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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![i cation of the douche, so that patients willingly i submit themselves to its employment, and them- i selves require a repetition.” The ascending douche spring—Bubenquelle— i (source des gargons) is a natural jet of water, : rising in an enclosed basin through a small : metallic tube to the height of three feet. It is . employed in cases where the douche ascendante is : indicated, especially in complaints of the female . generative organs, and it has acquired a reputation : for the removal of sterility, though there is reason i to believe that much harm has resulted from its . abuse in these cases. Sterility arises from i a variety of causes, some of general or local : nature, connected with the state of the health or ■ with functional derangement—others of a purely physical kind ; and these causes require to be in- vestigated before the remedy applicable to the particular cases can be ascertained with any pro- bability of success. Where there exists dys- i menorrhoea, or high nervous irritability, the Ems 1 baths, by their tranquillising effects on the i nervous system, and their general alterative pro- ] perties, tend to restore the disturbed equilibrium 1 between the vital state of the uterus and that of t the system in general; and in this way they may (conduce to remove sterility, which object the local ■ stimulation of the douche doubtless promotes in s some cases. Dr. Ibell warns practitioners and I patients against the too indiscriminate use of the douche ascendante. “ The Bubenquelle,” he ob- - serves, “ to which surprising virtues have been as- E](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22434847_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
