4 1# ^HBAINIHV^ %/OJIW3-JO^ <- u_ ^lOSl&x i/^*^ /a ; OF-CAL!F(%, ,^OF-CALIFO% * ,*-***. T? & >. x. ^ s %*^Mf ^ "v/saaAiNn^vvv* ff % ~*\ l y - ^iiri ^ c ^r t/^v^^ , ^ U 33 0^ i ^/03!1VJ-JO^ 1 1 4. )II S ? fe i I % ^uB-AHcna^ 1^ ^7ja3AINMttV S '"fe i ^i )a ' V '^J^^. *^7,nt&JwJur&t>?i&, ^sU^petm/, / s? " ^7 JiW702z.i>yJ.a>rdwe&.at,hisl&?ojitiy. 20. Great ajt Street. SHAMPOOING; OR, BENEFITS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF TEE INDIAN MEDICATED VAPOUR BATH, <&g tntnrtruce& inter fyte Country, BV S. D. MAHOMED, (A Native of India) CONTAINING A BRIEF BUT COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE USE OF ^?&J&m IB&3HD9 IN COMPARISON WITH STEAM OH TAPOTJK BATHING. ALSO A detailed account of the various Cases to which this healing remedy may be applied ; its general efficacy in peculiar diseases, and its success In innumerable instances, when all other remedies had been ineffectual. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES (Many of the very first consequence,) gtu&gmbtfr tn testimony of tljc important u& & jjttimil apj)r0&al OF THE INDIAN METHOD OF SHAMPOOING. (deconft BRIGHTON : PRINTED BY CREASY AND BAKER, GAZETTE-OFFICE, NORTH-STREET. 1826. shaij.r,: > ylt To yrirr Stack Annex s oil MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, IN TESTIMONY OF DEVOTED RESPECT, The following sheets are ETJMBLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS MAJESTY S MOST DUTIFUL, AND TRULY OBEDIENT SUBJECT AND SERVANT, SAKE DEEN MAHOMED. Brighton) lit February, 1823. 2017273 rxaiuaao Y.I'JHT and which in many instances resist the use of medicine, and beget consequences the most protracted and fatal j the native practitioners of India are aware of this, and Shampooing has always proved a most salutary and effective remedy with them. 18 rally speaking, less successful ; this seems to be unquestion- ably the case in this instance, if I may draw that flattering conclusion from the exalted patronage and public confidence so generously extended to me ; it is, therefore, needless to say more on this subject, since the public have, and no doubt will continue, to decide the claim to superiority, by the choice of their election. CHAP. I. IN the Introduction I have endeavoured briefly to enumerate a few leading particulars of the difference in effect, between Steam or Vapour Bathing, accompanied by Shampooing, and the common Warm Bath ; the success which has attended my method of Shampooing, makes me desirous of laying before the public, such incontestible proofs of its general efficacy, as will confirm what I have urged in favour of the benefits resulting from itB application as a concomitant on the Steam or Vapour Bathing. The cases I have arranged under separate heads, and I commence with a description of the disease, and the general mode of treatment from the best authorities, as follows : There are three species of Asthma ; 1. Asthma Spontaneum, when without any manifest cause. 2. Asthma Plethoricum, when it arises from plethora. 3. Asthma Exanthematicum, originating from the repulsion of some acrid humour. Asthma rarely appears before the age of puberty, and seems to attack men more frequently than women, particularly those of a full habit, in whom it never fails, by frequent repetition, to occasion some degree of emaciation. In some instances, it arises from an hereditary pre-disposition, and in many others 20 it seems to depend upon a particular constitution of the lungs. Dyspepsia always prevails, and appears to be a very prominent feature in the pre-disposition. Its attacks are most frequent during the heats of summer, in the dog-days, and in general commence about midnight. On the evening preceding an attack of asthma, the spirits are often much affected, and the person experiences a sense of fulness about the stomach, with lassitude, drowsiness, and a pain in the head. On the approach of the succeeding evening, he perceives a sense of tightness and stricture across the brea&t, and a sense of straitness in the lungs, impeding respiration. The difficulty of breathing continuing to increase for some length of time, both inspiration and expiration are performed slowly, and with a wheezing noise ; the speech becomes difficult and uneasy, a propensity to coughing succeeds, and the patient can no longer remain in a horizontal position, being as it were, threatened with immediate suffocation. These symp- toms usually continue till towards the approach of morning, and then a remission commonly takes place ; the breathing becomes less laborious and more full, and the person speaks and coughs with greater ease. If the cough is attended with an expectoration of mucus, he experiences much relief, and soon falls asleep. When he awakes in the morning, he still feels some degree of tightness across his breast, although his breathing is probably more free and easy, find he cannot bear the least motion, without rendering this more difficult and uneasy j neither can he continue in bed, unless his head and shoulders are raised to a considerable height. Towards the evening, he again becomes drowsy, is much troubled with flatulency in the stomach, and perceives a return of the difficulty of breathing, which continues to increase gradually, till it becomes as violent as on the night before. After some nights passed in this way, the fits at length moderate, and suffer more considerable remissions, particularly when they are attended by a copious expectoration in the mornings, and this continues, from time to time, throughout the day; and the disease going off at last, the patient enjoys his usual rest by night, without farther disturbance. The pulse is not neces- sarily affected in this disease, though often quickened by the difficulty of breathing. In plethoric habits, the countenance is flushed and tinged during the fit 5 but in others, rather pale and shrunk ; in the former too, some difficulty of breathing and wheezing usually remain in the interval ; in others, the recovery is more complete. On this is founded the common distinction of asthma into the humid, pituitous, or catarrhal, and the dry, spasmodic, or nervous forms. The exciting causes are various : accumulation of blood, or viscid mucus in the lungs, noxious vapours, a cold and foggy atmosphere, or a close hot air, the repulsion of eruptions, or other metas- tatic diseases, flatulence, accumulated faeces, violent passion, organic diseases in the thoracic viscera, &c. Sometimes the fits return at pretty regular periods ; and it is generally diffi- cult to obviate future attacks, when it has once occurred 5 but it often continues to recur for many years, and seldom proves fatal, except as inducing hydrothorax, phthisis, &c. The treatment of this disease by the faculty varies mate- rially, and is guided in general by the nature of its appearance, and in young persons of plethoric habits, the abstraction of blood is successfully resorted to. In ambiguous cases cup- ping is preferable, or leeches to the chest, with blisters. Mild cathartics are also serviceably employed. Nauseating emetics have been found of great use. Squill combined with ipeca- cuanha, opium, fetid gum resins, smoking and chewing tobacco, strong coffee, and various other things, compounds and simples, are administered with effect at times ; but much depends on the age and disposition of the patient, and more on the atmosphere as to temperature, drynesss, purity, &c. The regimen of course is a material point, and must be paid the most rigid attention to, in all stages of the disease. Thus have I attempted a brief treatise on asthmatic com- plaints, and the mode of treatment resorted to by the faculty. I may now be permitted to state my remedial method, 22 under the various and conflicting circumstances of this disease The cases which follow will speak for me ; they will prove, af least, the qualified success which has attended me in these instances, which with little difference, actuated by circum- stances, were all relieved by the same simple means. I admi- nistered to the patient daily the Vapour Bath, prepared in some little degree different to that which I apply in other cases, and ordered him to be kept warm. " This only is the witchcraft" which I use in relieving the virulence of this In innumerable other similar cases, my efforts have been attended with the same satisfactory results, and to enter fur- ther into the mode of treatment I adopt, is, and must appear, wholly needless. CASE 1. SIR, I spontaneously give testimony, under my hand, of the great service I experienced by your medicated sea-water Vapour Bath, and Shampooing. I do it the more willingly because I desire the good of others j it being a pity that such a valuable remedy should not be made public. I have been afflicted with a bad cough and asthma, for five years, and have been so ill for the last two months, that I could not lie down without danger of being suffocated. I lost my senses three or four times in the day, and as often at night, so that I dropped out of my chair motionless. Bv taking your baths a few times, I am infinitely better, and have not had a fit since. You are welcome to make what use of this you please, for the good of others. M. WALKER, No. 13, New Steyne, Brighton. Feb. 1st. 1815. CASE II. DEAR SIR. The great benefit I have derived from the use of the Shampooing bath, induces me to address you, not omit- ting my cordial thanks for the attention 1 received during the time 1 was under your care. I have been troubled with a con- firmed asthma, for more than ten years, and have suffered greatly from the violence of the repeated attacks arising from change of situation, and from exposure to humid and thick atmospheres. During the ten years, with the exception of the last eleven months, I have never been free from the most dis- tressing and painful fits of this disease for a month together, but, since the application of your bath, and the soothing effi- cacy of your method of shampooing, / have never experienced a return of those dreadful attacks, which rendered life a bur- then not that I mean to affirm, the malady is effectually removed, but that its virulence is considerably mitigated, and it is but justice due to you to make this candid avowal, and to acknowledge my firm conviction, that no better remedy can be applied in cases like mine, than that by which I have derived so much benefit. I was always of a weak and delicate habit, and therefore cannot say that I am perfectly in health, but, since I was first afflicted with the disease, of which you have so signally relieved me, I have never been so well and so perfectly free from pain, and all the attendant symptoms of that afflicting and terrible complaint. I cannot too gratefully express myself for the service you have rendered me, and I trust I shall never forget your unde- viating attention to me, when under your kind care at Brighton. 1 am, dear Sir, yours very faithfully, Burton Crescent, Oct. 14, 1819. T. HERON. CASE III. MY DEAR SIR, It gives me infinite pleasure to take up my pen to return you my sincere thanks for the service you have 24 rendered me, by the recommendation of your Vapour Bath for the amelioration of the dreadful malady under which I have so long suffered. Prior to the use of your Bath, I scarcely passed a fortnight without a fit of asthma, but since I first tried the Vapour, I have neither been troubled so frequently, nor so severely, as before. If my time and occupation will allow of it, I shall pass .nearly the whole of next winter in Brighton, for the purpose of trying further the virtues of your Bath and Shampooing. I am, my dear Sir, Yours very truly, ^Oxford-street, Jan. 14, 1821. GEORGE MARTIN. CHAP. II. CONTRACTIONS. MY success in the treatment of this disease gives me confi- dence to assert, my pretensions to a knowledge of it theore- tically, are not without a just foundation. In this instance, as in every other, I appeal to the testimony of the cures I have performed, to the acknowledgment of those cures in the hand-writing of the patients themselves, (can better evi- dence be adduced ?) to bear me out in what I advance. There are four kinds of Contraction, viz. 1st. Contractura ab inflammatione, when it arises from inflammation. 2d. Contractura <5 spasmo, called also tonic spasm and cramp, when it depends upon spasm. 3d. Contractura ab antagonistas paraliticos, from the anta- gonist muscles losing their action. 4th. Contiactura ab acrimonid irritante, which is induced by some irritating cause. There is also another description of contraction, called contractura articularis, originating from a disease of the joint. One and all of these species of disease have repeatedly come before me, and in no instance has the patient left me unbene fitted, and seldom not effectually cured. I might exceed the limits of this book, were I to venture on the different methods resorted to by the faculty, to afford relief in the various stages of this complaint : yet I challenge the most successful and effective mode practised in physic or surgery, to prove so many cases of beneficial treatment, as I can by the simple but efficacious remedy of Shampooing. I will proceed at once to the evidences upon which I rest my humble claims, and which, I trust, will justify my previous assertions. CASE I. 1, Mary Edwards, hereby declare, that in January last I was attacked by a severe cold and fever which settled in my limbs, contracting the joint of my right knee, so that I was wholly unable to walk, and causing the most excruciating pain : al'ter using Mr. Mahomed's Baths about fifteen times, I v/as greatly relieved, and am now in a rapid state of recovery. Brighton, Sep. 12th, 1814. CASE II. SIR, In compliance with your request of yesterday's date, I feel much pleasure in stating, for the benefit of whomsoever it may concern, that, in the year 1816, I was completely crippled, from contractions in both legs, and that from the use of your Bath for six weeks, I found myself greatly recovered. In the years 1817 and 1818, I likewise tried them again, for a shorter time that is to say, in 1817, for a week, arid 1818, a fortnight, and both times derived great benefit j insomuch, as I am now, with the excep- tion of a little stiffness, as well as ever. Begging my best respects to Mrs. Mahomed, I remain, dear Sir, Your most humble servant, EDWARD OXENFORD. Camberwell, March 1, 1819. 27 CASE III. I, Alfred Lucas, was cured of lameness in the knee and contraction, by a regular course of Vapour Baths and Sham- pooing, in the short space of six weeks, and have left my crutches with Mr. Mahomed. Brighton, July 31st, 1819. CASE IV. Having been afflicted with a contraction of the knee, which was occasioned by a violent inflammation of the nerves, I was recommended to try Mr. Mahomed's Fopour Baths and Sham- pooing, which perfectly cured me in the course of three weeks. H. GODDARD. Upper Seymour street, Portman Square, London. . ; w$ ,f CASE V. SIR, My case has been considered by all who knew of it, to be a very singular one, and I hope its publication will even- tually be of great use to others who may be subject to any similar affliction. For ten or twelve years I had a pain in my right arm, the strength of which gradually decreased j this I thought arose from rheumatism, until last winter, when I found myself quite disabled. I went to two eminent physicians of this town, who ordered blisters and leeches, but without effect ; at length advised by a friend to try your valuable Vapour Bath (finding it not the rheumatism, as I expected) I became seriously alarmed, as the CONTRACTION assumed so formidable an appearance that I could not move my arm from my side. I must confess I was in a sad state of affliction and despondency, when I applied to you, hearing you had performed a number of wonderful cures in similar cases to mine j from the second Bath I experienced great 28 benefit, and could move my arm comfortably, and, with a? little help, raise it upon my head three other baths completely testored me ! This most singular case I beg you will make public, for the advantage of the afflicted j and any further information that may be desired, will be cheerfully given to any person who may call on me for such a purpose. I am, Sir, yours, &c. ELIZA NEWNHAM. 49, Ship-street, Brighton. CASE VI. SIR, Impressed with feelings of the sincerest gratitude for your services, it becomes a duty incumbent on me to give every publicity to the case of my sister, Maria Cord well, who has been most miraculously cured by the application of your Shampooing or Indian Baths. Maria Cordwell, at the age of seven years, was attacked with considerable pain and swelling in the knee, and loss of the use of her side, which none of the medical gentlemen who attended her could account for. She remained in this state eighteen years, receiving the advice of Drs Garthshaw, Walshman, Pearson, Thomas, Fothergill, and Heavisides, all of whom pronounced her incurable 5 her knees had also become GREATLY CONTRACTED from a blister, ordered by Dr. Thomas, being on seven days, which entirely prevented her walking but with the assistance of two crutches, and then but for a very short distance, Having fixed my residence in Brighton, and hearing daily of the numerous cures you performed, I felt anxious she should make trial of your Vapour Baths -, though, from the attentions and advice she had received so many years, I must confess, J felt little hope of success, judge then my surprise and joy in beholding her, after the short period of six weeks, walk several times up and down the room without crutches ; nay, without any assistance whatever ! She has recovered the use of her side, and her knee is so little contracted that she is enabled to put her foot to the ground and walk a considerable distance, without even the assistance of a person's arm. This, Sir, I am proud to acknowledge to the world, is solely by the use of your Medicated Indian Vapour Baths j and I beg you will at any time refer the afflicted to my house, where my sister will satisfy any enquiry they may please to make, and you are also at liberty to give any publicity you may think proper to this letter. I remain, Sir, Yours, most gratefully, J. CORD WELL, Repository of Arts, Drawing-master. 19, Great East-street, Brighton. rnir.u?i) -;!> ' .!,P,noo CASE VII. SIB, I cannot leave this place without discharging a duty which I feel I owe to you, by thus acknowledging the great benefit which Mrs. Robinson has received under your care and direction. Having been afflicted with a contraction of the sciatic nerve, she was recommended to make the experiment of Warm and Cold Sea Water Baths, but these having proved utterly ineffectual, and having been a sufferer for sixteen months, she was induced to submit her case to your opinion ; after three of your Medicated Indian Vapour Baths, Mrs. R. was enabled to lay aside her crutches and walk a considerable distance (a mile and a half) without the least fatigue or requiring any assistance. The limb is now gradually recovering its form and strength, and she remains without apprehension of any symptom of relapse. Should it be your wish to lay this simple 30 statement before the public, I beg yon will make such use of my name as you may think proper. I am, Sir, Your obedient humble servant. STEPHEN ROBINSON. CASE VIII. SIR, To confess to you the extraordinary benefit I hate received from the use of your Indian Medicated Vapour Baths, would be to do no more than what I have repeatedly acknowledged (viva voce) in your sitting room, to many of your patients and visitors. But, with pleasure, I can say, that I have a further object in view in thus setting forth the cure that has been performed by these Baths, accompanied by dry cupping and the usual routine of Shampooing : it is my wish that it should be generally known, that it may give hope and confidence to the afflicted. When first I came to your Bath, I was labouring under most of those pains and infirmities that are the consequence of severe rheumatic fever and gout. Wasted in appearance scarce able to walk with pains aris- ing from weakness in every joint listless and dispirited BOTH ARMS RENDERED USELESS BY LONG STANDING CONTRACTION unable to help myself j such was my state when, trembling and with hesitation,! took my first Bath. I soon felt it a source of comfort, and suffice it to say, I that night slept without any pain, on the pillow which, the night before, it required the attention of the two nurses I was obliged to have in attend- ance, for a full hour, before I could be laid in a position that would give me the least hope of rest. The third Bath quite enabled me to disengage my arms from my side, to move them about in various directions, and to lift and play with the heaviest dumb-bells you presented to me every Bath that followed gave me fresh accession of strength and freedom, and now, I am happy to say, I return to London, leaving very little to 31 change of air and time, to restore me to a state of health, better and more complete than I have for many years enjoyed. Yes, Sir, such has been the result of your Indian Bath the accompanying use of affriction and frequent cupping for tvhich I am grateful to God, and sincerely hope that this " Star of the East" of our modern times, will be the means of guiding thousands from the bed of affliction, to the comforts of ease, health, and happiness. India has been the premature grave of thousands of my countrymen j it will now, I hope, make amends by sending forth that which will be the resto- rative to health and strength of tens of thousands. I now dismiss the subject, with further thanks to you and Mrs. Mahomed, for kindness received, not forgetting your assistant, to whom I am under much obligation for the feeling and ability with which, under your direction., he worked the Vapour Baths. I am, Sir, your obliged, 32, Black-lion-street, Brighton, WM. HART. or, Royal Exchange Fire Insurance Office, May 7, 1821. ' "" CASE IX. SIR, Having heard of the cures performed by your Vapour Baths, I was induced to make trial of them. In last December I was suffering under a violent attack of St. Antony's fire in my leg and foot, attended with considerable fever, and was, in consequence, confined to my bed for near four months, so that the sinews of my leg were much CONTRACTED, accompanied with great hardness in the part principally affected, when my fever abated. I still found myself much crippled, and, for be- tween two and three months after, I could not walk but little, and even then with the support of two sticks. In August last, I went to Brighton for three weeks, and after applying your Vapour Baths nine times, I was sufficiently restored to walk 32 without my sticks. I think I am in duty bound to acquaint you with this, and, if you think it may be of any use, you are at full liberty to publish this case in your forthcoming book of cures. Sincerely wishing you success, I am, Sir, Your truly obedient servant, PETER HOARE. Carshalton, near Croydon, Surrey, October 28, 1822. The following names are added in further testimony of my success in the treatment of contractions : Antonio, Her Excellency the Countess of St., cured of con- traction of the wrist. Ashby, Miss, cured of a white swelling and a contraction of the leg. Belton, Mrs., cured of contraction of the wrist. Birt, Mr. George, Arundel-street, London, cured of long standing contraction of the knee. Blomberg, the Rev. Dr., cured of contraction of the knee. Butler, Mr. John, Cheam, cured of contraction of hip and knee. Day, Mr. G., London, cured of a contraction of the arm. Edwards, Miss, cured of contraction from fever. Evans, Mr., cured of contraction of 5 years standing, occa- sioned by a fall from a horse. - Fowler, Miss, cured of contraction of hip and instep. Green, Mr., cured of contraction of knee and instep. Golding, Miss, cured of a white swelling and contraction of the knee. Harcourt, Right Hon. Earl, cured of contraction of hip and knee. Harriott, Mr., cured of contraction of hips and knees. Incledon, Mr. Charles, Chedbury, Suffolk, cured of long stand- ing contraction of the hip and knee. 33 Lycett, Mr., Birmingham, cured of contraction of the ancles. Mathews, Mr., (Comedian) cured of contraction of hip and knee. Pittock, Mr v Tunbridge Wells, cured of contraction and gout long standing. Samuel, Mr. S., Billiter-street, cured of contraction of the knee. Ware, Mr. S., Hampstead. Williams, Capt., R. N., cured of contraction and debility. CHAP. HI. PARALYSIS. THE palsy is known by the loss or diminution of voluntary motion, affecting certain parts of the body, often accompanied with drowsiness. In some instances the disease is confined to a particular part ; but it more usually happens, that one entire side of the body from the head downward is affected. The species are, 1st. Paralysis partialls, partial, or palsy of some particular muscle. 