Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . quently awakened when currents of largequantity are employed. It has always been the authorscustom to administer a very hot vaginal douche just beforeand just after the electrical treatment. A very hot sitz,115° to 120°, for 3 to 5 minutes, followed immediately bya dash of cold water over the hips, prevents pain and hemor-rhage. 1455 In applications for the relief of headache due to cerebralcongestion, in which the cold appl
Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . quently awakened when currents of largequantity are employed. It has always been the authorscustom to administer a very hot vaginal douche just beforeand just after the electrical treatment. A very hot sitz,115° to 120°, for 3 to 5 minutes, followed immediately bya dash of cold water over the hips, prevents pain and hemor-rhage. 1455 In applications for the relief of headache due to cerebralcongestion, in which the cold applications do not producefavorable results, applications of galvanism may be made tothe head in the usual manner in connection with very hotapplications to the cervical region. Excellent and almostimmediate results may thus be frequently obtained in caseswhich are rebellious to other measures. 1456 Dana, in his masterly work, The Clinical Study of Neu-ralgias, fixes the location of a considerable number of areaswhich are the seat of transferred pain in neuralgias, andwhich have by clinical observation been definitely associatedwith internal pathological Fig. 241. ELECTROHYDRIC BATH (p. 946).
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