II. Vapour Baths
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This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics: An Introduction to the National Treatment of Disease", by John Mitchell Bruce. Also available from Amazon: The pharmacology and therapeutics of the materia medica.
II. Vapour Baths
Name. | Temperature. | Uses. | |
Simple Vapour or Russian. | 95 to 110° | Much like the warm or hot bath, but slower, and at higher temperature. | Much like the warm bath. A powerful diaphoretic. |
Medicated watery Vapour. | ,, ,, | The action chiefly of aromatics. | Stimulant and antispasmodic. |
Fumigations. | Various. | Specific. |
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