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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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jet, which prevents the ejection of thewater of condensation which, having a greater specific gravitythan steam, is likely to fall where not desired. The nozzle isso arranged as to combine handle and nozzle in one piece,and provides for the safe disposal of the water of condensa-tion (Fig. 238). The value of the steam jet for the purposesuggested has yet to be determined by the test of further clin-ical experience. It may prove to be an exceedingly usefulmeasure in certain classes of surgical cases. WATER DRINKING. 1423 Water drinking as a therapeutic measure is of very ancientorigin. Hippocrates prescribed it as a remedy in fevers, andthe drinking of cold water has been practiced among theEgyptians from the most ancient time in the treatment offevers. Cold water drinking was used by Hahn in the treat-ment of fevers in Germany in the first half of the eighteenthcentury, fully sixty years before Priessnitz prescribed theinternal use of water in such prodigious quantities atGraefenberg.
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i n THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 921 Todano, an Italian contemporary of Hahn, made his feverpatients drink five pints of ice water every three hours. Thepatient was placed in a hammock without covering, and thetreatment was continued until perspiration occurred. If hebecame comatose, ice was placed over the heart. This extraor-dinarily vigorous refrigerative treatment must have sometimesproduced most undesirable results, and it is these excesses inthe use of an efficient and valuable remedy which are doubt-less to a great degree responsible for the slowness with whichthe merit of water drinking as a systematic procedure hasacquired recognition and appreciation. Sir John Chardin, a French traveler in Persia, relates howthat in May, 1674, he was treated by a native Persian physi-cian for a very grave intermittent or fever of Bender. Oneof the most important measures to which he was subjectedwas the drinking of large quantities of water cooled with snow. Currie also recommended water d

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