Bath, Sul′phuretted

Syn. Bal′neum sulphuret′um , B. sulphur a′tum , B. sulphu′′reum , ., L.; Bain sulfuré , ., 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. gelati no′sum , L.) Flanders glue, 1 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 lbs. ; di olved 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, ., speedily yield to its influence; scrofula, and, indeed, all those affections in which the warm or vapour bath is serviceable, also derive powerful a istance from the sulphur bath.