The Bath Waters - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and other circumstances which forbid their employment, in order that the medical attendant may judge whether the patient whom he may wish to use the Bath Waters is likely to derive benefit. There a/re eight circumstances which espeeially render the use of the Bath Waters improper. 1st. Epilepsy.?In no case where well marked epileptic fits have occurred should they be employed, because their use will cause a return. 2nd. Recent Apoplexy or Paralysis.?Where proof of recent determination of blood to the brain exists, their employment is forbidden. 3rd. Phthisis and Scrofula.?Because their employment would produce active symptoms. It might be inferred that Chronic Bronchitis would have the same prejudicial effect, but I constantly see many Asthmatics who use the waters with benefit, when due caution is observed in their administration. 4. Disease of the heart.?In cases of rheumatism, where the acute form of the disease has involved the heart or its investing membrane, and disturbed cardiac action accompanies the chronic stage, the use of the Bath waters should under no circumstance be advised, and in cerebral palsies, where the circulation is affected, the use of the Bath waters is contramdicated. 5. Acute diseases are not only not benefited, but increased in intensity by their employment. 6. Chronic Abscess or Ulceration.?This applies to diseases of the joints, which are not benefitted if suppuration or ulceration exists, neither are skin diseases, if large abrasions or ulcerations constitute a prominent symptom. 7. Paralysis of the Sphyncter Muscles.?Where this symptom is of daily occurrence I never see the Bath waters useful 8. Haemorrhages, whether active or passive, forbid the employment of the Bath waters. Attention to these disqualifying circumstan...