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56 East Eleventh Street, New York, Jan/10th 1886 Mary H. Everett M D. 433 W. 34th Dear Doctor:

 I have taken the liberty of sending you a pamphlet and various papers relative to the Home Vapor Bath and Disinfector, on exhibition at the rooms No. 12 East 23d Street, this City.
 It is a new application of a principle of interest to the Profession, and is being widely introduced into Hospitals, Hotels, and Private Apartment Houses. By a recent pamphlet which we send you, you may derive a better idea of its benefit and uses.
 I have been led to take an active interest in this apparatus by personal experience with a similar but more crude arrangement used in Japan, where it is successfully employed in the treatment of Constitutional Skin Types, Beri-Beri, and Anasarcal Types of Disease, as well as in Cardiac, Renal and Hepatic Dropsies. The daily use of the universal Japanese bath is most beneficially shown in its prevention and control of the consequences of excesses upon the Kidneys, in Uraemeia and acute or chronic Bright's Disease.
  Your opinion is particularly desired on its applicability to your specialty, and such modification as you may suggest will be thankfully accepted. Your opinions will not be published except with your permission.
 Hoping that you will lend your valuable assistance towards disseminating in the Profession a knowledge of the practicability of this apparatus, I remain,

Yours very truly, Albert D? Ashmoore? M.D.