Letters and certificates, recommending the patent portable warm and hot bath : to which are added explanations of the nature of the remedy and instructions for its application ; designating some of the cases in which it will be particularly beneficial, for the use of families / by Samuel Jennings, patentee.

  • Jennings, Samuel K. (Samuel Kennedy), 1771-1854.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Letters and certificates, recommending the patent portable warm and hot bath : to which are added explanations of the nature of the remedy and instructions for its application ; designating some of the cases in which it will be particularly beneficial, for the use of families / by Samuel Jennings, patentee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Septemherr 29th, 1815. Df.ati sin, I have for a considerable length of time been in posse of your Patent Steam Math, and have bad occasion for the fre- quent use of it; my Family having been much afflicted. I must confess to you sir, that I am highly pleased with it, and I think it a great improvement in the healing art. I have never known it fail to have good eifect in any instance in which I have ap plied it. As an instance, I would state that my wife for many years was subject to a violent head ache. I thought proper to use the Bath by way of experiment. It produced immediate relief. 1 have had it applied to myself, and must say it is the- most pleasant remedy that I ever used. Yours, &c. JOSEPH CARSON. Dr. S. K. Jennings. Mr. Green, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Brougb, and Mr. Sinister, re- side in the Borough of Norfolk. I can say nothing in confir- mation of the respectability of these men, which will be contra- dicted. The concurrence of their testimony will he dec absolutely conclusive, by the Citizens of this Borough, and bv all who know their standing in society. Norfolk, October 15th, 1816. Dear sir, I was persuaded, that your Patent Steam Bath would be of r-eat service to me, the first time 1 saw an account of it. For had always been very subject to take bad colds, and in my younger days, could get certain relief by taking a good sweat in the common way; but after advancing in years, it had been with great difficulty 1 could be brought to perspire, and sometimes it could not be effected at all. As soon as an opportunity offered therefore, 1 procured one. I have now been making use of it for myself and family, which is 15 to 20 in number, for nearly three years, and my ex- pectations have been far exceeded. From time to time, we have applied it in a variety of cases, and never once, without some good effect. In ague and fever, when the cases have been recent, they have been cured by t\w first application. In three cases of the cramp cholic, and one of them uncommonly violent; in each, in about thirty minutes the patient was in a sound sleep, and within a few hours entire- ly well. I think it a duty I owe to you, as well as to the public, to state two particular instances, which have happened t© myself.—