The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . Normal. After Ten Minutes After Douche. Massage. Fig. 51.—Fatigue Curve before and after Cold Douche. 214 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. sates for the loss of muscular capacity arising from warm-water ap-plications. Thus far the experiments have shown only the enhance-ment of muscular capacity. The effect of the douche upon muscles. Fig. 53.—Fatigue Curve of the Left Hand after a Rain Douche (Shower Bath), 50 F.,under pressure of two atmosphere
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . Normal. After Ten Minutes After Douche. Massage. Fig. 51.—Fatigue Curve before and after Cold Douche. 214 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. sates for the loss of muscular capacity arising from warm-water ap-plications. Thus far the experiments have shown only the enhance-ment of muscular capacity. The effect of the douche upon muscles. Fig. 53.—Fatigue Curve of the Left Hand after a Rain Douche (Shower Bath), 50 F.,under pressure of two atmospheres. already fatigued has also been investigated by Vinay and Maggiorain a later work.* In this series of observations the individuals nor-mal curve was first taken. He was then subjected for five or tenminutes to severe muscular exertion, after which the fatigue curvewas again registered. Now a douche was administered and the curve was again effective a colddouche is for thepurpose of counter-acting fatigue iswell shown by thesubjoined diagrams(Figs. 51, 52, 53). All these experi-ments demonstrateclearly the rationaleof the douche inthat the pressureunder which it isdelivered adds apowerful element which is absent in most other hydriatric diagrams Figs. 49 and 50 show the inefficiency of the warmbath as a restorative, and the value of the douche for this purpose.* Blatter fur klinische Hydrotherapie, June, 1893.
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