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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    heart disease. At the meals to eat freely and drink sparingly. Drink may be taken freely three or four hours after meals, or an hour before meals. Hot water is often the best drink. At Nauheim, Dr. Schott forbids the use of coffee, sparkling wines, aerated waters, pepper, and all highly- seasoned food. During the course of saline baths it is most important to regulate the amount of exercise, especially to avoid long walks, or a quick pace, or the least approach to over- fatigue. Of all exercises the worst for heart cases is rowing. Quiet exercise on horse- back is one of the best; next to that golf Cycling is treacherous—good in a few cases, and mischievous in many. Lawn-tennis is