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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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h whitens the skin by improving its circulation, relievesrheumatic pain, and may be advantageously employed indiabetes when there is no cardiac complication, in the chronictoxemia of dyspepsia, and in some skin disorders in whichTurkish and water baths prove too irritating ; it relieves painin sciatica, and is generally useful in the rheumatic diathesis. The Russian bath is not so well adapted to the treatmentof cases of obesity as is the hot-air or the electric-light bathor the sweating pack. The reason for this is the tendency inobesity to overheating and systemic weakening in conse-quence of the exhaustion of the nerve centers. Contraindications Extraordinary care must be exercised to avoid overheating the patient in this bath, as heat elimina-tion is almost altogether suspended; and hence the bath mustbe avoided m. febrile cases. The bath must also be interdictedin cases of cardiac weakness, in most cases of advancedBrighf sdisease, pulmonary tuberculosis, and in arteriosclerosis.
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THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 7© I THE VAPOR BATH. The vapor bath (Fig. 131) resembles the hot-air bath 124 Gin the mode of administration. The same sort of cabinetmay be used, and the emergency arrangements suggested forthe hot-air bath are equally useful for the vapor bath (Figs.127, 128). When the vapor bath is given in bed, however,an oil cloth must be placed under the patient to avoid vv^et-ting the mattress. Among the different methods of giving a vapor bath maybfe mentioned the following :— 1. Water may be boiled in a flat-bottomed basin over analcohol lamp or a small gas or kerosene stove. The basinshould be wide, and the quantity of water small, so that itmay bdil quickly and vigorously. 2. A pail of boiling water may be placed in the cabinetbeneath the chair on which the patient sits, and into this maybe lowered one by one well-heated flat-irons, bricks, stones,or other mineral or metallic masses, a wire being attached toeach so that the entrance into the water may be ea

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