A short illustration of the advantages derived by the use of sulphurous fumigating, hot air and vapour baths, in a variety of obstinate diseases / by Jonathan Green.

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.
Date:
1825
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Credit: A short illustration of the advantages derived by the use of sulphurous fumigating, hot air and vapour baths, in a variety of obstinate diseases / by Jonathan Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it was needful he should get up again. From his own account to me, there was perhaps no medi- cine of repute in these cases, which he had not tried; assisted too by the united suggestions of his numerous medical friends—all was of no avail; he took great quantities of opium, and his family was disturbed all night with adminis- tering hot baths, rubbing with various embroca- tions, leeching, cupping, blisters, &c., in short, he was in torment himself, and was the teaze every night of his family. This gentleman took but four of these Sulphur Fumigating Baths, and has been entirely free from all pain ever since, now more than two years. After the first and second baths, he found his complaint aggravated, which he could account for from the excitement, and knew it was not a bad sign : he persevered, for all his accustomed remedies had never had any effect on the disease one way or the other. The pain left him entirely the night after the third bath, and for this complaint he only took four baths: he takes a bath occasionally, more from choice than necessity, and has never had a relapse of his complaints.* Case 16. Mr.C. a barrister, aged about thirty- five, had been afiiicted with sciatica for more than a year, before he came to me, during which time he had taken and applied numerous medicines and