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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    means, without this, would be useless. The good effects of moderate or increased heat, in eases of failure of the powers of life, must be obvious to those wdio think on the subject; but it is necessary that this point should be clearly brought home to our conviction. Heat being requisite for the maintenance of animal and vegetable life, its temporary applica¬ tion occasions a consequent energy in all the living functions, whilst cold (its opposite) retards and depresses those functions, occasioning, first, a paleness and contraction of the vessels of the skin, and diminished action of the heart and arteries; and consequently it impedes the equal circulation and distribution of the fluids of the body. The cold, even of autumn, is sufficient to destroy the smaller animals, as ants, flies, &c.; the dormouse and marmot become torpid, and serpents hard and brittle, even to break as sticks; yet life in them is only suspended, and the warmth of spring restores them to feeling and activity. In cold latitudes the more robust ani¬ mals feel’the same influence; the bears of the Polar regions become torpid for months, and in those countries partial death frequently seizes even on human/subjects; noses, ears, and toes