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Title: Rational therapy
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Lerch, Otto
Subjects: Therapeutics, Physiological Therapeutics
Publisher: (Troy, N.Y.) The Southworth Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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on a rubber sheet, covering the bottom of the tub, or uponsaucers to prevent injury to the tub. The patient then enters thebath and the sodium bicarbonate is distributed in the tub. Theimported Nauheim Salt, consisting principally of SodiumChloride and Calcium Chloride may be added to the bath toincrease its stimulating efifects. These salts may be bought withthe preparation. It is important that the Carbondioxide sur-rounds the patient with fine gas pearls that adhere to the skin.Only when that is the case, is the bath effective. The treatmentis generally commenced with a temperature of 90° F. and a dura-tion of from seven to ten minutes. As the patient improves, thetemperature is lowered and the time prolonged. The same courseis generally pursued with the com.position of the bath. , A smallerquantity is first used to prepare it, and this is gradually increasedin the course of the treatment. The patient has an agreeableprickling sensation when in the bath, is less sensitive to lower
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HYDROTHEJRAPY. 171 temperatures and reacts promptly, the skin reddens after a few-minutes of exposure. The room must be well ventilated to permitthe Carbondioxide gas to escape and the bath tub should becovered with a rubber sheet to protect the patient from the gas. Dr. Zuckers carbonated bath, manufactured by Max Elbof Dresden, Germany, a solution of Formic Acid, eighty per cent,is poured into the bath and thoroughly mixed with the water.The patient then enters and applies gently gauze bags filled withSodium Bicarbonate to the various portions of his body. This isa very efficient and easy way to administer it. Cassebeers Salts, prepared in this country, act well. The Oxygen Bath recently introduced in hydrotherapy hasbecome a valuable addition. The ingredients to prepare the bathare sold in the market in two separate packages, enough for eachbath, with printed directions. The bath is given at a little belowbody temperature from fifteen to twenty minutes in duration.A course of treat

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