Bathing and the bath : simple and medicated : its history, effect and mode of application, with a particular description of the patent "toilet bath" / by T.S. Lambert.

  • Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Bathing and the bath : simple and medicated : its history, effect and mode of application, with a particular description of the patent "toilet bath" / by T.S. Lambert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV. A convenient, portable, durable, and neat apparatus, one that could be used in any room, and one that could be ob- tained by the means of every one, and be made a house- hold article, has been a great desideratum. The Toilet Bath seems to answer these requirements in every respect. I was induced to invent an apparatus for vapor bathing—- in the first place, because I wanted something which I could always carry with me, for I esteemed the pleasures and ad- vantages of a vapor bath too highly to be without one ; in the second place, I wished to contrive something thai every body could obtain and make use of. All kinds of appara- tus for this purpose that I had seen were too bulky and too expensive. I thought by applying pressure I might attain the object. Experiments were therefore made, and after many that were fruitless, the success was perfect. An apparatus was made that when packed up it could be put in an overcoat pocket, that would give a vapor bath with the greatest ease in from five to eight minutes after it was unpacked. From as small as this, to the capa- city of several gallons they have been made of all size-. The usual capacity is, from one to two quarts. In case i f the large size referred to, it is used for heating the water of a warm bath as well as for vapor bathing. This pie apparatus consists of a boiler, to which are attached li hoops, flanges, &c, for the purpose of supporting it, direct- ing the flame of the generator about it, &c. Upon the top there is a cylinder with a hole in its side. Into this cylin-