An experimental inquiry into the 'Schott treatment' of certain diseases of the heart at Bad Nauheim / by R.L. Bowles.

  • Bowles, Robert L. (Robert Leamon), 1834-1913
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: An experimental inquiry into the 'Schott treatment' of certain diseases of the heart at Bad Nauheim / by R.L. Bowles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    This patient paid me a visit on March 2Gth, 1896. He as- sured me that he could then walk five miles and more at a stretch without fatigue or dyspnoea; there was not a trace of dropsy, and he felt quite himself. I found, however, that al- though the cardiac dulness was shown by fresh tracings to be much diminished it was still great, and that there was now a well-marked diastolic bruit at the base and a systolic mitral bruit. There was, moreover, albumen in his urine. I advised another course at Nauheim. ' ]\[i.ss M. (iBt. 14).—Exercises, 15 minutes. D, diaphragm before — ,, after Apex beat before X „ „ after x Next we have tracings of a chest before and alter the exer- cises, and here again is seen a retraction of the heart’s apex 21 centimetres. Case 3.—This was a girl fourteen years of age, who had had an attack of rheumatism in the preceding winter and suffered from stenosis and insufficiency of the mitral valve. She had been treated at Nauheim for two months by baths alone under medical direction, but without becoming any better; having then been treated with baths and gymniistics under Dr. Schott’s system, the marked dyspnoea and all pr;e- cordial pains disappeared, and she considered herself to be
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