The uses of water in modern medicine / By Simon Baruch.

  • Baruch, Simon, 1840-1921.
Date:
1893
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    CHAPTER VI. HYDROTHERAPY IN FEVERS. The technique of the methods usually resorted to has been fully described, together with the rationale. Fevers offer the most prolific field of hydrotherapeutic -success. If we dwell upon them more fully, perhaps, than upon any other subject, the importance arising from the frequency, universality, and fatality of some fevers furnishes ample warrant. The frequent revival of this subject in our medi- cal societies is evidence, not only of its incalculable importance, but also of the instability of out present therapeutic methods. Brilliantly and learnedly though we may discuss typhoid fever, favorable though our individual statis- tics may be, still the figures of our Board of Health reports bid us mend our ways in language more eloquent than human tongue or pen can formulate. Twenty-five to forty per cent, is the death rate from typhoid fever in our American cities; twenty-six per cent, is the mortality of the New York hospitals in recent years, according to Dr. Delafield's investiga- tions. The import of these figures cannot be over- estimated. May they be changed ? Happily there is a method of treatment which has the sanction of long usage, the authority of judicious clinical observers, and the evidence of unimpeachable