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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    in a milder form. The first bath arrested the ulcerations. I gave him large doses of opium night and morning, and continued the same plan of treatment, in a modified form, for some days. In less than three weeks the ulceration had healed, leaving a smaller des- truction of tissue than I at first thought would be the case. There are two or three points in this case Linwuty ^ of sudden that demand attention. In the first place, the ^'■''^^ °* ulceration in occurrence of acute symptoms, without any constitution J r :> J tainted with warning, in a constitution long tainted with ^yp*^'^ syphilis; and secondly, the efiTect of the vapour treatment on such cases. I have so frequently seen the occurrence I i ^^i^* most liliely have just described in constitutions long toimpiien tainted with syphilis, that I am led to look upon it as part of the natural history of the disease. It especially is likely to occur in weakly subjects where the health has been
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