. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . HOSK. to arrange what is called a hose-bath. It is in principle a douche,with the additional advantage that it can be made to aet upon any partof the body, and from whatever direction we choose. Rightly applied,the hose is a aluable mean?. (See fig. 236.) 750 Processes of Wateb-Curb. Pail Douche. The process Dr. Edward Johnson has designated by this name, istaken thus: The patient seats hims
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . HOSK. to arrange what is called a hose-bath. It is in principle a douche,with the additional advantage that it can be made to aet upon any partof the body, and from whatever direction we choose. Rightly applied,the hose is a aluable mean?. (See fig. 236.) 750 Processes of Wateb-Curb. Pail Douche. The process Dr. Edward Johnson has designated by this name, istaken thus: The patient seats himself in an empty, shallow, or otherbathing tub, and crosses Lis hands over his chest. As many pails ofwater as are ordered are then dashed over him suddenly, one after theother, and one before and one behind—not poured, but thrown with someforce, by first a backward and then a forward motion of the pail; halfthe number of pails being then emptied on the back of his foldedhands, and half between the shoulders behind. This bath varies ineffect according to the temperature of the water and the amount a number of pails are used, and the water cold, it, in effect, verynearly resembles
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