American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-06-27
From Tie Boston GaLaru.

VAPoR BATH-We have been requested 10
publish the following extract of letter from a
physician of extensive practice in the City OF New
York TO his friend in this town, relative to the Med
zeal Vapor Ba h.
I'VE have been successful, particularly in the
treatment OF all diseases Of the skin, from Lepra
Grocorum TO Tinea Capis This itself is great
triumph over Pandora ana her box. We have also
been particularly fortunate in the treatment of old
syphilitic and rheumatic cases, complicated with
scTofula, nodes. ulcers, and eruptons. Seyel al.
severe asses OF quinsy, Group, hopping cough,
tcaDus, sc. sc. aud that formidable train OF dis
eases which have been supposed to have their orr
gin IN spasm or constitution. have all without ex
cep,ion, given Way 10 the timely aid oil the Vapnr
Bath, with other active medical Treatment. Indeed
the catalogue of acute diseases whish are immedi
atel, relieved, aud, 10 almost every instance cured
mi hit be run out to indefinite leng,h. Nor is
analogy or common sense at variance with self
evident iacts; Tor, we take person laboring
under the most acute stage Of typhus, or any
other fever, with hot, dry skin, parched tongue
ardent, uuquenchabe thirst quick, hard, and full
pulse; violent head ache delirium place HIM in
The Vapor Bath at about 1909 or 1920, for about
ten or fifteen minutes-what will be the result ?
why, there Will be an immediate cessation oil all
The aggravated symptoms. The skin will become
relaxed, soft, AVID moist, and if we please copous
respiration may be made to flow The tongue
will become moist, the heat oil the body will be re
duced 90 or 90 degrees; ardent thirst ahaed pain
relieved; pulse reduced from 90 10 80 or Sc and
senses returned. If, in this state, the patient be
put to bed, and allowed to take as much cool drink
as he wishes the perspiration will continue, and
every SYMPTOM Of his previous ndisposiipn vanish
Wha, them would ask, is this but the long, lonp
sought Tor desidefalum medcorum, crisis Bn
here IS the stage where the judicious management
OF the skul physician is brought 10 the test; for
u TINS crisis be neglected, the patient will, in a
gwen time, relapse again into his former state
WIN even aggravated symptoms; but il the pa
uen be freely evacuated by brisk cahariics, and
the skin kept moist with large quantities of cool,
simple drinks the patient viii to a certainty, recoy
er, without the least return Of fever or any symp
toms OF his former complaint.
his is no exaggei ated colored statement of
the powers or effects produced by the aid OF the
Moderated Vspor Bath on the body Of person la
boring under disease but facts which am OF all
times ready to prove to any person, who may wish
to be satisfied on the subiect.''
From the .Naw FORK Commercial .qdcertiser
After having been afflicted for more than tuenfu
screen months With a total paralysis of one hall Of
my body and limbs, accompanied alter nately with
cramps and spasms Of The most excruciatinp tor
lures in the limbs and breast, my respiration being
very laborlous and painful and alter having fol.
lowed the advice aud prescriptions Of some of the
most skliiul physicians, perhaps, in the Union
with little or no benefit effect, was recently in
duced to test the virtues of the .Nedicated Fapor
man, and am happy in having it in my power to
state or the benefit OF those who may be laboriDe