Every Man His Own Doctor: The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and CattleClaridge, R. T. (Richard Tappin)
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Every Man His Own Doctor: The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and Cattle
Claridge, R. T. (Richard Tappin)
Hydrotherapy; Veterinary medicine
Bandage (wet) round the head; lie in bed and change body-bandage often.
Tepid sitz-bath 62° for forty minutes. If after a few hours, patient is
not better, resort to packing-sheet and tepid bath; or three or four
rubbing-sheets twice or thrice a-day, followed by tepid foot-baths.
LIX.--HEAD-ACHES.
When they proceed from nervousness, rubbing-sheet for three or four
minutes, well wetting the head first, followed by sitz-bath for fifteen
minutes. When these fail, resort to packing-sheet and tepid bath.
Head-bandage.
It frequently happens that well washing the head, rubbing the temples
for a long time with wet hands, and wearing a wet bandage as a turban,
the head-ache is relieved.
_Head-ache and Flushing from anxiety._--A lad was ordered:
Foot-bath twenty minutes; feet very much rubbed during that time. Body
bandaged and bandage often changed.
Tepid sitz-bath 62° quarter of an hour; head-bath for ten minutes, and
afterwards bandage round it very often terminates head-ache at once.
When head-ache is obstinate, the duration of the sitz-bath must be
extended, and a perpetual bandage from the ankle to the knee. This,
though it may produce an eruption, may be continued for months. Bandage
the head night and day.
_Head-ache._--For a violent head-ache, Priessnitz ordered the body
bandage to be changed every ten minutes. This did not answer--when
patient was relieved by the following treatment; a rubbing-sheet for
five minutes, and sitz-bath for an hour, the head being bandaged all the
time.
A lady of a fine strong constitution, suffering from intense nervous
head-ache, was treated as follows:--
Morning, packing-sheet and bath, followed by head-bath, three minutes to
each side, and the same to the back, making nine minutes; noon,
rubbing-sheet, sitz-bath; afternoon as in the morning. Patient always
went without stockings and bonnet. In three months health much improved
and headache less frequent.
_Head-ache._--Some head-aches are relieved by fomenting the forehead and
temples with towels wetted with hot water for half an hour, occasionally
washing and rubbing those parts with cold water; when, if not cured, the
treatment should be repeated, and afterwards a bandage may be applied.
LX.--ACUTE INFLAMMATION IN THE HEAD, CHEST AND ABDOMEN.
Frequent rubbing-sheets; packing-sheets, and sitz-bath, cut short the
premonitory stage of the disease. In the event of increase of pain and
fever, tepid bath 62 to 64 deg. should be used, and patient kept in it
until the axillæ are cold. Packing-sheet, after the lapse of
twenty-four, thirty-six, or forty-eight hours, when all inflammatory
symptoms have ceased, may be had recourse to. Should these symptoms
return, the tepid bath must be repeated, and its duration regulated by
circumstances.
LXI.--CHILBLAINS.
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