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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    agent, admits of a more general application than any other with which we are acquainted; and when applied in the manner just mentioned, it answers many of the purposes for which medi¬ cines are prescribed. It is strange that so ready a medium should have been floating, as it were, before our senses for ages, without being brought earlier into scientific requisition: but mere chance, in many instances, has been the origin of some of our grandest and most useful discoveries. That nothing has ever yet been found which so effec¬ tually aids the vital powers, without being fol¬ lowed by ill effects, as the temporary application of warmth, or heat, remains now to be shown. Heat, of an appropriate temperature, is proved to be the supporter, nay restorer of life, animal as well as vegetable, and it is so closely con¬ nected with the vital energy, that its influence is absolutely necessary to animate, invigorate, and beautify all the works of the creation. Young animals that have been starved, either from cold or hunger, never perfectly recover, and cannot possibly thrive, without heat: heat enables plants to grow, to put forth their flowers and mature their fruit. Persons apparently drowned are mainly recoverable by heat; and all other b 2