2d. Paralysis hemiplegica, palsy of one aide longitudinally. 3d. Paralysis paraplegica, palsy of one half of the body, taken transversely, as both legs and thighs. 4th. Paralysis venenata,from the sedative effects of poisons. Paralysis is also symptomatic of several diseases, as worms, scrophula, syphilis, &c. It may arise in consequence of an attack of apoplexy. It may likewise be occasioned by any thing that prevents the flow of the nervous power from the brain, into the organs of motion ; hence, tumours, over distension and effusion, often give rise to it. It may often be occasioned by translation of morbid matter to the head, by the suppression of the usual eva- cuations, and by the pressure made on the nerves by luxations, fractures, wounds, or other external injuries. The long con- tinued application of sedatives will likewise produce palsy, as we find those, whose occupations subject them to the con- stant handling of white lead, and those who are much ex- posed to the poisonous fumes of metals, or minerals, are very 36 apt to be attacked with it. Whatever tends to relax and" enervate the system, may likewise prove an occasional cause of this disease. Palsy usually comes on with the sudden and immediate loss of the motion and sensibility of the parts, but in a few instances it is preceded by a numbness, coldness, and paleness, and sometimes by slight convulsive twitches. When the head is much affected, the eye and mouth are drawn on one side, the memory and judgment are much impaired, and the speech is indistinct and incoherent. If the disease affects the extremities, and has been of long duration, it not only pro- duces a loss of motion and sensibility, but likewise a consi- derable flaccidity and wasting away in the muscles of the parts affected. When palsy attacks any vital part, such as the brain, heart, or lungs, it soon terminates fatally. When it arises as a consequence of apoplexy, it generally proves very difficult of cure. Paralytic affections of the lower extremities, ensuing from any injury done to the spinal marrow, by blows and other accidents, usually prove incurable. Palsy, although a dangerous disease in every instance, particularly at an advanced period of life, is sometimes removed by the occur- rence of a diarrhoea or fever. The morbid appearances to be observed on dissections in palsy, are pretty similar to those which are to be met with in apoplexy : hence collections of blood, and of serous fluids, are often found effused in the brain, but more frequently the latter, and in some instances, the substance of this organ seems to have suffered an alteration. In palsy as well as apoplexy, the collection of extravasated fluid is generally on the opposite side of the brain to that which is affected. In the treatment of this disease, there exists great contra- riety of opinion among the faculty ; sometimes, where the attack is sudden, and the disease arises in the head, the patient being of a plethoric habit, copious, bleeding and cup- ping are resorted to, and the usual means as applied in apoplexy. But where the patient is advanced in life, of a debilitated constitution and not too full of blood, an opposite mode of treatment is adopted: Many local means of increas- ing the circulation, and soliciting nervous energy into the affected parts, are resorted to in- this complaint with various success. In all cases it is proper to keep up sufficient warmth of limb, and by what better means can this be effected than by the operation of SHAMPOOING, accompanied by the usual application of the Vapour Bath ? Every physi- cian who has written on the subject, invariably recommends the warm Bath, of course not knowing the nature of my pro- cess, which embraces all the soothing qualities of the com- mon bath, added to a much 'greater power of emollient effi- cacy, and causes a. quick and an active circulation locally., as it may be applied, or generally through the system. Those who have experienced its effects in instances of this disease, can never forget the relief it has invariably afforded. I need say no more ; my never failing appeal to the cases which follow, will bear me out in what I have advanced ; in this disease, I may repeat with a degree of confidence, I chal- lenge competition from the cures which I have performed. CASE I. EDWARD HENRY TULLOCH, now at Brighton, under the care of Mr. Mahomed, was, whilst at Aston Clinton, seized with a PARALYTIC STROKE, and for two years, was entirely deprived of the use of his limbs ; he had been, for a long period, under the care of Mr. Ewin, of Aylesbury, and Mr. Holies, of Tring, without being in the least benefited by their attendance ; being recommended to Brighton for the air, and there hearing of many wonderful cures performed by Mahomed, was tempted to try his remedy, and, after three times bathing only, entirely got the use of his right arm, and experienced much benefit in every respect ; gained appetite, and was enabled to rest without any composing medicines ; which he had not before been enabled to do. E. H. T. still continues the Baths, and, on every fresh ap- plication, finds an increase of strength and most wonderful relief. His friends and "acquaintance are astonished at the rapid change in him. (Signed) EDWARD H. TULLOCH. Sept. 1814. CASE II. I, RICHARD LONG, of Derby-place, Brighton, hereby de- clare, that about 14 years ago I was seized with a PARALYTIC STROKE, which deprived me of the use of my right side, and caused flying pains about my breast, head, &c. so that I was unable to walk : hearing of Mr. Mahomed's wonderful cures, I applied to him, and, by the aid of his Bath, I am in a fair way of recovery, and of being restored to perfect health. (Signed) RICHARD LONG. Sept. 12, 1814. CASE III. MR. LEE ANTONEE'S compliments to Mr. Mahomed, and begs his acceptance of the enclosed draft, for the benefit he has experienced himself, and likewise for the waiter, at the New Steyne Hotel. Mr. Lee Antonee hopes that Mr. Mahomed may enjoy long health. New Steyne Hotel, Nov. 10, 1814. CASE IV. SIR, Having experienced much benefit from the use of your Vapour Baths, in a PARALYTIC CASE, with which I have been afflicted for twelve months past, you may, if you please, refer any one to me, No. 16, Highbury Terrace, Islington, for particulars, as I shall be happy to give you the fullest testimony of my approbation. I am, your very humble servant, Brighton, Feb. 10, 1815. C. A. WHEELWRIGHT. CASE V. MRS. ATKINS, of Hinton, Yorkshire, begs to inform Mr. Mahomed of the great benefit Mr. A. has experienced from the use of his Baths. Mr: A., yesterday, without assist- ance, got up from his chair and walked two or three times round the room, has been out to-day, and, I have no doubt, will be enabled to walk a mile or two in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. A. are very much obliged to Mr. M. for his very kind attention. If any reference should be, at any tune, made, Mr. A. will be most happy satisfactorily to answer it. Brighton, Feb. 17, 1816. CASE VI. I, JOSEPH SCHOFIELD, was attacked with a PARALYTIC STROKE, which completely deprived me of the use of my right knee, but, after attending the Shampooing: about six times, was perfectly recovered. No. 21, Cummin-street, Pentonville, London. Cures, on the following highly respectable persons, have also been effected by me : Atkinson, Mr. Bingham, The Hon. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Langharne, Admiral. Mather, Mr., Dover. Roddie, Captain, 38th Regiment. Smith, Mr. Royal Artillery, Woolwich. CHAP. IV. RHEUMATISM. THIS is a disease characterized by pyrexia, pains in the joints, . increased by the action of the muscles belonging to the joint, and heat of the part. The blood, after venaesection, exhibits an inflammatory crust. Rheumatism is distinguished into acute and chronic. The acute is preceded by shivering, heat, thirst, and frequent pulse j after which the pain commences and soon fixes on the joints. The chronic rheumatism is dis- tinguished by pain in the joints, without pyrexia, and is divided into three species ; lumbago, affecting the loins ; ischias or sciatica, affecting the hipj and anthrodynia, or pains in the joints. The acute rheumatism mostly terminates in one of these species. Rheumatism may arise at all times of the year, when there are frequent vicissitudes of the weather, from heat to cold, but the spring and autumn are the seasons in which it is most prevalent ; and it attacks persons of all ages > but very young people are less subject to it than adults. Obstructed perspiration, occasioned either by wearing wet clothes, lying in damp linen, or damp rooms, or by being exposed to cool air when the body has been much heated by exercise, is the cause which usually produces rheumatism.. Those who are much afflicted with this complaint, are very apt to be sensible of the approach of wet weather, by finding wandering pains about them at that period. Acute rheumatism usually comes on with lassitude and rigours, succeeded by heat, thirst, anxiety, restlessness, and a hard pulse ; soon after which, excruciating pains are felt in 42 different parts of the body, but more particularly in the joints of the shoulder, wrist, knees, and ancles, or perhaps in the hip ; and then keep shifting from one joint to another, leav- ing a redness and swelling in every part they have occupied, as likewise a great tenderness to the touch. Towards evening there is generally a great exacerbation, or increase of fever j and during the night, the pains become more severe, and shift from one joint to another. Early in the course of the disease, some degree of sweating usually occurs ; but id seldom so copious as either to remove the pains or to prove critical. In the beginning, the urine is without any sediment 5 but as the disease advances in its pro- gress, and the fever admits of considerable remissions, a late- ritious sediment is deposited j but this by no means proves critical. Chronic rheumatism is attended with pains in the head, shoulders, knees, and other large joints, which at times are confined to one particular part, and at others shift from one joint to another, without occasioning any inflammation or fever ; and in this manner the complaint continues often for a considerable time, and at length goes off. No danger is attendant on chronic rheumatism ; but a per- son having been once attacked with it, is ever afterwards more or less liable to returns of it ; and an incurable anchy- losis is sometimes formed, in consequence of very frequent relapses. Neither is the acute rheumatism frequently accom- panied with danger : but in a few instances, the patient has been destroyed by general inflammation, and now and then by a metastasis to some vital part, such as the head and lungs. Acute rheumatism, although accompanied with a consider- able degree of inflammation in particular parts, has seldom been known to terminate in suppuration ; but a serous or gelatinous effusion takes place. Rheumatism seldom proving fatal, very few opportunities have offered for dissections of the disease. In the few which 43 have occurred, the same appearances have been observed as in inflammatory fever, effusion within the cranium, and now and then affections of some of the viscera. The faculty in the acute rheumatism, recommend the gene- ral antiphlogistic plan of treatment to be pursued, so long as the febrile and inflammatory symptoms are severe. When the patient is young, abstraction of blood, particularly when the disease attacks any important part, is necessary ; but the great object after freely opening the bowels, is to procure a general and mild diaphoresis by antimonial and mercurial prepara- tions, assisted by opium or other narcotic, which may also alleviate the pain, and occasionally by the Warm Bath, where the skin is particularly harsh and dry. Digitalis, by modera- ting the circulation, is sometimes usefully conjoined with these medicines. As the fever abates, and the strength appears impaired, tonics are given to promote the convalescence of the patient, and to obviate a relapse. When the disease is situated in a particular part, fomentations and other local means are employed. In the arthrodynia, or chronic rheuma- tism, the remedies of chief efficacy are stimulant diaphoretics in moderate doses regularly persevered in, assisted by various local means of promoting the circulation through the affected part. Anodynes are used both internally and locally j and the greatest attention is, or ought to be paid to the several functions of the body. This is the mode of treatment usually adopted by the faculty : I do not dispute the efficacy of such means as are here laid down, but I have cases to prove the inefficacy of them in many instances : the following testimonials must speak for me again. My success, or good fortune, or, gentle reader, call it by what name you please, has been my very close attendant on every case of rheumatism that has come before me : I may add, I have seldom failed in affording permanent relief ; and I am still led on to hope, that I may be enabled to effect 44 even more singular services to the afflict ed, than- I have- yet, from time and circumstances, had it in my power to perform. CASE L Si*, I have the pleasure to inform you that my som remains in good health, and happy am I to say, that I am fully persuaded his recovery, under the blessing of Pro- vidence, was owing to the use of your Vapour Bath. He had, before placing himself under your care, tried every thing the first medical practitioners could recommend, but got no relief. It is therefore due to you, and proper for the public to know the great advantage that has resulted to him by the use of your Baths. I have referred' a gentle- man to you this day, his name is Hamilton. I hope your advice may prove similarly beneficial. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, WM, SLARK. 16, Cockspur-street, Hay market, London. CASE II. MY DEAR SIR, Being now on the point of quitting this place, after a residence of six weeks, during which I have taken seven-and-thirty of your Vapour Baths, accompanied by the usual routine of Shampooing, or rubbing the limbs, for an OBSTINATE CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, and general debility of system, I should esteem myself deficient, both in justice and in gratitude, were I not to leave with you a written testimony of acknowledgment of the extraordinary benefit I have experienced under your treatment, very far exceeding my most sanguine hopes. I first waited upon you on the 28th of July last, weak, nervous, and full of anguish. I am now, by the blessing of God, and your skill, returning home stouter, more invigorated, and more free from pain than I have been for two years past. You are at full liberty to communicate the particulars of my case to any person similarly afflicted, applying to you for relief, and it will afford me real satisfaction to promote your practice, by replying to any inquiries that may be made, as to its efficacy. I propose a journey to Brighton for a fortnight or three weeks, about the middle of November, when I shall again be a visiter at your house. In the meantime I am to be found or addressed by letter, at Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey. Wishing you most sincerely a continuance of health and success, I take my leave, remaining always, My dear Sir, very truly yours, H. N. MIDDLETON. CASE III. To MB. MAHOMED. I, WTLLIAM EDWARDS, Cordwainer, of No. 3, Duke's-row, Duke-street, Brighton, hereby make known, for the information of the public, that for the last three weeks I have been most grievously afflicted with the RHEUMATIC GOUT, which deprived me of the use of my limbs, as well as of my regular rest at night. In this dread- ful situation I applied to you, and, by the aid of your Medi- cated Baths, I have been restored to comparative health. February 1, 1815. 46 CASE IV. Brighton, July 1, 1816. SIR, The RHEUMATIC ATTACK in my arm having resisted every endeavour to remove it, till I had your Vapour Bath, you are at liberty to refer any person to me, in proof of its benefit. After five applications with Shampooing, and the lapse of a few days, I bathed in the sea, and continued to do so in safety ; and am now about returning to London, per- fectly restored. I am, yours, &c. CLEMENT WYATT. Wyatt, Burkitt & Wyatt, 77, Coleman-street, London. ..,,.. CASE V. Brighton, Nov. 3, 1819. SiR,- 1 Considering it right that you should know the effect of your Bath, as it may be serviceable to others labouring under a similar malady, I beg to state that I brought my wife here soon after she had a RHEUMATIC FEVER, which left a violent rheumatic pain in the hip joints. After using your Bath three times, and being once cupped, she was entirely freed from the pain, and has had no return of it since. I am, Sir, yours, &c. &c. HENRY S. CHRISTIAN, of London. P. S. I will thank you to allow the enclosed to lay upon your table for the inspection of your patients. CASE VI. MRS. T. NICOLAND acquaints Mr. Mahomed that she found great benefit from the use of the Vapour Bath, for the RHEUMATISM in her JOINTS. June 14th, 1820. 47 CASE VII. The following was sent to, and appeared in the Brighton Gazette, as an advertisement, in the month of April, 1821 : To the Editor of the Brighton Gazette. SIR, The following statement, in common justice, is due to the individual by whose attention the young man I am about to mention, has been restored to health, by means of the Vapour Baths and Shampooing. Moses Weymark, who lived with me, having been seized with a most violent attack of RHEUMATISM, which deprived him of the use of his legs, was advised to try the Vapour Bath ; but finding its expense beyond his means, he could not for some time have recourse to it, till Mr. Mahomed generously offered him three Baths gratuitously. His state was helpless in the extreme ; he was lifted from a fly ; and, within an hour after the first applica- tion of the Bath and Shampooing, to my great astonishment he was enabled to walk, being, before, deprived of the least use of his legs. He continued to move about the room the whole of the day. The next morning he was sufficiently recovered to walk from the Grand Parade to the East Cliff, and after taking the Bath, walked home, thus being quite restored in TWO DAYS, and by TWO BATHS ! That any person should have found so much relief in so short a time appears incredible. Had I not seen it, I should not have believed it ; but having witnessed it, I conceive it an incumbent duty to offer it for publicity, through this medium, with the firm conviction that there is no remedy for rheumatism equal to it. I am, Sir, Your obedient humble Servant, JAMES GORINGE. Brighton, April 4, 1821. CASE VIII. SIB, I cannot yet say that I am quite relieved from pain, : but I have much satisfaction in attributing the whole relief I have experienced to your Vapour Bath ; and on recollection of the excruciating agony and torment my RHEUMATIC ATTACK brought with it, perhaps it may be an encouragement to others, under similar affliction, to recommend their doing as I have done, which I have no hesitation in saying will greatly benefit them, and, I trust, encourage your continued attention to the comforts and conveniences of your visiters. I shall continue to recommend your Baths whenever op- portunity offers ; being, Sir, your very obliged humble Servant, WM. SHARP, 44, Weymouth-street, Feb. 23, 1822. Mr. S. D. Mahomed, Brighton. CASE IX. 'I, JOHN LAW, of No. 3, Richmond-hill, Brighton, declare that I have been afflicted with the RHEUMATISM in my ARMS and SHOULDERS, to such a degree that I could neither dress nor undress myself for upwards of ten weeks : being recom- mended to Mr. Mahomed, he applied his Indian Medicated Vapour Bath, and, after eight applications, I was restored to perfect health and strength. February 26, 1822. CASE X. Brighton, Sept. 9, 1822. SIR, Having been afflicted with the LUMBAGO and RHEU- MATISM in my back for nearly seven months, so as wholly to prevent me, for these last three months, from working at my 49 trade, having been, unrelieved, under several medical gen- tlemen, both in London and in the country, I came to Brighton, in hope a change of air might be of service to me, when I heard of your valuable Institution, the Indian Medi- cated Vapour Baths : I applied to you for advice, and I beg to say, through the kindness of God, and your humane attention to me, I am quite well and free from pain. This cure may justly be attributed to your Vapour Bathing j and as it is not in my power to recompense you for your valuable time, and the trouble I have occasioned you, I feel it in justice and in gratitude necessary to make this acknowledgment; and I give you, if you think proper, full liberty to make my case publicly known. With the deepest sense of gratitude, I am, Sir, Your obedient humble Servant, JOHN DAVENPORT. 17, Gardener-street, Brighton. CASE XI. London, Nov. 2, 1822. SIR, I feel it my duty to acquaint you, that I am quite recovered from my late severe attack of the RHEUMATIC GOUT, and have at present no appearance of relapse, which I consider almost a miracle, as you well know I was repeatedly obliged to be carried into your Bath by the assistance of two men. After taking eleven of your Indian Steam Vapour Baths I was quite restored, although I was several times given over by my friends during the operation. I must say I think the medicine (the electuary) recommended by you, and prepared under your direction by Messrs. Gregory and Bates, Chemists and Druggists, of Brighton, was of great service to me, and completely removed the chief cause of my complaint, and for 50 which I have to return my grateful acknowledgments. If you think proper to refer any person to me, I shall be very .happy to give them any further information in my power. I remain, Sir, yours, sincerely, THOMAS JACKSON. 