The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . ns and often has a marked effect in therelief of insomnia. The Nauheim Bath finds its special indicationin the treatment of diseases of the heart and in ar-teriosclerosis. It relieves nervous tension and willreduce blood pressure. It is usually given attemperatures ranging from 88 to 96. There is aspecially devised tank for the introduction of exactquantities of carbonic acid gas. Electric Light, dry hot air and steam cabinets,sometimes in conjunction with packs, are largelyemployed in
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . ns and often has a marked effect in therelief of insomnia. The Nauheim Bath finds its special indicationin the treatment of diseases of the heart and in ar-teriosclerosis. It relieves nervous tension and willreduce blood pressure. It is usually given attemperatures ranging from 88 to 96. There is aspecially devised tank for the introduction of exactquantities of carbonic acid gas. Electric Light, dry hot air and steam cabinets,sometimes in conjunction with packs, are largelyemployed in reduction cures, and a bath consistingof a short stay in an electric cabinet, or in the sul-phur water, followed by a Scotch Douche and mas-sage, has a most excellent tonic effect even in verydebilitated subjects. In addition to these, there are Turkish and Rus-sian Baths, vapor rooms, full electric, Schnee four-cell baths, and the most modern type of controltables for the administration of the various formsof douches and cold water treatments. There isalso a special room for the internal administration. t. Climate, Waters and Baths 79 of the waters by means of irrigation, another forlocal hot air treatments and massage rooms. Hydrotherapy has for its guiding principlesquestions of temperature, duration, and from variations in efifect due to these influ-ences, there are important differences, also, be-tween the effects of mineral water baths and thosein plain water, this difference being due not onlyto the presence of salts, but to the action of car-bonic acid, radium emanations and other gases. Similar results may often be obtained frommeasures differing considerably in their technique,yet embodying like principles. With the exception of a few simple forms ofbaths of ordinary temperature and short duration,all baths are given on a physicians same rule applies to the administration ofmassage, packs, douches, and accessory Bath is
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