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
Rub the hands well with tepid water, and particularly the wrist. Put the
elbow into cold water for twenty minutes, three times a day. Bandage the
whole arm from the arm-pits down to the wrist.
LXXXII.--WEAK EYES AND ERUPTION ON THE HEAD.
A child two years old had weak eyes, from which there was a constant
discharge and an eruption on the face and head; it was treated as
follow:--
Packing-sheet one hour and sometimes longer, followed by tepid bath.
Large bandage from hips to arm-pits night and day. Dabbed the face often
with cold water and bandaged the head at night. In three weeks eyes
quite well and the eruption diminished.
LXXXIII.--WEAK ANKLES.
If an infant, ablution every morning and bandage the ankles night and
day. If an older person, ablution and foot-baths twenty minutes. Morning
and afternoon, bandage always.
LXXXIV.--TREATMENT OF INFANTS.
Immediately after birth bathe the infant in warm water 82°, put a wet
bandage on navel, bound on with a dry one, change it morning and evening
_only_. Continue this until the navel is healed. The temperature of the
bath to be reduced two degrees every fortnight, until 68°, which is to
be used until child can run alone. It may be washed with cold water at
three months of age.
_If an Infant is uneasy or restless and cries._--Put on a body bandage;
if this is not sufficient, give it an extra tepid-bath.
The child of an Hungarian commissioner was born weak and sickly, with
great difficulty in breathing. The physicians treated the mother to
improve the milk, when the child refused the breast. From three days old
it was spoon-fed. On the fifth or sixth day, the father put the child
into a packing-sheet until it was warm, when he changed it, and then
applied the tepid-bath.
After four day's treatment a lump appeared on the chest, which increased
until it became as large as a man's fist. On the eighth day it broke,
and half a tumbler of matter was discharged. From this moment the child
gradually improved and is now the healthiest of his children.
_Child-teething, Pain in the Head, and Diarrhœa._--Tepid bath for about
five minutes three times a day.
Two head-baths from ten to fifteen minutes each, and one clyster.
A body bandage, and change it often.
LXXXV.--EPILEPSY.
This complaint in a general way is not to be cured by Hydropathy; but
Priessnitz thinks persons subject to it should use cold baths, and cold
water as a beverage. I know a young man who was six months at
Gräfenberg, it is now twelve-months since, and as he has not had an
attack, he considers himself cured.
LXXXVI.--HYPOCHONDRIA AND HYSTERIA.
A disarrangement of the system, and inaction of the abdomen, cause much
uneasiness and discontent. This disease being moral as well as physical,
requires pure air, scenery, society, and a complete change in the manner
of living. What is so calculated to combat this complaint as
Hydropathy?
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