Errors of physicians and others in the practice of the water-cure as a remedial agent in the prevention and cure of diseases : with instructions for its proper application / by J.H. Rausse ; translated by C.H. Meeker.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Errors of physicians and others in the practice of the water-cure as a remedial agent in the prevention and cure of diseases : with instructions for its proper application / by J.H. Rausse ; translated by C.H. Meeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ERRORS OF PHYSICIANS CHAPTER I. THE EMPLOYMENT OF MEDICAMENTS AND BLOOD-LETTING} IN THE WATER-CURE. n chronic diseases, water may be used for a double purpose, viz.: firstly, merely to strengthen the whole or- ganism and maintain the functions in the statu quo con- dition ; secondly, to expel the matters of disease (which is always preceded by an excitation of the same), and to restore the functions to their normal condition (the radi- cal water-cure). For the first purpose, the employment of medicaments is by no means requisite, but decidedly a hinderance ; still, however, not productive of speedy danger, and for this reason not—because, firstly, no excitation of the matters of disease is aimed at; and because, secondly, that class of medicaments which are administered merely for the purpose of invigoration do not comprise the strong poi- sons. But the employment of medicaments for the second purpose is not only preventive and notably absurd, but also decidedly dangerous, and frequently fatal. The administration of medicaments is absurd, because it effects a suppression of the indications of reaction of the organism against the matters of disease ;* that is, a * Those readers who doubt the existence of morbific matters as causes