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Black and white photograph inside the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa.
View of a woman in a Zotofoam Bath with a female attendant assisting.
Zotofoam baths were used to treat obesity by raising body temperature and metabolic rate. The treatment was first introduced to the Royal Pump Rooms in 1945. A description of the treatment in 1969 reads: 'A special gas distributor is laid in the bottom of the bath - hot water (103-108F) is added, just sufficient to cover the apparatus and an ounce of foam extract is added to the water. Gas, which may be carbonic acid, oxygen or compressed air, is then passed through the distributor, and fine bubbles of hot foam are produced. The patient is therefore covered with hot foam, which insulates the body, preventing the usual loss of heat by radiation. The temperature rises, and the metabolic rate increased. The patient perspires freely.'
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Donor ref:LEAMG : M3535.1990.31 (69/18650)
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