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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![Chap. V.] G3 CHAPTER V. INCREASED USE OF WATER. We separate the internal use of water from the true cold Water- tvater-cure or hydrotherapy. The indications of the latter drinking refer, as we shall see when this method is divested of the grant ele- wild belief in an universal remedy, almost exclusively to ment of the external application of cold water. Priessnitz, and cure. his early and especially his dilettante followers, combined with the outward application of cold water its immode- rate and excessive use internally, because by the combina- tion of both they hoped to satisfy the belief in their pow* of working miracles; and this error was the founda- tion of very many failures and the original disrepute of the system. The internal use is allowed in many cases of cold water cine, either from the individual condition of the patient, or from the sudorific effect of some forms of baths; the time has, however, arrived in which the pre- scribed increase of water-drinking is regarded rather as a general dietetic measure of itself, and not as an integrant part of any hydriatic course. The dietetic effect and the dietetic necessity of the use General 6XD6F1- of water is a matter of the most common experience. en£e> Everyone knows that life cannot exist without the use of fluids, and that the instinct of thirst in men and animals corresponds to the measure of that necessity. Equally well is it known that all solid food contains a considerable amount of water ; that the temporarily deficient supply of water is adjusted by the diminished secretion of perspira- tion and urine, and the temporarily excessive supply by the increase of these secretions ; lastly, that the requirement of water at meals is partly dependent on the amount of water in the food, and partly on individual peculiarities, but that in general a moderate supply of fluid assists](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032579_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
