A description of the apparatus of arbitrarily heated and medicated water baths etc. erected in Panton Square, Haymorhet, in ... 1779 / [Rhodomonte Dominiceti].
- Dominiceti, Rhodomonte
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A description of the apparatus of arbitrarily heated and medicated water baths etc. erected in Panton Square, Haymorhet, in ... 1779 / [Rhodomonte Dominiceti]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( ** )' milk, or of any other fuitable liquor :—their vift p is alfo various; fome ferve to warm, fome to refriT gerate; others to dry, and fome to mitigate pain; \ others to mollify and difperfe, and others to : flrengthen. In Ihort, they are good for the difor- ders of the head, ftomach,, abdomen, inteflines^ i loins, uterus, bladder, and joints.” | They were no lefs particular in their fomenta- ' tion, as the beforementioned Author obferves, Chap^ \ 31, Humida itaqiie foments inflammatio.mhus con- j 'ueniunt a hiiiofts humorihus faUis, ^icca vero bis ,1 qu^e a tenui et aquofo fangiiine produdla Junt^ et lenia \ quidem fomenta mordacihus humorihus conveniunt^ mor^ ■ ] dacia vero et attenuantia craffis ac vifcofisd^ Moift fo- | mentations are good in inflammations, eauled by bilious humours—but the dry are for diforders pro-r jduced by attenuated and watery blood, the Ibftening /! and mollifying fomentations are good for fliarp and j corroflve humours, and thofe made of fharp and aN \ tenuating fubflances, are fit to redlify glutinous and j vifcQUS fluids.—Boerhaave repeats very nearly th^ fame \ thing for the cure of difeafes proceeding from a j fpontaneous gluten. Baths (fays he) are either wet or dry; the former ad: by relaxing and diluting; ; to thefe therefore are added aromatic herbs, which \ flrengthen and attenuate, and at the fame time fric^ ] tions are ufed ; afterwards the dry baths are of fer- vice, by exciting a greater heat; but as the whole external furface of the body is covered with bibu- lous veins, the virtue of thefe aromatic herbs may ' be tranfmitted through them, cfpecially when they are relaxed in the bath.—And Hippocrates de affec^ tionibus plainly fays, that whatever part the pain invades, Ihould be treated with baths, fomentations, and emollient liniments.—Medea^ who (as Palae- phatus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792071_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
