We are glad to perceive, by Mr. CULVERWELL'S lucid work
on Bathing, with reference to his establishment of medicated vapour baths, that the salutary practice of bathing is becoming more com- mon. We are thoroughly convinced, that were bathing, rubbing, and shampooing, as common in this country as it is in the East, it would tend more rapidly to diminish disease than half the drugs now swallowed. If dyspeptic and hypochondriac patients, instead of flying to draughts and pills, would betake themselves to the shampooer, they would at least do themselves no harm, but, on the contrary, invigorate the body, and probably superinduce a more healthy exercise of their torpid functions. At any rate, they may be faithfully promised temporary relief. A true shampooer will crack all the blue devils in England under his thumb, in the course of an hour and a half. Medicated vapour baths are a great invention ; and it will be a haPPy thing for this country when every medical practitioner thinks it as necessary to possess a portable one, and to administer it in all useful cases, as he now does to exhibit his drugs to the stomach.
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