An inaugural dissertation on the warm bath : submitted to the examinations of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the eighth day of June, 1801 / by Henry Wilson Lockett.
- Lockette, Henry Wilson.
- Date:
- 1801
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the warm bath : submitted to the examinations of the Rev. John Ewing ..., the Trustees and Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the eighth day of June, 1801 / by Henry Wilson Lockett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 5! ] I am inclined to repeat an obfervation that I have feveral times made, that it would prove much more efficacious when preceded by fome evacuation in children of fanguine tem- peraments. It effected the firft cure of the difeafe de- nominated fkin-bound, that ever was perform- ed. This is a difeafe of peculiar mor- tality, for near nine tenths of all the chil- dren perifh who are attacked by it. Children are frequently much oppreffed with obflinate conflipation, and after all other remedies have failed, the warm bath has re- lieved the little fufferers and fnatched them from the jaws of apparently inevitable death. When children are fo troubled with worms as to occafion obflinate contractions of the mufcles fituated on the extremities, the warm bath is effentially neceffary. To enumerate all the difeafes of children in which this remedy is recommended would be a ufelefs tafk for me, fince I can refer to fo many authors who have written exprefsly on them, and detailed their caufes, fymptoms, and cure, with a perfpicuity and judgment, which do the highefl honor to their names. The Indians are fubject to few difeafes, though thefe are of the moil violent and in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21137468_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
