Every Man His Own Doctor / The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and Cattle
AS APPLICABLE TO EVERY DISEASE TO WHICH THE HUMAN FRAME IS SUBJECT. AND ALSO TO
BY CAPTAIN R. T. CLARIDGE.
AUTHOR OF THE “GUIDE ALONG THE DANUBE TO TURKEY AND GREECE;” “HYDROPATHY, OR THE COLD WATER CURE,” ETC. ETC.
LONDON: JAMES MADDEN, PUBLISHER, 8, LEADENHALL STREET.
M.DCCC.XLIX.
LONDON: PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO., CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.
It is difficult to account for the fact that Hydropathy was practised at Gräfenberg, and at many other establishments in Germany, and that books on that subject were published in that country, twenty years before it was known in England.
Most works treat upon some familiar subject, and are supported or opposed; but my book on the Water-cure, from its great novelty, placed me in almost as isolated a position at the time, as the publication of Bruce’s Travels did their author.
A gentleman who had been at an establishment in Germany, and who afterwards wrote in favour of the cure, on seeing the review of my work in the Times, addressed me a letter wishing me every success, and saying “that I had put my hand into a hornet’s nest: that I had that day made a hundred thousand enemies.”
These fears, I am happy to say, have not been realised: at least, as far as I know. The leading papers reviewed my work favourably; my lectures in England, Ireland, and Scotland, met with serious attention; and baths and wash-houses resulted from a lecture I gave in Edinburgh.
I have found numbers of persons willing to give the system a trial; but unfortunately, few could spare time to go to Gräfenberg, where it is carried out with safety and success by the immortal Priessnitz.
R. T. Claridge
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PREFACE.
ERRATA.
HYDROPATHY,
I.—Vincent Priessnitz.
II.—Hydropathy.
III.—What Does Hydropathic Treatment Effect?
IV.—How are the Effects described in the last Chapter produced?
V.—Is Hydropathy a Panacea? and what Complaints are curable by it?
VI.—Is Hydropathy new? Why is it not generally adopted?
VII.—The Lancet.
VIII.—Authorities in Support of Water as a Curative Agent.
IX.—Ablutions.
X.—Use of Cold Water for Drinking and Injections.
XI.—The Cold Bath.
XII.—Is going into the Cold Bath in a State of Perspiration attended with Danger?
XIII.—The Packing Sheet, and Sweating Process.
XIV.—Sweating Process.
XV.—The Rubbing Sheet, or Abreibung.
XVI.—The Douche Bath.
XVII.—The Shower Baths.
XVIII.—The Sitz or Sitting Bath.
XIX.—Eye Bath.
XX.—Head Bath.
XXI.—Finger and Elbow Baths.
XXII.—Leg Bath.
XXIII.—Foot Bath.
XXIV.—The Tepid, or Abgeschrecte Bath.
XXV.—Bandages, or Umschlags.
XXVI.—Diet.
XXVII.—Clothing, Air Baths, Wearing Stays, etc.
XXVIII.—Drugs.
XXIX.—Assimilation.
XXX.—The Crisis.
XXXI.—Dropsy.
XXXII.—Smoking.
XXXIII.—Questions put to Mr. Priessnitz, and his Answers.
TREATMENT AND CASES.
XXXIV.—Gout.
XXXV.—Rheumatism, etc.
XXXVI.—Tic-Doloureux.
XXXVII.—Affection of the Throat and Pain at the Chest.
XXXVIII.—Fevers.
XXXIX.—Congestion of the Lungs.
XL.—Inflammations.
XLI.—Gripes, Cholic, Diarrhœa, English Cholera, or Cholera Morbus.
XLII.—Consumption.
XLIII.—Cramps.
XLIV.—Asthma.
XLV.—Surgical Operations, Accidents, etc.
XLVI.—Small Pox, Measles, Hooping Cough, Croup, Scarlatina, Colds, Shivering, etc.
XLVII.—Sore Mouth—Inflamed Gums.
XLVIII.—Tooth-ache, Preservation of the Teeth, etc.
XLIX.—Watery or Inflamed Eyes.
L.—Deafness.
LI.—Ear-Ache.
LII.—Ringworm, Itch, etc.
LIII.—Psoriasis.
LIV.—Fistula.
LVI.—Change of Life in Females.
LVII.—Treatment of Ladies.
LVIII.—Giddiness, Dizziness, etc.
LIX.—Head-Aches.
LX.—Acute Inflammation in the Head, Chest and Abdomen.
LXI.—Chilblains.
LXII.—Cold Feet.
LXIII.—Cold Hands And Whitlow.
LXIV.—Bunnion and Enlarged Glands of Foot and Instep.
LXV.—Depression of Spirits, Head-Ache, etc.
LXVI.—Deafness.
LXVII.—Hernia and Constipation.
LXVIII.—Liver Complaint, Congestion of Blood in the Head, Enlarged Vein in the Leg.
LXIX.—Deformity.
LXX.—Spinal Complaints.
LXXI.—Constipation.
LXXII.—Indigestion.
LXXIII.—Stomach Complaint.
LXXIV.—Throwing Food off the Stomach.
LXXV.—Heartburn.
LXXVI.—Sea Sickness.
LXXVII.—Palpitation of the Heart.
LXXVIII.—Want of Sleep.
LXXIX.—Languid Circulation.
LXXX.—Ring Worm.
LXXXI.—Hands Frost-bitten or Suffering from a Boil.
LXXXII.—Weak Eyes and Eruption on the Head.
LXXXIII.—Weak Ankles.
LXXXIV.—Treatment of Infants.
LXXXV.—Epilepsy.
LXXXVI.—Hypochondria and Hysteria.
LXXXVII.—Fœtid Perspiration of the Feet.
LXXXVIII.—Stricture.
LXXXIX.—Inflammation of the Kidneys And Urethra.
XC.—Hydrocephalus.
XCI.—Syphilis.
XCII.—Chancre.
XCIII.—Gonorrhœa and Chancres.
XCIV.—Scrofula and Vaccination.
XCV.—Piles.
XCVI.—Rupture.
XCVII.—Chilblains.
XCVIII.—Cold Feet.
XCIX.—Eruption, Scabs, and Sores on the Arms.
C.—Consumption.
CI.—Insanity.
CII.—Cholera.
CIII.—Colds, Sore Throats, etc.
CIV.—Cancer, etc.
HYDROPATHY FOR ANIMALS.
EXPENSES AT GRÄFENBERG.
ROUTES TO GRÄFENBERG.
INDEX.
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