The writer is very strong against the Pasteur system and proves to demonstration the efficacy of the vapour or Turkish bath not only as a prevention but almost certain cure soon after the disease has declared itself.
The discovery was made by a French: doctor named Buisson who had contracted the disease from a patient.
He describes all his symptoms which were the very worst and tells how he had decided {to destroy himself by means of a Tarkish or vapour bath.
He says when he had been a few minutes in the bath he felt great relief and when the temperature rose to 127 Fuhr. he was: cured.
He naturally supposed it was only temporarily, but he was able to eat, drink, and. sleep immediately after and never had a recurrence of the symptoms though he lived over twenty years after.
The Lancet says: Dr. Buisson cured himself and eighty other people by vapour baths raised rapidly to 135 Far. and more slowly to 145.
The cases cited are too numerous to mention, but two stand out. One a girl who was refused by Pasteur and cured by vapour bath. Another a schoolboy who-after having developed hydrophobia was cured in half-an-hour by means of an al fresco vapour bath, a kerosene:
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