The Russian bath : published with a view to recommend its introduction into England for hygienic as well as curative purposes / by Mathias Roth.

Date:
1852
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Credit: The Russian bath : published with a view to recommend its introduction into England for hygienic as well as curative purposes / by Mathias Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    350 times: a a, the two primitive fibrils of the nerves at the base of the papillae; b, final loops, which are properly the organs of touch, and so closely placed near each other that there is not a spot upon which we could place the point of a needle without touching some of them. III. A ball of sudatory glands and its vessels, mag- nified thirty-five times: a, ball of glands; b, excretory duct, or sudatory channel; c, vascular net surrounding the glands. According to the numerous observations of Krause, the average number of sudatory glands, each assumed to be of the size of one-sixth of a line, approxi- mates to 2,380,000; the smallest quantity per square inch is on the neck, back, and breech, 417; while the largest is on the palm of the hand, viz., 2,736. By this admirable structure the skin is enabled to carry waste matter out of the system, to protect the body against external influences, and to be an organ of absorp- tion, and the seat of sensation and touch. It is essential that the skin should perform these different functions in a regular way, if health is to be preserved ; because, as soon as the activity of any of them is deranged, the most varied diseases originate in the internal organs. This explains why the Russian bath, if rationally used, is so B