The Principles And Practice Of Hydrotherapy A Guide To The Application Of Water In Disease For Students And Practitioners Of Medicine

Author : Simon Baruch
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ISBN 13 : 9781330841358
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy written by Simon Baruch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy: A Guide to the Application of Water in Disease, for Students and Practitioners of Medicine The necessity for a special work on hydrotherapy still appears to be urgent, if the attention this subject receives in the average text-book be accepted as a criterion. One of the latest of these works on therapeutics says in its thirteenth edition: "The object of the bath is the reduction of the temperature, and unless this is effected no good results." And this false teaching emanates from a work which the majority of students use as a text-book and whose value in other respects is attested by its popularity. The author will complete in eighteen months a half-century spent in the study and practice of medicine. During the first half of this period he was uninformed on hydrotherapy; during the latter half he has endeavored to study and utilize water as a remedial agent. He has therefore subjected water to the crucial test of a control experiment. And he may conscientiously say that the comfort and satisfaction which the addition of this agent to his therapeutic resources has afforded him in the amelioration of suffering and saving of lives warrant him to devote the remaining years of his life to the effort of diffusing a better acquaintance with this neglected therapeutic weapon among his colleagues. When an eminent clinical teacher like Semmola, whose lectures on therapeutics were translated into German under the supervision of and with a preface by Nothnagel, writes of hydrotherapy "frequently real marvels of restoration in severe and desperate cases have been obtained by it," and this opinion has been echoed by Kussmaul in Germany, Charcot in France, and our own Draper and others of, equal credibility in their respective countries, who were not specialists in this branch, it becomes the duty of every conscientious physician to investigate and utilize it. To facilitate the latter this work has been written from the standpoint of the family and hospital physician. Each edition has been carefully revised, that which has been disproved has been eliminated, and all modern ideas have been incorporated. It has been the aim of the author to continue in the third edition the attitude ascribed to him by a reviewer of the German translation in the Berliner klinische Wonhenschrift, viz., as "the true friend at the bedside of the sick and suffering - a friend from whom one may draw counsel on all difficult questions of practice, with the assurance that only that which has been proven, sedulously examined, and critically sifted will be received for the benefit of the sick." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.