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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    Dr. Robertson, writing on the Buxton Waters, gives the following caution, which applies with equal truth to the Bath Waters :— “The character of these Mineral Waters, their peculiar and great effect on the system when used either externally or internally, the modification of their effects according to the quantity that is drunk, the temperature at which the baths are used, the frequency with which the baths are used, and the period of the immersion, should be carefully studied, in order to the judicious and prudent use of so valuable a medicinal agent. It is only by such discriminating attention that these waters can be made to act beneficially upon different ailments in different stages of these ailments, and in the infinitely modified states of the system induced by the hereditary or acquired circumstances and conditions of life. The use of these waters disadvantageously is a direct reflected injury to the medical man who may have suggested their employment, and to the reputation of the waters, as well as a manifest (however unintentional) wrong to the patient. The essentially stimulating, and the no less essentially alterative character of the waters, must be known and ever borne in mind, if they are to be prescribed other- wise than empirically, and the necessity of using them with discretion and care must be enforced accordingly, if they are to be made as useful as possible. This D