The mineral wells of Wiesbaden and their sanative efficacy : described and illustrated by experimental evidence / by A.H. Peez.

  • Peez, August Heinrich, 1785-1847.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The mineral wells of Wiesbaden and their sanative efficacy : described and illustrated by experimental evidence / by A.H. Peez. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    tliey afford relief in cases not, indeed, accom- panied by fevers, though still attended with some local gouty or rheumatic pain, f. i. above the knee, verging to an inflammatory state. In the former case the fever and the pain in the articulations would immediately encrease, — and in the latter, the inflammatory local suffering become more painful, and even unite with a general fever. Patients of this descrip- tion require to be previously fitted for the suc- cessful use of thermal waters by a pharmaceu- tical treatment. 2. It might be supposed that rheumatic affections of particular limbs, apparently of no alarming nature (frequently attended with but slight swellings of the latter) would soon be removed by the use of a thermal water that, frequently in a short time, gets the better even of contractures owing to gout. The reverse, however, frequently takes place. Rheumatic pains in the articulations of the shoulders and knees, in particular, often require 30 and more baths, assisted by the simultaneous application of steam- and douche-baths. Recent rheumatic pains, however, are frequently removed by a few baths. 3. It cannot be denied that the mineral water of Wiesbaden is more efficacious than all other thermal springs in the cure of long- standing sufferings of the above kind. The great number of patients that annually are cur-