An epitome of hydrotherapy for physicians, architects and nurses . Fig. 4.—Drip sheet—third stage. (Presbyterian Hospital) I entire trunk and thighs having been thus treated the re-maining water is poured over back and shoulders. Now thepatient is unwrapped, steps out of the tub, is dried quickly,and sent out of doors. When a hydrotherapeutic instal- 52 AN EPITOME OF HYDROTHERAPY ment is inaccessible, the drip sheet may fulfil all the indi-cations of the douche. This is the authors warrant for. Fig. 5.—Drip sheet—final friction. (Presbyterian Hospital.) the full illustrations, taken from a lec
An epitome of hydrotherapy for physicians, architects and nurses . Fig. 4.—Drip sheet—third stage. (Presbyterian Hospital) I entire trunk and thighs having been thus treated the re-maining water is poured over back and shoulders. Now thepatient is unwrapped, steps out of the tub, is dried quickly,and sent out of doors. When a hydrotherapeutic instal- 52 AN EPITOME OF HYDROTHERAPY ment is inaccessible, the drip sheet may fulfil all the indi-cations of the douche. This is the authors warrant for. Fig. 5.—Drip sheet—final friction. (Presbyterian Hospital.) the full illustrations, taken from a lecture at the Presby-terian Hospital, whose photographer made them. THE TECHNIC OF HYDROTHERAPY 53 Among the chronic ailments to which the drip sheet isapplicable, especially as a substitute for the douche, areneurasthenia of the depressed type, hysteria, and neuritisin anemic individuals. This procedure has been in use formany years by the hydropaths for the following reasons: The flexibility and simplicity of the method especiallycommend it. It is probably the most flexible hydriaticmeasure known. By wringing the sheet well out, or inusing a coarser sheet or a lower temperature, or for a shorttime, or by slapping with, instead of simply passing thehand over the wet sheet, the local excitation of the cutane-ous nerves and vessels will be enhanced. By saturatingit with more water the antithermic effect is increased,which may be still more intensified by more prolongedapplication and f
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