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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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f the spinal vessels, which by reaction is followed by activecongestion if the application is short and intense, and so pro-duces a powerful tonic effect through exciting the spinalcenters. By means of hot applications, effects the opposite to thosefollowing cold are produced. The dilatation of the vessels ofthe legs following hot applications to these parts producescongestion of the vessels of the lower part of the body andanemia of the upper parts. By the application of this principle, it is possible to com-bat either anemia or congestion of the brain, lungs, uterus, orother important vital parts. It should be said, however, thatthe principle is more often and more conveniently applicableto congestions and anemias of the upper parts of the bodythan to similar conditions of the lower parts, for the reasonthat intense congestion or anemia of the brain and lungs cannot be induced with the same degree of safety with which wemay congest the legs or lessen the blood supply of these parts.
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THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 731 Collateral Ancviia a)ul Hyperemia. — Where all the parts 1261concerned are supplied by a common arterial trunk, recip-rocal changes in the volume of blood occur between thesuperficial and the deeper parts. This relation exists betweenany muscle, joint, or bone and the overlying cutaneous area.It also exists between the overlying skin and the followingorgans : The brain, the spinal cord, the eyes, the ears, theserous lining of the pleural and peritoneal cavities, the lungs,the kidneys, the uterus and ovaries in woman, the testiclesand prostate in man. This relation between the skin and theuterus, ovaries, kidneys, bladder, and lungs is less intimatethan between the muscles and joints; but clinical results aswell as anatomical considerations indicate that such a rela-tion really does exist, though more remote, and it is evenpossible to trace a very distinct and direct anatomical connec-tion between the blood-vessels of the liver, stomach, intes-tines

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