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
On leaving Gräfenberg he assured me, that he was not only cured of gout;
but that his digestive powers, which for years had been deranged, were
in perfect order, and that his general health was completely restored.
Sixteen years previous to the Count's going to Gräfenberg, he had his
elbow wounded by a ball in a duel, which occasionally caused him great
pain. For the cure of this, he, at the time, rubbed in a yellow
ointment. Singular to say, after a lapse of sixteen years, during a
crisis, this ointment re-appeared on the elbow and arm, so thick as to
be taken off with the finger. The exuding of this ointment lasted about
eight days. Since the cure of his gout was effected, the arm has been
pliant, and the elbow has been free from pain.
_Gout in Head and Feet._--F----, a German professor, aged sixty; a small
delicate man, with gout in both hands and both feet: all were
contracted, he had been a martyr to gout for years and upwards, when a
paroxysm of gout came on the following morning.
The following treatment was resorted to. Morning, packing-sheet until
thoroughly warm; then tepid bath 64° for two hours, during which time
200 cans of cold water were thrown over his head and shoulders.
Twenty-five cans were first thrown; then great friction for some time;
then twenty-five cans more, followed by friction; and so repeated until
two hundred cans had been thrown over him.
Heating bandages were applied to all parts afflicted, and kept there day
and night.
The above treatment was resorted to again in the afternoon.
One paroxysm that I witnessed, lasted three weeks. It was astonishing to
see the courage displayed by this patient.
Each operation afforded relief for the time; but the enemy had strong
hold upon the system, and was ejected with difficulty.
During all the time the patient had a good appetite and slept soundly at
night.
He was still under the cure when I left Gräfenberg. Priessnitz said, to
effect this cure, it would require at least four years' treatment, which
the patient said he would prefer to a renewal of the suffering he had
already undergone, previously to coming to Gräfenberg.
_Calcareous Deposit in the Knees, and high state of Inflammation._--The
last case shews how the human body may be exposed to the action of
water, with friction, for any length of time. The present case is that
of an English Gentleman, well known to all visitors at Gräfenberg.
G----, aged between 50 and 60, gouty for the last twenty years, with
contraction of the limbs, chalk stones having formed in the joints. This
patient travelled from Italy to Gräfenberg during the heat of summer,
and, on arriving, had a most painful attack of gout in his lower
extremities.
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