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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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d water and dilutedfruit juices without sugar are the best drinks. HOT WATER DRINKING. 1429 Hot water drinking has of late years been enormously overdone. In the United States, and doubtless in othercountries, many persons have been injured by deluging theirstomachs with quantities of hot water several times daily.The author has met a number of patients who were takingthree or four glasses at once in this way at a temperaturewhich would seem positively incredible. In one instance agentleman was found sipping a glass of water at a temperatureof 160°. The free use of hot water has been largely encour-aged by physicians who recommend an exclusive meat diet-ary, experience having taught them that the free use ofmeat must be accompanied by copious water drinking as ameans of ridding the system of the ptomains, toxins, andvarious other poisonous substances which are always to befound in the body of a dead animal. Water drinking inthese cases is doubtless a means of saving the patients life
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Fig. 239 GARTNERS TONOMETi.R (p. 931). THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 931 under conditions which would otherwise lead to speedyexhaustion of the defenses of the body, and thus precipitatesome acute and perhaps fatal malady, as Brights disease,organic changes in the liver, arteriosclerosis, etc. The fact that hot water has proved serviceable in somecases has led to its excessive use by a large number ofpersons who have suffered serious consequences from thepractice. The general effect of hot water drinking is to de-bilitate the digestive system, while cold water acts as atonic. Heat and cold, when brought in contact with themucous membranes, produce effects entirely analogous tothose resulting from their application to the skin. Whenheat is applied, the result is first a stimulation, quickly fol-lowed by a tonic reaction lasting for a considerable lengthof time. In this condition the blood-vessels of the stomachare contracted, the circulation is less active, and the activityof the pept

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