Medical reflections on the water cure. / By James Freeman, M. D. Physician to the Cheltenham Hydropathic Institution.

  • Freeman, James
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1842
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    })roduce a sensation of warmth, which continues until they become dry. In this manner they are stimulant, and operate as powerful counter- irritants, or derivatives. Drinking cold water.—The hydropathic physi- cian requires his patient to drink plentifully of cold water, to the exclusion of every other fluid except milk. This is the only internal medicine he employs, and the only means which he sanctions for allaying thirst. The water should be drank while taking exercise after a bath, and at the intervals between meals. The quantity taken in a day varies from ten to twenty or thirty tumblers. In some cases much more is taken. We have known a French gentleman at an institution in Germany take ninety tum- blers a day. He was considerably benefited by the treatment. This quantity, however, will very rarely be advised. —The direction of Priessnitz respecting diet, as described by Dr. Baldou,* is the follow- ii^g ;—Mangez, mangez, plus vous mangez, plus vous aurez de force pour guerir.” (p. 24.) These w'ords must be regarded, not as enjoining or sanctioning the indulgence of an excessive appetite, by which the wants of the system would be more than supplied ; but as the dietetic w^atchword of hydropathy, shewing that by it diseases are cured without starvation, and that * L’Hydropatliie, inctliodc ratioiicllc de rraiteincnt, &c. Par le Dr. Baldou. Paris ct Lcipzic. 1841.
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