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Vapour Baths may be made by putting boiling water in a pan, and placing-a cane bottom chair in the pan, the patient sitting upon it, enveloped from head to foot in a blanket covering the bath. Sulphur, spirit-vapour, herbal, and other baths may be obtained in the same manner. They should not be taken except under medical advice
 
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