The German nature-cure, and how to practise it . ts, smaller ones can beworn all day. 46 THE GERMAN NATURE-CURE. Temperature of water 55 to 74 to 86 deg. Duration halfan hour to two hours and a half, or all night. This pack can be used either in the stimulating, or sooth-ing form. It is an excellent remedy in all headand neck complaints, in diphtheria, heart,lung, stomach, bowel and kidney com-plaints, piles, cramps, childrens diarrhoea,and feverish illnesses such as measles,scarlet fever, inflammation of the lungs,etc. In the slightest ailment I advise astomach pack; in most cases the ailment
The German nature-cure, and how to practise it . ts, smaller ones can beworn all day. 46 THE GERMAN NATURE-CURE. Temperature of water 55 to 74 to 86 deg. Duration halfan hour to two hours and a half, or all night. This pack can be used either in the stimulating, or sooth-ing form. It is an excellent remedy in all headand neck complaints, in diphtheria, heart,lung, stomach, bowel and kidney com-plaints, piles, cramps, childrens diarrhoea,and feverish illnesses such as measles,scarlet fever, inflammation of the lungs,etc. In the slightest ailment I advise astomach pack; in most cases the ailmentwill disappear through its use. In digest-tive difficulties, gas in the stomach, andpain in the abdomen, there is no betterremedy. It is successfully employed inall female complaints. [Dr. Disque.) As a preventive remedy against everysort of illness, relatively healthy people can, with greatadvantage, use a stimulating waist pack two or three timesweekly. If used at night it should be taken off in the bed,and the parts rubbed dry with the Fig. 12 CROSS PACK, This can be combined with the body or waist pack, and isuseful in all sexual complaints. A wet piece of linen or a towelis folded two or more times, passed between the legs andsecured by the upper pack. If it is wished to change a chronic state into an acute, thecross pack must be stimulating ; if to remove a state of inflam-mation and cause contraction, it must be soothing. In thelatter case, it must be often renewed. The former can be kepton all night. A mild, effectual, and perfectly harmlesssubstitute for surgical operations. LEG, ARM, FEET, AND HAND PACKS. Leg packs are either long or short, the former extendingfrom the ankles to the middle of the thigh, the latter only to PACKS. 47 the knees. They are apphed hke other packs, but the wetcloths must only be single. In the short leg packs, cottonstockings without feet, covered by woollen ones, do very feet packs, strips of linen or cotton socks, also cove
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