34, South Audley-street, London. Most of the following respectable individuals have at va- rious times received benefit in RHEUMATIC COMPLAINT by the use of my BATH and SHAMPOOING : t ti2 . . Andrews, Dr. Arthur, Mr. London. Austin, Rev. I. Ockham, Surrey. Barrett, Mr. Vauxhall. Begbie, Mr. I. Hoxton. Bentinck, Lord Charles. Benton, Mr. G. Holborn. Brown, Mr. Bulbeck, Mr. John Havant. Cleaver, Mr. S. Kennington Common. Compton, Sir John Cowley, Mr. Arlington Street. Crowder, Mr. Finsbury Square. Dallas, Mr. Davis, Mr. Peckham. Doyle, Sir Charles, cured of rheumatic affection and contrac- tion of the arm. Duval, Mr. Robert, Buckingham Street, Fitzroy Square Eggington, Mr. Billbrook, Staffordshire. Fairlie, Mr. Broad Street. Fermor, Major General 51 Goslyn, Captain, rheumatism, five years standing, cured in three weeks. Grey, Colonel Hamilton, Mr. M.P. Herbert, Mr. R. London. Holland, Mr. I. Hordun, Mr. Sardon, Staffordshire. Impey, E. Esq. Newick. Jones, Mr. I. London. Johnston, Mr. Johnston, Mr. I. Johnston, Mrs. Kemp, T. R. Esq. Kenny, Dr. Lap, Mr. Cork. Lemond, Mrs. Listen, Mr. Comedian. Lucas,, John, Esq. Lyons, Rev. Mr. Gloucester. Malcolm, Sir, Pulteney. . Mathews, Mr. Menzies, Mr. James, Edinburgh. Morie, Mr. London. Murray, Colonel, 18th Hussars, cured of rheumatism and contraction. Nicholls, Mr. Nixon, Mr. North, Captain, R.N. Oakly, Suffolk. Palmer, Mr. T. Parkhouse, Mr. R. rheumatic affection and debility. Phelan, Mr. I. London. Philpot, Mr. Kennington. Fitter, I. R. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. Popham, Mr. Stamford Street. Prater, Mr. Arlington Street, St. James. Pugh, Mr., Brewer, Great Russell-street: Real, Mr. Alexander, Tunbridge Wells. Reed, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Chas., Kennington, long standing rheumatism' and contraction. Robin, Mr. Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire. Rodd, Capt., R. N. Roles, Mr. Grey Coat-street, Westminster. Rutter, Mr., Mitcham. Schoel, Mr. John. Shelton, Mr., Hampstead. Simms, Mr. W. W. Smith, General. Sterling, G. A. Esq., Brewer-street, Russell- square- Tayler, Mr. E. Temple, London. Vernon, Mr., Kegworth, Leicestershire. Whatley, Col. Wells, Admiral Sir John. Wigram, Charles, Esq., Fenchurch-street. Woodthorpe, Mr., London. Wyndhara, Colonel. /n . ,\ .SI ittL .T.lM.T .; .'iJ . . .iM .Jolid CHAP. V. SPRAINS. A SPRAIN, or subluxatio, happens most frequently in the wrists, knees, and ankles j and is usually occasioned by a slip, or some sudden effort or violent exertion. Sprains of the tendons and ligaments are usually produc- tive of an immediate painful and inflammatory swelling. In severe sprains there is often not only an increased action of the arteries in the inflamed part, but there is likewise an instantaneous effusion from the rupture of some of the small vessels. In general, we may suppose the effusion ^to be of the serous kind, as the skin is not altered in colour for some time after the accident j but it sometimes happens that the tumid parts are either of a deep red or leaden colour from the very first, owing to blood being extravasated from the rup- tured vessels. In the treatment of sprains, two circumstances are very properly attended to by the faculty : the first, to prevent, by all possible means, the swelling from arising at any consider- able magnitude ; the second, to employ those remedies that are known to be powerful in removing inflammation. To answer the first of these intentions, restringent applica- tions, such as vinegar, ardent spirits, and the lees of red wine, are made use of. It is recommended to immerse the injured part in any of these immediately on receiving the injury ; the effusion will be rendered much less than it otherwise would be, and perhaps prevented altogether. Cold water is also used soon after the accident, and is, doubtless, as a prelimi- nary step to other applications, often attended with the best effects. Local bleeding, leeches, and where fever is concomitant, as it sometimes is, in violent cases, opiates,, together with refri- gerants, and the remedies which prove useful in other inflam- mations producing fever, are administered. Proper rest is absolutely necessary for the limb, which never should be kept in a pendent position. This is the usual method of treatment by the faculty j in all instances of sprain I have effected the most complete and permanent cures. . CASE I. Brighton, Charles-street, April 25, 1850. SIR, It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to inform you of the benefits I have derived from the use of your Indian Shampooing Baths, after I had almost despaired of finding any restorative. I think I should be acting ungratefully and unjustly to the character of the Bath, if I did not make my case known as much as possible, for the service of others labouring under a similar complaint. MY LAMENESS IN THE HIP arose from over exertion or a SPRAIN in riding, having travelled nearly four hundred miles in the course of a few days ; I was taken ill the day after I had completed the journey (about the 21st of February, 1819,) accompanied with the most extreme pain in my right leg ; in the course of a fortnight, by the constant application of Bathing Spirits, I found myself much better, when I walked from London to Chelsea, which increased my lameness very much, I was attended by a surgeon at Chelsea for some time, and then applied to Mr. Astley Cooper, who advised warm bathing and sea air. I left Chelsea for Brighton in April 1819, when I took the warm water and Vapour Bath, and continued them for four months with blisters on the hip ; at the time of bathing I was electrified and cupped several times, without receiving any benefit ; at this time I was not able to walk without my two crutches and a sling. I was lifted in and out of bed by two people, and attended during my stay at Brighton by four medical gentlemen : finding no relief from them, or the bathing, I returned to town in September 1819, and continued to get much worse ; my health and strength daily decreased, and the flesh on my hip, thigh, and leg, was wasting fast away 3 my doctors thinking me in a decline, ad- vised my return again to Brighton for the benefit of the bathing, at which time I had two large places open on my hip, sufficient to contain sixty peas. I returned to Brighton in 1820, when hearing of your Baths, and the Wonderful cures you had performed, I sent for you, and after stating my case, you told me frankly, you could make the cure in two months I consented, and after having taken your Bath every day for nearly four weeks, I relinquished my crutches for two sticks. I now bear great weights on the leg I could not before put to the ground, my health and strength greatly improved, and my pains entirely abated, my cure may be considered as secured, I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, I. H. GODWIN. CASE II. LORD NEWARK presents his compliments to Mr. Mahomed, and has great pleasure in stating, that his knee, which from REPEATED SPRAINS was too weak for any exertion, and almost entirely helpless, was completely restored by his Vapour Baths in three weeks, without a single drawback. He left off the knee cap, which he had worn for many months, after the second Bath. 55, King's Road, West Cliff, Brighton, November 11, 1822. CASE ill. *** fi V'ii; ion si;,'.- . LADY LOUISA COB.NWALLIS, owing to a SPRAIN, had been unable to put her right foot to the ground for nearly two years j during that period she was attended by some of the most eminent Surgeons in London, who attributed the con- stant pain she suffered, to deep seated inflammation on the muscles and joints ; they prescribed bleeding, blisters, vinegar poultices, and other cold applications, which were all tried without producing any amendment. Friction, warm bathing, and bandages. proved equally unsuccessful. Mr. Mahomed, upon examining her foot, felt confident the pain proceeded entirely from one of the muscles being a little twisted, and that the Vapour Bath with his method of Sham- pooing, would effect a complete cure. After coming out of the Bath the third time, Lady Louisa walked across the room without support, and was at the end of ten days, able to take walking exercise for half an hour, with only slight Inconvenience arising from weakness of the muscles, and is now perfectly free from the pain she suffered constantly, for more than eighteen months. Brighton, September 17, 1322. CASE IV. London, Nov. 1, 1322. SIR,^ I have been requested by my sister, in compliance with your wish of adding her case to your work, now pub- lishing, to forward you every particular of her accident and cure, feeling most happy in the opportunity thus afforded her of bearing testimony to the efficacy of your Vapour Baths, and hoping thereby to induce others, similarly afflicted, to employ the remedy which in her case has been attended with such success, the more unlocked for, as the accident occurred 57 nearly three years previous to her applying to you. Tlte SPKAIN IN HER KNEE arose from a very trifling cause, occasioned by her bodily health being in rather a debilitated state, and might have been less serious in its consequences, had not a very retired situation deprived henfor many months of good medical advice, and it was not until after beirg two years ou crutches that she came to London, where ehe remained nine months, and certainly during that time made some progress 5 but though hopes were firmly held out to her of a cure at last, yet not any were given of its being effected under another twelvemonth at least ; during which time it was necessary to abstain as much as possible from the use of any thing that would irritate the offended nerve, and bring on a return of inflammation. Her general health in the mean time had suffered materially from confinement and want of exercise, and it was with the hope of re-establishing that, that she was first in-: duced to think of trying your Vapour Baths. It is but justice here to acquaint you that she went to Brighton greatly preju T diced, and had fully determined not to allow the knee to be rubbed or touched in any way* In pursuance of this resolu- tion, she took the Baths without the additional application of Shampooing, for the first week, and found her health very materially affected by them ; indeed at first she was very ill, and apparently completely overcome j her knee also seemed much worse, with a return of the old symptoms of disease, heat, swelling, and pain : she however determined to perse- vere, and at the week's end finding her general health improv,- ing, prejudice began to give way, and she allowed her knee to be treated according to your directions, strictly following your advice in every respect : so rapid was her improve- ment from this time, that she could well have put her crutches aside after the eighth bath, though fear made her continue them four days longer, when she was able to walk firm and steadily without support of any kind, and step in and out of a carriage, though before obliged to be lifted as a h'ttle child. She continued the Baths after that regularly for 58 nearly four weeks, and took in all forty, being anxious to ensure a perfect cure, from the use of which her general health derived equal benefit with the limb. It is now five months since she left Brighton, during which time she has enjoyed an excellent state of health, though not naturally of a robust constitution, and has never experienced any inconvenience from her knee, and is now able to stand, walk, and kneel as well as ever, without either pain or stiff- ness. My sister particularly begs me to mention for the good of others, that in her opinion not any judgment ought to be formed of the effect of the Baths under six or eight successive trials in any bad case, nor can a cure be ever expected without patience and much perseverance., often in spite of discouraging appearances. I have now only to add our united wishes for your success, and an assurance that we shall at all times feel happy in making the beneficial effects of your Vapour Baths more generally known. I am, Sir, yours, &c. MARIAN LE MESURIER. n>v:iro'I<.^Io(ioi}fafiK3rfJtoad)iwddisa: odJ Aooi o, -^^ The following names may be added, in further testimony of relief afforded by Shampooing, in cases of Sprains /-u 1 '" Bishop, Mr. James. Bloomfield, Right Hon. Sir B., cured of sprained knee and thigh, with lumbago. Egremont, Right Hon. Earl of, cured of sprained wrist. Hfll, Mr., cured of violent ditto. Tilt, Mr., 39, Paternoster Row. . CHAP. VI. WHAT the VAPOUR BATH and SHAMPOOING, together, are enabled to effect, my readers must have had, already, suf- ficient proof: I do not wish to press them forward as being capable of accomplishing every cure, but it must be allowed on all hands, my praise of their general and conjoined effica- cy, does not exceed the fair limits of truth. I have dwelt on ''Asthma, Contractions, Paralysis, Rheumatisms, and Sprains:" with what success I have treated these several complaints, the letters I have received are the best testimony I can offer. I have now only to present a few cases of a general charac- ter, some of them being of a very peculiar description, and which, without comment, I lay before my readers, to bear evidence for themselves. CASE I. CASE OF HOARSENESS AND LOSS OF VOICE. ANNE FOSSECK, of Gracechurch-street, London, after having taken a number of the Indian Medicated Vapour Baths, has proved their efficacy, by the restoration of her voice, which she had lost during the space of the preceding six months. This testimony she is desirous of leaving, for the benefit of others} and also, as an acknowledgment for the benefit which she has derived: Brighton, 5th of the 8th month, 1819. 60 CASE II. CASE OF VIOLENT PAIN IN THE KNEE, OCCASIONED AY Jt\ ^ SEVERE COLD. I, HANNAH SHEE, of No. 11, Mount Pleasant, Brighton, was afflicted for eleven years with a violent pain in my knee, brought on by a severe cold I caught from lying in damp sheets : By the use of the Medicated Vapour Bath and Shampooing seven times, I was perfectly cured. irara too t-.- ' CASS OF WJSS OF yO,ICE. MRS. MORGAN has great pleasure in acknowledging the efficacy of Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Baths, which, after a few trials, restored her voice, which she had lost for two years and three quarters. Brighton, August 14, 1822. CASE IV. CASE OF SPINAL COMPLAINT. DEAR SIR, I cannot think of leaving Brighton, without acknowledging the great benefit I have experienced by the use of your invaluable Medicated Vapour Baths, and feel truly grateful that the Almighty has blessed your system in a case where I had wholly despaired of recovery. After above four years extreme lameness from a SPINAL COMPLAINT, I have now the satisfaction of accompanying my friends in short walks, with the free use of my limbs ; and when I give myself the pleasure of calling on you, seeing my crutches arranged amongst numerous others on your staircase, surrendered on 61 similar happy occasions. I assure you I have been, and stifl continue, a most zealous advocate in recommending invalids, and shall be solicitous to promote your interest, and contri- bute to the relief of my suffering fellow-creatuies, by relating my own wonderful restoration. BASIH With best respects to Mrs, Mahomed and yourself, I remain, Dear Sir, Your obliged Patient, MARIAN SEDGWICK. Brighton, May 2, 1822. CASE V. Brighton, October 9, 1822. MY DEAR SIB, Through the divine blessing, you have been the means of so much benefit to my bodily health, that I cannot leave this place without testifying my gratitude to you upon that account. Having from my early youth suffered severely from DIS- EASED SPINE, my whole constitution has received a shock which perhaps it will never altogether recover from. It is true that distressing and most painful malady was, under the judicious treatment of a very dear medical friend, nearly cured three years ago, at Clifton, that is to say, by my remaining in a horizontal posture nearly two years, the inflammation of the spine entirely subsided, and I was pronounced free from that disorder j yet, notwithstanding this, such a degree of weak- ness remained that Iwas quite unable to bear the motion of a carriage sitting up, and equally unable to bear the exercise of walking without 'great pain and difficulty. Some time after I left Clifton, symptoms of the disease being about to return became evident, which symptoms became more and more alarming, until I came to this place last June, at which time the curve of the dorsal vertebrae (which had never been entirely removed) became more considerable, with increasing tenderness in several of the bones. I was suffering much likewise when I came here from a very PAINFUL NERVOUS DISORDER IN THE HEAD, which made the least noise distress- ing to me in the extreme. Upon first using your justly cele- brated Vapour Bath, the nervous irritation was greatly re- lieved, and my head felt more quiet and easy than it before had done for a length of time. I have now used the Bath fifty times, and can truly say that the effect has been great indeed with respect to the spine. That curve, which was so considerable when I came here, is almost removed; the tender- ness, although not entirely removed in all the bones, greatly lessened; I can bear the motion of a carriage sitting up, with comfort, which before I had not for six years been able to do 5 I can now walk nearly half a mile at a time, with more ease than I could, when I left home, walk twenty yards. On account of the very delicate state of my lungs, I am obliged for the winter to leave the sea, which I very much regret, being well assured that continuing the Bath some time longer would quite cure the spinal disorder 5 however, please God I live, I hope to renew it in the spring, with increased benefit. The disorder in my head has been likewise greatly relieved, and my strength much increased, a full proof that it is not the tendency of the Vapour Bath to weaken } I can likewise bear my testimony that it does not make people grow thin, for I have been gaining flesh ever since I began to use it. May God continue to bless you in the means you have hitherto so effectually used for the relief of your fellow-crea- tures ; may He spare you long to your friends, and before your removal from this woild, fit you for that eternal state to which we are all hastening. I remain, my dear Sir, Your sincere and grateful Friend, MARY WALKER. CASE VI. CASE OP NERVOUS COMPLAINT, ATTENDED WITH PAINS IN THE HEAD, ALSO A CASE OF THE LOSS OF THE USE OF LIMBS. Brighton, Nov. 6, 1821. MR. MAHOMED. Sir, I am very unwilling to leave your house, without acknowledging my gratitude for the wonder- ful cure effected on Mrs. Wartnaby by the use of your Vapour Baths and advice. She had for many years past laboured under a most distressing NERVOUS COMPLAINT, ATTENDED WITH DREADFUL PAINS IN THE HEAD, which confined her the greatest part of the year to her bed, and for which she never expe- rienced any relief, although the advice of many medical gen- tlemen in London and elsewhere had been followed. About three years ago she was desired to try the effects of the sea air, and came to this pluce, recommended to a gentleman of the profession, who attended her for four months without the least benefit ; and as I had at that time used the Vapour Baths with success in curing a long-standing head-ache, brought on, I imagine, by my constant attendance at Lloyd's Coffee- house, I much wished that their efficacy should be tried by Mrs. W ; but I was opposed by the gentleman who attended her, who seemed decidedly to object to the experiment. Since that period she had been getting gradually worse, and at last our medical friend candidly told us that no medi- cine could be of service to her, and that she must keep herself wrapped in flannel, carefully avoiding all atmospheric air, and bear her miserable existence (for it was no better) with her accustomed fortitude. Seeing no end to her sufferings by her remaining in such a state, I again urged, with all the argu- ments I was able, the use of your Vapour Baths, and at length (though from her very weak frame not without danger) 64 got her to your house, where she has resided for the space of two months, and now returns home with me in as good health and spirits as possible, perfectly able to bear the cold- est air, and to walk for miles, if necessary. Whilst my pen is in my hand, I take the opportunity of mentioning another most extraordinary case, recommended by me :-- A very intimate acquaintance and neighbour, who had lost the use of her limbs for the last four or five 'years, was in- duced, by my intreaties, to, try your Vapour Baths, being satisfied they could do no harm whilst at the same time her physician gave no hopes of relief she came to Brighton, and although the Baths have only been used for a foitnight, she is now able to walk without the use of her crutches, or the assistance of any one, and doubtless will return home, in the course of a month, perfectly cured. I remain, Sir, Your most humble Servant, JOSEPH WARTNABY, Dalston, near Hackney, and Lloyd's Coffee- House. CASE VII. CASE OF SWELLrNG, AND VIOLENT PAIN IN THE LEO AND THIGH. ON the 3d of October, 1818, I was seized with a MOST VIOLENT PAIN IN MY LEG AND THIGH j a few days after which I perceived A LUMP OF HARD SUBSTANCE ON THE LATTER/ ALSO A SWELLING IN THE VEINS, both of which increased every suc- ceeding dayj till, at last, I was so lame that I could not walk across the room without, assistance, during the space of five weeks $ nor did I ever sleep at night, the pain was so ex- 65 eruciating. I was ordered by a medical gentleman to apply ten leeches, which I did without receiving the smallest relief. I was then bled in the foot, without better success j after which I tried fomentations of poppies, and applied warm flannel: in short, every remedy proved ineffectual. I began to fear it would be of serious consequence, when I was most fortunately recommended to make trial of Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Baths, which I did : after the first I felt much relief ; after the second I was enabled to walk up and down stairs -, and, upon taking the third bath* I walked home j the seventh restored me to perfect health, in which state I am at present j nor have I ever felt the least pain, nor seen the smallest swelling in my veins; for all of which I certainly am in- debted to Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Bath and Shampooing, and I have no hesitation in saying that I shall ever feel happy in recommending them, whenever in my power, to any one af- flicted in a similar manner. MARY DAVIS, Servant-maid to Dr. Bankhead, Marine-parade. Brighton, Dec. 28, 1818. CASE VIII. .) -SCO* . . i '. .i.