The mineral wells of Wiesbaden and their sanative efficacy : described and illustrated by experimental evidence / by A.H. Peez.

  • Peez, August Heinrich, 1785-1847.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The mineral wells of Wiesbaden and their sanative efficacy : described and illustrated by experimental evidence / by A.H. Peez. 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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    sweat is evinced by the patient's feeling- himself more vigorous after each crisis, and freer in his motions, as well as by the almost perceptible decrease of the stiffness and contracture of his limbs. When this crisis takes place, the patient should immediately put on warmer clothing, and be very careful to avoid catching- cold. 5. This critical sweat rarely appears more than once in the course of 24 hours, though it frequently intermits entirely for some days, whilst only a copious settlement in the urine is perceived *). These crises, sometimes, do not take place in the first year of bathing-, when the vitality of the body is reduced too much, and the patient verging too much to a state of consumption to be able to bear a suffi- cient number of baths. In this case it is neces- sary that the whole organism should previous- ly be restored to a proper degree of general vitality, in order to qualify him for these cri- tical secretions in the second year. He bears, for this purpose, in the first year, only a small number of baths, which, besides, may not be administered in immediate succession, but must be taken in intervals of some days. Sometimes it is also required that even general prepara- tive pharmaceutical medicines should be given. ] also have observed that medicines qualified *3 This sweating period may last 4—(i weeks, when it ceases gradually.
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