Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-07-09

orIneundtlsHi, ana m all cutaneouS cruptlonS. It is likewise usefully employed as an intro- duction to the use of the cold bath. The practice of pouring cold water upon the head while the body of the patient is inn mersed in the tepid bath, is frequently resort ed to with manifest benefit in insanity and threatened apoplexy.
 Tepid bathing is particularly indicated in old age, the chilness, stiffness, and debility of which state 1t IS calculated to lessen and re- move. Franklin, Darwin, and other eminent philosophers speak in high terms of the bene- fit they received in their advanced years from the frequent use of tepid bathing.
 The best time of using it is in the morning. any time between ten and one o'clock: and gentle exercise should be taken afterwards. - In general, the period of immersion should not be less than I7Yenty minutes, nor exceed one hour.
 The 7varm bath is efficacously employed in acute rheumatism, inflammation of the abt dominal viscera, of the kidneys, bladder, and womb, in suppression of urine, and in tbe convulsons and other spasmodic diseases (of infants arising from teething and other irrfa- tions It may also be applied with safety, and good effect in most diseases of the skin, in green sickness, in slight cases of palsy in St Vitus' dance, and other spasmodic and con-
  prove too violent; in costiveness, intestinal Instructions. and other complaints of the bow els that seemed to depend on an irregular or diminished action of any part of the alinen- tary canal, and in cases of debility attended with nervous irritation. In all cases in which the constitution is injured and general state of dibility induced, either by mercury, pre- viousillness. intemperance, late hours, irregu- larity in dict or exercise, warm bathing is found to produce considerable advantage when pursued under proper restrictions; and some times, in such instances, it is continued for a considerable time with great benefits; at oth- CT times it properly employed as prepara- tion for the cold bath.
 Delicate, weakly, and nervous women, who may have suffered from miscarriages and the long train of diseases consequent to such ac- cidents, as sexual weakness attended with pain in the back and Joins, &c. will not be disappointed in their expectations of relief from warm bathing.
 When the warm bath is intended to produce increased precipitation, it is best employed in the evening, when the immersion should not exceed ten minutes, and the patient should be removed from the bath to warm bed. - When it is not intended to produce perspira- tion, any time from an hour after breakfa till dinner will be proper. In these cases the bathing may be protractcd to fifteen or twen- ty minutes, according to the feelings of the patient. Gentle exercise in the open air should follow the bathing.
 Warm bathing is particularly adapted for the purpose of promoting cleanlnesa; and consequently it tends to the prevention and cure of all diseases occasioned by nastiness, and the obstruction ofthc cuticular excrerions Early and continued attention to this impor- tant part ofdecency as we'll as of health would tend greatly to diminish the alarming number of infantile deaths in our weekly bills of nor tality. It is devoutly to be wished that every mother would look to this important means of prolonging the lives of her beloved chil- drcn.-Editor.