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
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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.
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![above all, however, it must be observed that the suc- cesses generally have neither been more numerous n more brilliant than in other ordinary courses of treat- ment, and that gout in most oases just as obstinately withstands hydrotherapy as it does all other heroic means. It is well known that in course of time, in proportion with the obstinacy of a disease, the number of remedies recommended and extolled rises, and gout is one of the con- ditions which has presented most abundant examples in this respect. One of the strangest methods is that of Cadet Cadet da de Vaux (1825), according to which the sick person is to drink every quarter of an hour 6 or 8 ounces of hot water at 122° to 140° Fah., till in twelve horns he has taken 9 or 10 quarts. Many persons have borne such violent treatment; in others the natural and immediate results, such as vomiting, great excitement, fever, and congestion of the brain, have risen to such a serious extent, that the treat- ment had to be discontinued : and several have even died from it. Successful results have been boasted of by the originator of the method, and by other credible authori- ties. Most of the cases mentioned, however, apparently do not belong to real gout, but to chronic rheumatism of the joints. Still it is always worth the trouble to repeat the experiment, though of course with prudent restriction. [The dietetic use of hot water in gout has been, we believe, recommended by sevex-al practitioners, and we are ourselves in the habit of advising many gouty subjects to drink early in the morning one or two tumblers of hot water (at about 120 Fahr.), and, we think, in some instances at least, with good effect, viz., the disappearance of sediments of lithic acid and lithates in the urine, regula- tion of the bowels, and diminution of acute attacks of gout.] A few brief remarks are here suitable upon gravel and the so-called hemorrhoidal condition, with reference to the use of water-drinking. Although, according to Scherer's investigations, the Gravel. formation of gravel is not caused by an excessive secretion of uric acid, but by the fermentation of the urine itself, yet the supposition is legitimate that a decrease of the uric acid secretion must produce a favourable effect, in -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21032579_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
