Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . on genei-ally from cold, and same time; afterwards rub over tbe trunk warmth only will bring vitality to the parts, and legs with tepid wrung-out towel: then and remove the congestion. After the se- well wrap thighs and legs with new flaunel verity of the attack is over, these hot appli- strips, and, if to be had, sciatica leg-cases cations will not be suitable, as they would over (see page 96 )• If a band of damped relax too much,spongio kept on seat all the better—109 SKIN DISEASES.—I have had
Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . on genei-ally from cold, and same time; afterwards rub over tbe trunk warmth only will bring vitality to the parts, and legs with tepid wrung-out towel: then and remove the congestion. After the se- well wrap thighs and legs with new flaunel verity of the attack is over, these hot appli- strips, and, if to be had, sciatica leg-cases cations will not be suitable, as they would over (see page 96 )• If a band of damped relax too much,spongio kept on seat all the better—109 SKIN DISEASES.—I have had some desperate cases of this do not admit any into my establishment, nor allow them to useany of my baths; but they can be treated in lodgings wholly. Wehad a gentleman with a frightful skin disease in the head, the hairfull of scales and scurf, and partially over the face; he had tried ahundred nostrums without relief, and was almost maddened at hisstate, as he could not go into society, the scurf flying off his headand face on to anything near him. I had no doubt of his recovery. Skin Disease.—We have had many cases of long standing, and in everycase where the patient would give the necessary time, and conform to the rulesof treatment, they have been radically cured. Several cases have been from tento twenty years affected. Persons going to a medical man for such a complaintare told of such a variety of skin diseases that they are as much puzzled as thedoctor what to think of the matter. The fact is that, for want of circulation ofnutritive blood in the skin, the parts become dead, dry, and scale off; or fromstoppage of the capillary circulation, the blood in the tine arterial veins, calledcapillaries, becomes venous, then morbid, causing sores and sloughing. Actingon this theory, we have invariably seen the most obstinate cases, described byvarious scientific terms, thoroughly cured. The leading points we look to forcure are treatment to raise the general hea
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