The baths of Rhenish Germany : with notices of the adjacent towns / [Edwin Lee].

  • Edwin Lee
Date:
1850
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Credit: The baths of Rhenish Germany : with notices of the adjacent towns / [Edwin Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantity, if taken before breakfast, would disagree, and give rise to unpleasant symptoms, or occasion a too active operation upon the bowels or kidneys. It is also advisable, when a full course of these and other mineral waters is required, to recommend a temporary suspension of the course, and change of air for three or four days, after a certain period of drinking and bathing has elapsed; by this means the system is not too early saturated, and the patient returns to resume the use of the water, in a more fit state for its absorption, and with a greater probability of more durable benefit. Most chronic rheumatic affections wil] be re- moved or greatly relieved by the Wiesbaden baths. In the slighter cases, not of long standing, a short course, for about three weeks, will be frequently sufficient. In the more intractable cases of articu- lar and muscular rheumatism, as also in the pains of a rheumatic nature affecting the face, head, and other parts; a more prolonged course will often be required, combined with the use of the douche. In some cases the hot bath, vapour-bath or douche, may be advantageously employed, especially in elderly persons whose skin is dry, and seldom per- spirable. Where, however, the complaint has supervened upon, or has been continued from an acute attack, in which any symptoms of the beart or pericardium being affected were present,—which is more frequently the case than is generally sup- posed,—it would it be well to ascertain, by auscul- tation and percussion, that none of these symptoms