Hydrotherapy, or, The water-cureFowlers and Wells, 1851 - 360 pages |
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98 degrees abreibung action acute affusion animal heat application of cold applied became blanket blood body bowels calomel capillaries cause cents chest cholera chronic climate of India cloths cold bath cold water cool cure debility degrees diarrhoea diet disease douche drinking dyspepsia Edward Johnson effect eruption exercise feet fever foot bath gentleman gout Graefenberg half bath head bath headache Hippocrates hour hydropathy immediately indigestion inflammation leintuch lungs means measles medicine ment minutes mode months morbid morning nature neck nervous system organs pain patient persons perspiration Phrenology physician plunging bath poultice practice prevent Priessnitz produced psoriasis pulse quantity relief remedy removed rheumatism rubbing says sciatica sitz bath skin small-pox sponge stimulants stomach strength surface sweating symptoms temperature tepid bath tetanus throat tion treated ulcers umschlag vapor bath vomiting warm water-cure water-dressing wet bandages wet sheet whole wounds
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Page 156 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 235 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 156 - The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Page 235 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 156 - The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Page 26 - ... it may be safely used at any time of the day, when there is no sense of chilliness present, when the heat of the surface is steadily above what is natural, and when there is no general or profuse sensible perspiration.
Page 23 - In less than hah' an hour, he was in so great a sweat, that when he came out he was as wet as if he had come out of a river, and the reek or steam of his body so thick, that it was hard to discern any body's face that stood near him.
Page 238 - Providence, and believing myself in the way of my duty, I visit the most noxious cells, and while thus employed, ' I fear no evil.' — I never enter an hospital or prison before breakfast, and in an offensive room I seldom draw my breath deeply.
Page 131 - Even coffee and tea, the common beverage of all classes of people, have a tendency to debilitate the digestive organs. Let any one who is in the habit of drinking either of these articles in a weak decoction, take two or three cups made very strong, and he will soon be aware of their injurious tendency. And this is only an addition to the strength of the narcotic he is in the constant habit of using.
Page 237 - ... called; the perils of the day were to be baffled by something taken hot on going to bed; and before I pursued my journey the next morning, a dram was to be swallowed to fortify the stomach! Believe me,"'said Mr.