144 FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 
The steam or vapor bath is thus calculated 
to be oatelisivelie usefi ful, both as a preservative 
and as a remec agent. Many a cold and 
many a rheumati ttack, arising from checked 
perspiration or Jong exposure ie. _the Sahil 
might be nipped i in the eva by its Sy deo 
chronic affections, not o of the skin itself, But 
bed particu cular 4 in those affections of the mu- 
ane hem abies mption i 
many of their sy : aes 
eee mn Seecionlly? anne sa som 
se are of constitution, or from some unus “ial 
condition of the skin, indicated by great ogee 
and a liability to erysipelatous aly. erup- 
tions, that the moisture of the water or vapor ‘bath 
is at first rather prejudicial and unpleasant, and 
comes grateful er in proportion as the skin 
regains its healthy 
* Although ee pre Sending BL otis apply 
specially to the skin considered exhalant 
yet most of them are equally app! ‘cable to it when 
viewed as the seat of an important nervous func- 
, the bath, friction, and cleanliness 
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