Habitual constipation and its treatment with electricity, massage and water / [Georg Hünerfauth].

  • Hünerfauth, Georg.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Habitual constipation and its treatment with electricity, massage and water / [Georg Hünerfauth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    The other case concerned an officer of high rank, 62 years of age, who wished to take vapour baths at my establishment in order to remove his enormous masses of fat, which were very annoying to him in walking and almost prevented him from putting on his uniform. I was compelled to refuse him the vapour baths considering his great nervous depression, advising him to take a douche every morning before going to the springs, and after it to appear for massage of the abdomen. The latter had the special effect of removing the masses of fat so rapidly and thoroughly, that the patient took a forced walk on the 9th day, and repeated it thenceforth every day with great pleasure. The whole treatment lasted 22 days, and in the last week the patient would now and then, for the amusement of some friends, undertake a race with a well-known American pedestrian who — by chance also a patient of mine— was never tired of praising the officer's agility. Having now exhausted my subject, I feel tempted to conclude, by letting a well-known philosopher speak concerning the symptoms of the disease: How many mental sufferings and mental torments proceed from ab- dominal disorders, exclaims Ludwig Feuerbach.1) How ]) Gottheit, Freiheit und Unsterblichkeit vom Stand- punkte der Anthropologic