The Water-cure Manual: A Popular Work, Embracing Descriptions of the Various Modes of Bathing, the Hygienic and Curative Effects of Air, Exercise, Clothing, Occupation, Diet, Water-drinking, &c. Together with Descriptions of Diseases, and the Hydropathic Means to be Employed Therein. Illustrated with Cases of Treatment and Cure. Containing, Also, a Fine Engraving of Priessnitz ...Fowler and Wells, 1855 - 294 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 35 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
Pàgina 35 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pàgina 55 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Pàgina 35 - I therefore entered npon a reform of my constitution, and have succeeded in such a degree, that I have neither had a cough, cold, the vapors, nor any more alarming disorder, since I surmounted the seasoning.
Pàgina 55 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Pàgina 51 - ... were when the first case of cholera occurred ; we have not been instructed in the least, by those who have had the disease to treat. Some say that they have cured the disease by bleeding ; others by calomel ; others by opium ; and others, again, say that opium, does harm. No doubt many poor creatures died uncomfortably, who would have died tranquilly if nothing had been done to them.
Pàgina 34 - HE was a singular being in many of the common habits of life : he bathed daily in cold water; and, both on rising and going to bed, swathed himself in coarse towels, wet with the coldest water : in that state he remained half an hour or more, and then threw them off, freshened and invigorated, as he said, beyond measure.
Pàgina 73 - For the first six weeks he walked out every day, and sometimes spent a great part of the day in the woods. His walk was steady and firm, and his friends even remarked that his step had an unusual elasticity. He shaved himself until about a week before his death, and was able to sit up in bed to the last day.
Pàgina 120 - When you are awakened by this uneasiness, and find you cannot easily sleep again, get out of bed, beat up and turn your pillow, shake the bed-clothes well, with at least twenty shakes, then throw the bed open, and leave it to cool; in the meanwhile, continuing...
Pàgina 174 - ... &c., would constitute the surest means by which any one could rationally hope to be preserved from an attack of that disease. I repeated this lecture, after the cholera had commenced its ravages in the city; and, notwithstanding the powerful opposition to the opinions which I advanced, a very considerable number of citizens strictly adhered to my advice. And it is an important fact, that of all who followed the prescribed regimen uniformly and consistently, not one fell a victim to that fearful...