A hand-book of the Peak of Derbyshire, and to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson ; with ... a botanical commentary & list of plants by the late Miss Hawkins.

  • Robertson, William Henry.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A hand-book of the Peak of Derbyshire, and to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson ; with ... a botanical commentary & list of plants by the late Miss Hawkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    fifteen or twenty minutes, is usually found to be a sufficient time for the immersions in the natural baths : and from three minutes to twenty minutes, and very rarely longer than the latter time, in the warmer baths. Generally, the time of immersion should be longer in the warmer than in the natural baths ; and longer, the higher the temperature of the warmer baths may be. Usually, if the temperature of the warmer baths is not gradually reduced, in order to bring the case more and more within the influence of the medicinal effects, or in order to prepare the patient to commence the use of the natural baths, the time for remaining in the baths should be increased. It is seldom wise to begin the course of either the warmer or the natural baths, by remaining in the water for the same time which may properly be allowed after several baths have been taken, and the system has become somewhat accustomed to the stimulating effects of the waters. W hen the warmer baths are not indicated—either as pre- paratory, or as being exclusively adapted to the individual case—and the use of the natural bath might be justifiably begun at once, the use of the warmer baths may be depre- cated as involving exactly as much loss of time, as these baths are less powerful in their effects than the natural baths, besides being in some instances less suited, or even occasion- ally altogether unsuitable. This often applies to dyspeptic conditions to cases of gout, rheumatism, &c., attended by cutaneous irritation, with or without the scorbutic character to relaxed states of the female constitution, without visceral congestion or obstruction—and to such cases of spinal de- rangement as are not marked by irritation, but by general or local relaxation, and consequent diminution of power and