The Schott methods of the treatment of chronic diseases of the heart with an account of the Nauheim baths, and of the therapeutic exercises.

  • Thorne, William Bezly.
Date:
1899
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    cases, it need not be said that the physical treatment should be combined with measures calculated to arrest the waste which the system has suffered. The effects of both methods, especially when com- bined, have been no less satisfactory in such cases of oedema, anasarca, serous effusion, and albuminuria associated with deficient heart power as, under my •observation, have submitted to the treatment. Case M. (Ch. YIII.) is one in point. The Schott methods have brought relief to such ■cases of asthma, associated with however little cardiac dilatation, as have come under my treatment. I maj^ mention three typical cases ; a is a lady of middle age who, on taking a drive, or in any way coming near a horse, experienced the following train of symptoms:—intense injection of the ocular and palpebral conjunctives, nasal defluxion, hoarseness, and the breathing characteristic of spasmodic asthma. After a week of baths she was able to take a long ■drive with relative impunity, and, as the course proceeded, the improvement continued, until finally the symptoms were scarcely appreciable. A slightly ■dilated heart had resumed its normal dimensions within the first week, and the pulse had become uniformly stronger and fuller.* /3 is a lady, thirty-six years of age, who has been liable, with increasing frequency and severity, to accesses of eczema, in- testinal catarrh with abilious stools, bronchitis with ]3rofuse muco-purulent expectoration, and asthma with nocturnal exacerbations of great severity. The effects of driving were similar to those experienced by a. When she came under treatment she had not been able to lie down for a fortnight, and could secure •only a few snatches of sleep with the aid of the * The benefit has, in this case, been maintained for foiir years.
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