Treatise on diseases of the skin : founded on new researches in pathological anatomy and physiology / by P. Rayer ... ; translated from the French by William B. Dickinson.
- Pierre François Olive Rayer
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Treatise on diseases of the skin : founded on new researches in pathological anatomy and physiology / by P. Rayer ... ; translated from the French by William B. Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![inflammation of the teguments, the results of which have appeared to me very favourable. Sea baths have been considered by Willan as very efficacious in many chronic inflammations of the skin. We know that, at the beautiful hospital at Margate, very frequent recourse is had to this therapeutic agent. At Paris, the alkaline bath, the composition of which approaches to a certain degree that of the sea-water bath, is employed under analogous circum- stances. I have endeavoured to indicate the conditions under which the application of baths and aqueous vapour may be usefully pre- scribed. It is sufficient to remark in this place, that they are to be used principally to subdue certain inflammations of the skin, to cause the fall of scales and crusts, to stimulate the circulation on those parts of the integuments upon which they are directed, and to stimulate certain chronic inflammations. They are useful also under many other conditions, as MM. Attumonelli,* Assa- lini,f Rapou,! &c, have made known, with many details. I have also tried to determine the cases in which dry fumigations are especially applicable. The fumigating apparatus, invented by Glauber§ and Lalouette,|| revived with some improvements by M. Gales,1F has been brought to great perfection by M. d'Arcet.** It is after the design of this able chemist that the apparatus constructed at the Hospital St. Louis has been executed, under the immediate direction of M. Peligot, whose name brings to mind a host of important improve- ments introduced into the government of our hospitals. We can now, by means of these ingenious inventions, direct local fumiga- tions on the face, arms, genitals, &c, without placing the patient in an atmosphere charged with the medicamental substances. Fumigations have also been used in the treatment of cutaneous diseases, by Messrs. Clarkeff and Wallace}]; in England, and by * Attumonelli, Memoire sur les Eau.v Minerales de Naples ct les Bains dc Vapewrs. Paris, 1804. t Assalini (Paul), Recherches Medicates sur les Bains de Fapeurs ct sur les Fumigations des Substances Ammoniacales, de Sou/re, ct dc Mercure, (in Italian 4to. Naples, 1820. X Rapou, Traite de la Methodc Fumigatoire, 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1823. § Glauber (Jean Rudolph), Furni Novi Philosophici, sivc Dcscriptio Artis Bistillatoria, Nova, 12mo. Amstelffidumi, 1823. || Lalouette (P.), Nouvelle Mithode dc Trailer les Maladies P'enh-icnncs par la Fumigation. Paris, 17T0. 1 Gales Memoire ct Rapport sur les Fumigations Sulphnreuscs Appliances aw Traitemcnt des Affections CutanCcs, 8vo. Paris, 1816. •• Dcsa-iplion des Apparcils a Fumigations, ctablis sur les Dtssins dc M. d'Arcet, d I'Hopitat St. Louis, en 1813, 4to. Paris, 1818. t+ Clarke (Arthur), An Essay on Diseases of the Skin, containing Practical Obsenattotu on Sulphureous Fumigations, ^-e.l2mo. London, 1821. loll Wallnce (W-) Observations on Sulphureous Fumigations, $c. 8vo. Dublin,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21447548_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