-. CASE OF ABSCESS, ARISING FBOM STRAINING THE MUSCLES OF THE THIGH. . In justice to Mr. Mahomed, I declare he has effected a per- fect cure on me. Having, from violent exercise and exertion while hunting, STRAINED THE MUSCLES AND SINEWS OF MY RIGHT LEG AND THIGH, in such a manner as not to be able to Walk, A LARGE ABSCESS FORMED ON MY THIGH, and " a nervous rheumatic gout affection" (as the faculty term it) attended it, the pain of which was so great as to deprive me of rest, and I continued in this way for some months, without getting any relief, taking medicines, and being attended by the most eminent physicians and surgeons j I despaired of getting cured, and was advised to go to the sea-side, where, by accident, I heard of Mr. Mahomed. I consulted him and immediately went into his steam-bath, and found relief when I came out. I continued his bath daily the pains left me, and I gained strength and got well j and have ever since con- tinued so, without taking any medicine, or consulting' any medical gentleman. r i^i\^ N.B. It is now two years since I was so ill as I herein de- scribe. (Signed) SAML. HOMFRAY Cowarth House, near Staines, Bucks^ May 1st, 1820. CASE IX. CASE OP VIOLENT INFLAMMATION IN THE FOOT. LOUISA POWLES, daughter of Mr. Powles, of Devonshire- square, London, aged ten years, had been afflicted with a VIOLENT INFLAMMATION IN HER RIGHT FOOT, for the Space of five months. She had been unable to use the foot during that period, and had suffered considerable pain and confinement. She was ordered to Brighton for the benefit of the sea air, and had been there three weeks. She bathed in the sea and warm salt-water baths ; but very slight improvement, if any, was experienced. The child walked with crutches, her right foot being suspended in a sling, unable to touch the ground, or to bear the slightest pressure upon it. At this period, Mr. Mahomed's Steam Bath was tried. After one bathing, with the process of Shampooing, the sling was thrown aside ; 67 after two more bathings, repeated on successive days, the child walked home without her crutches j and in two or three days more, she was so far recovered as to walk a mile at a time. From that time to the present, a space of four weeks, the foot has been daily improving in strength, and the child is now on the point of returning home, able to walk nearly as well as before the inflammation appeared, with a slight limp. During the first two days of trying the bath, the child was immersed only to the hip, under an apprehension that entire immersion might injure the general health. By Mr. Maho- med's desire, she was on the third and fourth days, wholly immersed in the Vapour. No debility whatever appeared to result from it j on the contrary, the child's general health and strength (which, however, before were good) seemed im- proved, and remain so to this moment. Mr. Powles thinks it right to state that he has no doubt that the child's health was in progress of recovery previously to her going to Mr. Mahomed, and that the medical treatment which she had re- ceived, aud was still under, would have ended in the cure of the foot. No hopes were, however, held out to him of any other than a protracted cure ; and it seems to him, therefore, that Mr. Mahomed accomplished, in a very few days, what, according to all experience and expectation, would otherwise have been the work of many months. He has, however, been very careful to state the circumstances precisely as they have occurred, for the information of others, who will, of course, draw their own conclusions from them. Brighton, Sept. 12, 1819. 68 CASE X. MOST INTERESTING CASE OF MERCURIAL AND COMPLICATED DISEASE. FROM JOHN SHAW, ESQ. L.L.D. I had always been remarkably healthy and strong, but was latterly, teased with medicines, morning, noon, and night, for eighteen months ; had several open sores, for the first time in my life, accompanied by high feverish pulses, generally beat- ing upwards of 84 in the minute j during the greater part of the time, was plagued with a continued sore and ulcerated throat, violent aches and pains in my limbs, discolorations in my skin, and eruptions nearly all over me, for the last twelve or thirteen of those months, while swellings and inflamma- tions also, occasionally appeared on my feet, ankles, hands, and fingers. For the last ten months of the same time I was confined to my house, and towards the close of that interval, ten or eleven weeks, to my bed, when my right arm was twice contracted, and right wrist nearly powerless for many days together, and two tumours fixed on my legs j the one on the left shin burst, and the other on the outside of the right leg, above the ankle bone, was opened by incision. After Christmas, 1816, when I had been upwards of two months confined, whitlows appeared on two of my fingers, and the others were itching and inflamed round the nails, one of which had split many months before, and the roof of my mouth and inner jaws or fauces became ulcerated, on catch- ing fresh cold. In April, 1816, shortly after the commencement of my sufferings, my disease was said to be caused by the use of mercury, which had been administered to me in great quan- tities, in warm climates. In Jun* ' ^16 on catching cold, I -was said to be attlicted with Saint Anthony's fire on my face, or with an ailment very b'ke it. In the autumn of the same year, my disorder was supposed to be mingled with sea scurvy ; afterwards to appear as rheumatism j subsequently as gout j and, about Christmas, 1816, as erysipelas in the mouth, and some other parts 5 and, more than once, it was judged by some to be syphilitic. Whatever it might have been it evi- dently puzzled the doctors, notwithstanding I was attended by very eminent practitioners. Nearly exhausted by malady, in August, 1817, I was ad- vised to discontinue medicine, to repair to the sea coast, and there to use tepid sea- water baths, and exercise in the air. I began to use the tepid sea-water bath in London, for about three weeks, in August and September, 1817, and in the middle of the latter month visited the sea-coast of Sussex ; there used the tepid sea- water baths very frequently, for seven weeks, and took constant exercise in my carriage and on foot also, as far as I was able in my then very infirm state, When I visited the sea-coast, in September, 1817, I was afflicted with oedema, or swelling of my feet and limbs $ stiff- ness in the joints, and the remains of some of my aches and pains, especially in the first two fingers of each hand ; erup- tions and blotches all over my skin ; scars, lumps, and cor- rugations on my face and forehead j my nose and lips scarred, swollen, distorted, and unpliant, as were also both my ears j sores on my palate and gums, though I had swallowed but eleven grains of sublimate, in the whole, during twenty-five days, in April, and the first fourteen days of May, preceding, and which never had provoked much ptyalism or spitting ; the incision in my right leg was not healed, and large hollows remained abont the cicatrices in various parts, where there had been tumours, or ulcers j and inflammatory swellings and indurations, continued about some of those parts, and, like- wise, on the first two fingers of each hand, and on and about my nose, lips, and ears j contractions also of some of my 70 muscles and tendons, and fibrous parts distressed me ; par- ticularly the contraction of the point and lower part of the nose, which disfigured me greatly. Having returned to London in the beginning of November, 1817, merely to shew myself to my doctors, and to consult them again, I was desired to continue the former plan of using tepid sea-water baths and exercise, on the sea-coast, and, accordingly, after a journey of three days, between Lon- don and Brighton, I visited this place, on the 15th of the same November, 1817, with all the stated ailments of the preceding September, remaining about me, and very little abated ; and was not able to rise from my seat, nor to go up and down stairs, without difficulty and pain, nor was I able to walk without using a stick, and sometimes a person to lean upon : in short, I was then still dragging on a miserable existence, unfit for exertion of any kind, and unfit for the common business of life. A gentleman, abroad, had declared to me that he speedily cured his gout by exposing only the foot and limb to steam j and one of my medical attendants had informed me that a lady was cured of obstinately returning eruptions, after several seasons' trial of the warm sea-water baths, by the use of a steam-bath, in Paris, and suggested that, perhaps, the same kind of bath might be of service to me ; " but he did not know how it was used." These circumstances, and the cu- riosity to examine the mode of applying the vapour to the whole person, led me to Mr. Mahomed, whose painted board I recollected to have seen when in Brighton before, and, on inquiry made, I immediately resolved to try the use of the steam, and his skill. After the first or second bathing, the oedema or swellings of my feet and limbs disappeared, and the remains of my former aches and pains ceased : at the same time, the eruptions and blotches evidently began to quit my skin, and the rag- ged parts of the skin became even. About the fifth bathing, 71 I found, to my astonishment, that the ulcers in my palate were healed, as were also those of my gums, which had been destroying 1 the flesh for upwards of two months, without any seeming- chance of being stopped by the applications pre- scribed. On the fifth bathing, the servant carelessly rubbed off the plaister, which had covered the sore, on my right leg, where the incision was made, and, equally to my surprise, that sore also appeared healed. The inflammatory swellings and indurations which affected my limbs and fingers, and particularly my lips and nose, quickly abated, and, before I had bathed 20 or 30 times, they were no longer percep- tible. The contractions of the muscles, tendons, and fibrous parts, in and about the same number of 20 or 30 times bathing, were not to be felt, and my limbs and fingers re- covered their free action, without pain ; and my ears, lips, and nose, their proper flexibility ; my joints became less stiff, and my lips and nose less distorted. The former erup- tions, and such as, from time to time, have been thrown out upon my skin, during the course of bathing-, have been con- stantly and visibly diminishing and wearing away, and the blotches have all vanished. The hollows around the cica- trices, on my limbs and other parts, have continually been filling up and becoming even with the surfaces of the other flesh. The scars, lumps, and wrinkles about my forehead, face, and other places, are smoothed. My joints have re- gained their suppleness; my flesh its plumpness; my skin its smoothness, clearness, and freshness : indeed, the skin has now gained a silkiness, which it has not had for years past. I have all the while been blessed with ease and light- ness of spirits which I never previously experienced at any period of my life, and have been gaining strength each time of bathing: in short, after the first month of using the Steam Bath, I could walk from my lodging, on the Steyne, South Parade, up the Church-hill, and round the Church-wall, at a tolerable pace, and without slackening it, or stopping on 72 the way, or using my stick, and prolong- my walk for an hour or two without being 1 fatigued ; and I now rise from my seat without difficulty, go up and down stairs with ease, walk about uprightly, firmly, and with alertness. My nose and lips have nearly gained their original forms and appear- ance ; and I can exert myself a good deal, apply to business with alacrity, and once more enjoy what are termed the pleasures of the world. Wonderful also to relate, since using the Steam Bath, I find myself so recovered, that I can read by candle light, without glasses, better than I was able to do for a long time past. On the whole, my malady has seemed to vanish under the Steam and Vapour Baths, as if by enchantment. It is my duty however to confess that (having been for several years subject to attacks of erysipelas on my left leg) my appetite failed about the third time bathing ; and during the fourth day, and on the fifth, a violent attack of erysipelas, which had been preceded by the common symptoms, de- clared itself in the usual way, by the swelling and inflam. mation then appearing on my left leg, but a perseverance in the use of the Steam Bath cured the erysipelas. I en- deavoured to account for the attack by damp beds on the road ; bad provisions, beer, and wine, at one place ; ex- posure to damp weather while seeking for lodgings ; being heated, while last in London ; on the journey, &c. ; bat Mr. Mahomed said, it might have been caused by the Steam Bath, because " what was in the blood must be thrown out to admit a cure." Perhaps he was right ! I shall now answer the objections that have been made to the use of the Steam Bath. From what has been just before stated, patients should not regularly expect to be cured without an ache, a pain, some eruptions, and, perhaps, other temporary suffering or inconvenience. Happy, in- deed must they be, could they fairly calculate upon escaping all such ! Very many patients however may do so, but not 73 all consider, an emetic makes us sick at stomach ; and all physic is nauseous ; drawing teeth is painful, and at times dangerous ; the use of the knife or lance produces pain ; escharotics and caustics burn and torture us ; lithotomy and amputation are horrible even to the thought ; yet we sub- mit to all these, and to be confined and teased for weeks, months, and years, in the hope only of a cure ! Why then are patients to feel disappointment, if they be not instantly or speedily cured by the Steam Bath especially in cases of obstinate distemper ? Or, if the improper humours be driven by the steam out of their impure blood or juices, or out of the diseased parts of the general mass, and occasion s ome uneasiness, or even an eruption for a few days or longer, perhaps ; for surely the improper humours must be driven out, to effect the required cures : or if the steam or vapour be unpleasant to the feelings of some persons, why should they not submit to the inconvenience, as they do to the use of medicines, for the chance of a cure ? Facts and practice are better than arguments and theory Bathing, in steam, is said to weaken and make persons lean ! I have, in my own person, as well as by the evidence of other bathers, proved those assertions to be false I bathed 64 times, in 64 following days, for nearly 30 minutes each time, and was very weak, indeed, when I began, but every day became stronger, and my flesh plumper and firmer ; and it is according to reason that the warm steam bath should strengthen, and not weaken ; for if the steum does occasion perspiration, it is but for a very short time, and is not that collignative, or weakening perspiration which a patient should dread, but a perspiration, or exha- lation, which throws out those putrid and deadly humours and particles, from the human body, which must be ex- pelled, in order that the disease may be gotten rid of; and the steam-bath is, certainly, the quickest, easiest, and safest method of driving those deadly humours and particles out of 74' the human body, and sooner allows the patient, therefore, to recover strength, than the operation of any kind of phy- sic does. In all hot climates, hot baths have long 1 been in common use, and instead of weakening 1 , are known to cleanse and brace ! As to catching cold, or to feeling pains and aches, after bathing in steam, I can say that 1 bathed in the depth of winter, 64 times, exposed myself to the open air, after bathing, by using exercise, and never was before so free from cold in winter ; and, I remarked, that I was less chilly, and bore the cold better than others who did not bathe; my aches and pains were cured by bathing ; but, if any patient should catch cold, or feel aches and pains continuing, the use of the steam bath will be the readiest cure. I re- member, Sir William Jones assured me, many years ago, that steam was a sovereign remedy for a cold in the head. In Russia, the bathers, while warm and naked from the hot baths and stews, plunge themselves into cold water, and sometimes into rivers ! ! ! Folly, or interest, has circulated a report that the patient may be suffocated in the bath ; and that the blood rushes to the head and the pulses are quickened therein. All these reports, I have, in my own person, proved to be false ; and, if a patient could even fancy that suffocation was about to happen, the flannel, on the top of the bath, could be easily removed by the patient's own hand, even if the attendant were absent, and instantly the steam and vapour would exhale and escape, and leave the patient to breathe the free outer air of the room. Of the numbers that have used Mr. Mahomed's baths, there is not one who has been suffo- cated ! Some have asserted that the steam will scald the patient ! I have not heard an instance of it in Mr. Maho- med's baths. He can augment or decrease the quantity of steam, and increase or diminish the degrees of heat, at pleasure. There is a stop-cock just close to the feet of the 75 patient, which, being- turned, would, in an instant, check the whole of the steam from rising 1 , and throw it off from the bath: besides, a thermometer is hung- up in the bath, on which the patient may easily read and mark the degrees of heat, and, if the steam should become too hot to the feet, the patient can immediately let it escape from the bath, by throwing- off the flannel from the top of the bath, as be- fore stated. As to the blood being- turned to water by the steam, the very idea is absurd. Certainly, it must be admitted that every person and vegetable, and thing- and matter in this world, is composed of the four orig-inal elements earth, air, fire, and water ; all our solid parts as bones, flesh, &c. have water in the composition, and so has our blood, but that blood cannot be decomposed in the system, so as to be chang-ed to water by any means. By severe and frequent bleeding-, particularly, indeed, as also by various medicines, or by disease, the blood may be so impoverished or cor- rupted that the patient may become dropsical, or fall into other diseases; there is, therefore, great danger in frequent bleeding- ; for, if the famous Doctor Brown be correct, al- thoug-h the scum of the blood may be restored and increased, and the veins become fuller than ever sometimes after bleed- ing-, yet the liquid with which they are then filled has not the richness of the former blood, inasmuch as the red glo- bular particles, which are iron, are fewer, and the crassa- mentum or rich part of the blood, which has been taken away by the bleeding-, is never restored to the system in its full purity that happens, however, when the original blood has been drawn away from the veins ; but steam can- not draw away, and, therefore, cannot leave its watery particles in the system, instead of the blood ; nor can steam, like some powerful medicines, corrupt the blood by corrupting the whole human mass, and deranging the se- cretions and excretions, or some of them. Steam cleanses, 76 and all that it performs is, to cause the corrupt and deadly humours and particles to be expired, or exhaled ; and to aid their passage from the blood by perspiration and the trans- piration of the skin ; or by the expiration of the lungs, and, in the lungs, to part with its oxygen or vital air, part of which is there taken into the blood, and is necessary to refresh and purify it, as the oxygen separated by the lung-s from the atmospheric air does ; but the steam contains more oxygen, or vital air, and less azote, or nitrogen, or deadly and pestiferous air, than the atmosphere does, and therefore restores the health better and sooner to the pa- tient ; and, as the atmospheric air is ia part composed of water, the blood, if it could be changed to water, might be so changed by the atmospheric air, as well as by steam ; but that is not found to be the case, nor is it the law of nature. AH objections that I have heard against the steam-bath, appear to me to be now fully answered : but one remark I have to make respecting it, which has also been made by others, that is that it sometimes occasions drowsiness but it does so by composing the nerves and giving ease to the whole frame ; and that, evidently, is a benefit and help to the constitution. Repose is necessary to most cures ; but, if the patient in any particular case wishes to avoid it, even gentle exercise will effectually overcome the drowsiness. The bath, also, like other modes of bathing, sometimes makes the mouth dry rinsing the mouth with cold water, or drinking a proper diluent beverage will be an easy remedy. The vulgar adage has been quoted " one man's meat is another man's poison," and it has been said " what will cure one, will not cure all." Steam in one way or other, by exhalation caused by the sun's heat, by the water sus- pended in the atmosphere, &c. &c. may be said to pervade all nature, and I look upon the use of steam as a remedy to be, therefore, an exception to those adages or sayings called general rules. N. B. Perhaps the steam bath would be 77 the best method for preparing- patients for common sea- bathing for if the pores be shut up by first using the cold water, the bad humours and disease may be thereby shut up in the body, and the patient become ill in consequence ; but by the pores being 1 effectually opened by the steam, the skin is thereby prepared, so as to enable the patient to receive all the benefit of sea-bathing. JOHN SHAW, L. L. D. At Messrs. Heyman and Co.'s Cateaton-street, London. Brighton, January the 20th, 1818. CASE XI. CASE OF PILES. SIR, I had for four years been afflicted with INWARD AND OUTWARD PILES, of which, after taking your Indian Medicated Vapour Bath daily, for six weeks, and using your Indian ointment, I was perfectly cured. I think it but my duty to give you my testimony for the good of others. I had been under the care of several professional gentlemen for a considerable time, but was afforded no relief. I re- peat, I am now perfectly cured. I am, Sir, Your most obliged servant, JONATHAN MORGAN, No. 3, Marine-parade, Brighton, June 17, 1822. or Caermarthenshire, Wales. CASE XII. CASE OF PAINS IN THE BACK AND LOINS. SIR, I had for several years past been afflicted with dreadful PAINS IN THE LOINS AND BACK, which, no doubt, proceeded from inward complaint I conjecture either from the liver or kidnies. I applied repeatedly to members of 78 the faculty, but never found any benefit beyond a tempo- rary relief. In the year 1821, 1 again experienced a return of my complaint, and suffered many days such agony that I was not able to move myself in my bed ; in this situation I was induced, by the advice of several of my friends, to consult you, who advised me to lose no time in applying a Vapour Bath : accordingly I was taken to the T5ath, after which I found myself a little better, and repeating them for three days, I was enabled .to walk home without any assistance, but still the swelling in some parts of my body did not abate. I was then requested by you to apply a sort of fomentation, which you prepared, consisting of tobacco leaves steeped in a particular liquid, this I constantly ap- plied for two days and nights, afler which time all inflam- mation, swelling, pains, &c. quite left me, and I took three or four more baths, when I found myself better in health than I had been for eighteen years. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, East-street, Brighton, F. CARTER. Nov. 19, 1821. CASE XIII. CASE OF HURT THUMB. DEAR SIR, Having resided five weeks at Brighton, I cannot possibly take leave ere I ackowledge the benefit I have derived from your Vapour Baths. Four months have elapsed since I first experienced the loss of the use of my right hand, the tendon of the thumb being violently hurt ; I am now, thank God, truly happy to say I can write, and render myself every assistance. That you and Mrs. Mahomed may long live to be a bles- sing to your friends and the public, is the sincere wish of, Dear Sir, Yours very truly, H. NEAVE. 