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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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oolin a bath-tub, the feet being placed in hot water for deriva-tive effects, and to protect them from contact with the coldwater. When exciting effects are desirable, the duration ofthe heat and the cold should be about 15 seconds each.Powerful exciting effects may be produced by this means. Therapeutic Applications.— The alternate process is otgreat value in neurasthenia; especially in very feeble cases,a remarkable reviving effect is at once experienced by thepatient during the application, and for some time afterward. Alternate compresses or sponging to the spine affordone of the most efficient means of arousing the patient fromopinm or alcohol narcosis. It is equally indicated in Prnssicacid poisoning, and in cases in which there is a depressedcondition of the spinal centers, as in syncope, asphyxia fromcoal-gas or carbonic acid gas poisoning, or droivning. Theapplication should be continued not only until the patientshows evidences of returning consciousness, but for some time
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THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 823 after, to maintain the necessary degree of nervous and vitalactivity. The author has more than once employed thismeasure with success in threatened collapse under chloroform,and to combat grave symptoms arising from the injection ofcocaine, years ago, when the anesthetic properties of this drugwere first known and its toxic properties not so well under-stood as now. Alternate applications to the spine may besystematically employed in general paresis, acute ascendingparalysis, pachymeningitis, and muscular atrophy. It is fre-quently serviceable in chronic anemia, toxemia from gastro-intestinal disorders, and general systemic depression in vari-ous acute and chronic affections. ALTERNATE APPLICATIONS TO THE HEAD. In some cases of violent headache, especially the con- 1343gestive form, most excellent results are obtained by alter-nating hot and cold compresses, or hot and cold spongingof the upper portion of the spine. The application shouldbegin at the

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