Every Man His Own Doctor: The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to which the Human Frame is Subject. And Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and CattleJ. Madden, 1849 - 212 pages |
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a-day abdomen ablutions afternoon afterwards animal applied arm-pits attack bandage round blanket blood body bandage bowels cause changed chest child cholera clysters cold bath cold water complaint constipation cough covered cure diarrhoea disease douche drink plentifully dropsy drugs dysentery effect enemas eruption feet fever fifteen minutes five minutes followed by tepid foot foot-bath Freiwaldau frequently friction gout half an hour head head-ache head-bath heat horse Hydropathy inflammation John Floyer knee lady large bandage legs Lumbago months morning night noon ordered packing-sheet and tepid pain patient perspiration Priessnitz produced relieved repeated resorted rheumatism ringworms round the waist rubbing sheet rubbing-sheet and sitz-bath Sciatica scrofula sitz skin stomach suffered sweating process symptoms tepid bath tepid sitz-bath tepid water three rubbing-sheets throat treated treatment twenty minutes twice a day VINCENT PRIESSNITZ waist bandage walk warm washing Water-cure wet bandage wet hands wet sheet whilst
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Page 26 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 42 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Page 23 - ... tube, with its appended gland, is calculated to awaken in the mind very little idea of the importance of the system to which it belongs; but when the vast number of similar organs composing this system are considered...
Page 27 - ... close to my companion's side, when a frightful face appeared behind some immense bars, and a hoarse voice exclaimed, ' I am not mad ! I am not mad ! I have made a discovery which would enrich the country that adopted it.
Page 71 - Our clothing is merely an equivalent for a certain amount of food. The more warmly we are clothed, the less urgent becomes the appetite for food, because the loss of heat by cooling, and consequently the amount of heat to be supplied by the food, is diminished.
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Page 71 - The Englishman in Jamaica sees with regret the disappearance of his appetite, previously a source of frequently recurring enjoyment ; and he succeeds by the use of cayenne pepper and the most powerful stimulants, in enabling himself to take as much food as he was accustomed to eat at home. But the whole of the carbon thus introduced into the...
Page 71 - The cooling of the body, by whatever cause it may be produced, increases the amount of food necessary. The mere exposure to the open air, in a carriage or on the deck of a ship, by increasing radiation and vaporization, increases the loss of heat, and compels us to eat more than usual.
Page 71 - ... increases the loss of heat, and compels us to eat more than usual. The same is true of those who are accustomed to drink large quantities of cold water, which is given off at the temperature of the body, 98-5°.
Page 71 - If we were to go naked, like certain savage tribes, or if in hunting or fishing we were exposed to the same degree of cold as the Samoyedes, we should be able with ease to consume 10 Ibs. of flesh, and perhaps a dozen of tallow candles into the bargain, daily, as warmly clad travellers have related with astonishment of these people.