The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . two assis-tants (Fig. 43). With the greatest gentleness and least fuss, he is low-ered into the water. He gasps and shudders a moment, or perhaps criesout. But gentle reassurance by word and deed, a calm demeanor, devoidof haste, and the absence of all actual force or argument to resist hisnatural desire to escape from the seemingly heroic treatment, rarely THE PULL BATH. 137 fail to quiet his apprehensions. Friends or relatives must be advisedto leave the r
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . two assis-tants (Fig. 43). With the greatest gentleness and least fuss, he is low-ered into the water. He gasps and shudders a moment, or perhaps criesout. But gentle reassurance by word and deed, a calm demeanor, devoidof haste, and the absence of all actual force or argument to resist hisnatural desire to escape from the seemingly heroic treatment, rarely THE PULL BATH. 137 fail to quiet his apprehensions. Friends or relatives must be advisedto leave the room, as their presence would increase the anxiety of thepatient, and render him more resisting to injudicious and unavailingexplanations. If an air cushion has been suspended at the head ofthe tub, it will afford a good resting-place for the patients head;a large water-cushion ring makes a comfortable support for his the absence of a support for the head the nurse will hold it up withthe left hand, while with the right gentle friction or chafing will bepractised over successive parts of the body (Fig. 44). This may be done. Fig. 44. —Friction in Cold Full Bath. perfectly by an assistant, who in private practice may be a member ofthe family or a friend. Care should be taken that every part of the body(except the lower part of the abdomen) receives the benefit of thesefrictions, which are regarded as of supreme importance by the originatorof this method, in preventing chilling, collapse, cyanosis, and heartfailure. The effect of this continuous gentle chafing is a suffused red-ness, which is in marked contrast to the previous pallor of the surface,and demonstrates that the calibre of the superficial vessels is being con-siderably enlarged. As friction is executed upon successive parts ofthe body, we really manage to maintain a constant contraction and dila-tation of the peripheral vessels, the former being accomplished by thecontact with the cold water in motion, the l
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