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
This complaint is always relieved, and if sufficient time is devoted to
the treatment, finally overcome by Hydropathy; space forbids my going
into details, or numerous cases might be given in proof of this
assertion. The reader's attention may however be called to the letter
addressed to a newspaper, and signed by upwards of one hundred patients,
giving the case of the son of Prince Leichtenstein, who was cured in a
few days of Constipation, which had endured twenty-eight days in
defiance of all medical aid. To effect a permanent cure, the treatment
must be persevered in for a long time, very often a twelvemonth.
In a recent case. Rubbing-sheets until feverish heat ceases: sometimes
four or three suffice; at others the number must be increased to sixteen
or twenty, to be immediately followed by a clyster. Then take a walk,
and on returning, a sitz-bath fifteen to twenty minutes, the abdomen to
be well rubbed the whole time.
Body bandage to be worn always and often changed. This treatment to be
resorted to twice a day. Great exercise to be used, and cold light food
to be partaken of.
A delicate lady who had suffered from this complaint for upwards of
twenty years, was relieved in a fortnight, and had no return of it
during her stay at Gräfenberg. Her principal treatment was:--
Packing-sheet and bath twice a day. Rubbing-sheet and sitz-bath at noon.
A second case, which came under my observation, was that of a Russian,
who for many years had only been relieved by medicine or enemas. He went
to an establishment at Moscow for six months, where he derived great
benefit, though he still used enemas. At Gräfenberg he abandoned the
latter, his bowels were relaxed and have continued so ever since.
LXXII.--INDIGESTION.
Foul tongue and pain at the pit of the stomach; a lady having tried all
other remedies, was ordered the following, which answered admirably.
Three cold sitz-baths a day, for an hour each time, rubbing the abdomen
the whole time, eat nothing but brown bread and drink sour milk during
three days.
_Loss of Appetite, Foul Tongue, etc._--Patient had foul tongue, and loss
of appetite.
Morning.--Sweating and tepid bath, stomach to be well rubbed in the
bath. Sitz-bath thirty minutes in the afternoon.
It is very essential to drink abundantly of water, and take great
exercise.
A child five years old. Pale, foul tongue, loss of appetite, thirsty and
awaking with screams. Ablution in the morning, and three tepid
sitz-baths daily four minutes each; chest, back, and abdomen to [be]
well rubbed all the time; waist bandage day night. Drink as much water
as possible. Cured in three months.
LXXIII.--STOMACH COMPLAINT.
Patient's stomach deranged, food used to return to his mouth: difficult
of cure. His second visit to Gräfenberg, cured in nine months.
Packing-sheets and rubbing-sheets. Noon, douche, rubbing-sheet and
sitz-bath; afternoon, packing-sheet and bath.
LXXIV.--THROWING FOOD OFF THE STOMACH.
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