Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . 10 min.) relieves nervousness and other symptomsof excitation. Vertigo and fainting are symptoms likely to occur in con-nection with hot applications when too greatly prolonged, butare quickly relieved by cold applications, especially cold affu-sion to the chest and shoulders. Their recurrence indicatesthe necessity for a change in the prescription by lowering thetemperature or by increasing the pressure of the Slee


Rational hydrotherapy : a manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease . 10 min.) relieves nervousness and other symptomsof excitation. Vertigo and fainting are symptoms likely to occur in con-nection with hot applications when too greatly prolonged, butare quickly relieved by cold applications, especially cold affu-sion to the chest and shoulders. Their recurrence indicatesthe necessity for a change in the prescription by lowering thetemperature or by increasing the pressure of the Sleeplessness may result from excessive stimulation by intense cold procedures or by the excitement arising fromheating processes. When these procedures are necessary inpersons subject to sleeplessness, they should be administeredin the early part of the day instead of the evening, and ifnecessary, the neutral bath may be employed at bed-time tocounteract any excitation which may remain from the treat-ment in the early part of the day. If the difficulty is notthus controlled, the exciting measures may be suspended for T^ ac=3i •--^j-jjSLi^r-^lflWi^ ^ T^-^^mSil-- ?. Fig. 31. GENERAL DOUCHE APPARATUS (p. 427). (Kellogg) TO RAIN DOUCHE TO CIRCLE DOUCHE ^=,


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