Uses, &c. In syphilitic affections, either with or without skin disease; in chronic rheumatism, swelled joints, and chronic skin diseases generally, where the use of mercury is indicated, and the remedy is rejected by the stomach; especially in these affections in women and children (for the last, proportionately reduced in strength and quantity). Also used in it, and to destroy pediculi on the body.
Bath, Met′al. See Bath (in Chemistry), Fusible Metal, &c.
Bath, Mud. Syn. Bal′neum lu′teum, B. lu′ti, L. Mud-bathing (ILLUTA′TION) was common among the ancients. The slime of rivers, and the mud on the sea-shore, were especially prized for this purpose. The Tartars and Egyptians still employ baths of this description in hypochondriasis, scrofula, and scurvy. At Franzenbad, in Germany, an acidulous species of black bog-earth found there, is beaten up with warm water to a semi-liquid consistence, and used as a bath. This is said to render the skin satin-like and soft; and to be useful in debility, and in paralytic affections of a gouty origin. In France, hot dung (DUNG BATH) is occasionally used in rheumatism; and in Poland, in syphilis. The husk of grapes and the refuse of olives, after undergoing a partial fermentation, have been successfully employed in France against acute rheumatism.[115]
[115] Mérat and De Lens, ‘Dict. Univ. de Mat. Méd.’
Bath, Muriat′ic. See Bath, Hydrochloric Acid.
Bath, Mus′tard. Syn. Bal′neum sina′pis, L.:—1. Flour of mustard, 2 lbs.; warm water, 1 gall.; make a thin soup; in fifteen minutes pour it into a coarse linen bag or cloth, and press out the liquid, which is to be stirred up with the bath. In cholera, diarrhœa simulating cholera, &c.; also to cause reaction; the patient remaining in the bath until a somewhat painful sense of burning and irritation is experienced:—2. Flour of mustard, 3 to 8 oz.; as before. Used as a gentle stimulant to excite the skin, and promote its healthy action, &c.
Bath, Ni′tro-hydrochlo′′ric. Syn. Ac′id bath‡ (ăs′-), Nitro-muriat′ic b.*, N. a. b.*; Bal′neum nitro-hydrochlo′′ricum. B. ac′idi (ăs′-), B. a. nitro-hydrochlo′′rici, B. a. nitro-muriat′ici*, &c., L.:—1. Water slightly acidulated with the acid, so that its sourness to the taste is about that of common vinegar. According to Ainslie, 1 oz. of acid is sufficient for 1 gall. of water.[116] Other formulæ in use are—
[116] ‘Mat. Med. Indica,’ ii, 340.
2. (Cutan. Hosp.) Nitric acid, 11⁄2 lb.; hydrochloric acid, 1 lb.; for a bath of 60 to 70 galls.
3. (Soubeiran.) Nitro-hydrochloric acid, 4 to 16 fl. oz.; according to the case.