On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters

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Excerpt from On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters: Being a Handbook to the Spas of Europe Although general knowledge is so far advanced that such cures by other means of treatment are regarded as impossible, they are still expected from baths and climate. And this state will probably continue until the general principles of Balneotherapeutics have become part of the regular education of medical men, and are through them communicated to the educated public. Then it will also be seen that the selection of spas and climatic health-resorts is not quite so simple a matter as is often imagined. It is to be decided in every case whether a balneotherapeutic or climatic course of treatment is preferable to the ordinary medical treatment, and, in selecting a special spa or health-resort, we must take into consideration not only the name of the disease or morbid tendency, but the entire individual, with all its physical and psychical peculiarities. As we do not in ordinary treatment prescribe purgatives for every form of constipation, or astringents and opiates for every case of diarrhoea, so we cannot order chalybeate springs for every case of weakness or anæmia, or hot baths for every form of chronic rheumatism or rheumatic gout. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.