Hydropathy Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... nished, when, after some minutes a discharge of wind greatly relieved the pains of the stomach. On leaving the bath he went to bed, prior to which a heating bandage was placed on the stomach, and slept until the following day. This was the first time of sleeping since the commencement of the disease. He was completely cured, and returned home quite well. To dissipate all doubts which might be raised on the nature of this disease, I shall add the recital of the invalid on his arrival at Graefenberg. "The cholera," said he, "ravaged the village which I inhabited. The inhabitants were terrified, and refused to assist the sick; they had also suspended all labour, expecting to die. Thinking it was my duty to set them an example, I visited all the sick, and touched those who were timid, to give them courage. This conduct produced the effect I had expected, but it gave me the cholera, for which I was immediately treated by a doctor of. the village, but without finding any relief; from thence to Vienna, without any better success. Graefenberg was my last resource; I went, and there regained my health." Dysentery. Colds, and the abuse of unripe fruit, are the principal causes of this disease. It is composed of frequent evacuations of bloody glaires, accompanied with violent pains of the stomach, a burning at the anus, and spasms of the bladder; in other words, a constant desire to evacuate, without being able to render anything but glaires. The treatment is the same as that of diarrhoea. Obstruction of Articulations. I witnessed three of these cases whilst at Graefenberg. The first patient was a young man seventeen years of age, who was soon cured. The two others, one twenty-five, the other twenty-eight years of age, remained at Graefenberg from...