...When the lamps are lighted, mercurial fumes and steam are both generated, and mercury is thus directly applied to the whole surface of the body in a moist state. The bath should not continue longer than twenty minutes, when the patient should be rubbed dry and...

...mercury, or the same quantity of the gray oxide or the binoxido. Under each of these, a spirit lamp. The patient is thus exposed to the influence of three...has remained in the bath from five to ten minutes, perspiratiou generally commences, and by the end of twenty or thirty minutes, beyond which I do not...

...common steam, and the vapour, of mercury, which is applied to the surface of the body in a heated and moist state. After the patient has remained in the...commences, and by the end of twenty or thirty minutes it is generally more or less profuse. The lamps are now withdrawn, and the temperature gradually allowed...

...common steam, and the vapour of mercury, which is applied to the surface of the body in a heated and moist state. After the patient has remained in the...commences, and by the end of twenty or thirty minutes, it is generally more or less profuse. The lamps are now withdrawn, and the temperature allowed to subside...

...patient is thus exposed to the influence of three agents, heated air, common steam, and the vapour of mercury, which is thus applied to the whole surface...patient has remained in the bath from five to ten mittutes, perspiration generally commences, and by the end of twenty or thirty minutes, beyond which...