / [Jonathan Green].

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864
Date:
1831
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Credit: Some observations on the utility of fumigating and other baths, applied for the cure of various diseases; with a summary of ninety-two important cases, treated at the Establishment, 40, Great Marlborugh Street, London / [Jonathan Green]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of cure; and hence the frequent prescription of a milder or a warmer climate. The grand desideratum that seems to have ever been wanting for the more successful prac¬ tice of the medical art, has been a something capable of imparting an energy or impulse to the various functions of the body, or, in other words, that would aid the vital powers; by which means Nature may be assisted in throwing off from the system whatever is prejudicial to its well-being. This energy may, it is true, be given to the func¬ tions or vital powers by wine, and by various drinks and kinds of food; but when these are taken injudiciously, wre have also the permanent ill effects of stimulation, producing debility or exhaustion. To France is due the honour of the discovery, thatby the exposure of the surface of the body, with the exception of the face, to the temporary appli¬ cation of different kinds of gas combined with heat, many formidable diseases are made to yield, and (according to the reasoning at that time,) to the gases alone; but experience has since con¬ vinced me, that the heat conveyed with the gases has been the preponderating agent of the cures effected. Heat, /besides being the most powerful