We have no faith in medicated baths in general. They are occasionally
useful for the destruction of vermin, animal parasites, and perhaps in
certain cases of skin disease. Generally, it is far better to take the
limpid element “Simon pure,” unadulterated. Many medicated baths have
acquired great celebrity by the performance of cures really wonderful,
but wholly attributable to water only, in spite of, rather than in
conjunction with, the foreign medicament added.