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Title: A treatise on the properties and medical application of the vapour bath : in its different varieties and their effects : in various species of diseased action
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Gibney, Joannes
Subjects: Vapor baths Balneology Balneology
Publisher: London : Thomas and George Underwood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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VAPOUR BATH, laced a thin piece of board, by means ofyoung and pliant oziers, passed throughperforations for that purpose, and workedinto the cradle; and a circular orifice is madein the centre of the board, or a little belowit, for the admission of the point of the curvedtube, so that it may be tightly fitted to itsdiameter/—The tube in Dr. Gowers suda-torium is curved, and formed of tin-plate,grooved and made to rest upon the lamp,which is placed upon the floor of the cham-ber; and, in place of the perforations beingin the top of the lamp, they are madethrough the lowest part of the tube, a littleabove the part at which it is joined to thelamp :—The tube from the bottom to whereit is inserted into the lower part of the cradleis thirty inches, which is of sufficient lengthto prevent the air being too hot on comingin contact with the patient. In some parti-culars, the lamp with the spirit of winecould be caused to burn without a wick orwicks, whiclj are in a great degree unneces-
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< i FRICTION, SHAMPOOING, ETC, 8l sary, and indeed the spirit of wine seems toact without them, besides admitting of aquick and certain extinction, by the aid of acaver or extinguisher, as soon as the opera-tion is finished.* The patient should be wrapped in flannelor a blanket, and in this way profuse sweat-ing may be obtained at the heat of 85° ofFahrenheit, more effectually in many casesthan at a higher temperature ; indeed, a bedheated to a certain degree by the usualmeans, which heat being kept up for a muchlonger time than usual, constitutes a simpledry Vapour-bath of no small efficacy. From what has been mentioned, respect-ing the necessary quantum of heat to reducewater into vapour, and the rapidity withwhich vapour imparts its heat to colderbodies, a warm fresh or sea-water bath may * The whole of the articles for a sudatorium may behad of Mr. Dedrick Smith, Tin-plate-worker, 14, Ger-rard-street, Soho; or of Moser, and Co., 52, Frith-street,Soho, London. S2 ON VAPOUR BATH

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