The principles and practice of medical hydrology : being the science of treatment by waters and baths / by R. Fortescue Fox.

  • Fox, R. Fortescue (Robert Fortescue), 1858-1940.
Date:
1913
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    Wildbad (Black Forest), 1410 feet, subthermal and thermal waters, 91° to 104° F., rich in nitrogen gas; subthermal flowing baths, douches and vapour baths; indicated for rheumatism and gout, and especi¬ ally for conditions of nervous erethism and weakness, convalescence and premature senility. Wildtjngen (Germany), 980 feet, alkaline calcareous gaseous water, also a chalybeate, powerfully diuretic; used in urinary lithiasis and genito-urinary catarrh; stimulating subthermal baths. Wittekind (Saxony), 200 feet, a cold muriated water, 3'5 per cent, chloride of sodium, moor and salt baths. Woodhall Spa (Lincolnshire), It. 22*7, salt waters with chloride .of calcium and a small quantity of bromide; the baths, like those of Kreuznach, are used in scrofula, leucorrhoea, and for their decongestive effect in uterine fibroids, also in rheumatic affections and arthritis; the comparatively bracing east coast climate is a factor in the treatment (see Chapter XIII). Yverdon (Switzerland), 1430 feet, warm sulphur water, used for drinking, baths and inhalations; also fango and sun baths; indications those of Cauterets.