An Introduction to the Water-Cure; A Concise Exposition of the Human Constitution ... Founded in Nature and Adapted to the Wants of Man - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... ed three months with great advantage to her health. Indeed, the worst symptoms were overcome during this time, but it remained for her to follow out my directions, to complete her cure at home, at a great distance from me, and amongst those who had little knowledge and less faith respecting water cure. In less than a year from the time she commenced, her health was very firm and good--so much so that she could walk miles, or for hours, without a pain of any kind being induced by the exertion. TIC DOLOREUX, OR FACIAL NEURALGIA. Mrs. ■ came to me with violent tic doloreux in the face. She had suffered for months with it, and was given up to great discouragement and depression. She passed through a course of tonic treatment by water, consisting mostly of wet sheet packing during the paroxysms, dripping sheet, and sitz bath. She was packed once a day, remaining for an hour in the wet sheet, after the pain was relieved. In one month she returned home free from the disease. A number of cases of chronic disease, with complications of a sexual character, will be found under the head of female diseases. CHAPTER VII. CAUSES, ?REVENTION, AND TREATMENT OF TIIK DISEASES OF INFANCY. This is a subject of the first and last importance ; and whoever has the instinct of paternity or philanthropy in his heart will feel that he has duties connected with it. Last year, during the four hot weeks of July, 1,702 corpses were buried in the city of New York, and 802 of this number were infants, under five years of age. In 1847, out of 15,788 deaths, 7,373 were of children under five years old, and of 3,519 deaths in July and August, the number of 1,848, or more than one-half, were under the same age. Here is this frightful infantile mortality staring us in...

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