An improvement in the mode of administering the vapour bath, and in the apparatus connected with it; with plans of fixed and portable baths for hospitals and private houses, and some practical suggestions on the efficacy of vapour, in application to various diseases of the human frame, and as may be beneficial to the veterinary branch of medecine [sic].

Date:: 1809

Credit: An improvement in the mode of administering the vapour bath, and in the apparatus connected with it; with plans of fixed and portable baths for hospitals and private houses, and some practical suggestions on the efficacy of vapour, in application to various diseases of the human frame, and as may be beneficial to the veterinary branch of medecine [sic]. 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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(lies are directed to remove the cold, or the fever, and it’s attendant bili- ous accumulation, the symptoms soon subside, and the constitution re- gains it’s usual balance of healtli. Two winters have elapsed Muthout any ]-eturn, to prevent her going to parties and other public places, which has seldom before occurred since the first attack of the complaint. IX. Case of JSIiss Tins young lady, of a delicate habit, was seized in October, to all appearance with a common cold, which continued, without any un- usual symptom or violence, above a week; when, on a sudden, the cough came on Avith a degree of spasmodic action, that changed the sound of coughing into a kind of barking. At this very time, it is to be observed, a number of young ladies at the same school Avere attacked Avith this nervous, barking cough. These fits increased in violence and duration, till they continued eight or ten minutes at a time, and gradu- ally exhausted her strength. Tonic and antispasmodic remedies aati’c prescribed, and a general plan of the tonic and antispasmodic treatment Avas continued, till December, Avhen the symptoms had nearly disap- peared, although the constitution AA^as still A^ery much reduced in strength. In January, 1798, some sudden surprise reproduced this same nej vous cough, so that by the ninth of the month from sixteen to eighteen fits occurred in the tAventy-four hours. On the thirteenth I Avas consulted. Finding the young lady’s pulse very Aveak and quick, and her general appearance very delicate, I recommended the trial of vital air. At the same time I had the curiosity to measure her height, Avhich Avas four feet sev’cn inches. In pursuing this tonic remedy in varied doses, according to the strength, I gradually found the cough less violent in degree, and reduced in a fcAV days from sixteen or eighteen fits to four in the tAventy- four /

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