Identifier: rationalhydrothe00kell (find matches)
Title: Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, : F.A. Davis Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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g process which leaves the patient in a depressed con-dition. For this purpose it answers very satisfactorily as asubstitute for the douche, and is of great service in cases inwhich the latter is contraindicated, or when a douche appar-atus is not accessible. The shallow bath is an excellent bath for use in neuras-thenia, especially gastric neurasthenia, also in hypopepsia,chronic constipation^ diabetes, uric acid diathesis, and a largeclass of disorders due to uric acid accumulation, when neu-ralgia and local inflammatory processes are not present toany marked extent. Rohrig has shown that a considerable increase of perspira-tion causes constipation, a result frequently noted in hydriaticestablishments in patients who are taking a course of sweat-ing baths for the reduction of flesh, or other spoliative oreliminative purposes. The shallow bath is of special servicein these cases as a means of counteracting the constipatingeffect of the sweating processes, as well as in ordinary cases
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I THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 599 of constipation in which the disorder is the result of deficientintestinal secretion. This effect must of course be encour-aged by the copious drinking of cool or cold water at theproper hours (1375). When employed for the relief of constipation or conges-tion of the liver or spleen, the water should be dashed uponthe umbilical region or upon the surface overlying the liveror the spleen as may be indicated. In Germany the shallow bath is much used as a method ofpreventing threatened chill in intermittent malarial fever.The author can testify to its merits as a means of abortingthe malarial paroxysm, but he prefers to precede the applica-tion by a preliminary heating by means of a hot immersion, ahot-blanket pack, an electric-light bath, a vapor bath, or avapor douche. When given for preventing the malarial chill,the bath should be very short and very vigorous, duration notmore than 30 to 60 seconds. The patient should be imme-diately afterward wrap

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