Nature cure (formerly called water cure), or, home treatment without medicine / by Wilhelmine H. Kuepper.

  • Kuepper, Wilhelmine H.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Nature cure (formerly called water cure), or, home treatment without medicine / by Wilhelmine H. Kuepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CORNS. Take a hot foot-bath (100° to 106° F.) of soap water, thirty minutes; wash the feet with cold water and remove the softened corn with your penknife or finger nail. If it does not come off entirely, take another foot-bath to soften the rest. Instead of the foot-bath you may put thick, wet packs for several nights on the corn to soften it; remove in the morning as much of it as is soft. In two or three mornings the corn will have been re- moved. COUGH. A cough is a symptom of a disease, not a disease itself. Look for this, and treat it as directed, CROUP (Membranaceous). Membranaceous croup is an inflammation and swelling of the mucous membrane of the throat, with an excretion covering it which is coughed out as soon as the effect of Nature Cure treatment has changed the dry, hard cough into a loose one. It generally begins with the symptoms of a slight catarrh, then, as a rule, follow sudden attacks of a hard cough, with difficult breathing, approaching suf- focation, accompanied by a peculiar, penetrating, long sound. At first these attacks come at long intervals, then they are of more frequent occurrence. When the blood becomes overloaded with carbonic acid, the breathing grows shorter and shorter, and not so loud.