A dissertation on the artificial medicated water baths, partial pumps, vapourous and dry baths, internal and external moist and dry fumigations, oleous, saponaceous, spirituous and dry frictions. Together with a description of the apparatus, erected in Panton-Square, Hay-Market ... To which are added, many ... cases of cures / [Rhodomonte Dominiceti].

  • Dominiceti, Rhodomonte
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1782
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Credit: A dissertation on the artificial medicated water baths, partial pumps, vapourous and dry baths, internal and external moist and dry fumigations, oleous, saponaceous, spirituous and dry frictions. Together with a description of the apparatus, erected in Panton-Square, Hay-Market ... To which are added, many ... cases of cures / [Rhodomonte Dominiceti]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the READER. Jn this Difiertation I have expreffed myfelf (as in my firft edition) agreeable to the opinion of the moft efteemed men of the profelfion, in order that my readers might not be milled by the artful in- linuations of deligning ignorant perfon9, to follow a method of preferving health, and curing difeafes fo juftly efteemed, and fuccefsfully pra&ifed by molt of the ancients, and recommended by many of the modern phyficians. The great imperfec- tion in which the mode of preparing and applying operations fomewhat limilarto thole hereafter de- feribed, was in, before my Father took them in hand, theimprovement, and innumerable additions he has made of his invention may be known by re- fer fog the reader to his Medicinal Anecdotes'*, and how much farther I have extended their utility may be learned by the prefent edition* The cafes and cures in the feventh chapter, are inferred by the defire of the patients I have cured, whofe kind, and humane requell I thank- fully accepted, as I am fenlible, that few are in- telligent of phylic, or phylical reafoning, yet * Vid. Medical Anecdotes of the laft thirty years, illuf- trated with Medical Truths, and addrefs’d to the Faculty in general by B. Dominiceci, M. D. printed for L. Davis, in Holborn; C. Dilly, in the Poultry ; W. Nicoll, in St.Paul’s Church-yard ; and J. Walter, at Charing Crofs.