On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

Date:: 1881

Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. 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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semieupium, or in any other form that may be thought advisable. As to the number of baths to be taken there is no absolute rule; but the course should rarely be continued for more than fifteen or eighteen days. Prudence also forbids their repetition at too short intervals, or their use, at the utmost, more than once in the same day, and then only by those who are blessed with a good constitution. Half-an-hour before entering the bath about sixteen fluid ounces of water from the thermal spring are ordered to be taken; a like quantity is given again during the bath, and a third like quantity afterwards when the patient is put to bed, in order to perspire. M. Lavialle du Masmorel thus sums up his treatise, The Novelty of our System and its Main Points of Difference from Ordinary Treatment:— I candidly confess that the method which I have been describing differs from the established treatment recognised by many modern [1768] practitioners; for instance,—as to the quantity of water prescribed for internal use, which is alleged to be too little; as to the use of the warm waters for ordinary drinking, which they condemn on opposite grounds as old-fashioned ; as to venesection and aperients, which they declare to be unnecessary; as to prescribing the waters in certain disorders which we exclude from their province,—such as confirmed pulmonary phthisis, and every kind of chest complaint, when in its last stage, not excluding inflammations, pure convulsive asthma, and extreme marasmus; as to the use of milk foods both before taking the waters and in combination with the waters them- selves (indeed, owing to some preconceived alarm they are afraid to prescribe milk foods at all); as to the

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