Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne.

  • Coyne, Phineas.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations (from experience) on the aid obtained, in various diseases, (particularly those incidental to tropical climates,) by the external application of the nitro-muriatic acid in a bath : with several cases, wherein it has been used by the author with great utility. To which is added, the present most approved method of mixing the acids, and preparing the bath / by Phineas Coyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    remaining portion was perfectly torpid, and gra¬ dually destroying the constitution. With these ideas, and fearing the effects of mercury upon a constitution already broken down, he agreed with me in using the nitro-muriatic bath. We com¬ menced by putting the patient into a bath that contained twenty gallons of water, to which we added about twelve ounces of the compound acid, and gradually increased the quantity of acid each night, until he had nearly an ounce to the gallon. He remained in the bath from fifteen to twenty minutes, sometimes thirty or forty. On the third and fourth nights of using his bath, the pains of his hip and thigh, which before were excruciating, had so much abated as to leave him quiet; and although he got little or any sleep, yet he felt more refreshed and alive the following days than he had for months before. On the sixth night the whole nervous system (which previous to this was in such a state of irritability) was so tranquil, that he slept soundly for five hours.* His bath was continued every night for nearly a month, during which he was so much relieved, in every respect, that nothing could have dissuaded him from its use. The bowels were now more active, and the discharges had a pale yellowish appearance. After two months’ regular use of the bath, he was obliged to leave it off for ten days, in conse¬ quence of his gums being very spongy, and feeling otherwise much affected by the remedy, or its * The only medicine he took was a little vegetable tea (cold) twice daily; and if his bowels required aperients, he was ordered some of the lenitive electuary.
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