Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet.

  • Gifford-Bennet, Robert Ottiwell.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet. 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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    8 CHAPTER III. THE BATHS AND MODE OF APPLICATION. PAGE Kinds of Baths—Natural and Hot—Action of Thermal Water upon the Skin—Natural Baths—Swimming and Plunge for Males and Females—Necessity of Caution in their Use—Importance of Time and Frequency in Taking the Baths—Directions During and After Bath- ing—Most Favourable Time for Taking Warm or Hot Baths—Directions for the Use of Half, Three-quarters, and Full Baths—Drowsiness after Bathing—Massage, When and How Used—When Baths Inadmiasibje— Hours for Drinking the Medicinal Waters—Diseases in which the Thermal Water should Not be Drunk 31 CHAPTER IV. DISEASES IN WHICH THE WATERS ARE USEFUL. Acute Gout and Rheumatism—Chronic Gout and Rheu- matism—Chorea—Many Forms of Paralysis—Muscular Atrophy consequent upon the Gouty Diathesis—Loco Motor Ataxia—Syphilis—Local Injuries—Neuralgia— Sciatica, Lumbago, &c.—Number of Baths Constituting a Course—Length of Residence Required—Action of Water upon Acute and Chronic Diseases—Extract from