79 CASE XIV. CASE OF INDIGESTION AND TORPID LIVER. Miss BRIGHT, from the Hundreds of Essex, is most happy in acknowledging- the benefit she has received from using Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Bath. She had been a sufferer for several years, from INDIGESTION ; and it was supposed a TORPID LIVER. After using- the Bath sixteen days succes- sively, and being- cupped once in the nape of the neck, a general circulation was produced in her system ; she gra- dually improved in health, and has every reason to hope the amendment may be permanent. In the course of nine months she used the Bath fifty times. Brighton, July 9, 1819. CASE XV. I, THOMAS YEATES, being- afflicted with EPILEPTIC FITS, and WEAKNESS, for ten years, after taking- ten of Mr. Ma- homed's Steam and Vapour Baths, found great benefit. iforj y-jO'/'Jt! . ' ' CASE XVI. '.-:: CASE OF GENERAL WEAKNESS, &C. June 26, 1822. SIR, I beg- leave to express how much benefit I con- sider that I have derived from the Shampooing- in your Bath. I feel my limbs, both ankles and knees, stronger, and I experience less fatig-ue in walking-. It is from these circumstances that I have decided to send my bailiff down to Brighton, that he may experience the effect of your Baths. He has been very ill for a length of time, above two years, and he now suffers much pain in his arms and knees. He will be at Brighton on Tuesday, and I hope 80 enabled to commence his course of Baths on Wednesday next. I have told him that you will regulate what is best to be done about remaining for a long- or shorter period at this moment, which had better depend upon the success that attends the operation, in which I have the greatest hope, from all I have seen and myself experienced, I am, Sir, Yours very truly, &c. ESSEX, To Mr. Mahomed, Brighton. CASE XVII. CASE OF SEVERE COLI> AND LOSS OF THE USE OF LIMBS, (Extracted from the Brighton Gazette of the 30th August, 1821.) As an additional instance of the great benefit to be derived from Mahomed's Shampooing, and the efficacy of such an application in similar cases to the one we are about to mention, induce us to relate the following which came under our immediate observation : A lad, from severe cold, caught, it is presumed, by sleeping- in a damp bed, that de- prived him of the use of his limbs for many weeks, and which rendered him quite helpless, was recommended to try the effects of Shampooing which he did, and after the first application, to our certain knowledge, he was enabled to walk, and did so back to the chair out of which it re- quired the aid of two persons to assist him to the Bath ! This we vouch for. We had previously heard of instances of the kind, but we were among those whose prejudices would not permit them to believe; we do now, and from the evidence we had of the invigorating and healing effects of this Eastern remedy, we shall ever be among its great- est advocates. 8] CASE XVIII. CASE OF GOUTY AFFECTION AND CONTRACTION. (Extracted from the Brighton Gazette of the 13th September, 18:2 1.) As an instance of the efficacious application of the Vapour Bath and Shampooing, as practised by Mr. Mahomed, of this town, the following- case has been laid before us by an individual, whose high respectability enables us confidently to vouch for its accuracy ; we give it in his own words : " Mr. W was troubled for years with a gouty affection, and contraction of the right leg, so bad as to cause him to retire wholly from business ; the pain felt was excruciating jn the extreme, and generally prevented his natural rest at night. He w r as at length advised to try the effects of Shampooing, which he did, and in the course of ten days was comparatively restored to health ; this application' was continued, and after eighteen Baths he was rendered sa- tisfactorily convalescent." We publish this with the same motive that has induced us to allude to similar cures having been effected by this means before, and with the view o impressing the public with a just opinion of what we know to be a useful and simple remedy for many disorders to which mankind are liable. CASE XIX. CASE OF LONG STANDING AND CONFIRMED RHEUMATISM, Extracted from the same respectable source (the Brighton Gazette) as the preceding. To the Editor of the Brighton Gazette. SIR, Be pleased to give insertion to the following- letter, and on my next visit to Brighton I will defray any charge you may be pleased to make. Yours, &c. (Signed) JOHN JOHNSON. MR. MAHOMED, SIR, The great benefit which I have derived from your mode of treatment; and the apparent happiness which 82 it has imparted to a number of my best friends, induce me to take this mode of expressing 1 my thanks, and at the same time of promulgating- the cure to your advantage, which you have so successfully effected in me. In the month of August last I was persuaded to try Shampooing, for a long- standing, painful, and confirmed case of RHEUMATISM. I had suffered, without intermission, for six months, and had been subject to repeated attacks, during the year, for the last ten years. When I applied to you I was reduced to childish imbecility in bodily strength, helpless, and mi- serable, without any prospect of being relieved. Your Bath cured me in one week in one week was I restored to perfect health, which I had not enjoyed for years. I was, and still feel, like a man whose constitution had been renovated who had been touched by the magical wand of some secret power, that imparted a vigour that seemed to defy the interruption of sickness. I could scarcely walk across the room when I first applied to you ; I can now walk a mile in ten minutes ; and, in short, possess the most perfect state of health I could wish to enjoy. To you I consider myself indebted, and to you, I repeat, I am bound to return, at least, my grateful thanks : and I feel it my in- cumbent duty thus publicly to express my feelings, for the benefit I have experienced by your method of Shampooing. I am, Sir, -..'. ( i\V:aO w>V'>,;Vi.> :;!, ;; ' ' Your obedient Servant, JOHN JOHNSON. Haymarket, London, Nov. 1, 1821. The following names may be added under this head, as instancing cures of various complaints, but of which I have not been furnished with authority to publish more length- ened particulars : Adams, Mrs. benefit in case of nervous debility. Barnes, Mr. cured of gout. 83 Bute, Right Hon. Marquis of, cured of case of numbness in the arm. Carr, Mr. benefit in case of nervous debility. Curry, Capt. cured of liver complaint. Edwards, Miss, benefit in case of nervous debility. Fitzgerald, Dr. Percy-street, London, cured of torpid liver. Floyd, General, cured of gout. Forlonger, Mr. nervous affection. G regory, Mr. Fordsham, Cheshire, nervous affection. Grenville, Sir Charles, cured of sprained ankle. Griffinhoofe, Mr. Surgeon, Hampton, Middlesex, cured of sciatica. Hall, Mr. benefit in case of nervous debility. Hamilton, Miss, benefit in case of nervous debility. Harvey, Mr. cured of gout. Hays, Mrs. cured of weakness of the knee. Heathcote, Mr. Tottenham, nervous affection. Hood, Sir Charles, cured of severe cold. Innes, Mr. J. spinal case. Johnstone, Rev. Mr. cured of gout Jones, Miss, scorbutic attack. . Kelly, Mr. cured of gout. Kent, Mr. C. cured of torpid liver. Laay, Mr. benefit in case of nervous debiliiy. Maclean, General, cured of a case of numbness in the instep. Mallard, Mr. Hampstead, cured of gout. Miles, Miss, cured of inflammation of the eye. Mills, Miss, cured of swelling in the neck. Moleney, Mr. cured of violent pain in his bones and numb- ness of instep. Oakly, Mr. cured of crick in the neck. Oakly, Miss, cured of scorbutic attack. Orhele, Mr John, Bury St. Edmonds, nervous affection. Ossory, the Lord Bishop of, cured of gout in both feet and one knee. 84 Phillips, Mr. comedian, cured of loss of voice and violent hoarseness. Pocklington, Mr. J. Camberwell, long standing- scorbutic complaint. Pocock, Mr. cured of piles. Radcliff, W. cured of tightness of the chest. Rading, Mr. benefit in case of nervous debility. Ray, Lord, cured of severe cold. Rediford, Mrs. cured of consumption. Rogers, Dr. Worthing, cured of long standing sciatica. Scott, Mr. cured f dropsy. Smith, Mrs. cured of cancer in her breast of twenty years' standing. Sparks, Mr. Stoke near Guildfprd, cured of gout. Tusin, Mr. Limehouse, nervous affection. Tutty, Rev. Mr. Lewes, cured of numbness in the feet. Walkin, Miss, cured of severe cold. White, Mrs. cured of scrofula in the neck of fourteen years' standing. Wood, Mr. cured of gout. Woodman, John, Esq. cured of a rupture. Wyndham, the Hon. Mr. cured of weakness of the knee and instep, from the gout. Young, Mr. J. Brock-hill, liver complaint. ];; -jif; jo i; :;>V.ifun.'.' 85 CHAP. VH. I AM now about to add the few complimentary notices which have been taken at different times, of my humble endeavours to mitigate the sum of human suffering 1 , and relieve the afflictions of my fellow creatures. The only gratification I can have in adding- these additional pages, is that which is called forth by the unbiassed testimony af- forded of the success of my practice. I hope that I may have been successful in conveying my meaning in plain and unvarnished language ; and it will be an additional source of pleasure to me, if the publication of these pages may be instrumental in alleviating the condition of any one of my fellow-beings, who may be suffering under dis- ease within the reach of my endeavours to relieve^ I have nearly concluded these sheets, which I trust will be received with all due lenity toward the imperfections which I fear they contain. Here I take leave of my read- ers, my patrons, and my friends, having nothing further to offer beyond the few following scraps and extracts which may not perhaps, prove unworthy of the time devoted to their perusal. SAKE DEEN MAHOMED. Brighton, 1st Feb. 1823. 86 LINES TO MR. MAHOMED, WRITTEN BY MRS. KENT, OF WIMPOLE-STREET, LONDON. Worn out by anguish and excess of pain, Hope seem'd delusive and assistance vain : Oppressed by sorrow, languid by disease, Depriv'd of health, all pleasure ceas'd to please ; The Bath, whose influence o'er the shatter'd frame, Like the mild soothing- of a parent came Bade her now hope, who felt affliction's rod, And blest with health, now breathes her thanks to God. To thee, Mahomed, let a grateful heart, Its warmest thanks in gratitude impart, By thy great skill and unremitting care, One has been sav'd that might have perish'd here, Who, while she feels a pulse within her veins, Will bless thy name if memory remains. The following Ode has appeared in The Brighton Gazette, The New Times, and several other publications. IN PRAISE OF STEAM, ADDRESSED TO MR. MAHO BRIGHTON. Begin, my Muse ! the grateful theme, And sing the wond'rous power of Steam : See how o'er yonder foaming deep The crowded Steam-Boats proudly sweep : Steam's magic power oft crowds the board Of many a high and sumptuous lord ; 87 And in the palace too 'tis said Steam doth its potent influence shed. * Bolton ! how oft we hear thy name Resounded loud with proud acclaim : Thy engine's pond'rous thund'ring power O'er Britain still doth plenty shower ; While copper, bright from Cornish mines, In current coin resplendent shines, And urged by steam's resistless force, Thro' England takes its wonted course. But stay my silly Muse, forbear, Steam's brightest glory is not there ; What use are honours, plenty, wealth, Without that best of treasures, health ? Tho' rich Golconda's glittering mine With all its sparkling gems were thine. Would it avail to give the joy, If sickness were the sad alloy ? Ah no, alas ! then turn thee here, See Mahomed's high dome is near ! There, there, behold the power of steam, Of Milton s pen a worthy theme, What clouds of vapour sweet pervade . ,|']/ That circum-ambient flannel shade, ; t ^ ISM [) Clouds that with health and pleasure glow rn , : - And with unequalled fragrance flow : That vapour, like the morning dew, Bids faded roses blush anew ; The sparkling eye and glowing cheek Its salutary power bespeak j Those agile limbs which freely move O'er hill and dale, and flowery grove, Declare, O Mahomed ! the power Of steam in thy enflannell'd bower ! * Mr. Bolton first employed steam-engines in coining. L 88 Bolton ! give place the Indian sage Doth all my Muse's powers engage ; Thou giv'st the uncertain treasure, wealth, But He Heavens richest blessing, Health. October 8, 1822. M. W. The following Ode appeared in THE NEW LONDON MAGAZINE, I believe, in July 1822. ODE TO MAHOMED, THE BRIGHTON SHAMPOOING SURGEON. Nunc opus est succis ; per quos, renorata scnectus la florem redeat, primosque recolligat annos. OVID. O thou dark sage, whose vapour bath Makes muscular as his of Gath, Limbs erst relax'd and limber : Whose herbs, like those of Jason's mate, The wither'd leg of seventy-eight Convert to stout knee timber : Sprung, doubtless, from Abdallah's son, Thy miracles thy sire's outrun, Thy cures his deaths outnumber : His coffin soars 'twixt heav'n and earth, But thou, within that narrow birth, Immortal, ne'er shalt slumber. Go, bid that turban'd Mussulman Give up his Mosch, his Ramadam, And choak his well of Zemzem Thy bath, whose magic steam can fling On winter's cheek the rose of Spring, To Lethe's Gulf condemns 'em. 89 While thus beneath thy flannel shades, Fat dowagers and wrinkled maids Re-bloom in adolescence, I marvel not that friends tell friends, And Brighton every day extends Its circuses and crescents. From either cliff, the East, the West,, The startled sea-gull quits her nest, The spade her haunts unearthing,, For speculation plants his hod On every foot of freehold sod From Rottingdean to Worthing. Wash'd by the JSsculapian stream, Dark sage, the fair, " propell'd by steam," Renew the joys of kissing In cheeks, or lank or over-ripe, Where time has, in relentless type, Placarded up " Youth Missing." To woo thee on thy western cliff, What pilgrims strong, in gig, in skiff,, Fly, donkey -cart, and pillion : While Turkish dome and minaret In compliment to Mahomed, O'ertop the King's Pavilion. Thy fame let worthless wags invade, Let punsters under-rate thy trade, For me, I'd perish sooner : Him who, thy opening scene to damn, Derived shampoo from phoo ! and sham !' I dub a base lampooner. Propell'd by steam to shake from squeak, Mara, in Lent, shall twice a week Again in song be glorious, While Kelly, laughing Time to scorn, Once more shall chaunt " O thou wert born,' And Incledon " Rude Boreas." 90 Godwin, avaunt ! thy tale thrice told, Of endless youth and countless gold, Unbought " repostum manet." St. Leon's secret here we view, Without the toil of wading through Three heavy tomes to gain it. Yet oh, while thus thy waves reveal Past virtues in the dancer's heel, And brace the singer's weazon : Tell, sable wizard, tell the cause Why limp poor I, from yonder vase, Whence others jump like Mson. ? The cause is plain though slips of yew With vervain mingle, sage meets rue, And myrrh with wolfesbane tosses : Still shrieks, unquell'd, the water- wraith That mustard-seed ingredient, faith, Is wanting to the process. Dip then within thy bubbling wave, Sage Mahomed, the votive stave Thy poet now rehearses : The steam, whose virtues won't befriend The sceptic bard, perhaps may mend The lameness of his verses ! LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. MAHOMED, SHAMPOOING SURGEON, BRIGHTON. When Nature droops and sinks beneath Decay, When at the touch of Pain Health fades away, Eager we fly for refuge to the art Which bids Disease's lingering train depart, Cheers with its beacon-light the rayless gloom, And plucks the victim from the opening tomb, 91 And,, blessing in its course alike and blest, O'er the deep channels of the sorrowing breast, Pours the ecstatic tide of Hope again, And quells each rising fear, each struggling pain. Long may such power, oh Mahomed ! be thine, To the worn thousands that in sickness pine These blessings, Heaven-directed, to impart, And claim the homage of the grateful heart. Brighton, 1825. The following paragraphs are extracted principally from the BRIGHTON GAZETTE, and are merely quoted as additional evi- dence of the opinion entertained of the VAPOUR BATHS and SHAMPOOING, by an unprejudiced and impartial writer : From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE of the 2d February, 1821. The prejudice which has existed against the Indian Medi- cated Vapour Baths introduced into this town by Mr. Ma- homed, we are glad to acknowledge no longer exists. From the benefits derived by numerous individuals, whose general respectability places their information beyond all doubt, we are enabled to say that the most salutary effects result from this mode of bathing, and there are but few instances in which the experiment has been known to fail. The New Baths on the West Cliff, which are most spacious and ele- gant, we understand, were erected by a gentleman, in grati- tude for the cure of a most painful and obstinate complaint, performed by Mr. Mahomed, and which only yielded to his successful mode of treatment. From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE of the 3d August, 1821; Mahomed, the first person who introduced the Indian Vapour Baths into this country, and which have been found of such signal utility in various diseases, is flocked to by the sound as well as the invalid, even at this season of the year : as the means of insuring or restoring health, Sliampooing has been found equally advantageous in many cases. From the BBIGHTOM GAZETTE of the 27th September, It is not generally known, that the celebrated comedian, Mathews, whose surgical attendants pronounced him incurable, and stated that he would most probably be a cripple for life, in consequence of a dislocation of the hip, occasioned by the accident of his being, some time ago, thrown out of his gig, was completely and effectually cured by Mahomed's process of shampooing ; and that Phillips, the vocalist, who had lost his voice from a severe cold, by two applications of the same nature was perfectly recovered. Such are the beneficial effects of this simple, yet excellent mode of restoring and pre serving health. From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE of the 18th October, 1831. It is remarked by Sir John Sinclair, in his Code of Health, that " there are many who keep a number of grooms to curry their horses, who would add ten years to their comfortable ex- istence, if they would but employ one of them to curry them- selves with a flesh brush niglit and morning." The curryine: here alluded to is, in fact, the qualified process of shampooing, unaccompanied with its more agreeable and medicinal pro- perties. It is the suggestion of a man who had certainly dis- covered the advantages from friction being applied to the human body, but who was ignorant of the mode practised in India, where it is applied in almost all cases of disease, and where its beneficial effects are known and appreciated. It is a valuable, because it is a simple remedy, and " simples are the best restoratives," in many cases, if judiciously applied. Shampooing has performed many cures since its introduction into this country, and more particularly since its introduction 93 into this town, for which we are indebted to Mahomed, who is alone acquainted with its peculiar preparation, and who can adduce innumerable instances of its healing virtue, and the benefits resulting from this most agreeable and renovating application. From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE of the 6th December, 1821. We regret to say we have not room this week to lay before our readers the case of Dr. Shaw, who was so effectually and radically cured by Mahomed. The statement is of great in- terest, and incontestibly proves the efficacy of the art of Sham- pooing in cases of extreme debility. We are also, for the same reason, unable to lay before our readers a case furnished us of a severe internal hurt, occasioned by a fall from a horse, which the never-failing process of Shampooing also effectually cured. "W5";fi ' l From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE. The salubrity of the air of Brighton, the convenience of bathing, and the many and valuable advantages which the town possesses in other respects, both as a place of pleasure and of health, have been the means of raising it very high in the estimation of every person in the country. But nothing adds more to its importance than the excellence of its baths, and no baths are more complete, more visited, or more gene- rally esteemed than Mahomed's, particularly his Shampooing Baths. This process, with little deviation, he follows after the manner of his native country. The plan is simple, merely enveloping the body in steam, arising from water, in which medicinal herbs of a most agreeable sweetness have been infused, and, rubbing the body : this application has, in many instances, performed wonders, particularly in cases of rheu- matism, old sprains, and gouty affections, and in nervous and other complaints. In India, Shampooing is practised in a variety of ways. 94 Sir R. K. Porter, in his Travels through Georgia, Persia, &c. gives the following description of the Persian bathing pro- cess : " The bather having undressed in an outer room, and retaining nothing about him but a piece of loose cloth round his waist, is conducted by the proper attendant into the hall of the bath j a large white sheet is then spread on the floor, on which the bather extends himself. The attendant brings from the cistern, which is warmed from the boiler below, a succes- sion of pails full of water, which he continues to pour over the bather till he is well drenched and heated. The attendant then takes his employer's head 'upon his knees, and rubs in with all his might, a sort of wet paste of henna plant, into the mustachios and beard. In a few minutes this pomade dyes them a bright red. Again he has recourse to the little pail, and showers upon this quiescent patient another torrent of warm water. Then, putting on a glove made of soft hair, yet possessing some of the scrubbing-brush qualities, he first takes the limbs, and then the body, rubbing them hard for three- quarters of an hour. A third splashing from the pail prepares the operation of the pumice-stone. 