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The patient is seated on a chair and covered with an oil cloth lined with flannel, which is supported by a proper frame work. Under the chair are placed a copper bath containing water and a metallic plate on which is put from 6o to 180 grains of bisulphuret of mercury, or of the gray or red oxide. In syphilitic affections of the skin, testes and bones, five to thirty grains of the green iodide may be used, or twenty grains of the same salt with ninety of the bisulphuret. Spirit lamps are lighted under the bath and plate and the patient is thus exposed to the influence of heated air, steam and mercurial vapor. In ten or fifteen minutes the lamps are to be extinguished, and the patient gradually cooling, is to be rubbed dry.

- Dr. Langstou Parker.

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Have a tin case constructed, containing a spirit lamp, and having in the centre, over the flame, a small tin plate. on which fifteen to thirty grs. of calomel are placed, and around this a sort of saucer filled with boiling water. The lamp being lighted, the apparatus is placed under a common cane-bottom chair, on which the patient sits, enveloped, chair and all, in one or more large blankets, for about twenty minutes, when water and mercury will be found to have disappeared. It is better not to use a towel, as the calomel would be wiped off by it.

- Mr. Henry Lee.

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℞ Hydrargyri oxidi rubri, Hydrargyri oxidi nigri, Hydrargyri sulphureti rubri . . āā 3 j M. S. For fumigation.