Heart disease and the Nauheim treatment / by Joseph Kidd.

  • Kidd, Joseph.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Heart disease and the Nauheim treatment / by Joseph Kidd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —as the same effect might follow from slight causes, such as the increased activity of respiration, from the exertion of drying the body after the bath, or the change from the recumbent to the standing or sitting posture, and so confuse the apparent result. Sir T. Grainger Stewart and Dr. Hol- man reported that they examined in the bath at Nauheim, a man whose heart was greatly dilated and whose pulse was 124, irregular and small. After three minutes' immersion in the bath, the pulse had fallen to 114, and in six minutes to 108, whilst it had become evidently better filled. After eight minutes they percussed his heart, and found that the dulness had receded in every direction {The Medical Annual^ 1897, p. 284).