Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1802
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Credit: Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 22 ] at a very bearable temperature. I have found the vapor bath lufficiently full of fleam at fo low a temperature as 60 degrees. When total immerfion of the body (except the head) is ufed, I in general apply it at about 94 degrees. In this ftate it is little more heating than a warm bath of the fame ftandard; though in my opinion much more powerful in its difcutient effeds. Probably at this temperature the abforbents may imbibe the fluid more readily, and its powers may be carried into the fyftem beyond the mere fuperficial application. The adion of a bath of this kind upon the body appears to be as follows:—The applying of an equal flimulus of heat over the whole furface of the body, induces an equal adion upon the furface, upon the heart, and upon all the other correfponding and fympathizing parts. It would lead me too far to enter into the proof of this at prefent; but I am in poflfeflion of fads from perfonal experiments, which have led me to thefe conclufions, and J hope, on a future occafion, to make them felf- evident to all unprejudiced obfervers. With this view of the fubjed, I am induced frequently to ufe the vapor bath, when there appears to be a torpor of any part of the fyftem, by which means I have frequently the pleafure of feeing a unity of adion reftored, or parts reftored to the fyftem, which, had they not been fo treated, would pro¬ bably
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