Outlines of a new theory of disease : applied to hydropathy, showing that water is the only true remedy : with observations on the errors committed in the practice of hydropathy, notes on the cure of cholera by cold water, and a critique on Priessnitz's mode of treatment : intended for popular use / by the late H. Francke ; translated from the German by Robert Baikie.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848
Date:
1867
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Credit: Outlines of a new theory of disease : applied to hydropathy, showing that water is the only true remedy : with observations on the errors committed in the practice of hydropathy, notes on the cure of cholera by cold water, and a critique on Priessnitz's mode of treatment : intended for popular use / by the late H. Francke ; translated from the German by Robert Baikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. 8 EOT. pAQl Outlines op Pathology 1 A. Assimilative and secretive powers in general . . . . 11 B. Appropriative and secretive powers of animal organisms in par- ticular 13 C. What is instinct 1 17 D. Definition of the terms, health and disease 23 E. Division of the causes of disease into classes >. 24 F. Classification of diseases themselves—various rules for classifica- cation ........... 25 G. Symptoms of diseases and classification thereof .... 28 H. Proofs of the materiality of the causes of disease . . .29 I. Proofs of the correctness of the division of diseases into curative and destructive ......... 38 K. What is poison ] What is medicine ? 40 L. On the effects of cold water on the human organism in general . 51 M. Primary or curative diseases ....... 54 1. Mode of origin in general ....... 54 2. Hydriatic cure of primary disease 55 3. Medicinal cure of primary disease ..... 55 4. The normal stomach ........ 57 5. Primary diseases of the stomach in general 60 6. Cure of primary disease of the digestive organs in general . 62 7. Nausea and vomiting—diarrhoea 62 8. Sliming up of morbid matter, particularly of poisonous sub- stances .......... 65 9. Nature and object of fever . 74 10. The internal process of taking cold . . . . .77 11. Cold drink when overheated ...... 80 12. Dysentery 81 13. Cholera 85 14. Primary inflammatory diseases in general . . . .88 15. Inflammation of the eyes—of the brain—of the neck (croup) —of the lungs 94 16. Cough and catarrh 99 17. Intermittent fever 100 18. Concluding remarks on primary disease .... 103 N. Secondary or destructive diseases 104 1. General preliminary remarks 104 2. The mode of origin and three stages of secondary diseases . 105 3. Cure of secondary disease ....... 108 4. Want of appetite—heartburn and eructation—hard and slug- gish stools—false mucous obstruction—worms . . . 110 5. Exhausting diarrhoea—true mucous obstruction—indurations of slime, and indurations in the walls of the digestive canal— chronic inflammation, or suppuration in the digestive canal— cancer of the stomach 113