. 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 . werful applications, it should be takenonly after digestion is nearly or quite gone through with. As a tonic to the stomach, liver, bowels, womb, spine, etc., this bathis highly useful. In constipation and other irregularities, it is of sedentary habits will find its use of rare service. For thetonic effect, it is taken ten to twenty or twenty-five minutes or it is continued some
. 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 . werful applications, it should be takenonly after digestion is nearly or quite gone through with. As a tonic to the stomach, liver, bowels, womb, spine, etc., this bathis highly useful. In constipation and other irregularities, it is of sedentary habits will find its use of rare service. For thetonic effect, it is taken ten to twenty or twenty-five minutes or it is continued some length of time, the water is to be changed onceor more, as it would otherwise become too warm. (See fig. 242.) Washtub-bath. Under a great variety of circum-stances, what may be called the washtub-bath, is an invaluableresort. For example, a patient isfeverish ; by sitting him in a wash-tub half filled with water, and atthe same time if we choose, havinghis feet in a pail of water, cold orwarm, according to the case, wecan give him any desirable amountof cooling. We can not, indeed, toohighly prize this simple contrivancefor using water—a means whichevery family possesses. 32* Fig. WASH-TUB BATH. 754 Processus of Water-Cube. The Affusion. The patient stands in a wash-tub, bathing-tub or other convenientplace, when by means of a pail, pitcher, or basin, the assistant pourswater upon the head, neck, etc., either upon the whole of the body oronly upon a part. The water is used in quantity and temperatureaccording to the necessities of the case. The affusion is one of thobest of hydropathic modes. Fifty years ago, Dr. Cu*rie, of England, performed great cures infever by the affusion, sometimes tepid, at others cold, according to thestrength and heat of the patient. If there was great heat the waterwas used cold; if not, the reverse. In a variety of febrile diseases,such as typhus fever, scarlet fever, small-pox, measles, tetanus, con-vulsions, etc., he used this remedy with
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