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Seite 61 - The regulator and the air-passages open, and the machine supplies itself with more coals. The body, in regard to the production of heat and of force, acts just like one of these machines. With the lowering of the external temperature, the respirations become deeper and more frequent; oxygen is supplied in greater quantity and of greater density; the change of matter is increased, and more food must be supplied, if the temperature of the body is to remain unchanged.
Seite 57 - The animal body is a heated mass, which bears the same relation to surrounding objects as any other heated mass. It receives heat when the surrounding objects are hotter, it loses heat when they are colder, than itself.
Seite 23 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Seite 42 - The practice may be occasionally abused, and then evil, instead of good, result. If I could think that such a consequence was necessary, I would not for one moment be its advocate. But, convinced as I am that we have in our power a new and most efficacious agent for the alleviation and cure of disease in various forms, and, in proper hands, as safe as effectual, I should be no friend to humanity, nor to medical science, if I did not give my testimony in its recommendation.
Seite 96 - ... this is especially ordered by Priessnitz. Weak chests should also avoid it on that part and the abdomen, otherwise the fall of the water on the lower part of the stomach or belly is not injurious. The atony of this region will not, however, always resist these means. The relief afforded by the douche, sometimes in a few minutes, in arthritic cases and rheumatism, is almost miraculous.
Seite 61 - If we surround a part of the body with ice or snow, while other parts are left in the natural state, there occurs, more or less quickly, in consequence of the loss of heat, an acceleiated change of matter in the cooled part.
Seite 91 - For whitlows the finger is placed in a glass of water, three times a day, fifteen minutes each time, the finger and hand bandaged ; then the elbow must be placed in water twice a day, and a heating bandage placed on the' arm above it; this will have the effect of drawing the inflammation from the hand.
Seite 116 - ... thus, especially where there is the least fever, the first momentary chill is promptly succeeded by a gradual and vivifying warmth, perfectly free from the irritation of dry heat — a delicious sense of ease is usually followed by a sleep more agreeable than anodynes ever produced. It seems a positive cruelty to be relieved from this magic girdle in which pain is lulled, and fever cooled, and watchfulness lapped in slumber.
Seite 90 - ... half-bath is never lower than sixty degrees. The water in these half-baths is only about three to six inches deep. When it is necessary that the invalid should have the advantage of an entire bath, water is poured upon him, or the attendant constantly wets the body and head with the water of the bath. When these small baths are used, in order to be less exciting, the upper part of the body is sometimes covered, and the bath hermetically closed, so that the head only appears. This is in cases...
Seite 42 - By means of water-cure treatment a change of matter is effected in a greater degree in six weeks than would happen in the ordinary course of nature in three years.