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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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9.5heat units. In many subjects more marked effects are produced. Experiment 63.— Showing the influence of the cold proximal com-press upon the temperature of distal parts (page 760). The subject, A. C. S., was a young man aged 23, weight 137lbs.; initial temperature, axilla, 99.8°; palmar surface, handclosed, 98.1°. The elbow was immersed in water at 42^ forthirty minutes, at the end of which time the axillary temperaturewas 100.8°, and the hand temperature, 96.1°. Experiment 64.—(Page 774.) The surface temperature of the cheek was determined to be97.3°. Ice was then placed in the mouth, and held in contactwith the mucous surface of the cheek for fifteen minutes. Thetemperature of the cutaneous surface was reduced to 89.6°. Experiment 65.-—(Page 774.) The temperature of the inner surface of the cheek was taken,and found to be 98.6°. By the application of ice to the outer sur-face of the cheek for fifteen minutes, the temperature of the innerlurface was reduced to 90° F.
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SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 1131 Experiment 66.—(Page774.) The subject, F. G. L., was a young man aged 21, weight 135lbs. The rectal temperature was taken and found to be 99.8^.An ice compress was applied to the abdomen and sacrum. At theend of thirty minutes, the rectal temperature had fallen to 98.6°,clearly showing the value of these applications in rectal and pelvicinflammations. It should be borne in mind that the reduction ininternal temperature resulting from a cold application to the cu-taneous surface is not due to the abstraction of heat from, or directcooling of, the internal part, but is brought about indirectly throughthe reflex contraction of the blood-vessels of the part, and the les-sened tissue activity resulting from diminished blood supply. Experiment 67,-—(^Page 774.) In a subject whose initial rectal temperature was 99.8°, an icecompress to the abdomen and sacrum, combined with the hot footbath, reduced the rectal temperature in one hour and ten minutesto

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