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 aside all flannel, go as lightly clad as possible, keep bed-room
window open day and night, and sleep with only a single sheet as a
covering, leave off stockings and run bare-footed on the wet grass near
the house, or on the cold stones of the passage for half an hour before
breakfast in the morning.
"Eat black bread and drink sour milk, lie on the stomach and have the
spine rubbed several times a day with wet hands."
First four days, patient had cold feet in and after the packing-sheet,
this was then followed by tepid, then cold, and back to tepid-bath, feet
well rubbed, previous to going into packing-sheet, and last thing at
night; by this treatment head-ache was relieved and the feet became
warmer.
In ten days began the douche for one minute; digestion improved; no
longer constipated. Bandages always round the body, and to feet and legs
at night.
Patient was at Gräfenberg nine months, during which time the treatment
was often changed to meet circumstances. One time, suppressed catamenia
was relieved in two days by sixteen rubbing-sheets a day. At another,
patient met with an accident in the leg; Priessnitz to keep this to the
surface, ordered more water to be drunk. This patient left Gräfenberg in
excellent health, though not entirely cured of the affection of the
spine, that being out of its perpendicular position.
_Pain in the Shoulder and Chest._--A lady in the treatment complained of
pain in the shoulder and left breast, and down the side.
Ordered, when in sitz-bath the upper part of the body to be well rubbed.
Body bandage to be more wrung out than usual, and extra covering over
it.
_Pain in the side, Chronic cold in the head._--A German officer aged 50,
afflicted as above, and with continued stoppage in the nose, and
frequent head-aches, was told by his medical man that he had no chance
of being cured, was completely relieved at Gräfenberg, in three or four
months.
Packing-sheets and tepid baths twice a day. Rubbing-sheet and sitz-baths
were resorted to for a short time, the cold bath substituted for the
tepid bath, and to this treatment the douche was added.
_Weak Chest and Worms._--A child three years old. Wash with tepid water,
12° once, and after some time twice a day.
Wear body bandage always, and drink water.
_Pain in the Chest._--A gentleman had pain in his chest, like the hurt
from a blow, about the size of a crown-piece.
Ordered sixteen rubbing-sheets a day, _four at each time_.
LXXI.--CONSTIPATION.
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