General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Fig. ,!!l|!li!;iii!lS^ i;!.;i;:i:Mlr;liiii1i!!V,i;:i:M,1;i;i!.l 1 •ji.! il J i Shower-bath for children. 216 SPECIAL REFRIGERANTS. ployed in febrile case is simple ablution, and the warm pediluvium orfoot-bath. It might seem that, in these very cases, a more powerfulrefrigerant influence would be exerted by the cold pediluvium; and, asregards the mere abstraction of caloric, this would, doubtless, be thecase; but the shock or impression made upon the nervous system is sopowerful, when we first immerse o
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . Fig. ,!!l|!li!;iii!lS^ i;!.;i;:i:Mlr;liiii1i!!V,i;:i:M,1;i;i!.l 1 •ji.! il J i Shower-bath for children. 216 SPECIAL REFRIGERANTS. ployed in febrile case is simple ablution, and the warm pediluvium orfoot-bath. It might seem that, in these very cases, a more powerfulrefrigerant influence would be exerted by the cold pediluvium; and, asregards the mere abstraction of caloric, this would, doubtless, be thecase; but the shock or impression made upon the nervous system is sopowerful, when we first immerse our feet in a cold fluid, that the coldpediluvium becomes liable to the same objections as the cold affusionor the cold douche, when employed with simple refrigerant views. Onthe other hand, the warm pediluvium is devoid of those objections;whilst the ultimate refrigerant effects are scarcely perhaps less. After the remarks already made, it is unnecessary to dwell on thetopical use of cold applied to the surface of the body. It is the abstrac-tion of caloric, which is the main agency; and t
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