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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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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    Dose, Sufferers from gout and rheumatism must not be disappointed if after a few baths they seem worse. This symptom is due to the waters “ bringing out ” the disease, and is looked upon as one of the best results which can follow a trial of the waters, and is often the forerunner of relief and cure. Caution should, how- ever, be exercised lest the stimulating properties of the waters should push matters too far, and convert a chronic state of disease into an acute one. After a few more baths a marked improvement will, in most cases, take place and continue during the remainder of the course. Drinking the Waters. Along with the baths it is customary to order patients to drink the waters. That this is beneficial is proved by the fact that many, who for special reasons cannot bathe, derive great benefit by drinking alone. When fresh drawn, the water is clear, colourless and sparkling, without odour, and with a slightly saline chalybeate taste, in no wise unpleasant, and after a time relished, and even craved for by invalids with whom it agrees. The quantity to be drunk daily should be divided into two portions, one to be taken early in the day, before breakfast if possible, and the other an hour before luncheon, or early in the afternoon. On the amount taken will