The reformed practice of medicine : a practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease, without the use of mineral or vegetable poisons / by Doctor Rosen.

  • Rosen, Doctor.
Date:
[1887?]
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Credit: The reformed practice of medicine : a practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease, without the use of mineral or vegetable poisons / by Doctor Rosen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    The ftpplication of heat to the body by steam in the man- ner here deBcribed, is more natural in producing perspiration than any dry heat which can be applied in any manner whatever; dry heat will only serve to dry the air and prevent perspiration, whereas the steam raised from water or vinegar will promote it, and add natural warmth to the body.thereby increasing the life and Imotion which have lain dormant in consequence of the cold. The use of steaming is to apply heat to the body where it is deficient, and clear off the obstructions caused by cold, which the operation of medicine will not raise heat enough to do, for as the natural heat of the body becomes lower than in the.natural scate of health, it must by art be raised aa much above it as it has been below; and this must be re- peated until the digestive powers are restored snfiSciently to retain the heat. Then the health of the patient will be re- stored by eating and drinking such things as the appetite shall require. In this way, medicine removes disease, and food, by being properly digested, supports nature, and con- tinues that heat on wtiich life depends. While upon this subject, I think it well to remark that, although steam or vapour baths constitute an integral portion of the Thomsonian or Botanic Practice,yet in the majority of cases of chronic or long-standing disease, this is not found to be absolutely necessary ;and that is only in acute diseases, as Rheumatic or other fevers, inflammation, or any sudden at- tack which requires prompt and energetic treatment, that this mode ot applying heat to the body—in order to relax the pores of the skin and equalise ;the circulation through the congested vessels—is imperatively called for.