The Hydropathic Treatment of Diseases Peculiar to Women: And of Women in Childbed; with Some Observations on the Management of InfantsSimpkin, Marshall, 1850 - 164 pàgines |
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ablution appetite ascer become blood body bowels breakfast and supper breast cause child chlorosis clothes cold water congestion constipated constitution delayed puberty diet dinner dipped discharge disease DOMESTIC PRACTICE drink drugs dry sheet dysmenorrhoea EDWARD JOHNSON epilepsy excessive excitement exercise farinaceous puddings flannel frequently habits head heat Hydropathic treatment immediately infant inflammation injurious irritable JOHNSON labour leucorrhoea malady membrane menstruation milk miscarriage morbid mother mouth mucous membrane natural never organ painful menstruation parturition patient perspiration PRACTICE OF HYDROPATHY pregnancy produced proper quantity retention rubs secretion shallow bath SIR JOHN FLOYER sitz bath skin sometimes speculum stomach strength suckling suffering suppression sweating symptoms taken temperature third meal tion towels twelve o'clock unnatural uterus vapour bath walk warm wash-down Water Cure weak black tea wet friction wet nurse wet sheet packing winter womb women
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Pàgina 124 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Pàgina 8 - ... other varieties of dyspepsia, accompanied by obstinate constipation. This is a remedy, the efficacy of which has been long known and admitted ; yet, strange to say, the generality of mankind choose to consult their taste rather than their reason ; and by officiously separating what nature has beneficently combined, entail upon themselves much discomfort and misery.
Pàgina 3 - The bed clothes should be just sufficient to enable the patient to sleep. It is better to wake with a sensation which induces an inclination to draw the clothes more closely around the shoulders, than with an oppressive sense of heat which induces a disposition to throw the clothes back. We should sleep, as we should eat, because it is necessary ; and not for the sake of the luxurious animal gratification which it yields.
Pàgina 17 - The next stage of the treatment is thus described : " As soon as the children are dipped, they, with their wet clothes on, are wrapt up in warm blankets, over their head and whole body, and put immediately to bed, which instantly puts them into a violent sweat.
Pàgina 3 - The reaction which follows the judicious use of cold as a therapeutic agent, may prove serviceable, not only in resisting the further influence of cold, but also to remove congestions and irregularities in the circulation from other causes, and to excite in the capillaries and secernents new actions, which may supersede those of disease. It is thus that the...
Pàgina 16 - Romans used : they go into the water in their shirts ; and when they come out they dress themselves in their wet linen, which they wear all day, and much commend that for...
Pàgina 16 - ... for closing the pores, and keeping themselves cool ; and that they do not commonly receive any injury, or catch any cold thereby, I am fully convinced from the experiments I have seen made of it.
Pàgina 1 - ... them ; with an enumeration of the several kinds of baths in use — their comparative powers, their individual effects, their temperature, the manner and times of taking them ; observations regarding diet generally, clothing, sleep and exercise, with necessary cautions upon all these subjects.
Pàgina 3 - Hydropathic" treatment consists in its indiscriminate application to a great variety of diseases; no person who has watched its operation, can deny that it is a remedy of a most powerful kind ; and if its agency be fairly tested, there is strong reason to believe, that it will be found to be the most valuable curative means we possess for various specific diseases...
Pàgina 3 - The cold water cure, or Hydropathy, though not yet admitted by the Medical Profession among the legitimate means which may be beneficially employed in the treatment of diseases, undoubtedly includes powerful therapeutic agents, which in the hands of the educated and honourable practitioner might be beneficially resorted to as remedial agents. It does not confine itself to the nse of cold water only, but includes dry sweating, diet, exercise, and regulated clothing.