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LITERATURE.

Est open( pretium copOreert. Holt.
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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RESPECTING THE AIR-
PUMP, VAPOUR-BATH, &c. &c.
By RALPH BLEGBOROUGH, M. D.
—.a.
Whoever attempts to prevent or to alleviate any
of those numerous moral or physical evils to which
our nature is heir, certainly demands our attention
and our thanks. In the little volume before us, an
apparatus for the application of the vapour-bath;
with peculiar advantage to diseased parts of the hu-
man body, is explained, and recommended by 4
variety of attested cures. The cases in which thi;
machine, uniting the benefit and power of fommta-
tion and of cupping, has been proved to be efficacious,
are those of gout, rheumatism, palsy, zdematou;
swellings of the joints, cutaneous complaints and ul-
cers. As it is impossible to give a diAintit ide iof
such an apparatus, without the assistance of an eite
graving, we must refer our readers, for their satis-
i'aaion in this resped, to Dr. Blegborough's own
work ; and must content ourselves with an extradk
on the cute of the gout, which will enable us lei
compensate, by the utility of our article, for its pos-
sible want of entertainment. It Dr. Rlegborough's ;en-
timents on thisimportant subjeddid not coincid .w:tis
our own, or di I not appear to us to be sash as might
be followed with safety at least, if not with an assu-
rance of benefit, we should regard it as our duty to
the public either entirely to suppress them, or to
produce them accompgnied with our dissent, and
with the reasons on which it was founded. In the
treatment of the gout, we are persuaded that the
use of bitters is peculiarly pernicious; and we are
equally convinced, that nothing can be so beneficial
as diet, and the warm-bath, with a proper eatention
to exercise and air, and to the preservation of the
tranquillity of the mind.
" The cure of the gout is not to he expected f o n
a pill or a potion ; charms and amulets wil, avail
nothing ; neither is it the work of one, or perhaps, in
some cases, of several years, entirely to eradicate a
disease which has been so many in eita'slishing it.
self; nevertheless, much misery may in the mean
time be anticipated by comfort. But should th!s
great objeet be attainable on any terms, or in any
period of time, he who would not willingly submit to
the means, must know little of the sufferings it in-
las, and be totally unacquainted with the nature of
a disease, which grows with our years, and curt.:ils
or renders miserable the latter half of the life of
those who are subject to it. This object then is to be,
obtained by moderating the paroxysms when pre-
sent, and by removing their recurrence to a greater
distance, by attention during their intervals. The
first of these intentions is chiefly to be effected by to-
pical applications. That no• irritation ought to be
added to the system, during the paroxysms of goat,
is entirely agreed among physicians; but it is also
agreed, that any remedies which, without producing
irritation, may tend to moderate the violence of in-
flammation, are inadmissible ; as violent inflamma-
tion weakens the tone of the parts, and invites a
more frequent return of the paroxysms, which be-
come more violent, and affed parts pfgreater conse-
quence, as the disease advances. taedricity has
been found serviceable, in some cases, during the
wane of the paroxysms, by taking sparks from the.
parts affected, the only way in which its application
is admissible. Great care and caution are, however,
necessary, not to excite the part beyond that degree,
which its sate of collapse at the time specifically de-
mands. The application of cold also, at this period,
under proper management, may be made to erodnce