A practical treatise on healthy skin; with rules for the medical and domestic treatment of cutaneous diseases / By Erasmus Wilson.

  • William James Erasmus Wilson
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on healthy skin; with rules for the medical and domestic treatment of cutaneous diseases / By Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stays, 150; purpose of stays, 151; mechanical effect of stays upon the trunk of the body, 152; physiological effect of stays; stays a cause of spinal deformity and spinal disease, 153 ; tyranny of fashion ; fashion in China, 154; exercise for adults and elderly persons, 155. CHAPTER IX. ON THE INFLUENCE OF ABLUTION AND BATHING ON THE HEALTH OF THE SKIN. Causes giving rise to the necessity for ablution, 157 ; effects of obstruction of the pores of the skin, 158 ; utility of water to man, 160; action of water in removing impurities from the skin, 101; soaps, and wash- powders ; does soap irritate the skin, 162 ; mode of preventing the un¬ pleasant effects sometimes caused to the skin by soap, 163 ; temperature of the water used in ablution ; frequency of ablutions, 164; tonic or “bracing” effects of washing, 165; mode of using water; sponging, 166; test of the benefit of ablution, 167 ; the sponging bath; combi¬ nation of exercise and bathing, 168; the shower-bath, a combination of bathing with concussion of the skin, 169; shock of the shower bath, 171; Does the shower-bath cause a determination of blood to the head? 172; necessity of training, 173; the douse or douche bath, 174; the cold bath, fresh, saline and mineral, 175; tepid and warm baths; the vapour bath, 176; the medicated vapour bath ; precautions to be used in bathing, 177; physiological effects of bathing; importance of “re-action,” 178; artificial means of procuring re-action, 180; the Kheesah or Indian flesh glove, 181; the horse-liair glove; sedative and stimulant effects of the bath, 182; absorption by the skin during immersion in the bath, 183 ; transpiration during immersion ; serious symptoms produced by too long immersion in the warm bath, 184. CHAPTER X. ON THE MERITS OF HYDROPATHY, OR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE BY WATER. The “ water-cure,” 185 ; amount of merit due to Priessnitz, 186 ; appre¬ ciation of Priessnitz by his patients, 187; effects of attaching a com¬ mercial value to medicines ; Priessnitz’s mode of examining his patients,
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