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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![would be likely to produce a too perturbatory aaction ; while the simple thermal springs of Plom- tbieres, Luxeuil, Wildbad, Gastein, would, in all ^probability, be extremely effectual in allaying the iirritability, and in removing the disease. On the cother hand, where, together with rheumatic aaffections, there is a state of general relaxation aand debility, the internal use of a chalybeate sspring would be more likely to procure their re- imoval; joined either with a course of tepid saline ’.baths, or with baths of the chalybeate water, if :not counter-indicated by the patient’s condition. 'Where fixed pains, local indurations, or swellings t exist, the use of the douche may be advantageously (combined, after a few baths have been taken. • Certain intractable cases, which have resisted ] mineral waters, as well as the other remedies em- i ployed, may yet frequently be relieved by vapour- ' baths, or by the Turkish baths, which are established ;at several places, as also by hydropathy, though, iin general, thermal baths are most productive of permanent benefit. Nervous pains, recurring in paroxysms, affect- ing the branches of particular nerves of the face, head, or extremities, to which the term neuralgia or tic is generally applied, and which not unfre- quently originate from a rheumatic or gouty 'diathesis, from the suppression of habitual dis- charges, or of cutaneous eruptions—which causes • of disease, though perhaps somewhat over-esti- mated by Continental practitioners, are not suffi- ciently attended to in Eng] and—are more likely to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22434847_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
