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
effect of which was its gradual resuscitation. Benefiting by this hint,
the same means have been since successfully applied to more than one
human subject who had taken prussic acid. No instance, however, had come
within Dr. Robinson's knowledge where an animal had been restored after
the symptoms which this rabbit exhibited; and the singularity of the
case struck the faculty as being one, a knowledge of which it was
desirable should be promulgated. The rabbit is now in full health and
vigour.["]
EXPENSES AT GRÄFENBERG.
The expense of the table, viz., breakfast, dinner, }
and supper, per week } 0 8 6
Apartment for week 0 4 0
Servant " 0 4 0
Fees paid to Mr. Priessnitz, per week 0 4 0
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£1 0 6
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Persons not residing in the establishment are at liberty to take their
meals at the public table at the following charge:--
Breakfast or supper, comprising bread, butter, and }
milk, at discretion } 0 0 2-1/2
Dinner 0 1 2
The small town of Freiwaldau, near Gräfenberg, being chiefly devoted to
the accommodation of visitors, affords a desirable place of residence,
at remarkably low prices: a single man may have an apartment at from
3_s_. to 5_s_. a-week; a family, at from 10_s_. to 20_s_. a-week.
All articles of consumption are remarkably cheap; for instance, beef and
mutton, 3_d_. per pound; veal, 2-1/2_d_.; pork, 3-1/2_d_.; bread and
vegetables in proportion.
ROUTES TO GRÄFENBERG.
Gräfenberg, since the opening of the railways may now be reached in four
or five days, at an expense of from 8_l_. to 10_l_. Although this outlay
is incurred in carriage, the patient will soon save it in his daily
expenses when there, besides having the advantage of Priessnitz's own
superintendance.
1st Route.--London, Ostend, Cologne, Prague, and from Prague to
Hollensdorf, which is twenty miles from Gräfenberg.
2nd Route.--Hull to Hamburg; from thence by railway to Berlin, Breslau
and Niepè; whence a carriage can be procured to Gräfenberg, the distance
being only twenty miles.
INDEX.
Abdomen, wound in, 134;
inflammation of, 160
Abgeschrecte Bath, see Tepid, 58
Ablutions of cold water, their value, 40
Abreibung, or rubbing-sheet, and its objects described, 50
Accidents, 128;
to the head, 131
Accouchement, value of Hydropathy in, 156
Ague and fever, how treated, 116, 146
Air-baths recommended and described, 70
Amputation, needless if the Cold-water cure be applied, 128
Ankle, sprained, 134;
weak, how treated, 169
Apoplexy, treatment of, 130
Appetite, in horses, how produced, 207
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