1 his he applies to the soles of the feet. The next process seizes the hair of the face, whence the henna is cleansed away, and re-placed by another paste, called rang, composed of the leaves of the indigo plant. To this succeeds the shampooing, which is done by pinching, pulling, and rubbing, with so much force and pressure, as to produce a violent glow over the whole frame. Some of the natives delight in having every joint in their bodies strained till they crack ; and this part of the operation is brought to such perfection, that the very vertebrae of the back are made to ring a peal in rapid succession. This climax of skill, how- ever, has a very strange effect to the spectator 5 for, in conse- quence of both bather and attendant being alike unclothed, the violent exertions of the one, and the natural resistance of the joints in the other, give the twain the appearance of a wrestling match. This over, the shampooed body, reduced again to its prostrate state, is rubbed all over with a preparation of soap 95 confined in a bag, till he is one mass of lather. The soap is then washed offin warm water, when a complete ablution succeeds, by his being led to the cistern and plunged in. He passes five or six minutes, enjoying the perfectly pure element ; and then emerging, has a large, dry, warm sheet thrown over him, in which he makes his escape back to the dressing-room. The Persian ladies regard the bath as the place of their greatest amusement. They make appointments to meet there ; and often pass seven or eight hours together in the carpetted saloon, telling stories, relating anecdotes, eating sweetmeats, sharing their kalions, and completing their beautiful forms into all the fancied perfections of the East : dyeing their hair and eye-brows, and curiously staining their fair bodies with a variety of fantastical devices, not unfrequently with the figures of trees, birds, and beasts, sun, moon, and stars. This sort of pencil-work spreads over the bosom, and continues down as low as the navel, round which some radiated figure is generally painted. All this is displayed by the style of their dress, every garment of which, even to the light gauze chemise, being open from the neck to that point : a singular taste, and certainly more barbarous than becoming." The following paragraph has appeared in most of the London and Provincial Papers. JUVENILE FESTIVAL AT CULFORD HALL. On Thursday the 12th ult. in commemoration of the happy recovery of the amiable Lady Louisa from a long protracted lameness (which was cured effectually by Mr. Mahomed, by the application of his Vapour Bath and Shampooing,) and by her desire, the children belonging to the school patronised by the Marchioness Cornwallis, ninety in number, after receiving their annual prizes, were sumptuously provided with a good dinner, con- sisting of plum puddings and meat pies ; the young ladies at the Hall, with their accustomed benevolence and affability, waited on them, and after dinner joined them in the merry dance until tea and buns were announced to the party ; after which the children resumed the trip, anil kept it up until the evening was far advanced, when they retired, highly delighted with their entertainment, and grateful to their benevolent Noble benefactress. Every cottager in the village was supplied with a portion of plum pudding and meat pie that was left. The following is extracted from the BRITISH TRAVELLER Newspaper, of the 6th of January, 18<23. SHAMPOOING. The art of shampooing, now so universally known throughout England, was first introduced into this country, in the year 1784, by Sake Deen Mahomed, a native of Hindoostan, and now well known by the appellation of "The Brighton Shampooing Surgeon." The astonishing effects produced on the human frame by his peculiar method of shampooing are truly astonishing, and the wonderful cures he has performed after the skill of the faculty had failed, are the praise and admiration of all. Shampooing has now be- come so general that baths are established in different parts of the kingdom, by a number of individuals, and all, it would seem, upon Mahomed's principle, but we hear nothing of the cures these have as yet effected ; indeed, it would appear that their method of shampooing is quite different to that of the original's, and, consequently, the result always the reverse. We understand that Mahomed is about to publish a book of the most wonderful cures he has performed within these last few years. This publication will no doubt be read with great interest. From the BRIGHTON GAZETTE. Again we have to record an instance of the efficacy of Mahomed's infallible remedy of shampooing, in a case of extreme weakness and long standing rheumatic affection. The individual on whom this cure has been performed, is well known to us, and is (ruly incapable of an assertion unfounded in truth. By Jifteen baths, he affirms, he was radically cured of a most painful case of rheumatism, attended by great bodily weakness. ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIALS, VVAICH HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY MR. MAHOMED, SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS WORK. CASE I. CASE OF INJURED SPINE. Thomas Hine, aged seven years, the son of Mr. David Hine, York-place, City-road, London, having met with a serious accident which affected the spine, was for eleven months quite unable to walk j several expedients were tried by the advice of different medical men, but no hope presented itself until advised to have recourse to Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Baths- In the course of a few weeks a favourable change took place, and by attending to Mr. Mahomed's directions, in a few months the boy was able to walk alone, and his parents have now the confident hope that ere long they shall see him restored to his former state. His back is grown out, but the operation of Shampooing has lessened the deformity, and there is reason to believe it may ultimately remove every defect. CASE II. CASE OF PARALYSIS. Grosvenor-street, (West,) IHhSept, 1820. DEAR SIR, I take the opportunity of sending this letter by a friend, who is going to Brighton, to inform you that we arrived safe in town j and I know it will give you great satisfaction to hear, that Mr. Sewell ever since his return has felt himself much better, and wishes me to say " that he has most certainly derived great benefit from attending your Medicated Vapour Bath more than two months, for his great affliction under a most severe paralytic attack." Mr. Sewell unites with me in best respects to yourself, and Mrs. Mahomed, wishing you and your children health. I am, with esteem, Dear Sir, Your humble servant, ANN SEWELL. To Mr. Mahomed. Mr. Sewell begs you will remember him to Mr. James, for his great attention to him while attending your Vapour Bath. King's-road, Pimlico. CASE III. CASE OF RHEUMATISM. 1, Cannon-place, April 21, 1823. TO MR. MAHOMED. SIR, I cannot leave Brighton without expressing my thanks to you for the great benefit my daughter has expe- rienced from the use of your Medicated Vapour Baths, the rheumatism having entirely left her, and she is able to walk four miles with perfect ease >, when first she took your Baths she could with difficulty walk from room to room. Allow me once more to repeat my thanks, and believe me to remain, Your obedient servant, ELIZABETH PARKINSON CASE IV. CASE OF GOUT. 84, Kings-road, Brighton, Sept. 13, 1823. Mr. MAHOMED, In justice to my own feelings, to you, and my sincere wish to contribute in any way towards relieving a suffering fellow being, I could not leave this, without sending you this testimony of the benefit I have received from the use of your Medicated Vapour Baths, the persevering in the use of which, has rendered my stay here most comfortable, and without which, I feel assured I should have remained as when I arrived, in a very miserable and crippled state, and unfit to have enjoyed the society of my family and friends ; as you saw me, of course, I need not describe to you, the swellings and hardness in my ancle and knee joints j in short, that I could not put one leg before the other without the greatest pain and difficulty, and I began really to think I had ost the use of them, so long has an unhealthy (I can call it by no other name,) species of Gout been hanging about me, and I may add*, though constitutionally subject to this disorder, and have suffered acute pain, it never lasted for so long a period as this last attack, and I was determined to try what a regular series of the Vapour Bath would effect. The very first I took refreshed me, the second relieved me much, and after the third I was enabled to walk with comparative ease and com- fort. Each succeeding one had its progressive good effect, and now at the week's end, I can take my usual rambles, and almost forget I had the Gout at all. You have on your list of cases, many in every way of greater importance and con- sequence, quite sufficient, I should think, to prove the use and efficacy of your establishment j but as I before observed, if I can be of the slightest use to a fellow-creature, or of service to you, I am determined the testimony of so humble an individual as myself shall not be withheld ; and with my sincere wishes for your prosperity, I remain, Mr. Mahomed, Your's, very much, J. W. FERMOR, Major-General. CASE V. CASE OF STRAIN WITH GROSS HABIT OF BODY. Master John Bowles, son of H. C. Bowles, Esq. of Myd- delton House, Enfield,in December, 1823, from the effects of a strain with a gross habit of body to which he was subject; too \vas obliged to be conveyed from school ; his right leg w greatly swelled at the knee, and could not be put to tl ground : he was attended by an eminent surgeon, who ordered fomentations and poultices to be applied : another celebrated surgeon agreed with him, that the leg si not be operated upon, but nature have its course. AfU six months' lingering, and walking with great difficul by the aid of crutches, further advice was obtained from another eminent surgeon, who recommended Warm Sea Bathing, which was tried ; he was brought down to Brighton in June. The Tepid Bath not being sufficiently powerful to create any great change, Mr. Mahomed recommended a trial of the Shampooing Vapour Bath, which repeated two or three times, occasioned a great discharge under the knee- By persevering, in a few months he was enabled, by the blessing of God, to lay aside his crutches, and before the conclusion of the year 1824, was completely restored to the use of his leg, and his bodily health being better than ever it was before. The above is a short narrative of his case, and it cannot be concluded without offering sincere and grateful thanks to Mr. Mahomed for his kindness and attention. CASE VI. CASE OF CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. SIR, You are at liberty to make use of my name in recom- mending your Medicated Vapour Baths, for the Chronic Rheumatism, they having cured me after suffering under that complaint for more than a year. I am, your humble servant, THOS. KNATCHBULL. To Sake Deen Mahomed. April 1st, 1824. CASE VII. CASE OF RHEUMATIC FEVER. Godstone, April 16, 1824. SIR, The Parish Officers of Godstone with myself desire united very sincere thanks for your oblig- 101 ing attention, gratuitously paid to Francis Fulbrook of this Parish, labouring under a severe Rheumatic attack. He has returned apparently very much mended by the treatment adopted in your valuable Baths, and is about to return to his usual work, which had been long interrupted, and it is hoped he will now be able to continue. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, C. I. HOARE, Vicar of Godstone. To Mr. Mahomed. Godstone, Surrey, May 19, 1894. SIR, I hereby desire to return to you my sincere thanks for the unmerited favour you have bestowed on me, by the gratuitous application of your Vapour Bath, and with your permission, I desire to send a few particulars of the first attack of my disorder : In April, 1823, I was taken with a pain in my right knee I went to work in the morning but was obliged to give up work I kept getting worse, and having a cold on me, I continued in pain nearly one month. I then got something better, until about the 8th day of June following I was then obliged to take to my bed, application was then made to the Doctor, he said the rheumatic fever had seized my limbs ; I then took some medicine, and also a liquid was prepared to bathe my knees and shoulders with, but I was not able to assist in dressing myself until near the Christmas following I then got a little better, but not likely to have the use of my arms again, (especially the left arm) but through the kindness of friends, and the application of your valuable Vapour Baths, I can now follow my daily employment with apparent ease, though I sometimes feel a small pain dart into my hips, but it is soon gone again. I sincerely desire that my case may be made known to the community at large, that all who are afflicted with the like disorder, may partake of the powerful effects of your most 102 excellent Vapour Baths. Therefore, in gratitude for your benevolent kindness so freely shewed to me, I desire to remain, Sir, Your most obedient and humble servant, FRANCIS FULBROOK. CASE VIII. CASE OF RHEUMATIC ATTACK AND AFFECTION OF THE LUNGS. SIR, Previous to my leaving Brighton, I feel it but grati- tude to acknowledge the great benefit I have received from the use of your Vapour Baths, the first of \which seemed completely to invigorate my whole frame, which was in a state of extreme debility, arising from a most severe rheu- matic attack, as well as an affection of the lungs. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, B. TUPLING. July 28, 1824. To Mr. Sake Deen Mahomed. Any reference you think proper to make to me, I shall feel much pleasure in replying to. 23, Thavies Inn, Holborn. CASE IX. CASE OF RHEUMATIC AFFECTION. 37, High-street, Brighton. 1st Aug. 1824. DEAR SIR, I beg to say you have full liberty to refer any person to me who may be similarly circumstanced to myself, or afflicted in the way I have been with a violent rheumatic affection. Last winter after much severe suffering and confinement 103 to my bed for nearly two months, having tried every remedy, or professed remedy, suggested by two highly respectable prac- titioners, and being almost hopeless of finding relief, I was induced, at the strong solicitation of a friend, to apply to you. I did so, and having, not without, I must confess, some reluctance taken the first bath, (to which from my helpless- ness I was literally CARRIED), I found immediate relief ; a second further relieved me, and in a few baths more, I was completely restored, thus proving, I may add, incontestibly the great benefits to be derived from the use of your Vapour Bath and SHAMPOOING, assisted by your excellent electuary. I have no inducement but the public good in thus address- ing you, begging you will make any use you please of this communication. I am, dear Sir, with many thanks for your general attention, Your most obedient Servant, RICHARD BISHOF. To Mr. S. D.Mahomed, Shampooing Surgeon. CASE X. CASE OF SPINAL COMPLAINT. Miss J. Hudson begs to acquaint Mr. Mahomed, that she found great benefit from the use of his Medicated Vapour Baths, for a spinal complaint, which nearly restored her. J. H. assures Mr. Mahomed, she will always feel much pleasure in recommending them. Ramsgate, May 7, 1824. CASE XI. CASE OF SPRAINED ANCLE. SIR, A very severe sprained ancle, with a great distor- tion of the joint, for which I had been under medical advice 104 both in London and in the country, for nearly nine months, having being cured by the blessing of God and your skill, in the short space of Six Weeks ; I am anxious to assure you of the high estimation with which I shall ever regard your inesti- mable invention of the Indian Medicated Vapour Bath j and shall be most happy, whenever opportunity offers, to bear testimony to its efficacy. You are perfectly welcome to communicate the particulars of my case, and on reference to me at Walton-on-Thames, Surry, I shall have much pleasure in giving you every assistance in my power. I am, Sir, with the warmest gratitude for my recovery to yourself, and Mrs. Mahomed, Your obedient, humble servant, A. M. E. HATCH. Brighton, August 6th, 1824. ifftiil/nHfi finori-r.! -!. r ro-' 'i:.ft a&icrfi vnata rfiiw CASE XII. CASE OF LAMENESS FROM DEBILITY. Ship-street, Brighton, Monday, 12th August, 1824. DEAR SIR, Before quitting Brighton, I beg leave to ex- press to you my thanks, for the very great benefit I have derived from the use of the Vapour Bath, which I am happy to say, has nearly quite restored me to my former state of health. I can now walk two or three miles, without finding any other inconvenience, than a slight pain in my leg ; and make no doubt I shall very shortly be entirely recovered. I shall feel pleasure in recommending your baths to my friends in town, and remain, Dear Sir, Your very humble Servant, WM. HARRISON. Mr. S. D. Mahomed, 105 CASE XIII. CASE OF RHEUMATISM. SIR, Before I leave Brighton it is my wish, (and indeed I might add my duty) to give my testimony of the efficacy of your incomparable Vapour Bath. I came down from town to try the effect of the tepid sea bath for a rheumatic com- plaint chiefly felt in the feet, under which I had laboured nearly four months, my left , arm from the wrist to the fingers being first attacked, and shortly afterwards rendered by swelling and pain entirely useless and obliged to be carried in a sling. On my arrival in Brighton however, I soon heard from some of my own friends such extraordinary in- stances of cures effected by the power of the Medicated Vapour Bath upon the human frame, that I determined upon giving that a trial instead of the sea water bath, as advised by my medical attendants in town. I could at this time scarcely walk, and even with the assistance of my servant found great difficulty and pain in hobbling a few steps before the door ; after the fifth or sixth Vapour Bath I could walk without my servant's arm ; and from listening to invalids in the room appropriated for their use, going into the baths or return- ing from them, I was astonished to hear from their own lips such miraculous accounts of cures performed upon themselves in cases so much worse than mine, that though I was gradu- ally getting better, I felt impatient, and expected that I should more speedily recover the use of my limbs after a few months' confinement, when I saw before me objects perfectly restored, who had been victims of the most obstinate disease Jbr as many years. I mention this as a caution to others not to be too sanguine ; it is so natural to desire to be relieved from the only impediment to one's comfort (at least to those who are in perfect health of body) the free use of one's feet, and in a place where there are so many attractive induce- ments for their service. But I am convinced a great deal 106 depends upon constitution, as well perhaps as the age of the the patient ; persons of 50 must not expect that remedies can act as vigorously upon their frames, as upon those of 25 j patience and perseverance I believe to be all that is required to effect a perfect restoration to health in gouty and rheu- matic subjects 5 of this I offer undoubted authority in the per- son of :Sir, yours sincerely, ROSE MOUNTAIN. Mighell-street, Dorset-gardens, Oct. 1, 1824. CASE XIV. CASE OF WEAKNESS IN THE ANCLE. Brighton, October 2, 1924. Mrs. Robert Page, of Kennington-road,Surry,was afflicted with a weakness in her ancle, attended with great pain, so much as to render her unable to bear her foot on the ground, and it is with great pleasure she acknowledges, that after taking Mr. Mahomed"s Vapour Bath daily thirteen times, she is enabled to walk about with the greatest ease, and without any inconvenience arising from it. To Mrs. Mahomed, with many thanks for her kind atten- tion. CASE XV. CASE OF RHEUMATISM. Dear Mahomed, I had intended before I had left Brighton, to have given my thanks to you personally and a hearty shake of the hand you have enabled me to put into motion, but I was prevent- ed, and the only thing that I can now do is to bestow upon you its first efforts at penmanship. 107 You will be happy to hear that I bore my journey without inconvenience, though the day was damp and chilly. I could not help recalling to my mind the different state of my health at the time of my last travelling the road, the favourable change in which, under a higher power, I attribute to the trial and use of your bath. It was about three months since that I arrived at Brighton, having for several previous months, and indeed then, suffer- ing under a severe attack of acute rheumatism. I tried Brigh- ton for change of air, but unfortunately, very shortly became worse, so much so, that my limbs, the use of which I had regained partially, became totally useless with pain in every movement, and completely sleepless, I only purchased a tem- porary rest by the strongest opiates. In this state, about six weeks back, I proposed to my father (who is himself of the medical profession) the trial of your baths I had heard of their success, and I wished to try them. You may remember how I came to you helpless, hardly able ^to stand, dragging with pain my limbs by the help of two sticks ; my general health injured, and indeed, almost worn out. I tried one Vapour Bath, and that night, for the first time for many months, enjoyed a refreshing sleep, and I awoke with agreeable ease and freedom in my limbs, and from that time to the present, I have never had occasion to use my accustomed opiates. Were it only that your bath produced so great a blessing as sleep, it would be of itself a sufficient recommendation to all invalids to make use of it to regain so desirable an object. But it did more j in a few more baths my spirits recovered ; my movements became easier I soon walked, and I may now, after nine baths, confidently hope, as I gather fresh strength every day, that though late in the season, the relief that you afforded me will be perma- nent, and that I shall be completely restored to my former health and strength. So assured am I of the efficacy of your Vapour Bath in the rheumatism, even in the worst form, by my own case, that 108 I shall feel happy if any representations'of mine in this letter, if you think proper to make use of it, will induce any afflicted with it, to use so speedy, and simple, and, as I have found, so effectual a remedy to their sufferings. I am, dear Mahomed, Yours thankfully, W. BODHAM WRIGHT. 3, Grenville-street, Brunswick-square. P. S. Please to thank your son for me, for his kind atten- tion when I was helpless. ''c'llvt. s vluji--)i y;-ufiood - t vlfaiftsq IxMUfi^'vt -::wJ i; boajufomq IJJHO I t aao!q9sls vblslqcam ban .tnatasvom CASE XVI l> 'Jbamirf w urf'/r) ruiijji via oj iiy^oqoiq I <>fo/Ki gjlsow xiz TO MR. MAHOMEDL CASE OF COMPLICATED DISEASE. 'DTiin ,830H|l:Jj{ rj r 'Y o> -HUII-I Ivrod ladmoam Vfi/n DEAR SIR, Having received the great benefit which I have from your able treatment of me, aided by the use of your Shampooing Baths, I feel it but my duty thus to state my case, in order that you may, if you please, make use of it in any future edition of your work. Before I applied to you I had been suffering many years under a complication of disorders, and none of them of the least virulent kind. I was reduced to a skeleton, and, in fact, was one mass of disease j my imbecilities could only be equalled by a suspension of all my bodily faculties ; I was wretched and miserable, an incumbrance to myself and to my friends. After the use of your Baths fora few times, and experiencing your kind attention for two or three days only, I began to be relieved of pain ; the inflammation in my joints began to subside, and, in short, I began gradually to mend ! ! Having had about 30 Baths in the course of she weeks, aided by the use of your Indian electuary, I was entirely cured, and am as well and as strong as ever I was in my life. 109 I repeat, this letter and acknowledgment to be but a duty I owe you and the public, if you think proper to give it publicity. I am, dear Sir, Your's truly, GEORGE DROWLEY. Lewes, Oct. 29, 1824. CASE XVII. CASE OF LAMENESS FROM DEBILITY. ..". 