in Medicine, otherwise called hypocondriasis or spleen. See MEDICINE, No 276 and 321.

VAPOUR-Bath, in Chemistry, a term applied to a chemist's bath or heat, in which a body is placed so as to receive the fumes of boiling water.

We also use the term vapour-bath, when a sick person is made to receive the vapours arising from some liquid matter placed over a fire. Many contrivances have been proposed for this purpose; and their expediency and utility are best known to those who are conversant in this business. A late writer has suggested a new construction of vapour baths; and the whole apparatus is reduced to a tin-boiler, tin pipes wrapped in flannel, and a deal box with a cotton cover, for the reception of the body and circulation of the vapour.