Category: Health & Medicine
“If men knew how to use water so as to elicit all the remedial results which it is capable of producing, it would be worth all other remedies put together.” —Dr. Macartney’s Lectures at Trinity College, 1826.
“If men knew how to use water so as to elicit all the remedial results which it is capable of producing, it would be worth all other remedies put together.” —Dr. Macartney’s Lec...
2. Part 2In the effects of wet-sheet packing in cases of congestion of the liver and other internal viscera, we fear an unfavourable comparison must again be drawn between the effects of...
3. Part 3“The mucous membranes were not the only parts affected by the artificial suppression of the insensible perspiration. We also observed the production of serous effusions in the p...
4. Part 4The principles of its treatment, by the water system, are so sensibly and rationally put forward in the pamphlet entitled, “An Address, &c.,” that, as we think, the greatest sce...
5. Part 5What is a Turkish bath? Should this question be asked by any of our readers, we would answer, that it is a bath differing from all other hot baths in this important particular,...
6. Part 6The Turkish bath supplies this stimulant, the desire for which prompts intoxication, and so becomes, as Mr. Urquhart argues, a powerful engine in the promotion of temperance; by...