The Schott methods of the treatment of chronic diseases of the heart : with an account of the Nauheim baths, and of the therapeutic exercises : illustrated / by W. Bezly Thorne.
- Thorne, W. Bezly (William Bezly), -1917.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Schott methods of the treatment of chronic diseases of the heart : with an account of the Nauheim baths, and of the therapeutic exercises : illustrated / by W. Bezly Thorne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![the area of cardiac dulness before and after immersion, certified to a recession, averaging one third of an inch, in the general outline traced from the sternal to the mammary region. By way of comparison, the following case may be quoted. A patient, aged forty-six, whose health had been declining for several years, was found to have a pulse of 80 in the recumbent, and of 88 in the sitting position. While he stood it varied from 100 to 104 ; and if he walked ten paces it rose to from 120 to 130. The apex was found to beat an inch outside the nipple line. Within two minutes of immersion in his first thermal bath (spring No. 7, divested of the greater part of its carbonic acid gas, temp. 90*5° F.) the pulse had fallen to 70, and, judged by the finger, appeared to have doubled in volume; at the end of four minutes it was 68 ; in six minutes 66 ; in eight minutes 68 ; and while standing, after dressing, it was 90. Before he left the bath, after an immersion of ten minutes, the apex beat was found to have receded half an inch in the direction of the mesial line; and nails and fingers, which had been snow-white up to the junction of the second with the first phalanx, had assumed a healthy flesh tint. The immediate effect of the first few baths is to produce a sense of oppression at the praeoordium, under the influence of which the patient breathes slowly and deeply for two or three minutes. Eespiration then becomes easy and continues slower by from two to four breaths a minute. The effect on the peripheral vessels if] to increase their carrying power. A glowing sense of warmth is experienced in the extremities and in the surface of the body generally. The veins are stimulated to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21167229_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
