The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo].

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1845
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Credit: The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment in March, I again made sensible progress. During the summer of 1843, I continued advancing in general strength more than any other way. I was packed in the blanket, and bathed daily; and did no more. In the winter of 1843—4, I discontinued bathing entirely; and lived sparingly, eating no dinner; but this I found annoy me by producing constipation. In the spring of 1844, I resumed sweating and bathing, and the ordinary diet of the establishment; then I made a great start, but my skin became again extremely irritable; then I discontinued bathing regularly, and have since resorted to it occasionally only. In September, I found myself almost suddenly much better; my feet and ancles, which up to this time had regularly by the evening become large and heavy, ceased to swell, and were hardly larger at night than in the morning; my knees at the same time became reduced in size, and I could stand every day, and most days could walk a few steps. As I ex- pected, I have since fallen back a little; but I can now always stand without support on both legs, and I am confident that next summer I shall make the remaining step of walking. In general strength I palpably im- prove every quarter of a year; the rheumatism burns out more slowly. A gentleman, about thirty years of age, tall, extremely thin, worn, and with a look of ill-health, became my patient at Miihlbad, with the following illness. In the years 1828—29—30, he took several severe courses of mercury, once for siphilitic psoriosis, else for primary symptoms. After this having taken sarsaparilla, and being at the sea-side, he was well, and continued so the winter and summer following. Then in the autumn of 1832, he found himself occasionally giddy, and in danger of falling if he turned suddenly, and it was with difficulty that he could walk straight; after three weeks he felt better, but during the whole of the winter he experi- enced occasional attacks of giddiness. Then he had periosteal swellings on the shinbones, which however went away; deafness too in one ear, the tonsil being en- larged ; in the summer following, diarrhoea, and he continued out of health. But in 1835, he went to Italy, and there again became perfectly well. Returning to England he again suffered from looseness of the bowels ;
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