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
HYDROPATHY
I. Vincent Priessnitz. 1
II. Hydropathy. 17
III. What Does Hydropathic Treatment effect? 17
IV. How are the Effects described in the last Chapter
produced? 20
V. Is Hydropathy a Panacea? And what Complaints are
Curable by it? 24
VI. Is Hydropathy new? Why is it not generally adopted? 26
VII. The Lancet. 30
VIII. Authorities in Support of Water as a Curative Agent. 32
IX. Ablutions. 40
X. Use of Cold Water for Drinking and Injections. 41
XI. The Cold Bath. 43
XII. Is going into the Cold Bath in a State of Perspiration
attended with Danger? 45
XIII. The Packing Sheet, and Sweating Process. 46
XIV. Sweating Process. 50
XV. The Rubbing Sheet, or Abreibung. 50
XVI. The Douche Bath. 52
XVII. The Shower Bath. 54
XVIII. The Sitz or Sitting Bath. 54
XIX. Eye Bath. 55
XX. Head Bath. 55
XXI. Finger and Elbow Baths. 56
XXII. Leg Bath. 56
XXIII. Foot Bath. 56
XXIV. The Tepid, or Abgeschrecte bath. 58
XXV. Bandages, or Umschlags. 59
XXVI. Diet. 62
XXVII. Clothing, Air Baths, Wearing Stays, etc. 69
XXVIII. Drugs. 73
XXIX. Assimilation. 77
XXX. The Crisis. 79
XXXI. Dropsy. 82
XXXII. Smoking. 84
XXXIII. Questions put to Mr Priessnitz, and his Answers. 90
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