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
Put the part affected in tepid water three times a day for twenty
minutes; if the fingers are attacked, apply a bandage from the wrist to
the elbow; if the toes, from the ankle to the knee, and wear it night
and day.
LXII.--COLD FEET.
When cold, to be well rubbed with wet hands, but _never_ put into a
bath. To cure cold feet, rubbing-sheet to the whole body, and friction
to the feet two or three times a day; after which, walk about room, or
passage, or cold wet stones, for ten or fifteen minutes, or until heat
has returned. Persons suffering from cold feet, on going to bed at night
may use the bandage as follows: first bring heat to the feet by exercise
or friction; then put a bandage into cold water, wring it out well,
envelope the feet in it, and over that place a thick dry bandage.
LXIII.--COLD HANDS AND WHITLOW.
Rub the hands with snow or cold water and let them dry of themselves;
when they are wounded, keep the snow or water away from them. To draw
heat or bad matter from the hands, bandage from the wrist to elbow and
use elbow-bath, fifteen minutes each time. In ordinary cases of whitlow,
rub the finger, hand and wrist often with wet hand, and bandage the
finger at night. If obstinate, resort to the same treatment as for cold
hands.
LXIV.--BUNNION AND ENLARGED GLANDS OF FOOT AND INSTEP.
A lady aged 45 was ordered--morning, packing-sheet twenty minutes and
tepid bath 62°; noon, sitz-bath fifteen minutes; afternoon,
rubbing-sheet. Bandage to feet and legs up to the knees at night, and
from ankles to knees only by day If the feet are wounded by tight boots,
take foot-baths twice a-day and wear a bandage on the feet at night.
LXV.--DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS, HEAD-ACHE, ETC.
A patient derived immediate relief from the following treatment:
morning, packing-sheet half an hour, then tepid bath two minutes, cold
three or four minutes, and back to the tepid; noon, rubbing-sheet,
sitz-bath fifteen minutes and head-bath ten minutes; afternoon, morning
treatment repeated. When better, the packing-sheet in the afternoon was
abandoned for a sitz-bath ten minutes. On dreary wet days the
packing-sheet was to be resorted to again. After the sitz-bath, the feet
were to be put into water for two or three minutes and well rubbed.
LXVI.--DEAFNESS.
Away from Gräfenberg, persons are recommended to use the rubbing-sheet
twice a-day, take a foot-bath ten minutes, and wear a bandage round the
ears at night.
A young man from Hambro', suffering from deafness, followed up the
general treatment for three or four months, when a boil appeared on his
abdomen and increased to the size of an egg; this burst whilst patient
was taking the douche: from that time he heard as well as ever.
LXVII.--HERNIA AND CONSTIPATION.
Both these complaints, which are so completely out of the reach of
drugs, are always cured by hydropathy.
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