Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-04-20

No Wife 20 strew thy NOISY grave
iYi,h flowers, thy memory 10 keep:
No Children ,iea., .i,y carc 70 crave,
When thou dds, fall in death to sleep.
n INSTRUCTION for the cure of-ScrofuIa in all its
II rous forms, Schirrus. Tumours in their incip-
stages, cutaneous diseases, liver complaints dys
pepsa, govt, rheumatism, white swellings, asthma,
debility, and all disorders arising from the dcranse
mcnt OF the digestive organs, upon tho
MEDICAL PRINCIPLES OF
DIR. n. .MARTT.N, OF ST.4UNTO.N,
BY of the medicatcd vapcur, sulphur, sulphur
yapour and sulphur water BATHS, which are directed
baths employed with the vegetable decoctions, are
powerful auXi.arcs in the cure Of the abovementien-
ed diseases
THE effects cf The BATHS gre
tst 10 eduaiize circulation of t,e blood, and
hence to remove coldnoss of the bands and feet and
to lessen the determination or bo'v of nc blood TO
the head
end. To re. establish insensibc perspiration, and
thereby to relieve the symptoms of internal indamma-
3rd. To diminish nervous irritability.
18th. TO remove the effects of Mercury from the
system.
Before the Baths are used the system must be pre-
pared b. internal and external treatment, according
TO the disease, age and constitution OF the patient
The baths have been used in this place for four years.
with great success, and without any accident of the
most tritling nature.
The establishment is large and commodious; one
half apr oprated to the Of the ladieshe other
half for the gentlemen. They ready to 60
into operation.
internal organs, and nervous system. BY james
Johnson, NJ. D., and member of the Royal College
of Physicians, London, and Editor of the Medico-
Chirurgical Review. Published in I926-papcs
l05 and 1918.
EXTRACTS.
ave now come to the external remedial measures,
which are OF no mean importance in this class of dis
eases.
'sThe tepid bath may claim precedence. Ifthe ex-
tcnsye chain of sympathies between the skin and
for the benefl resulting from imdcious course of
warm bathing In aagmenting mild cuticular dis
charge from the pores of the surface, the warm bath
increases the internal secreons, particularly the bill
ary while at the time, it relieves the venous con-
ges,on in the portal circle, and determines the sur
face Of the body. it's of course, in deficient
ton, or torpor of the hillary organ, that the bath
can be advantageous where there is actual redun.
daney of bile, which, by the bye seldom the case
and never of long standing, have already shewn,
;. the bath would be doubtful remedy. Though
plethora in the portal circle almost invariably pre-
cedes violent orgasm in the secretory vessels of
the liver, the tepd bath might be serviceable in de.
termnns to the surface, and removing the congestion
anterior to, and thus preventing redundancy of secre
ton Speaking generally, however, it is by far the
potent and agreeable external which wa
can put in practice for tile relief those nuumerabe
morbid and anomalous feelings with which the class of
complaints under consideration is accompanied. The
vapor bsth is still eficacous than the iieuid and
where the circumstances of the patient viii permit
ought to be preferred.
''DiSoriers TO ,ctict The BGiit is applicable. DR..
Scott properly observes that there is large class of
diseases in this country, deBominaied bilious, which
arse from deficient, superabundar nG dePraved Sc
cretions of bile; hence spring arrangements of the
stomach gddiness, feverisb heat head aches, restless
ness at night, cramps and spasms, melancholy & many
OF those unhappy feelings to which the term 'nervos
has been applied.
e'where the bile is deficient in quantity, the effects
of the bath only known by the oeces returning by
degrees to their natural colors, and by gradual
Provement of the health. With people disposed to
bile, is necessary to keep the bowels very open du
ring the use of the bath; for of its effects as
have said, and on which much of its beneficial tenden
cy depends, is to produce flow of bile into the ntes
tinaf canal the consequences of which should be OBJ
waited by laxatlves- Those announcement effects of the
bath arise from the very powers which enable il to
correct more depraved conditions of the stomach and
hillary organs Although this bath with little ds.ur.
bance produces many happy effects, let ii not be SID
posed, that delicate, strong people suffer no
temporary Inconvenience. Let it always on the con
tary, be recollected that the advantages produced by
It can never be fully appreciated until the patient has
gwen up the use of il for considerable time Even
those who feel very sensible effects from il at the
moment generally in the end find their health mpro-
NOTE-Dr. Johnson's Medical work is so we'll known
tna 1t requires DO panegyric from me; still feel il
my duty to shew to the public his ideas the use of
oathing, as well to justify myself benefit those
under arrangements of the internal organs
termed dyspepsia.
At all times great truths were only established az
Ter forcing their way through the greatest obstacles
1t appears that man, often deceived guards himself
against every kind of discovery. How many do we
see, who, yielding too easily to the ascendancy of
,aOits preJudices and oftentimes of their passions
nave declared themselves the enemies or at least the
advcrsaries OF men who had other desire but that
OF ehlgbtening their contemporaries. How many ex.
amPles are TO be found in both ancient and modern
history IN support of this assertions
ohtiIibe time of Hervey, not the blood cousd-
ereu oy the ancients kind of fluid, in state of
Stagnat,on, without circulation motionl This learn
20 physician discovered, least demonstrated the
cHcuiat!on OF the blood. All the ole school was in
oPPosion las might have been expected) to this in
novauoD. The great Descartes, whom the word novel
y couo not brighten, openly declares himsefitscbam
p'on' ana gave further demonstration Of it. But no.
I"s ooud prevent Hervey from falling under the dis
grace OF ms sovereigns James the 1s and Charles tho
ISL and ms most imPacabe enemies were those who
exercised the same profession which he did.
out WITHOUT looking for examples amongst our