Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . y to day. The physiological effectsof the procedure are thus confined almost exclusively to thecirculatory system, and if not wholly mechanical, are certainlyto a large extent due to the storing of blood in the skin andthe drawing of blood from internal parts. The revulsive douche unquestionably quickens the move-ment of blood throughout the whole body when employedeither as a general procedure or through associated partswhe
Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . y to day. The physiological effectsof the procedure are thus confined almost exclusively to thecirculatory system, and if not wholly mechanical, are certainlyto a large extent due to the storing of blood in the skin andthe drawing of blood from internal parts. The revulsive douche unquestionably quickens the move-ment of blood throughout the whole body when employedeither as a general procedure or through associated partswhen the application is confined to reflex cutaneous areas. The revulsive douche differs radically from the alternatedouche, in that the latter is especially potent as a means ofquickening metabolic and other vital activities; whereas therevulsive douche, by eliminating thermic reaction, has noeffect upon metabolic processes other than such modificationsas result from circulatory changes. 1043 Therapeutic Applications. — The general effect of therevulsive douche is precisely the same as that of the Scotchdouche, except that it is less exciting to the general nervous. Fig. 38. COMBINED RAIN DOUCHE, HORIZONTAL JET, ANDMULTIPLE CIRCLE DOUCHE (p. 473)- THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 469 system, and is not to so great an extent productive of meta-bolic changes, owing to the absence of thermic reaction. Theatonic reaction of heat, as well as the tonic reaction of cold,are both prevented by the antidotal influence above effect is practically nothing more than a dilatation of thesurface vessels exercising a derivative effect upon the deeperstructures of the body, but without producing the preliminarycongestion of the internal structures which precedes the reac-tion when the cold douche alone is employed. This rendersthe revulsive Scotch douche an exceedingly valuable measurefor use in cases of cardiac insufficiency, cerebral hyperemia,chronic gastritis, cJironic gastro-int
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