Observations on sulphureous fumigations, as a powerful remedy in rheumatism and diseases of the skin / by William Wallace.

  • Wallace, William.
Date:
1820
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    his method of cute, as well as the reports and observations to which it has given origin ; and I have the honour to forward to you copies of this collection. It is much to be desired, that the method of Dr.Gales be adopt- ed in great hospitals, and in other establishments, such as depots of mendicants and houses of detention, where it is necessary to treat scabies and other cutaneous and chronic affections. There is every reason to believe, that there would result from it a very great saving of expenditure in the treatment of these diseases. You will therefore please to distribute the copies which I send you, to the administrators and to the physicians of esta- blishments of this kind, which are in your department; and to prevail upon them to establish, in these houses, apparatuses proper to administer sulphureous fumigations. I freely authorise you, M. the Prefect, to defray the ex- .pence, which shall result from the purchase of these appa- ratuses, either out of the funds of those establishments which shall judge it proper to procure them, or, if you desire it, out of the funds for the accidental expenses of your department. I have the honor, M. the Prefect, of offering you the assu- rance of the most distinguished consideration. The under Scc?'etarg for the Home Department, Becquey. After the promulgation of this circular, and the publication of the memoir, the invention was re- ceived with universal acclamation; and, thus finally established in France, it soon began to spread it- self in every direction over the continent of Eu- rope ; and, wherever used with attention and judg- ment, the results have not been less honourable to the cause of medicine, nor less consoling to huma- nity, than those derived from its application in the country, in which it originated. To Dr. de Carro, the highly accomplished and illustrious Physician of Vienna, long known as a