10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAPOUR BATH»
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A treatise on the properties and medical application of the ...
Doctor Gower's Tracts — Spirit Lamp Vapour- Bath — Warm Bath heated from
Vapour — Baths on extensive Scale — Shampooing - . - p. 77 CHAPTER VII.
Friction, by Mr. Pugh — Friction— Percussion— Pulsator, Dr. Gowcr — Simple
Means ...
2
The Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases by Mercurial
Vapour ...
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General Therapeutics and Materia Medica: Adapted for a ...
WARM VAPOUR BATH. The warm vapour bath holds a medium place between
the last and the warm water bath. The vapoury medium is a better conductor of
heat than air, and worse than water; hence its temperature, to produce analogous
...
4
The American Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge, Or ...
Subsect. 9. — Vapour Bath. 7092. The vapour bath is more powerful than the
warm-water bath in exciting pei spiration, and is often very efficacious in cases of
gout and rheumatism, and likewise it stiffness of the joints ; also in diseases ...
Thomas Webster, Mrs. William Parkes, David Meredith Reese, 1856
5
The Chemical directory, and pharmaceutists' compendium
W. CULVERWELI/S Registered Portable Domestic Vapour Bath. Tin, 12s. 6d.
Copper, 21s. May be obtained of the Inventor, 16, CHARLOTTE STREET,
BLACKFRIARS-ROAD, LONDON, and all Wholesale Druggists. TESTIMONIALS.
"I bear ...
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Shampooing; or, Benefits resulting from the use of the ...
... without success, but which I feared would terminate with a stiff jdint or
contracted leg, and was at last' recommended by one of the most eminent
practical surgeons of the present day to try the effect of your Medicated Vapour
Bath, and which, ...
7
The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases, both primary ...
Constitutional symptoms of twenty-four years' standing; prolonged use by the
iodide of potassium; great relief from the mercurial vapour bath . LVIH.—Case of
syphilitic ecthyma; cure by mercurial vapour . LIX.—~Constitutional syphilis of
seven ...
Samuel William Langston PARKER, 1860
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The Modern treatment of syphilitic diseases
Constitutional symptoms of twenty-four years' standing ; prolonged use by the
iodide of potassium ; great relief from the mercurial vapour bath . . 343 LVIII. —A
Case of syphilitic ecthyma; cure by mercurial vapour . 344 LIX. — Constitutional ...
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The Elements of materia medica and therapeutica
The vapour bath is distinguished from the hot air bath by its soothing, relaxing,
and greater sudorific influence; from the hot-water bath, by its inferior power of
communicating heat, by its greater sudorific tendency, and by its causing scarcely
...
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The Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis, Chancroid Ulcers, ...
With regard to the bath itself, Dr. M'Donnell remarks — " I found that
mercurialization did not follow even the very frequent use of the calomel vapour
bath, provided the patient did not let his head into the vapour, and inhale the
sublimated ...
John Kellock Barton, 1868
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAPOUR BATH»
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Pre-war Lido poster goes under hammer
More affluent customers could pay two shillings and sixpence (about 13p in modern money) for a vapour bath, a foam bath or a pine bath. According to the ... «Blackpool Gazette, May 15»
These Ancient Beauty Treatments Will Make You Gag and How
Vapour baths: It was more like a modern day sauna, with unknown vapours, which claimed to cure all kinds of ailments. The Victorian era bath ended up burning ... «iDiva.com, Apr 15»
The barmy inventions that time forgot
Other devices approach the Victorian notion of a clean mind in a healthy body with perhaps excessive zeal. The Hydro Vapour Bath, a solid-looking iron maiden ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
The Corkman who invented the Roman-Irish baths
He started with vapour baths, into which the patient sat, leaving the head exposed. Barter built a vapour-filled room, where patients could be exposed to 15 ... «Irish Examiner, Mar 14»
Spa treatments for men: James Cracknell takes the plunge
It opened in 1929 with the catchy title of ''Turkish and Russian Vapour Baths'' and is set in an Edwardian Grade II-listed building with high ceilings and an ornate ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 09»
Curry house founder is honoured
He later moved to Portman Square where he became an assistant to Sir Basil Cochrane at his vapour bath. This is where Mr Mahomed is said to have added an ... «BBC News, Sep 05»
