The uses of water in modern medicine / By Simon Baruch.

  • Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921.
Date:
1893
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    scrofula: A series of cases are on record in which complete and perfect cures have been obtained by these means, after all other methods of treatment had been applied in vain. Dujardin-Beaumetz said in his lectures at l'Hopital Cochin in 1887: The benefits we obtain from cold water in the cure of disease arise from its physiological effect upon the circulation, the nervous system, the nutrition, and from its revulsive and heat- lowering influence. Prof. M. Peter, of the Paris School of Medicine, in his preface to the magnificent clinical work on hydrotherapy of Duval, published by Bailliere, says: Hydrotherapy suffices in most cases of disease; added to other treatment, it is a most powerful auxiliary. Can any one speak better or say more of it ? he asks. In his classical contribution to V. Ziemssen's cyclopedia, Prof. Erb offers this testimony: To the most important and most active agents in the therapeutics of our field (nervous diseases) belong cool and cold baths, viz., the application of cold water in the most varied forms—that which is usually termed ' cold water treatment.' Having been in re- cent times practiced more rationally and studied more exactly, it has attained remarkable prominence. Its results in all possible forms of chronic nervous diseases are extraordinarily favorable. If we add to this the heightened skin and muscular action induced by