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A use of the mustard bath in 17th century medical practices was to treat mania. Described as "an ordinary warm bath into which have been thrown five or six handfuls of crude mustard." Patients would be bathed so that their skin would become red in appearance, and it is claimed that they would calm down and become docile.


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