Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr.

  • Kerr, John George Douglas.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    the temperature and force of which are under the easy control of the attendants acting under medical orders. In each are a simple wooden stool and bench, some have two attendants, others only one. The patient having undressed, enters the douching room, and the doucheurs, one in front and one behind, play jets of water over the body, at the same time moving the joints to their utmost extent, kneading and shampooing the different parts and conducting a general system of massage. A tepid or cold shower for a finish, and the patient is well packed in warm sheets and blankets and sent home in a carrying chair and put to bed for a quarter to half-an-hour; still thoroughly packed. This sending of patients home after the bath is necessary as the establishment does not boast of any cooling ■ rooms—a great disadvantage. The bath occupies from five to twenty minutes, and, as one bather quickly follows another, they get through, on an average, four patients an hour to each bath-room. Besides these massage rooms there are several other very useful forms of baths, and I would specially draw attention to the following as being very desirable. 1. —The Douche en Cercle, or Circular Spray, composed of tiers of pipes forming two-thirds of a circle, perforated with minute holes and emitting very fine jets of water, the temperature of the spray being under easy control of the bath attendant. 2. —Steam bath, which is a simple box large enough for the patient to sit down comfortably in, and with a moveable lid, so constructed as to encircle the neck, leaving the head