The principal baths of Germany, France, and Switzerland : considered with reference to their remedial efficacy in chronic disease. 1st vol. Baths of Germany / by Edwin Lee.
- Lee Edwin, -1870.
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The principal baths of Germany, France, and Switzerland : considered with reference to their remedial efficacy in chronic disease. 1st vol. Baths of Germany / by Edwin Lee. 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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![the joints, occurring in persons about or beyond the middle period of life, the Wiesbaden baths are calculated to render the most effectual service. Though bathing is the most essential part of the treatment, it is advisable in most of these cases to combine with it the internal use of the water. Mild douching will also tend very much to the dispersion of local swellings, puffiness, stiffness of the joints, of the wrist, fingers, or foot, and also of chalky concretions, although it should not be used if there be a tendency to inflammatory action, nor until a certain number of baths have been taken. ] During an attack, the baths will require to be suspended, till the more severe symptoms have subsided ; when the patient may again begin, by ! previously drinking the water while confined to j his room. In general, patients who have been accustomed to free living do not bear a low ! regimen, and will be the better, after the in- flammatory symptoms are allayed, for being al- lowed substantial food, if an inclination be felt for it, care being taken that the quality be plain and light, and that the quantity be small. In the majority of cases of erratic, irregular, or repelled gout, these baths will also be productive of great benefit, and will not unfrequently cause the morbid action to restrict itself to one spot; a more regular attack being sometimes induced previous to an contrary opinion, which is the most prevalent among hath physicians, is the correct one. I have entered at some length into the consideration of this question in my work on “ The Curative Agency of Mineral Waters.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22434847_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
