A dissertation on the artificial medicated water baths, partial pumps, vapourous and dry baths, internal and external moist and dry fumigations, oleous, saponaceous, spirituous and dry Frictions; together with a description of the apparatus, erected in Panton-Square, Hay-Market, at the solicitation of many of the faculty, nobility and gentry, for the purpose of preparing and applying them. With an account of their nature and efficacy in the cure of most disorders incident to the human body, supported by the opinions of the most eminent physicians, both ancient and modern; To which are added, many well authenticated cases of cures performed on persons of credit and reputation / by R. Dominiceti.

  • Dominiceti, Rhodomonte.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A dissertation on the artificial medicated water baths, partial pumps, vapourous and dry baths, internal and external moist and dry fumigations, oleous, saponaceous, spirituous and dry Frictions; together with a description of the apparatus, erected in Panton-Square, Hay-Market, at the solicitation of many of the faculty, nobility and gentry, for the purpose of preparing and applying them. With an account of their nature and efficacy in the cure of most disorders incident to the human body, supported by the opinions of the most eminent physicians, both ancient and modern; To which are added, many well authenticated cases of cures performed on persons of credit and reputation / by R. Dominiceti. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To prove that this difeafe was known, iho'Jgh very feldom felt^ by the ancients (owing to their ihing the Artificial Medicinal Baths) it is neceffary for me to take notice of a palfage in'Hippocratcs*, who dcicribes the fcurvy under the name of the di- feafe of the fpleen, in the following manner ; “ The perfon vvho is fciled with this diforder, has his abdo- men inflated, and his fpleen becomes tumid, hard, and afiiictcd with acute pains. The colour of the face becomes black or pale, and pimples refem- bling nodfurnal puftules, appear on the legs; the , limbs are extenuated, and the patient is coitivef’—^ Pliny § confifms it, as follows: “When Ctefar’s army was on the other fide of the RJmie in Germany^ by their drinking infilutary waters, luppofed to be contaminated by fomefpells, there appeared amongft i them two new diforders ; one of which being a pu- trid and fcKtid diforder of the mouth, they called, by means of v/hich, in tw'O years time, all the teeth dropt out; whillf the other fo injured the nerves of the legs, as to loofen the joints of the knees, and velicate the legs ; from which it got the name of oxEX'tyffSn.jj I'o cure this dileale, fays Boerhaave\, we inuft ren- tier moveable that which is Ifagnant; and fluid, that which is coagulated •, we rniUt attenuate what is too thick, and give a proper confiftence to that which is too chin •, and likewife, what is fharp and corrofive mu ft be reduced mild and inoffenfive. * Oe internis Affeclibus. § Hiifor. Natural, lib. 25, cap. •:>. j| ] have cited thefe remarks, to fliew, that the antients had forne operation fimilar to mine^ wlr.ch kept them from the Scurvv, aud not, as fome would have us believe, bccaufe, at that time, no fuch fymptoms were known, in all probabi- lity, if the difeafe did not cxift in Engla.nd before the time of CiEl'ar, it was then brought over. X In his 1156 and 1157th Aphor, if Morgan