Vindication of the introduction in Edinburgh of vapour and medicated baths, for diseases of the skin, rheumatism, &c., about five years ago / [William Scott].

  • Scott, William, -1841.
Date:
[1824]
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Credit: Vindication of the introduction in Edinburgh of vapour and medicated baths, for diseases of the skin, rheumatism, &c., about five years ago / [William Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VINDICATION OF THE Introduction in Edinburgh of Vapour and Medicated Baths for Diseases of the Skin, Rheumatism, $c. ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, By MR SCOTT, No. 8. Broughton Street. Edinburgh, July 1. 1824. Prom what I have read of late in the public prints of this place, and other papers in circulation, if I had been a stranger to my chief occupation for the last five years, I should have been led to suppose that Vapour and Me¬ dicated Baths had been introduced into the practice of this place, for Diseases of the Skin, for the first time with¬ in the last three months; but, although all notice has been studiously avoided in the publications above alluded to, of what I have done or written for the introduction or advancement of this practice, I was perfectly astonished, knowing what I do, to hear that, upon an occasion when application was made for patronage to a new Dispensary for Diseases of the Skin, and some surprise expressed by the gentleman applied to, that any medical man in this place should be so little acquainted, as was professed by the person applying, with me or my Institution, that he should insinuate, and even assert, that mine were sim¬ ple Vapour Baths, and that no Medicated Vapour Baths were administered at my Establishment. I have now be¬ fore me my second paper, which was published by Waugh and Innes in the beginning of 18£2, upon this subject,