Bath, Spon′′ging (spŭnje′-). This title explains itself. In the sponging bath exercise and ablution are combined, and its employment by persons of sedentary habit is highly advantageous.
Bath, Sulphur. Syn. Bal′neum sul′phuris, L. 1. Flowers of sulphur, 1⁄2 to 1 lb.; water, a pailful; mix, agitate occasionally for 12 to 24 hours, and then add the whole to an ordinary bath. Useful in various mild, but obstinate, skin diseases. Its occasional employment, even in health, seldom fails to render the skin soft, smooth, and delicate. Soap may be used with it.
2. (Compound; B. s. compos′itum, L.)—a. (Cutan. Hosp.) Precipitated sulphur, 2 lbs.; hyposulphite of soda, 1⁄2 lb.; water, 1 gall.; dissolve, and add of sulphuric acid, 1 dr. One pint to every 30 galls. of water. In various skin diseases (see below).
b. See Bath, Sulphuretted.
Bath, Sul′phurous. Syn. Sul′phurous acid bath; Bal′neum sulphuro′sum, B. sul′phuris‡, L. From sulphur, 1⁄2 oz., sprinkled on a hot plate placed under or near the patient; the proper precautions being taken as directed under CHLORINE BATH. In itch, lepra, psoriasis, &c. Cleanly, but seldom used, chiefly on account of the number of baths required to prove serviceable. See Bath, Sulphuretted.
Bath, Sul′phuretted. Syn. Bal′neum sulphuret′um, B. sulphura′tum, B. sulphu′′reum, &c., L.; Bain sulfuré, &c., Fr. 1 Sulphurated potash, 1 oz.; for every 10 or 12 galls. of water employed. Sometimes sulphurated soda, or (in the Ger. hosp.) suphurated lime, is the sulphur-salt employed. 1⁄2 dr. of sulphuric acid is also occasionally added to the bath; but this increases its fœtor, without adding much, if anything, to its curative power; whilst, without care, the evolved gas may impede respiration.
2. (Gelatinous; Gelat′ino-sul′phurous b.; B. s. gelatino′sum, L.) Flanders glue, 11⁄2 to 2 lbs.; dissolved and added to a ‘sulphuretted bath.’ Recommended, by Dupuytren, as a substitute for the ‘Barèges bath.’
Obs. The sulphur or sulphuretted bath, under any of its forms, is a powerful remedy in almost every description of skin disease. Leprosy, the most obstinate of all, has been completely cured by it; the common itch requires only one or two applications to eradicate it entirely; all the scurfy and moist skin affections, local irritation, pimples, inflammatory patches, &c., speedily yield to its influence; scrofula, and, indeed, all those affections in which the warm or vapour bath is serviceable, also derive powerful assistance from the sulphur bath.
Bath, Tem′perate. Syn. Bal′neum tempera′tus*, L.
Bath, Tep′id. Syn. Bal′neum tep′idum, B. egel′idum, Tepida′′rium, L.; Bain tiède &c., Fr. Approaches the warm bath in its hygiènic and medical properties; and is, perhaps the one best adapted for the mere purposes