12, Broad-street. DEAR SIR, Had you not requested from me a written acknowledgment of the utility of your Vapour Baths, my own feelings would never have allowed me to quit this neigh- bourhood without leaving one ; and the more especially as every additional testimony to the efficacy of your plan may lead to its more general adoption, and thereby further your own interests, as well as the health of other individuals. It may be satisfactory to others, and gratifying to you, to state that previous to my coming to Brighton, I had been confined for nearly three months with a total lameness in tlie left foot, which was considered by several medical gentlemen of respect- ability to proceed from either a sprain, or constitutional debi- lity. On my arrival here I took the warm baths for three weeks, and was not sensible of the least amendment -, I then was recommended by our own medical man to try your Va- pour and Shampooing Baths : I visited you, when you gave it as your opinion that the nerve of the foot was chilled. After the first bath I took I could stand with a stick, though I had not put my foot to the ground for three months; after the second I walked for half an hour; I pursued your plan for three weeks only, and I am most happy and grateful to say that I am now perfectly restored, and am able to walk a 110 mile or two in the day, without any inconvenience. With best wishes for the health and prosperity of yourself and family, I remain, Sir, Yours, most respectfully and obliged, JUDITH HAGUE. My place of residence is Tottenham Brook Place, Middlesex, CASE XVIII. CASK OF SPRAIN AND INFLAMMATION OF THE KNEE. Mr. Winstgatt, Merton Cottage, Surrey, cured of violent inflammation of the knee and tightness of the tendons, occa- sioned by a fall, and of more than a year's standing, after apply- ing one general and ten local Baths, at Mr. Mahomed's. Brighton, Nov. 19, 1824, CASE XIX. CASE OF STRAIN WITH ABSCESS. Brighton, December 29, 1824'. DEAR SIR, According to your desire I leave you the par- ticulars in writing of my case. It is now nearly six years since I first felt symptoms of a strain in the left thigh. Surgical advice was applied to, but little was thought of it, until about six months after an abscess was found to have formed between the muscles. The course which had been recommended, not tending to check it, it had greatly extended on all sides. It was opened, and in time it healed, but was far from cured. Not to trouble you with an account of the relapses, I shall merely say, that under the treatment which was pursued, it continued for a long time growing worse, when getting into other hands, by very skilful treatment the abscess was removed: but the limb had been so much injured, that I was left without hope of ever regaining the use of it. Reduced to a state of extreme weakness, without power to bend the knee or raise the foot from the ground, the muscles of the thigh in some parts destroyed, and in others, adhering one to another and to the bone, and unable with crutches to walk more than a few yards without great fatigue. I was advised by Mr. Brodie to try your Medicated Vapour Baths 5 I have done so, and the result is, that I have thrown off the crutches, and am now able to walk a mile or two with ease and safety. The muscles, the knee, and all parts of the limb, have nearly regained their proper action, and I have every prospect of still further improvement. With pleasure I take this opportunity of again expressing to you my gratitude., for the benefit I have derived from your invaluable Baths. I am, Sir, Your's truly, ARTHUR SAVAGE. To Mr. Mahomed, Brighton. .^ ; ' CASE XX. CASE OF RHEUMATISM. TO SAKE DEEN MAHOMED. SIR, Being under the necessity of leaving Brighton early to-morrow morning, after a residence here of about twenty days, during which time I have taken seven of your Vapour Baths, with the usual method of Shampooing, for a severe attack of rheumatism, I should think myself wanting in com- mon justice to you, were I not to leave behind me a written testimony of the very great benefit I have experienced under your treatment. ;/ When I first saw you, I was suffering so dreadfully from pain in the joints, that I could scarcely walk, even with the 112 assistance of a stick : and I am now, by the blessing of God> and your skill, almost entirely free from all pain, and can walk as well as ever I could. You are at liberty to make known the particulars of my case, and I shall have much pleasure in replying to any inquiries that may be made as to the efficacy of your system. I am to be found or addressed by letter, at Walton -grove, Walton -upon-Thames, Surry or at 39, Welbeck- street, Cavendish-square, London. I remain, Sir. Your obedient servant, GEORGE BLAIR. CASE XXI. CASE OF RHEUMATISM. German-place, Friday. MY DEAR SIR, Be so good as to send by the bearer, as much of your valuable medicated oil as you can spare, that you may finish that cure, you have so admirably begun. The bearer will pay the expence with pleasure. I am obliged to return to town to-morrow my address is No. 51, Pall Mall, where I have resided these 4O years and from whence I will take the liberty of corresponding with you, upon the subject of my miserable rheumatic complaint, in which your good advice has already been of so much use to me. Believe me ever, My dear Sir, Your obedient and obliged servant, GEORGE NICOL. aiyoni iifiili/':-" - 10 '.:' .'::!:!: . CASE XXII. CASE OF CONTRACTION OF THE KNEE. Mr. R. Dean was by Mahomed's Vapour Baths, enabled to lay aside his crutches, after having been compelled to use them for above TWO YEARS, in the month of February, 1825. 113 CASE XXIII. CASE OF CONTRACTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE KNEE. I, William Gilfin, leave this as a testimony of the great benefit I have received from your valuable Vapour Bath ; when I came to Brighton, I was obliged to have a Fly to come and go from the bath, but after a short stay of one month, I could walk to the bath or any other part of Brighton, with one under-hand stick j my case was a bad knee, con- tracted with an inflammation, of which I had been lame six months. This is perfectly at your service to publish, if you think it worthy of a place in your book of cases of cures. WILLIAM GILFIN. Guestling, near Hastings, Sussex. March 7, 1825. To Mr. S. D. Mahomed, Brighton. CASE XXIV. . CASE OF TIC DOULOUREUX AND RHEUMATISM. Paris, 6 Avril, 1825. Je commence, Monsieur, par vous remercier de la petite fiole de votre huile qui accompagnoit votre letfre du 15 Mars, et vous prier de vouloir bien, aussitot que vous aurez resu la nouvelle cargaison que vous attendez des Indes, m'envoyer, ainsi que vous me le promettiez, une petite provision de votre huile, c'est k dire de la plus forte des deux. Comme vous n'avez jamais voulu m'en dire le prix, permettez moi de vous offrir cette petite piece d'argenterie comme un temoignage de ma reconnoissance, et recevez 1'expression de toute celle que je reconnois vous devoir pour la parfaite guerison qui a 6t& la suite de la cure que vous m'avez fait suivre. Je vous ai dit, Monsieur, en quittant Brighton au mois d'Octo- bre dernier, que si mon hiver se passoit sans que j'e"prouvasse 114 aucun ressentiment ni du tic douloureux dont je souffrois de- puis plus de IS mois, ni des rhumatismes dont j'e"tois tour- mentee depuis plusieurs anriees, je m'empresserois de vous e"crire pour vous informer du plein succes de vos soins. Je remplis aujourd'hui cet engagement en vous ecrivant la pre"- sente, fc la quelle je vous permets de donner tbute publicity, et par laquelle je certifie que j'ai e"te" complettement gue"rie par suite de la cure que vous m'avez administre'e. Adieu> Mon- sieur, receveai Tassurance de ma plus parfaite estime. 1 rf lk tdmiesk TYSZRIEWICZ, " Pfinces^se PONIATOtVSKA ,891113 'lo 69*J T .V?.r-!,!!}l 1/AIvIil' [Translation.] Paris, April 6th, 1825. SIR, I begin by thanking you for the isjnall viii of or jjviiiph accompanied your letter of the 15th of March, and beg that as soon as you have received the parcel you expect from India, you will, according to your promise, send me a small stock of your oil, I mean the stronger of the two sorts. As you never would mention the price, allow me to present you with this smiall 'piece 1 of plate as a -token of my gratitude, which I feel myself bound in duty to acknowledge, for my perfect recovery in consequence of the treatment you pre- scribed. .1 told you, , Sir, on my leaving Brighton in the month of October last, that if the winter passed without my feeling any return either of the tic douloureux with which I had Ibeen afflicted for more than 18 months, or of the rheu- matism which, had tormented me for many years, I would hasten to apprise you of the complete success of your atten- tions. I now fulfil my engagement by writing the presen to you, to which I give you leave to give full publicity, and by which I certify, that I have been completely cured by the remedies you have administered to me. Farewell, Sir 5 re- ceive the assurance of my most perfect esteem. La Comtesse TYSZKIEWICZ, Princesse PONIATOWSKA. SILVER CUT COVER ASD J)TSH ^c^^is^ V/VW (7 -LSS. <"4W^ 115 CASE XXV. CASE OF SCIATICA. Brighton, April 16, 1825. DEAR SIR, I am happy to leave my testimony with you of the benefit I have received from the application of your Medicated Vapour Baths. When I arrived in Brighton last Monday week, 1 could with difficulty place my legs to the ground 5 I can now walk about without assistance either from stick or crutches. The Sciatica was my complaint. I sincerely trust I shall feel no more of it. I have also derived benefit from your Indian Medicine. Wishing ; you and your family your health, I am, yours, obediently, JAMES HOOD. t jn9. : CASE XXVI. CONTRACTION OF THE KNEE AND INFLAMMATION. Mr. H. Weld has great pleasure in acknowledging the wonderful efficacy of Mr. Mahomed's Baths, in removing a very severe and obstinate inflammation of the knee, with which Mrs. H. Weld had been afflicted for more than a year and a half, and which had resisted all the usual remedies. When first she consulted Mr. Mahou.ed, the complaint was rapidly gaining ground, the limb was much contracted, and Mrs. Weld's strength was exhausted. The very first Bath afforded relief, and appeared to destroy all tendency to inflam- mation, as she never after experienced any return of it, though she immediately entered upon a more nourishing plan of diet. By perseverance in the use of the Vapour Baths and other of Mr. Mahomed's remedies, for nearly three months, Mrs. Weld was gradually restored to health and the perfect use of her limb, So much so, that she is now enabled to walk two hours together without fatigue. Mr. Mahomed is at liberty to 116 make what use he pleases of this letter, as it is the united wish of Mr. and Mrs. Weld to promote his interest to the utmost of their power. Chid cock House, June 4, 1825. CASE XXVII. CASE OF PALPITATION OF THE HEART AND COMPLICATE!* DISEASE. TO MR. SAKE BEEN MAHOMED. DEAR SIR, Although I have been incessant in recom- mending the valuable efficacy of your Medicated Vapour Baths since I myself experienced their effects, if you think any written statement of my case likely to benefit others, and serve you, I will most readily give it you. In April, 1 823, I was advised by a private friend to try your Baths, and place myself under your entire treatment, being then in a very nervous, low, debilitated state, subject to violent palpitation of the heart, tendency of blood to the head, dieted upon vegetables and water; and altogether quite ill. This indisposition I had been under near three years, brought on by domestic affliction and other connected causes, till it finally reduced me to an alarming illness in 1821-22, and the ultimate recovery from which (under the most eminent of the faculty) left me as herein described in April, 1823. When urged by my friend to try your Baths, I quite ridi- culed the idea as inapplicable to my case, and I believe nothing but the conviction that every expedient I had re- sorted to had failed, would finally have overcome my preju- dice. Thus reluctantly did I submit to the use of the Vapour Baths : the first I took did me great service, aiding appetite, sleep, and digestion, quelling nervous excitement, and caus- ing better circulation, without any of the alarming conse- quences I had apprehended ; and a repetition of them for one fortnight, aided by your medicinal treatment, returned me to London the astonishment of . every friend ; and an 117 occasional perseverance in them soon after, renovated me to my wonted health. Another remarkable instance of their peculiar efficacy in cases of languid circulation, occurred to me in March, 1824, when in London. I caught a severe in- flammatory cold, which brought on my old symptoms, and required the use of digitalis and other baneful medicines, and left me very weak. As soon as able I went to Brighton for a Bath, and such was the torpid state of circulation in me, that with the vapour at 110 by the thermometer inside the Bath, I absolutely shivered, and had hot oils applied to restore it, which no Warm Bath could have done, neither could the heat have been so endured one more Bath restored me to my- self again. I am now quite well, but shall always resort to your Vapour Bath, whenever indisposed. I have finally no hesitation in saying that they have a pre-eminent claim to any Warm Bath, and may be used with success in most cases, but in almost any without the least apprehension, from the various diseases I have witnessed a recovery from by my own recommendation j whilst in all cases of contraction, rheumatic and other pains, I hesitate not, to pronounce them superior to any other treatment, from having been an eye witness to such recoveries as I could not otherwise have credited. I remain, dear Sir, Your constant well wisher, HENRY POUNSETT. Bartholomew-lane, London. July, 1825. CASE XXVIII. TO MR. MAHOMED. CASE OF RHEUMATIC AFFECTION. SIR, Having received a perfect cure from the use of your Vapour Baths, and thinking that a knowledge of the circum- 118 staLce itjght be beneficial to those who may be afflicted us I have been, I will giye a brief statement of the case and leave it to your discretion, whether or not to give it publicity. I was a great sufferer from extreme pain .in my left-side for some months, and was at length, obliged to leave my place of servitude and return home tp my mother, who is a widow, and but ill able to provide for herself. I received every at- tention from an eminent medical gentleman, who at last can- didly assured me, that he had done all he could^ but recom- mended me to apply to a physician, which I did, but his pre- scriptions w.ere of no use. I remained for five months with- out the least hope of ever again being able to get my living, when my late mistress proposed calling with me to consult you, as every other means had been resprted .to without affording any permanent relief; but from,: the trial of your Vapour Baths for ;|hree weeks, I am perfectly restored to health, am entirely free from. the, rheumatic affection which had< seized the whole of ; my le.ft side j; and am now, conse- quently,, able to take another situation. , I know not how to express the gratitude I fee) for the great act of, humanity and generosity shewn me,, as well, as for the kindness and atten- tions of Mrs. Mahomed and attendants^ having no remunera- tion to offer but my most gtateful acknowledgment. ; I am authorised by my late mistress, Mrs. Fuller, of South- street, Lewesj lo say, that any reference may be made to her, and she will be happy to give any further information that may be required j for such an entire cure far exceeded her most sanguine expectations. I am, Sir, Your's much indebted and obliged, '-'HI A?.. Jf ; - MARY ADE. .Kor> -- .! -uvi. .-. ,*M*y Harasev, Sept. 5, 1825. 119 CASE XXIX. CASE OF PARALYSIS. TO S. D.MAHOMED. SIR, I cannot in justice to you quit Brighton after five weeks' residence, without expressing the high gratification of acknowledging the great benefit I have experienced under your directions. I have been affected for nearly three years past with a partial paralytic affection of the left knee, extend- ing to the ankle and foot, which by the use of the Vapour Bath and Shampooing is very much relieved, and I entertain no doubt but that I shall ultimately totally recover the perfect use of my limb. JOHN ROSE, Surgeon, Eye, Suffolk. Sept. 27, 1825. CASE XXX. ' CASE OF LAMENESS. CASE OF Miss CAROLINE PAYNE GALLWAY. About three years ago she was attacked with a pain in her right foot, the cause of which could not be accounted for ; this pain continued increasing for twelve months, but only occasionally prevented her taking her usual exercise. On her return to England in the summer of 1823, it became so much worse that she was quite unable to walk without considerable pain, and her general health was affected. She went up to town, and remained there three weeks under the care of an eminent physician and surgeon ; the latter afterwards prescribed for her on her return into the country, but without the least relief ; the complaint continued increasing for eighteen months, during which time she consulted many other physi- cians and surgeons without the least benefit ; for the last six p months she was unable to walk or put her foot to the ground, and even latterly to bear the motion of a carriage without great pain, and confined to her sofa. In the month of August, 1825, she came to Brighton to try the effects of Mahomed's Vapour Baths j after the fourth Bath she was able to walk without her stick, and at the end of six weeks perfectly recovered the use of her foot, and enabled to take her exercise as before the attack, and to walk for two hours or more at a time, without pain or inconvenience. , /grf | -baow.'i t :),yj7! .jji>i 9rf.;'u fKJJo^in ^iiyfjrjjru. 1 Li)->4 K flJi// J---"V L __^_ - _ niflJvuJ;.'} - 1 =inn ,; ASE XXXI. CASE OF LAMENESS OF THE KNEE. SIR, I should hold myself greatly deficient in gratitude towards you, were I to think of quitting Brighton with- out leaving my acknowledgment of the great benefit I have received from the use of your Vapour and Shampooing Bath ; and as it may possibly be of some public service, I beg to state that in consequence of a blow which I received on the knee by being accidentally thrown out of a chaise about fourteen months ago, an accumulation (as I am professionally informed) of the synovia had taken place underneath the knee, forming an enlarged bursa, but of such slow accumu- lation was it, that I did not experience any inconvenience until eight months after the accident, and then it increased so much as almost to prevent the possibility of walking. I have since that time been under the care of some of the most experienced gentlemen in the medical profession, by whose direction I have used various embrocations, pressure, and have repeatedly applied strong blister, in order to its disper- sion, without success, but which I feared would terminate with a stiff joint or contracted leg, and was at last recom- mended by one of the most eminent practical surgeons of the 121 present day, to try the effect of your Medicated Vapour Bath , and which, I am happy to say, in the course of a fortnight completely restored the free use of my leg, and I now walk perfectly easy with a very trifling sensation of pain indeed ; and I am so satisfied of the benefit I have received, that I shall have pleasure in giving any information on the sub- ject to any person whom you may think fit, or have occasion i to refer to me. lam, Sir, Very faithfully yours, W. ROUSSEAU. Chertsey, Surrey, Septt. 28, 1825. To Mr. Mahomed, Shampooing Surgeon, Brighton. CASE XXXII. CASE OP CONTRACTION ARISING FROM SPRAIN. Miss Walker has great pleasure in acknowledging the benefit she has derived from Mr. Mahomed's Vapour Baths, in; the case of a contraction arising from a sprain* Tilehurst, Sept. 29, 1825. CASE XXXIII. CASE OF SPRAINED SHOULDER WITH STIFFNESSv. Stanmer, October 5, 1825. SIR, I have much pleasure in acknowledging the benefit- which I derived from the use of your Vapour Bath. Early in the summer of 1823 I sprained my shoulder, which produced a stiffness (attended occasionally with pain) that in the course of time prevented my raising my arms to my head -, at the beginning of the following autumn, I had recourse to your Baths, which soon afforded the greatest relief, and ultimately restored the free use of my arm. I am, Sir, &c. &c. &c. M. CHICHESTER evcd i .7(1 vrj -Q-,M.-,: No. 1, St. Dunstau's Hill, London. Nov. 9, 1825. SIB, I have much pleasure in recording the great and speedy benefit derived from your Indian Medicated Vapour Baths and Shampooing system. I suffered severe lameness in the knee from the effects of a cold, and was unable to walk without the aid of a crutch, for 123 nearly two months, during which period I received little or no relief from a variety of appropriate outward applications : I then subjected myself to your Vapour Baths, three of which mitigated, and sixteen entirely removed the evil above de- scribed. I remain, Sir, Your obliged servant, CHARLES SKIPPER. CASE XXXVI. CASE OF LAMENESS. Mrs. E. Lamb's compliments to Mr Mahomed, has re- turned the crutches, and begs Mr. M. to accept her best thanks by leaving them as a proof of the benefit she has derived from his Vapour Baths. Ship-street Gardens, Brighton, Nov. 15, 1825, Or No. 1, Terrace, Kensington. . CASE XXXVII. CASE OF LUMBAGO. DEAR SIB, -Although amongst the majority of formidable cases, wherein your superior mode of Indian Shampooing and application of Medicated Vapour Baths to the alleviation of human afflictions, (of which abundant proofs are extant), mine must appear of very minor importance in the scale of compa- rison j candour compels me to declare, in grateful return for your attention and ability, that they were not so considered by me, while suffering at various times under the pain of lum- bago, stiff-neck, and rheumatism, each local attack, at distant intervals, having been happily dissipated by your soothing and pleasant system j by which, although previously ill at ease, I was as suddenly and completely restored, as if I had never been affected. Thinking the knowledge of these resto- 124 rations may be as beneficial to others, as they have been pleasant to myself, you are at liberty to make what use you please of the sentiments of Your obliged, humble servant, C, BEW, Nov. 17th, 1855. East-street, Brighton* To S. D. Mahomed, Indian Vapour Bath. CASE XXXVIII. CASE OF SCROFULA AND LAMENESS. Brighton, Nov. 20, 1825. SIR, The great benefit my son has derived from your Vapour Bath has induced me to make his case known to the public : he was from his birth a very fine healthy child unlil he was two years old, when he caught the meazles, which left him in a very bad state, full of scrofulous humour all over him, with a swelling on his knee. I had every advice I possibly could have, but he still continued getting worse both in bodily health and lameness, his leg becoming very much contracted ; in short, his knee was so alarming, that I was persuaded by a medical man to allow him to sailer amputation above the knee, as the only chance of saving his life. As a last resource, I was induced to try your Vapour Bath, and I must say, with little hopes of success on my part, as the child at that time was a mere skeleton, nearly blind with one eye, and in a most shocking state, with loss of appetite, and could not move across the room without the use of crutches. To my great surprise, after taking three or four of the Vapour Baths, his appetite began to increase, and he continued getting better. After about two months he left off his crutches and walked with a stick, and in respect of his bodily health, no child could be better, and so he continues, free from all humour in his body and the picture of health, to the astonishment of every one v ho knew him. I feel it a duty incumbent on me, 125 to return you my grateful thanks for restoring my child to the state he is now in, and I shall always pray for your welfare. Any person wishing to see the child, I shall feel it a great pleasure to give them every information I can on the subject. I have also to retur n you my grateful thanks for the cure you have made of my eldest son, whom I sent to you with a dreadful swelled knee, occasioned by a fall, so bad that he could not get in and out of the fly without great assistance. I am happy to say, that after taking three of the Vapour Baths, he was enabled to walk home without assistance, and is now quite recovered. By publishing this in your book, you will much oblige, Sir, your most obedient, and ever grateful servant, DANIEL LUCAS. No. 5, Edward-street, Brighton. To Mr. Mahomed. CASE XXXIX. Mi ft, pEutjE}?x fa/iis iflsil :--i :,';/ 127 TO SAKE DEEN MAHOMED SHAMPOOING SURGEON, BRIGHTON. Herald of health ! whose spells of charmed pow'r Soothe the deep anguish of affliction's hour, Assuage, with healing art, the pangs of grief, And on the pain- worn suff'rer pour relief, Steep the rack'd sense in balm of sweetest sleep, And close the eyes that only wak'd to weep ; Bid Sorrow's woes, Affection's trials cease, And in the ear of Anguish whisper " Peace." O let thy volume spread thy well-earn'd fame, That distant vot'ries now may bless thy name, And seek, from thee, our nature's dearest wealth, Our God's best blessing, the sweet boon of health ! R. Brighton, 1st December, 1825. i/rri'Uiitj'io rfiijq*: :};iOliW ! |{ilfi:)ff t'o rtorf a'w-rtoiHln io ifeiirgftfi qoaf* :f i 'i;j 'io B^nficj iwlJ ,it;; -gaUr.'id rfti^f ,o-gfiue .loilo'f -IWKJ Tn' Uiifc mow-fliatf *iiit no fe )r;co r l " 'igij^iflvf tbm^nA Io IKS sif) ni bn/-. fail b'mws-Ifaw vrfi b/vnqa ami/Cov 7iit 3sl O Kif vsfi e.