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a-day/a day
ancle/ankle
aught/ought
a-week/a week
bason/basin
catemenia/catamenia
colic/cholic
degrees/deg./°
diarrhoea/diarrhœa
ear-ache/ear-ach
etc/&c
everywhere/every where
Freywalden/Freywaldau/Freiwaldau
Greenough/Greenhough
headache/head-ache
Homoæpathic/Homeopathy/Homæopathist
Hydropathy/hydropathy and related terms
Hygeia/hygeia
inquire/enquire
Jenison/Jennison
kidnies/kidneys
mattrass/mattress
Packing-sheet/packing-sheet/Packing sheet/packing sheet
Priessnitz’s/Priessnitz’
reaction/re-action
ringworm/ring worm
Rubbing-Sheet/Rubbing-sheet/rubbing-sheet/rubbing sheet
shews/shows
sitting-bath/sitting bath
sitz/Sitz
smallpox/small pox
staid/stayed
tepid-bath/tepid bath
Vanderheyden/Van der Heyden
watercure/water-cure/Water-cure/water cure/Water cure

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

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.

CONTENTS

PREFACE[iii]
ERRATA
HYDROPATHY
I.Vincent Priessnitz.[1]
II.Hydropathy.[17]
III.What Does Hydropathic Treatment effect?[17]
IV.How are the Effects described in the last Chapter produced?[20]
V.Is Hydropathy a Panacea? and what Complaints are Curable by it?[24]
VI.Is Hydropathy new? Why is it not generally adopted?[26]
VII.The Lancet.[30]
VIII.Authorities in Support of Water as a Curative Agent.[32]
IX.Ablutions.[40]
X.Use of Cold Water for Drinking and Injections.[41]
XI.The Cold Bath.[43]
XII.Is going into the Cold Bath in a State of Perspiration attended with Danger?[45]
XIII.The Packing Sheet, and Sweating Process.[46]
XIV.Sweating Process.[50]
XV.The Rubbing Sheet, or Abreibung.[50]
XVI.The Douche Bath.[52]
XVII.The Shower Bath.[54]
XVIII.The Sitz or Sitting Bath.[54]
XIX.Eye Bath.[55]
XX.Head Bath.[55]
XXI.Finger and Elbow Baths.[56]
XXII.Leg Bath.[56]
XXIII.Foot Bath.[56]
XXIV.The Tepid, or Abgeschrecte bath.[58]
XXV.Bandages, or Umschlags.[59]
XXVI.Diet.[62]
XXVII.Clothing, Air Baths, Wearing Stays, etc.[69]
XXVIII.Drugs.[73]
XXIX.Assimilation.[77]
XXX.The Crisis.[79]
XXXI.Dropsy.[82]
XXXII.Smoking.[84]
XXXIII.Questions put to Mr Priessnitz, and his Answers.[90]
TREATMENT AND CASES
XXXIV.Gout.[92]
XXXV.Rheumatism, etc.[100]
XXXVI.Tic-Doloureux.[106]
XXXVII.Affection of the Throat and Pain at the Chest.[107]
XXXVIII.Fevers.[108]
XXXIX.Congestion of the Lungs.[118]
XL.Inflammations.[118]
XLI.Gripes, Cholic, Diarrhœa, English Cholera, or Cholera Morbus.[121]
XLII.Consumption.[125]
XLIII.Cramps.[125]
XLIV.Asthma.[127]
XLV.Surgical Operations, Accidents, etc.[128]
XLVI.Small Pox, Measles, Hooping Cough, Croup, Scarlatina, Colds, Shivering, etc. [135]
XLVII.Sore Mouth—Inflamed Gums[146]
XLVIII.Tooth-ache, Preservation of the Teeth, etc.[147]
XLIX.Watery or Inflamed Eyes.[148]
L.Deafness.[148]
LI.Ear-Ache.[148]
LII.Ringworm, Itch, etc.[149]
LIII.Psoriasis.[149]
LIV.Fistula.[151]
LV.Hæmorrhage, Irregular Menstruation, Pains in the Womb, &c.[152]
LVI.Change of Life in Females.[155]
LVII.Treatment of Ladies.[156]
LVIII.Giddiness, Dizziness, etc.[158]
LIX.Head-Aches.[158]
LX.Acute Inflammations in the Head, Chest, and Abdomen.[160]
LXI.Chilblains.[160]
LXII.Cold Feet.[160]
LXIII.Cold Hands and Whitlow.[160]
LXIV.Bunnion and Enlarged Glands of Foot and Instep.[161]
LXV.Depression of Spirits, Head-Ache, etc.[161]
LXVI.Deafness.[161]
LXVII.Hernia and Constipation.[161]
LXVIII.Liver Complaint, Congestion of Blood in the Head, Enlarged Vein in the Leg.[162]
LXIX.Deformity.[163]
LXX.Spinal Complaints.[164]
LXXI.Constipation.[166]
LXXII.Indigestion.[166]
LXXIII.Stomach Complaint.[167]
LXXIV.Throwing Food off the Stomach.[167]
LXXV.Heartburn.[167]
LXXVI.Sea Sickness.[168]
LXXVII.Palpitation of the Heart.[168]
LXXVIII.Want of Sleep.[168]
LXXIX.Languid Circulation.[168]
LXXX.Ring Worm.[169]
LXXXI.Hands Frostbitten or Suffering from a Boil.[169]
LXXXII.Weak Eyes and Eruption on the Head.[169]
LXXXIII.Weak Ankles.[169]
LXXXIV.Treatment of Infants.[169]
LXXXV.Epilepsy.[170]
LXXXVI.Hypochondria and Hysteria.[170]
LXXXVII.Fœtid Perspiration of the Feet.[171]
LXXXVIII. Stricture.[172]
LXXXIX.Inflammation of the Kidneys and Urethra.[172]
XC.Hydrocephalus.[172]
XCI.Syphilis.[172]
XCII.Chancre.[173]
XCIII.Gonorrhœa and Chancres.[174]
XCIV.Scrofula and Vaccination.[175]
XCV.Piles.[176]
XCVI.Rupture.[176]
XCVII.Chilblains.[177]
XCVIII.Cold Feet.[177]
XCIX.Eruption, Scabs, and Sores on the Arms.[177]
C.Consumption.[177]
CI.Insanity.[179]
CII.Cholera.[179]
CIII.Colds, Sore Throats, etc.[185]
CIV.Cancer, etc.[187]
HYDROPATHY FOR ANIMALS[197]
EXPENSES AT GRAFENBERG[212]
ROUTES TO GRAFENBERG[212]
INDEX[213]
FOOTNOTES[216]