(Published In 1892 )

In St. Vincent's Hospital, Seventh Avenue and Tweltth Street. New York City, a suite of rooms has been arranged and fitted for ordinary and special baths, as shown in plan in Fig. 1, where A A are reclining and massage rooms with chairs, sofas, tables and other furniture. B B are steam rooms, C is a needle bath, D a Turkish bathroom, E an electro-chemical bathroom, and F is a special medicinal vapor bathroom, where the patient is seated inside a marble cabinet G, within which his body is surrounded by the medicated vapor. The opening L fits about the patient's neck, so that his head is in the outer atmosphere. Figure 2 is a general perspective view of the cabinet G as closed, and Fig. 3 is the same open. The wails, panels, bottom and adjacent wainscot are of Italian marble, and all the exposed metal-work is silver-plated. A channel H H H is cut in the bottom slab, and may be filled with water from pipe I, commanded by valve J. Any required substance may be dissolved in this water, and when the patient is properly seated, with his neck in the opening L, the panels P P P P are closed and steam admitted through the valve K to the pipe H, which is perforated on its under side, produces the vapor. The vapor is chiefly confined by the close lap joints of the marble. M is a stand-pipe overflow and waste plug, and N N are brass counterweights, lead-filled. Figure 4 shows the joints of the panels a, b, c, d, e, and g. Fig. 2. The work was designed and constructed by Byrne & Tucker, New York City.

SPECIAL BATHS IN ST. VINCENT's HOSPITAL, NEW YORK CITY.