*cIcf /j;ai won eoh'iov >nRteib Jr.rfT /r )- TiK-jfi -.'aiahm 11/0 ^oarfj atoil ,1(338 (>flA to a'.-r-'f !>'j//y ',rfi .jniaiyld is^d a : 129 CHAP. VIII. THE following names are submitted to the Public, in further testimony of approval of the Baths under my direction. They are principally the names of Subscribers since the year 1S20, most of whom have experienced the benefits of the Vapour Baths and Shampooing, either medicinally, as a restorative from fatigue, or, perhaps, more generally speaking, as a luxury, taken in lieu*of the common Water Bath. The list comprises, however, but a very small portion of the names which are actually to be found in my Subscription book, and which I have omitted to transcribe in this place, from a wish not to swell out the book to an unnecessary length. /wnA Arran, Earl of. Alvanley, Lord. Ashbrook, Viscountess Antrobus, Sir E. Afflesh, Gen. Sir James. Affiesh, Lady, Amon, Col. Armstrong, Col. Abbott, Mr. 3, Leicester-place, London. -'oj .*M Abbott, Mrs. 3, Leicester-square, London? Abbott, Mr. Llandberre Hall, Denbigh. Abbott, Mr. P. H. Abbott, Mr. James, Hanwell, Essex. - 1 '- -"o-nUJ Abingdon, Mr. John Abingdon, Mr. Abraham, Mr. I. Isle of Wight. Ackermann, Mr. Ackington, Mrs. 6, East-cliff, 130 Adair, Mr. Minories, London. Adam, Mr. A. London. Adams, Miss 15, Regency-square. Adams, Mr. S. Ware. Adams, Mr. R. Ading, Mr. Plaistow, Essex. Ailes, Mr. T. Aley, Mrs. 4, German-place. Alcock, Mr. 21, New Steine. Allen, Mr. London. Allen, Mrs. Marine-parade. Allen, Mr. J. W. Pulteney-street, Bath. Allever, Mr. Shoreham. * Allister, Mrs. 46, East-cliff. Anderson, Mr. W. ,\ifey {K n i hrifml CK Anderson, Mr. Anandon, Mrs. John, 73, King's-road. Anwyl, Mr. Ellis, Five-field Chase. Antwesdel, Mr. J. Apsland, Mrs. Appold, Mrs. 22, East-cliff. Armstrong, Mr, C. Croydon. Arthur, Mr. London. Archer, Mr. John, Saffron Walden, Essex. Ashburner, Mr. Birmingham. Ashly, Mr. J. Adelphi-terrace. Ashness, Mr. London, Ashby, Mr. Ashby, Mrs. T. Atkinson, Mr. J. Atkinson, Mr. Hampstead, Middlesex. Atkinson, Mr. I. Northampton. Aveling, Mr. Brewery, Spitalfields. Austin, Mr. W. Austin, Rev. I. Oakham, Surrey. Avarne, Mr. London. 131 Ayton, Mr. I. Eccles Hall, Norfolk. Aytoun, Mr. James. Bayning, Lord, 9, Bedford-square. Blachford, Lady Isabella. Berkeley, Lady, Emily. Beresford, Lord. Beresford, Sir John. Beresford, Sir M. Beresford, Miss. Beauchamp, Earl of. Bolingbroke, Lord. Byland, Countess, 44, Church-street. Byland, Count Col. Blackheath, Kent. Berconby, Hon. Mrs. Bentinck, Lord Charles. Backhouse, Major Gen. Bateman, Major-Gen. Blunt, Major-Gen. Brown, Lieut. Col. Burgoyne, Sir John. Burgoyne, Mr. Montague. Burgoyne, Mr. Fred. Burney, Rev. Dr. Black man, Dr. Brett, Rev. George, Ranelagh, London. Betts, Rev. Mr. T. D. Wortham. Burford, Rev. Mr. 4, West-cliff. Baker, Capt. R. N. Barclay, Capt. Bankes, Hon. Mrs. Barnard, Sir A. F. Barnard, Lady. Bowater, Adm. Princes-street, Pavilion-parade Branford, Capt. R. N. BeUasis,Mrs.Col. Ball, Miss, 41, Marlboro'-place. Babington, Mrs. Bailey, Miss Bailey, Mr. 5, Phoenix-street, Sonnets-town,, v Bailey, Mr. London. Baillie, Mr. J. Western-house. Baird, Miss, Piccadilly. Baker, Mr. Thomas, Hemsted, Herts. Baldwin, Mr. J. Cannon-street, London. Banbury, Mrs. Russell-house. Bannister, Mrs. C. Bannister, Mr. G. Banner, Mr. F. G. 36, Marine-parade. Bannandan,Mr. York-hotei Barclay, Miss, 7, East-cliff. Barclay, Mr. R. Regency-square. Bardeline, Mr. S. Bucks. Barlow, Mr. R. P. London. Barnard, Mr. W. Euston-square, London. Barnard, Mrs. Barnard, Lieut. Geo. R.N. Bellevue Cottagte. Barnes, Mrs. Barnet, Mrs. Barrett, Miss. Barry, Mrs. Barry, Mr. Barry, Mr. E. West-square. Barry, Mr. T. Newington-causewayv Barton, Mr. Croydon. Barham, Mr. Barker, Mr. S.Gates's Boarding-house. Bates, Dr. Baxter, Mr. W. Bellevue -lodge, Reigate. Baxter, Mr. London. Bayham, Mr. 7, Upper Grenville-placc. Baylis, Mr. W. 133 Bayford, Mr. Beard, Mr. Beaufort, Mr. Beaumont, Mrs. R. 6, King's-road. Beckett, Mr. Beech, Mr. Chelsea. Belcher, Mrs. 24, Steine. Bell, Mrs. Bell, Miss Belstead, Mr. Bennet, Mr. J. S. Benton, Mr. Change-alley, London. Benton, Mr. G. Bensusan, Mr. A. L. Great Prescott-street; r-rfa Benyon, Mr. Berkeley, Mrs. Bernard, Miss Bernard, Mr. London. Berger, Mrs; S. Bernett, Mr. G. B. Best, Mr. Bethell, Mr. Bethell, Mrs. 20, Marine-parade. Beulle, Mr. Bicknell, Mr. Rob. ,ooil Biddle, Mr. A.E. High Wycomb, Berks.. .uifa ,x Biddulph, Miss, Crescent-lodge. Biggers, Mr. R. Biggs, Mr. Matt. Newtimber. Billing, Mr. R. Reading, Berks. Bine, Mr. Bingley, Mr. B. London. Bishop, Mrs. 41, Old-steine. Bishop, Mr. Jas, Bishop, Major H. Black, Miss, Grand-parade. 134 Blake, Mr. Jermyn-street, St. James's, London, Blacket, Mr. 51, King's-road. Blacket, Mrs. Blann, Mr. Blayds, Mr. Bland, Mr. 62, Grand-parade. Blackstock, Mr. Blackwell, Miss E. Blackenhagea, Miss E. Blew, Mr. Worcester. Blew, Mr. jun. ditto. Blew, Mr. E. Blew, Mr. R. jun: Blencowe, Mr. 23, Steine. Boehm, Mr. Bodfield, Mr. Bodfield, Mrs. Bolougne, Miss. Bonhar, Mr. J. H. Boniface, Miss, Drayton, Sussex. Boniface, Mr. Drayton, Sussex. Bonnett, Mr. T. Boon, Miss, King's-road. Booth, Mr. F. Russell-square. Booth, Mr. P. York-hotel. Booth, Mr. Felix, ditto. Booth, Mr. Coventry. Bolton, Mr. Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, London. Bone, Mr. R. Ockham. Bond, Mr. J. Ipswich. Bonner, Miss, Guildford. Bonar, Mrs. 49, Regency-square. Borel, Mons. de Fauche, 33, Haymarket, London. Bornce, Mrs. 9, Gardner-street. Borough, Miss. Borry, Mrs. 135 Boswell, Mr. London. Bott, Mr. Nantwich. Botting, Mr. G. Lewes. Bovell, Mr. J. R. Bowden, Mr. Queen's Royals. Bowden, Mr. London. Bowderry, Mrs. Bowdoin, Mr. T. Bowles, Miss. Bowles, Mr. J. Middleton-house, Enfield. Boulnois, Mr. Tower, London. Boys, Mr. John. Boys, Mr. Josh. Bourn, Mr. J. Brasier, Mr. Westtield Lodge. Bravo, Mr. A. Bradburne, Mr. Marine-mansion: Bradley, Mrs. R. 42, King's-road. Brandram, Mr. W. Branton, Miss, 47, King's-road. Bredel, A. 19, Wormwood-street, or Lloyd's. Brent, Mr. York-hotel. Bridges, Mr. Briggs, Miss. Brichton, Mr. G. Hornsey. Brinton, Mr. J. Portsmouth. Bridge, Mr. Thos. Buttebury, Essex. Bridges, Mr. 20, Steine. Brinchley, Mr. J. Gravesend, Kent. Bridell, Mr. Devonshire-place. Broadbent, Miss. Broadwood, Mr. H. Brooks, Mr. G. Lisson-grove. Brooksbank, Mr. Lower Grosvenor-street. Bromhead, Mr. Lincoln. Brown, Miss, Laughton, Sussex. R 136 Brown, Mr. Carter, United States of America. - Browne, Mr. T. Simmon's-Inn, London. Browne, Miss, 30, West-cliff. Browne, Mrs, 52, Steine. Browne, Mr. ditto. Brunton, Mr. John. Buck, Miss. Buck, Mrs. 40, King's-road. Buckingham, Mr. J. S. Marine-hotel. Buck, Mr. Birmingham. Bulbeck, Mr. John, Havant. Bull, Mr. Buller, Mr. J. Bullivant, Mrs. Bullivant, Mr. Bullock, Mr. Bunt, Mrs, Guildford. Burford, Rev. Mr., 4, West-cliff.? " Burke, Mr. London. Burncan, Mrs. Old Steine. Burnett, Mr. J. Burnett, Mr. J. F., Bedford-hill, Tooting. Burnett, Mr. H., London. Burr, Mr. Robert, Chatham. Burrell, Miss, East-lodge. Burry, Mr. H. Burry, Mr. German-place. Burrell, Mr. W. Watford, Herts. Burrough, Miss G. West-cliff-house. Burroughs, Miss. Burls, Mr. East-cliff. Burras, Mr. James, London. Burrows, Mr. S. Hackney. Butchell, Mr.E. Van, 24, Broad-street, Golden-square, London. Butcher, Mrs. Butler, Mr. J. Cheam, Surry. 137 Butterworth, Mr. John, Long-lane, Southward Byrne, Miss, 29, New Steine. Bye, Mr, London. Buzzard, Mr. Thomas, Jewry-street, Aldgate.. fduT. /enter, Major. Coffin, Admiral Sir I. Cholmondeley, Mr. F. Colpoys, Griffith, Vice-admiral. Cullura, Sir Thomas, Bart. Craufurd, Major, Royal Lancers. Calvert, Capt., Grenadier-guards. I . IP . Cadogan, Capt. 34, Regency-square. Capel, Gen. Marine-hotel. Cuppas, Major Gen. 138 L ,.r.J.. ,131 ,VK' iH' A v!;J x tr;j; : ,.'i Incvi jttMufgfnfno'} ,/noJ .tfisJ ,m0djb<>:> ,(U;i.i ,iiotaniiboD I t fc ,yi)fiJ .sld^ano:. 1 JtJ. , Coghlan, Gen, Cooke, Col. Chatfield, Capt. A. S. Clifford, Capt. Clayton, Rev. Mr. John. Capper, Rev. Mr. James. Chester, Rev. Mr. Rob. Campbell, Rev. Mr. H., Minchinhampton. Chapman, Rev. W. H, Chappell, Lieut. R. N, Calvert, Mr. E. Campbell, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Campbell, Mr. G. Campernowne, Mr. Cricklade, Wilts, Canning, Miss. Capper, Mrs. Carnday, Mr. J. W. Carter, Mr. J. C., Norwich. Carter, Mrs. Carter, Capt. R. W. Cater, Mr. Catlin, Mr. N. Saffron Walden. Cattley, Miss. Cartwright, Mr. Canty, Mr. Cazenove, Mr. Crouch-end, Hornsey. Chalk, Mr. Chalkley, Mr. R. Chambre, Miss, New-steine hotel. Chapman, Mr. E. Castle -square. Chapman, Mr. Robt. 34, Marine-parade. Charlesworth, Mr.S. 21, Devonshire-place, London, Charlton, Mr. L. Charman, Mr. F. Charrote, Mr. St. Paul's Church-yard. eiiicwfno3 J *b J ^iiiawaioO .X iIS ,Ttiqo'v> t I ^bsJ 4 vafqo3 .flrfuL -:I ; > ,r 139 Chatfield, Mrs., London. Chatham, Mr. R. Holborn, London. Chesshyre, Miss. Cherrill, Mr. E. London. Cherrill, Miss, 44, Marine-parade. Child, S. P. Hackney. Child, Mr. Huntingdon. Child, Mr. C. Horsham. Chipperfield,Mr.E.T. Chitty, Mr. Lewes. Christian, Mrs. Henry, 29, Newman-street. Christie, Mr. Clapton, Mrs. Clapton, Mr. Kennington-common. Clark, Mr. London. Clark, Miss, Paragon House, Brighton. Clark, Mr. John. Cleaver, Mr. J. Kennington-common. Clementson, Mrs. 9, Western-place. Clissold, Mr. Gloucester Cobb, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Best's Boarding: house. Cocksedge, Mr. Bury St. Edmund's. Cohen, Mrs. 13, Bedford-square. Cohen, Mr. H. A. Brixton, Surry. Cohen, Mr. J. H. 23, St. James's-street. Colbatch, Mr. E. 159, Minories. Collins, Mrs. Laytonstone, Essex. Collins, Mr. Sunbury. Collings, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. 13, Broad-street. Colebroke, Miss, 10, Bedford-square. Collman, Mr. L. Colvill, Mr. Comber, Mr. W. Connor, Mr. N. 140 Conry, Mrs. 16, Regency-square. Cookburn, Mr. Ship-street, Cook, Mr. G. S. Cooper, Mr. B. Royal Exchange Assurance, Londoa. Cooper, Mr. F. 10, Cannon-place. Cooper, Mr. B. Chancery-lane, London, Cooper, Mr. F. Windsor. Copland, Mr. Chas. Copeland, Mrs. Coppinger, Mr. Devonshire-square, London-. Courtoy, Mrs. 26, Lower- rock-gardens. Cowley, Miss. Cowley, Mr. Cowley, Mr. S. N. Cox, Mrs. 13, West Cliff. Cox, Mr. J. P. Cox, Mr. Francis, West-street, Brompton. Cox, Mr. J. P. Inner Temple, London. Cox, Mr. Chi Chester. Cox, Mr. John. Cripps, John. Critchett, Mr. R. Crocraft, Mr. Montague-square, London. Cronfood, Mrs. C. 98, West-cliff. Crosby, Mrs. and family. Crosman, Mr. J. Crowder, Mr. Crowley, Mr. A. Crump, Mrs. 2, Marine-parade. Cubitt, Mr. W. Cuff, Miss. Cule, Mrs. 2f, Broad-street. Cullen, Miss, 6, Bedford-square. Cumine, Mr. J. King-street, Borough, London. Curie, Mr. W. Pimlico. Currie, Mr. Francis Gore, East Horsley Park, Surry. 141 Currie, Mr. Raikes, 33, Wimpole-street, London. Cutbrush, Mr. Robert, Maidstone. Cymber, Mr. H. London. Curtis, D. Cowley, Middlesex. Curzon, Mr. .iM . Devonshire, his Grace the Duke of. Douglas, Marquis of. Dewes, Lord. Dallas, Sir Geo. Dallas, Capt. Dawkins, Capt. Denby, Col. W. Percy-street, London. Denny, Lady. Dolben, Sir English, Northampton. Dormer, Lady Ann. Doyle, General, Sir Charles. Duncan, Mr. J. Trinity College, Cambridge. Dyke, Sir Thos. Lullingtone-castle, Kent. Dawson, Lady Louisa. Douglas, Admiral, J. E. Dacre, Lieut.-Col. Danvers, Mr. B. Dangerfield, Mr. Dangerfield, Mrs. Dangerfield, Mr. T. Dalton, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Chas. Davie, Mr. Peckham. Davis, Mr. John, Machyntteth, Montgomeryshire. Davy, Mr. Bedford-square. Dawes, Mr. Rye, Sussex. Day, George, London. Day, Mrs. Thos. Maidstone. Deane, Mr. West-cliff Lodge. Davenport, Mr. Lime-street, London. 142 De Bath, Major. Dear, Mr. F. C. Delesert, Mr. A. a native of Switzerland, living in Paris. Denham, Mr. James. Den man, Miss M. Dering, Mr. Detvityick, C. V. Mr. from Antwerp. Despons, Mr. 41, King's-road. Deval, Mr. R. Buckingham -street, Fiztroy-square ; Devereux, Mr. London. De Beauvoir, Mr. Beuyon, 75, Marine-parade. De Wints, Gen. Count, 15, Kings-road. Davis, Mr. Corbet-court, London. De Lisle, Stoke-Newington. Devis, Mr. H. Stoke-Newington, De Gullon, Mr. P. E. Dickins, Mr. John. Dickenson, Mr. Dickens, Mr. Chas. Scrase. Dingle, Mr. W. Dickenson, Mr. T. P. Dodfrey, Mr. John, Highgate, Donat, Mr. J. A. 11, Pavilion -parade. Dorset, Mrs. 75, West-street. Doveton, Col. Douglas, Mr. 18th Regiment. Down, Mr. E. London. Downess, Mrs. Downing, Mrs. E. Dowsland, Mr. W. 4?, Marine-parade. Dowding, Mr. 61, Marine-parade. Downs, Mr. J. Hertford. Doyle, Mr. Camomile-street. Driver, Mr. E. New Bridge-street. Druruod, Mr. Dredge, Mr. M v*<* 143 Doyson, Mr. Drewitt, Mr. G. Peppering, Arundel. Drysdale, Mr. H. Drummond, Mr. John, Croydon. Dunnage, Mrs. 70, Marine-parade. Du Croz, Mr. S. Brook-street, London Dubois, Mr. Duff, Mr. Duke, Mr. John, Leominster. Duke, H. Clapham, Surrey. Duncan, Mr. Duncan, Mr. 17th Lancers. Dunn, Mrs. Dunn, Mr. R. Thread needle-street, London. Dundas, Dr. Duncomb, Mrs. Dyson, Miss, 29, East-cliff. Dyster, Mr. Leadenhall-strcet, London. Dysart, Mr. Essex, Countess of, 6,, Pavilion-parade. Elphinstone, Lord. Edmonstone, Hon. Lady, 61, Marine-parade, Exarque of Cyprus, Joannichios. Exeter, Lord. Eltosc, Sir Abraham. Earner, Lieut. R. N. Earner, Mr. 4, Bedford-square, Eaton, Mrs. East-cliff. Eden, Miss. Edgar, Mr. Piccadilly. Eddie, Mr. J. A. Edwards, Captain. Edwards, Mrs. Marine-parade, Edwards, Mr. Thos. Newport, Essex. Edwards, Mr. 42, Conduit-street, Hanover-square, London. 144 Edwards, Mr. T. 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Clapham Common Woolfe, Mr. J. R. Finsbury-place Worstencroft, Mr. J. Bread-street, London Wortley, Mr. R. L. Nottingham Wright, Mr. J. Wright, Mr. B. 8, Grafton-street Wright, Mr. E. Wriglett, Mr. 10, Crescent 179 Wyam, Mr. W. Wyatt, Mr. Wyatt, Mrs. Wyatt, Mrs. Thelvedon, Essex Wyndham, Mr. C. Wynne, Mr. G. Young, Lady Young, Sir William Yates, Mr. Yates, Miss Yates, Miss, 2, East-cliff Yerraway, Mrs. Youde, Mr. Young, Mr. J. Brookhill Young, Mr. T. W. Marine Hotel. .-, .1! sail'. . ,: .ftllVI t VBV. . .iM . DEDICATION - - - - - 5 PREFACE - ... 7 PREFACE to the Second Edition - - - 1 1 INTRODUCTION. On Bathing generally - 15 CHAP. I. ASTHMA, Observations on - 19 Case of M. Walker, Esq. Cough and Asthma - 22 F. Heron, Esq. confirmed Asthma - 23 George Martin, Esq. confirmed Asthma - ib. CHAR II. > CONTRACTIONS, Observations on -25 Case of Mary Edwards Contraction of the knee - 26 Edward Oxenford Contraction in both legs ib. Alfred Lucas Lameness in the knee and Con- traction - 27 - H. Goddard Contraction of the knee, occa- sioned by inflammation of the nerves , - ib. Eliza Newnham Contraction of the arm - ib. Miss Cordwell Loss of the use of her side, and Chronic Contraction of the knee - 29 Mrs. Stephen Robinson Contraction, of the sciatic nerve - - ib. Wm. Hart, Esq. both arms useless by Chronic Contraction - - - 3O 18<2 INDEX. Page Case of Peter Hoare, Esq. Contraction of the leg, from violent attack of St. Anthony's fire - 31 A List of Persons who have derived benefit in cases of * Contraction - 32 CHAP. III. PARALYSIS, Observations on - x m.' 35 Case of Mr. E. H. Tulloch Paralytic Stroke and depri- vation of the use of his limbs L>o8oril >> aov : 37 - - Mr. R. Long Paralytic Stroke, and loss of the use of his side, pains in the head, breast, &c. 38 Letter from Mr. Le Antonee - ib. Case of C. A. Wheelwright, Esq. Paralytic Case - ib. - Mrs. Atkins Case of Lameness '.v/wast ) ,*K r 39 - Mr. I. Schofield Paralytic Stroke :> r r*7/ .M V ib. Various Cures in Cases of Paralysis jicwof I >I ib. CHAP IV. RHEUMATISM AND GENERAL DEBILITY, Observations on 41 Case of W. Slark, EsqT - ' T '' 4>1 44 - H. N. Middleton, Esq. obstinate Chronic Rheu- matism v -~~ ib. - William Edwards Rheumatic Gout, and loss of the use of his limbs, &c. ' - 45 - - Clement Wyatt, Esq Rheumatic attack in the arm ; - 46 - - H. S. Christian, Esq. Rheumatic fever, and subsequent pain in joints A - e- Ti ~ ib. - - Mrs. T. Nicoland Rheumatism in joints - ib. - - Mr. James Goringe deprivation of the use of his legs in violent Rheumatic attack *- 47 - W. Sharp, Esq . excruciating agony occasioned by Rheumatic attack - - - 48 183 Page Case of John Law Rheumatism in arms and shoulders 48 J. Davenport Lumbago and Rheumatism - ib. T. Jackson, Esq. Rheumatic Gout - 49 Instances of general benefit derived in Rheumatic com- plaints - 5O CHAP. V. SPRAINS, Observations on 53 Case of J. H. Godwin, Esq. Lameness in the hip from a Sprain - 54 Lord Newark- his knee from repeated Sprains was entirely helpless completely restored - 55 Lady Louisa Cornwallis Chronic Sprain com- pletely cured - 56 Miss Le Mesurier Chronic Sprain in her knee completely cured - ib. Additional Cases of Sprains - 58 CHAP. VI. . ON the General Efficacy of the Vapour Bath and Sham- pooing - - 59 Case of Anne Fosseck hoarseness and loss of voice ib. Hannah Shee violent pain in the knee, occa- sioned by cold - - - 60 Mrs. Morgan loss of voice - ib. M. Sedgwick extreme lameness from Spinal complaint - ib. Mary Walker Diseased Spine and Nervous Disorder - 61 Joseph Wartnaby, Esq. Nervous complaint, attended with pains in the head ; also a case of the loss of the use of his limbs - 63 ; Mary Davis Swelling, and violent pain in the leg and thigh, and hard substance on the latter 64 184 INJ)EX. Page Case of Samuel Homfray, Esq. Abscess, arising from straining the muscles of the thigh - 65 Mr. J. D. Powles violent inflammation in the foot - 6tf - John Shaw, Esq. L.L.D. most interesting case of mercurial and complicated disease - 68 J. Morgan, Esq. inward and outward Piles 77 Mr. F. Carter pains in the back and loins - ib. Mr, H. Neave hurt of the tendon of the thumb 78 Miss Bright Indigestion and torpid liver - 79 - Mr. T. Yeates Epileptic fits and weakness ib. Earl of Essex General Debility, &c. - ib. Case extracted from the Brighton Gazette of the 30th August, 1821 severe cold and loss of the use of limbs - SO 13th September, 1821 Gouty affection and Con- traction - -/ "' S\ " Mr. J. Johnson longstanding and confirmed Rheumatism 81 Numerous instances of Cures of various complaints 82. CHAP. VIL PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ' -' - 85 Lines addressed to Mr. Mahomed by Mrs. Kent - 86 Ode in Praise of Steam, addressed to Mr. Mahomed - ib. Ode to Mahomed, from the New London Magazine - 88 Lines addressed to Mr. Mahomed ~"~ ". 9O Extracts from the Brighton Gazette, Feb. 2, 1821 - 91 . August 3, 1821 - ib. Sept. 27, 1821 - 92 Oct. 18, 1821 - ib. Dec. 6, 1821 - 93 -. ; . ib. 1NDKX 185 Page Extracts from SirR. K. Porter's Travels through Georgia, Persia, &c. - - 94 the London Papers - - 95 British Traveller, January 6, 1823 - 96 the Brighton Gazette - ib. 3*1 Wg ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIALS SINCE THE FIRST EDITION. Case of Mr. T. Hine Injured Spine - 97 Mr. Sewell Paralysis - - ib. Miss Parkinson Rheumatism - 98 J. W. Fermor, Major-General Gout - ib. = Master John Bowles Strain, with gross habit of body - 99 T. Knatchbull, Esq. Chronic Rheumatism - 10O F. Fulbrook Rheumatic fever and loss of the use of his limbs - 10O B. Tuplir.g, Esq. Rheumatic attack and affection of the lungs 10*2 Mr R. Bishop Rheumatic affection - ib. Miss J. Hudson Spinal complaint - - 103 A.M. E. Hatch Sprained ancle - - ib. W. Harrison, Esq. Lameness from Debility 104 Mrs. Mountain severe Rheumatic attack, swel- ling, and pain in the limbs - 105 Mrs. R. Page weakness in the ancle - 106 W. B. Wright, Esq. acute Rheumatism - ib. Mr. G. Drowley, complicated disease and gene- ral debility 108 Mrs. Judith Hague lameness from debility- 1O9 Mr. Winstgatt sprain and inflammation of the knee - 110 Mr. A. Savage strain with abscess - ib. Mr. G. Blair severe Rheumatic attack - in 186 Pag* Case of G. Nicol, Esq. Rheumatism - 1 12 Mr. R. Dean contraction of the knee - ib. W. Gilfin, Esq. contraction and inflammation of the knee .... 113 Princesse Poniatowska Tic Douloureux and rheumatism - - ib. Case of Mr. J. Hood Sciatica - - 115 Mrs. H. Weld contraction of the knee and inflammation - - ib. Henry Pounsett, Esq. palpitation of the heart and complicated disease - 116 MaryAde Rheumatic affection - -117 Mr. J. Rose, Surgeon Paralysis and affection of the knee - - 119 Miss C. P. Gallwey lameness of the foot - ib. W. Rousseau, Esq. lameness of the knee - 121 Miss Walker contraction from sprain - ib. Countess of Chichester sprained shoulder with stiffness - ib. Miss Gordon Paralysis - - 122 Charles Skipper, Esq. lameness in the knee ib. Mrs. E. Lamb lameness - - 123 Mr. C. Bew lumbago -* - ib. D. Lucas Scrofula and lameness - 124 Miss Kramer, Scrofula and contraction of the knee - 125 Lines, to Sake Deen Mahomed - - 127 CHAP. VII. Alphabetical list of names in further testimony of the efficacy of Vapour Baths and Shampooing 129 Creasy and Baker, Pi-inters, Gazette-office, Brighton. :;-,'% j,! University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 305 De Neve Drive - Parking Lot 17 Box 951388 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1388 Return this material to the library from which it was borrowed. ^..^ .<> u c? t^ * \^ J %HWV-SOTO A 000 020 260 6 ^ ^MNIVEl 5 ^ & .53AE-UNIVE ^130NV-S( S i I < %wn> AOF-CAIIFI I i. \\E-UNIVE! I P*J ^130NV-S( ^l-UBRAR