On the curative effects of baths and waters : being a handbook to the spas of Europe / Including a chapter on the treatment of phthisis by baths and climate, by Rohden. An abridged translation, with notes, ed. by Hermann Weber.
- Julius (Arzt) Braun
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the curative effects of baths and waters : being a handbook to the spas of Europe / Including a chapter on the treatment of phthisis by baths and climate, by Rohden. An abridged translation, with notes, ed. by Hermann Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![exercise. Chap. I.] BODILY exercise IN TRAVELLING. 2~> taught, knows that he mast not violently reform such habits. In the same manner there are men who could not endure, on a journey or during a summer course of bat lis, to let their mental activity lie fallow, for this has become to them likewise a necessary stimulus. In addition to the psychical influences which the con- dition of the sick man when travelling induces, we must consider the very important element of increased bodily Bodily exercise, though this in severer cases is only passive. It calls into play all the parts of organic life, the consump- tion and increased growth of the muscular substance, which is shewn by the improving muscular power, and by the increase of the urea and of chloride of sodium in the urine ; the stimulation of the process of respiration, the revival of which is not fleeting, but becomes permanent owing to the gradually exercised and improved power of the respiratory muscles; the greater activity of the glan- dular organs and of the skin; the increase of hunger and of ingestion of nourishment, and the corresponding in- crease of digestion and of assimilation of food ; and as the result of all this, a better nutrition of the blood and tissues. At the same time, in general the appetite is not excessive, nor is the weight much increased, for with the secretion, the absorption and consumption of the hydro- carbonates are augmented; and hence travelling makes a man strong but not fat. The excitement of the day is moreover followed by healthy calming sleep, which nightly fulfils its double object of lulling the activity of the brain and of renewal of organic matter. As regards the alvine evacuations, they are generally in travelling less moist and even diminished in quantity; at first they are often suppressed, partly because the more complete digestion leaves less matter to be excreted, and partly because the increased absorption abstracts the water, and this effect is produced even by the passive movement of driving. In addition to all this, as for the sake of completeness we will briefly anticipate, we may mention the increased use of water and its immediate effect upon the change of substance, the rich enjoyment of the air, and the hardening](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032579_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
