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.

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1881
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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.

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    diarrhoea, have originally been caused by the perspiration being too scanty, too long suppressed, or too suddenly checked, the next bath, by renewing the normal flow of pei-spiration, gencmlly dispei-ses them entirely, and re- stores matters to their proper course. Baths.—Boudant. Tliese are of two sorts, water-baths and vapour-baths. The fii-st are administered in two ways—short and hot, at the natural temperature ; or graduated as to time and temperature according to the judgment of the physician. Boudant's account of the effects of the baths, half- baths, and douches, at the natural temperature does not differ from that of Bertrand. But he says that the hot baths at their natural temperature are less frequently used now than formerly. They are taken in the gallery of the Pavilion and in the troughs of Ramond-Rigny; most of them in half-baths. (See Boudant's remarks, pp. 44, 45.) Cesae Bath.—Lavialle du Masmorel, (See Tabic II., pp. 46, 47.) A single sentence might comprise all that there is to be said about Cresar's Bath, for the similarity of its waters to those of the Grand Bain is so exact that they differ only in one detail of small importance, viz., the tem2ierature of the water, which, as already noticed, is 2° R. higher than that of the Grand Bain, the tem- perature of which is So° R, while that of Cesar is 37° R [= 110-75° Fahr. and 115-25° Fahr.]. For this reason the time spent in Cesar should be rather less than that