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any pressing sympt We directly connected with 
es nie use of the vapor 
writers among the regular 
faculty confess its great utility. In perusing 
a pages of the ‘ Moral Reformer,’ edited by 
Dr. Alcott, we find the following remarks upon 
ject :-— 
__ “ The vapor bath is the best means of intro- 
-medicine into bath, system, and next to 
-water has ~~ little effect, except to render 
somew more stimulating. On this point, I 
cannot help adverting to the most unreasonable 
and ill-founded peeuiies in the public mind, 
even to” tent a physicians, against 
the vapor bath, or steaming, as itis called. Now 
am no disciple of Thomson, but I do not 
hesitate to say that it is high time for 2 neo 
ev eto derive valuable hints from 
labors, and the success too, of some of those icko 
