Heart disease and the Nauheim treatment / by Joseph Kidd.

  • Kidd, Joseph.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Heart disease and the Nauheim treatment / by Joseph Kidd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doubt due to the total change of scene, the open-air life, freedom from business cares and anxieties. With a defined object in view, the patient gives himself up to the treatment and follows the routine of baths, exercises, diet, &c. The effects of the baths are in most cases to reduce the frequency of the pulse, to lessen the dilatation, and increase the muscular power of the heart, thus tending to improve the circulation of the blood in the large vessels and relieve the tension in the distended ventricles. Careful percussion of the heart's area before and after the bath generally shows a diminution in the amount of cardiac dulness; but this is an unreliable fact—not absolutely trustworthy