The water cure in America : two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading / edited by a water patient.
- Phinney, H. F.
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The water cure in America : two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading / edited by a water patient. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![became very intense, and a soreness extended itself all over the spine. The bandage which she wore over the lower spine, was made of two thicknesses of diaper-linen. It has accidentally occurred that the same portion of bandage, after being cleaned and wetted anew, has been placed on the very spot on which it was before, so that the small place of the spine, where the focus of heat and pains always- has been,—between the vertebras,—has been cov- ered the whole week by the same portion of bandage. It had been several times observed during the last month that the ban- dage began to be colored, after having lain on the spine for some hours. Last week the bandage was discovered to be so corroded over the spot mentioned, that the slightest pressure broke it through, while the rest of the linen was firm. Both thicknesses of linen had been corroded, the size of a silver dollar, and were stained of a brownish color. As far as this color reached, the linen easily wore off, by rubbing it between the fingers.^ On that very place of the patient's spine a red ointment of Iodine, Anti- monial Liniment, Cantharides, and other torturing benefits, had been rubbed in repeatedly, by physicians and celebrated bone- setters. I ordered, to lay a particular part of a new bandage, for a whole week, upon said place of the spine, and the bandage of the patient presented again the same appearance,—being cor- roded over the affected part, and remaining unchanged in all other portions. It has never been wrung or rubbed in one place more than another. This continued so for eight weeks, when she left for a visit to her relations, from which she will soon letura. Hemorrhage from the Liver, fyc. [Extracts from the lady's letter to Dr. W.] « My age is forty—have been married fourteen years ; without children ;°my natural constitution pretty good; though at the age of fourteen suffered from general debility, and for a number of years was subject to great irregularity in natural courses; my general health remained good. « Two vears ago, last October, I suppose I took cold at an un- fortunate period, and the consequence was, a sudden slight hae- morrhage of the lungs—the natural evacuation did not appear until another month. There was no repetition of bleeding for some tenths and my general health did not suffer much ; although](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147437_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
