The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . ulation of the lymph stream. Just as the external application of water upon the body influencesthe latter by reason of its temperature and pressure, so does the inter-nal use of water furnish similar physiological action upon the circula-tion, respiration, digestion, temperature, tissue change, and secretion,but in a much less degree. Glax* has furnished a resume of the most recent investigations onthis subject. The pulse is affected according to the tempera
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . ulation of the lymph stream. Just as the external application of water upon the body influencesthe latter by reason of its temperature and pressure, so does the inter-nal use of water furnish similar physiological action upon the circula-tion, respiration, digestion, temperature, tissue change, and secretion,but in a much less degree. Glax* has furnished a resume of the most recent investigations onthis subject. The pulse is affected according to the temperature of the watertaken, cold water reducing the frequency by from six to thirty has seen a reduction from 80 to 49 beats from the drinking of1,250 (45 oz.) at 6° C. (43° F.) in five doses of 250 (9 oz.)within thirty minutes. Warm water increases the pulse by from ten to sixteen beats. Thecharacter of the pulse is also affected by the drinking of large quan-tities of water. Glax and Klemensiewicz furnish sphygmographicpictures of this change, taken from the brachial artery, together withthe respiration curves:. FlG. 63.—Before drinking 2,500 water at 6° C. (° F.). •Lehvbuch der Balneotherapie, 1897. 262 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY.
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