Category: Health & Medicine
Since the influence of baths is exerted primarily upon the skin, and through the medium of the skin, upon the deeper-lying tissues and organs of the body, it is an absolute necessity for the reader at the outset to be made aware of the structure of the skin and its functions,...
Since the influence of baths is exerted primarily upon the skin, and through the medium of the skin, upon the deeper-lying tissues and organs of the body, it is an absolute nece...
2. CHAPTER II.The _tepid_ bath has a temperature of from 85° to 92° Fahr., the _warm_ bath a temperature between 92° and 98° Fahr., and the _hot_ bath a temperature of from 98° to 112° Fahr.
3. CHAPTER III.In considering the various bathing localities it is only natural that we should begin with London. We have no intention of speaking in detail of the various baths with which pri...
4. CHAPTER IV.We do not propose to enter at all fully into the question of the place which baths ought to occupy as remedies for disease; but we shall merely indicate some of the chief condit...
5. CHAPTER V.When the doctor’s fiat goes forth that his patient is to visit this or that bath for the benefit of his health, far more is implied in the injunction than the mere use of water,...