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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    to one side. She attributed this affliction from, having- taken cold the winter before, whilst taking mercury at Brighton. As there was considerable ' dryness of skin with this lady, I directed her to take the Sulphurous Fumigations, and gave her tonics; she took the baths every other day, and at the end of a week it gave me satisfaction to hear her say she was better. At the end of three weeks the swelling- disapjDeared, and she could move her head with facility in any direction; her general health was greatly improved, the skin had become soft and natural. She now discontinued the baths, but took the acidulated decoction of bark, till she considered herself quite well. It is now nearly two years since; the lady has had some slight colds, but with little or no fever, and has had no return of erysipelas, nor of swellings, to which she had always been subject.* SCROFULA AND GLANDULAR OBSTRUCTIONS. In scrofulous and glandular complaints, this remedy stands unrivalled, as will appear^ when it is considered that the effects of this mode of bath- ing, are those of producing an increasing circula- tion, not only of the blood, but, of all the different secretions and fluids of the body. The patient being submitted to an increased temperature, in a