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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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he tepid or w^z^/r^/cerebrospinal douche is useful in casesof spinal sclerosis, general feebleness, sexual dementia, ex-haustion from alcoholism and other forms of dissipation, aswell as in an enfeebled condition resulting from loss of sleepand prolonged mental anxiety. In certain cases, as in irritable and feeble neitrasthenicswith cerebral congestion, the neutral douche to the back ofthe neck may be combined with the cold percussion doucheto the spine and feet. In cases of cerebral anemia associatedwith chronic nervous exhaustion, the prolonged cold doucheto the spine, legs, and feet may be advantageously associatedwith the warm douche or affusion to the head. THE PULHONARY DOUCHE. 1092 The pulmonary circulation may be influenced by applica- tions made to any portion of the cutaneous covering of thechest, but especially to the vertebra prominens. Askatchen-sky showed that a cold application to the hands is capable ofcontrolling epistaxis, and the writer has clinically shown that I I
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THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 509 pulmonary hemorrhage may likewise be favorably influencedby this procedure. That very cold applications to the handsand feet, with stronj:^ pressure, are also capable of influencingthe pulmonary circulation to a marked degree, has been shownby the experiments of Vasilieff. Winternitz has noted asimilar relation between the thighs and the lungs. The appli-cation should be considerably prolonged, and with little pres-sure. The procedure in the pulmonary douche should be asfollows : — A rapid percussion douche, or horizontal jet with strongpressure, at 60°, to the arms and shoulders; then the brokenjet to the front and sides of the chest; ending with the percus-sion douche to the back and vertebra prominens; the durationbeing from 10 to 15 seconds to each part. The neutral doucheto the back of the chest is of value in cases of asthma, espe-cially if accompanied by the Scotch douche to the feet and legs. The pulmonary douche has a somewhat limited sph

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