Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-01


ment Of the digestive organs, upon the
MEDICAL PRINCIPLES or
-, DR.. q; Martin, OF ST.4UI~TO.T,
bya use OF the medicaicd vopOur, sulphur, sulphur
vapour ana sulphur water BATUs which are directed
Tor chronic Diseases ofong standing The incdicaled
baths employed with the vegetable tccoc,ions, are
powerful auxiiarcs in tie of the aboycincnt;s
cd diseases.
The effects If The Baths are
LIST. 10 cqualize circulation of the blood, and
hence to GOODNESS Of the hands aud feet and
TO lessen the determination flow of the blood to
the head.
end. To re establish inscnsible pcrspirotion, and
thereby to relieve the symptoms of internal infan,ma-
ton.
3rd. To diminish nervous irri,ubility
9TH To remove the effects OF Mercury from The
system.
Before the Baths arc used. tho system must hspre-
pared by internal and external according
70 thc disease, age anc0nstitutiou of tho patient
1he bat ha'ob used in this pace for four years
WIN RHsat success, and without any accident of the
,pTs, trifing nature.
The establishment is large and commodious; one
half appropriated 10 the of the ladlcs--he other
halt FOR the gentlemen. They row ready to 20
into operation.
Extracts from treatise arrangements of the liver
internal organs, and nervous system. I,y james
Johnson, NJ. d., aud member ofilIe Royal Cu,lcgc
81 Physicians, London and Editor OF The NIcdico-
Ciiirurgical Review Published in I826-rragcs
los and 1918
EXTRACTS.
eve now come TO the external remedial measures
"ici are Of no mean Importance III this class Of dis
eases.
"Thc tcpid bath may claim precedence irthc OK.
tens',t chain of sympathies between the skin and i'll
terna organs be kept view, may easily account
for the benefit resulting from judicious OF
warm bathing In gagmenting a mild cuticular dis
charge from the pores of the surface. the bath
increases the internal secreions, particularly the bill
AIRY; while the time, rcev es the venois CON
Ees'ion the portal circle, and determines the sur
face of the body. is of course in deficient secrc-
on or torpor OF the hillary organ, that the bath
be advantageous where there is an actual rcdun-
dancy of bile which, by the bye, is seldom the case
and never OF long siaGdinE, as have already shown,
the bath would be u more doubtful remedy. Though
rs plethora in the portal circle almost invariably pre-
codes any violent oI6aam in the sccreory vessels Of
the liver, the tepd bath might be servceable in de-
ter'Dinng ID the surface and removing t congestion
anterior to, and thus preventing redundancy of secre-
ton Speaking generally however, it is by far the
most potent and agreeable external measure which we
can put in practice for tile relief Of those innumerable
morbid and anomalous feelings with which the class of
complaints under consideration is accomnanirJ The
raror bath is still! cfcacous ,hsn the liquid and
where The circumstances OF the patient will permit,
disorders 10 trh,ch The Bath is applicable Dr.
Scott properly observes that there is large class Of
diseases IN this country, denomnated bilious, which
arisefrom deficient supcrabundant, and depraYed Sc
cretions of bile hence spring derangemen.s of the
stomach, giddness, feversh heat head aches restless
ness At night, cramps and spasms, melancholy G many
@! hose unhappy teeags to which the term "nerycus'
Las been applied.
"where the bile is deficient in quantity. the effects
OF the bath only known by the focces returning By
degrees 10 their natural colors, and by gradual i'm
provement Of the health. With peopie disposed ,o
bile, it necessary to keep the bowels very omen d
ring the use Of the bath; for one Of it's effects 40
have said, and which much of its beneficial tenden
cy depends is 10 produce Cow of bile into the ntes
tinal canal, the consequences of which should be OBJ
waited by lazRtves. Those mcoIve nicnt effects of the
bath arise from the very powers which enable i, 20
correct more depraved conditions of the stomach and
hillary organs Although this bath with little dst,r
bancr, produces many happy effects let it not be sup
d., lie
temporary inconvenience. Let it always on the con-
rary be recoected, that the advantages produced by
II can never be fully appreciated until the patient has
given up the use OF it for considerable time. Even
those who feel very sensible effects from it Mt the
moment, generally in tho end find their health irnpro
we'd"
NOTE-Dr. Johnson's Medical work is SO well known
that ii requires panegyric froin me; still feel il
my duty TO shew TO the public his ideas tile use of
bathing, as we'll TO justify myself TO benefit those
labourng under arrangements of the internal organs
commonly termed dyspepsia.
~ all tines great truths only established af.
ter forcing their way through the greatest obstacles
II uppears that man, often deceived, guards himself
against every kind of discovery. How many do we
see, who, yielding too easily to the ascendancy of
habits, prejudices and ofentimes of their passions
have declared themselves the enemies or at least the
adveFsaries OF men who bad other desire but that
of snhghtening their contemporaries. How many ex
amples to be found in both sncien, and modern
history in support Of this assertion!
Until the time of tIervey, was not the blood consid
cred by the ancients a kind of fluid in a state of
ed physician discovered, least demonstrated the
circulation Of the blood. All the old school was in
opposition, las might have been expec,ed 10 this in
novation. The great Descattes, whom the word novel
~ could not frghten, openly declares himself its CHAM
pion, and gave further demonstration of it, But no.
Thing could prevent Hervey from falling under the dis
grace Of his soveregns James the 1s and Charles the
1st and his most impacable enemies were those who
exercised the same profession which he did.
But without looking for examples amongst oar
neighborsou own country not free from unius,
preudices against this same Descartes, this transeen
dent genius, who the first to enter career which
was gorthy Of him alone, who has, by single stroke
we'll drawn the character Of mankind. when he saws
eli is as easy for to shake of hs prejudces as
IL would be for man TO burn his own house" Was
not he accused of atheism, who endeayorsd to prove
by a new theory, the existence of a God! And to A.
void the prosecutions of his enemies, was he not COM
PEELED seek asylum in the fFgid climates of the
nor; there to regain that tranquility which he could
uot find in lis country Melancholy fate Of illus
trious men SO much for the moderns
What then may not anticipate, whose new princi.
vles calculated overthrow from its very basis the