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
For five days--sweating (after perspiration broke out) morning, one
hour; afternoon, half an hour; then tepid bath, followed by cold bath
and back to tepid. After five days--from sweating went into plunging
cold bath; in another week, douched from two to five minutes at eleven
o'clock; bandage round the body and on the sores, which were bathed and
had water thrown on them frequently; wore suspending bandages; eat
sparingly; no meat or butter, and took but little exercise. Perfectly
cured in six weeks.
XCIII.--GONORRHŒA AND CHANCRES.
Sweating, followed by bath in the morning; douche at eleven; at twelve,
rubbing-sheet and sitz-bath; afternoon, packing-sheet and bath; chancres
increased to the size of a sixpence then, and in two days cicatrised.
Patient cured in twenty-five days.
_Gonorrhœa, &c._--Packing-sheet, tepid bath, and sitz-baths were the
means used. The complaint continuing, Priessnitz supposed it arose from
debility of the parts, and ordered:--
Six sitz-baths of ten minutes, allowing five minutes to elapse between
each, twice a-day; packing-sheets to be changed as soon as warm,
followed by cold bath.
A young man, immediately on discovering this complaint, who took
sitz-baths as above described, injected cold water into the urethra,
bandaged the parts and drank plentifully of cold water and lived low;
was cured in two days.
Another person was subject to involuntary emissions, by which his
strength was wasting away. In a month after he began the cure, he found
an old gonorrhœa return (which had evidently been driven into the system
and was the cause of his malady); he was now treated for this and
restored to perfect health.
A Russian officer, declared cured of chancre three years before, found
the complaint return, when he was again treated by mercury. His throat
continued to trouble him, his voice was husky, and piles began to make
their appearance. After pursuing the Water-cure for a short time, as
described in a former case, he had a crisis in his foot, and diarrhœa
for a fortnight, when he passed a considerable quantity of blood. After
this, the piles disappeared entirely, and his voice became sound and
clear. It should be observed that he sweated alternate mornings only;
the other mornings, packing-sheets and bath.
A young man aged 23, attacked with secondary symptoms: sore throat,
etc., was ordered three packing-sheets and cold baths a-day;
rubbing-sheet and sitz-bath.
I knew another strong young man suffering under secondary symptoms, so
that he could hardly walk with the use of a stick; he went to
Gräfenberg, staid there two months, and returned to England the picture
of health.
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