The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 185
WILLIAMS, TREATMENT OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. 135 of an atmosphere), Avhich pressure is maintained at the full for an hour and the last half is taken up in reducing it to the normal pressure. Th( air rises in temperature during compression, and falls slightly during … the reduction of pressure, but the general fault of compressed air baths is that the temperature is usually too high, and in summer this is often a real difficulty, which has to be met by cooling the air with ice before it enters the chamber.
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