Carlsbad : a medico-practical guide / by Emil Kleen.

  • Kleen, Emil, 1847-1923.
Date:
1893
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    gastric catarrh, etc., etc. The modern treatment only allows of moderate quantities ; a great many patients only drink one or two glasses (210 c.c. each), the majority do not exceed four, very few (and scarcely any with a physician's permission) drink more than six glasses. The great majority of patients only drink in the morning before breakfast, during which time the springs are visited from as early as five and until nine o'clock. Some patients also drink before dinner and before supper, and I think this method might reasonably be more often adopted than it is. A patient suffering from (a beginning or developed) dilatation of the stomach ought never to drink at once but small quantities of water (larger ones con- tributing to increase the dilatation), and may take his allowance of water at different times of the day. The ulcer-stomach patients also ought to avoid distending their stomach and may derive great bene- fit from frequently diminishing the often too great acidity of their gastric juice by the water. In other cases again there may be distinct indications for taking larger quantity of water but inability to take any great quantity at once, and such patients also must drink several times a day. The drinking is done out of specially graduated glasses (sold in the vicinity of the springs), which generally contain 210 cub. centimetres of water. The patient must drink slowly and let at least one quarter of an hour, but generally a longer time, pass after each glass. Some people drink, out of an