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Important facts, proving the great utility of Captain Jekyll's patent portable vapour bath, in the cholera morbus ... yellow fever ... and in rheumatism, gout, pulmonary disorders / [John Jekyll].

  • Jekyll, John, -1839.
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1828
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Credit: Important facts, proving the great utility of Captain Jekyll's patent portable vapour bath, in the cholera morbus ... yellow fever ... and in rheumatism, gout, pulmonary disorders / [John Jekyll]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xx Blane, 1820, on the Epidemic Cholera of In- dia, says, ‘‘that Hot Baths and Hot Friction are prescribed.’’—zbid. p. 287. James AnnesLey, Esq., Surgeon of the General Hospital at Madras, and Garrison Surgeon of Fort St. George, prescribes the Warm Vapour Bath in the Epidemic Cholera of India, &c.— ebid. p. 300. Mr. James Boye, Surgeon of H. M.S. Minden, recommends the Warm Bath in Cholera.— ibid. p. 302. } *,* The Medical Gentlemen mentioned above, prescribed also Bleeding ; with Calomel and other Mercurial preparations in Cholera. Sir ArTour CiarKe recommends the Vapour Bath during the application of Mercury, and found, in an extensive practice of eight years, that in conjunction with it, but half the quan- tity of Mercury was required to effect a cure in one-half the time; besides preventing the poisonous effects of this mineral. Sir ArTHuR CLARKE, p. 177, observes, “that no act of benevolence could be more essential to the comforts of the Community, than that of esta-
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