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Title: Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, : F.A. Davis Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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onbecomes weary with the effort to support himself, or is incon-venienced by the pressure of his tissues against the hardmetal or porcelain surfaces of the tub. The arrangementshould be such that the patient may be as fully as possibleat ease. This requires that he should be suspended by somearrangement resembling a hammock. A closely woven ham-mock, covered with a blanket, may be used for the purpose,or a strong linen sheet may be employed. The hammockmay be suspended from hooks attached to the walls of theroom, being allowed to sag into the bath-tub sufficiently tosubmerge the patient. The sheet may be supported inproper position by means of a frame with pegs or holesproperly adjusted to the top of the tub. By means of strongtapes attached to the sheet, it may be fastened to the framein such a way as to maintain the patients body in the mostcomfortable and restful position. In emergency, and while better arrangements are beingperfected, the patient may be made comparatively comfort-
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THE TECHNigUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 5 5/ able by means of one or more blankets folded and placed inthe bottom of an ordinary bath-tub, or better still, by meansof air pillows filled with water of the same temperature asthe bath, or several large water-bags placed in the bottomof the tub so as to support the hips, shoulders, and heels.Pillow-cases filled with excelsior, such as is used for mat-tresses, or curled hair, may be employed in the same way.The head should be properly supported, and care should betaken that the shoulders are constantly covered with waterto prevent chilling by evaporation and the consequent pul-monary congestion which is almost certain to result fromprolonged cooling of these important reflex areas. The temperature of the water should be 94° to 95°, theaverage neutral temperature. On first entering the bath, thepatient may be very gently rubbed for one or two minutes, toprevent the preliminary contraction of the cutaneous vesselswhich sometimes occasions at first

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