The mercurial vapour bath : being an account of its successful mode of employment / by Langston Parker.

Date:
1868
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Credit: The mercurial vapour bath : being an account of its successful mode of employment / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    methods of treatment had foiled. I recollect — in particular the case of a young gentleman 2^^^^ from Arkansas, who was under my charge on ^»p°^- ^'^ account of tertiary syphilis of long standing, accompanied by an enormous amount of rupial action of the skin, one of the sores being fully as large as a dinner plate, who was promptly cured, comparatively speaking, with the bi-sulphuret of mercury, after a great variety of other means had been fruitlessly employed. My opinion is that this method of treatment is not sufficiently appreciated ; it certainly deserves the highest encomiums. The bath should be administered in the Description of the ap\ tus and n of using r • 1 ••II oftlieappa- folio wmg way: the patient is placed on a tus ana mode chair, on the seat of which should be put a thin cushion, he should be covered over with an oiled cloth, or india-rubber cape, lined with flannel, or a blanket. The coverings should be made tight about the neck, so as to pre-
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