Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Treatment:

• Therapeutic Fever cures rapidly but must be continued to prevent secondary problems
  • First treatment - one hour, rectal temperature 39°C
  • continue up in increments of ½ to 1°C until patient can take 3 hours at 41°C, 2 or 3 times weekly
  • be careful of the single episode of fever and headache that can occur

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

General Method:

Reconstruction of the body through regulation of habits as well as hydrotherapy.

Hydrotherapy is diagnostic as it brings on the characteristic eruptions.

Treatment:

• Regular habits

Problems:

• First and Second Stages: - Elimination see Uraemia
• Dry Eruptions
• Relapsing Syphilis see Poor General Circulation
• Drug-Induced Anaemia
• Nocturnal Pains
• Insomnia from Cerebral Congestion
• Syphilitic Ulcers
• Gumma

Contra-indications:

• Prolonged very cold treatments especially baths and especially when medicine is being taken (mercury).
• Prolonged hot baths when cachexia, anaemic or febrile.

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Autointoxication
• Debility
• Paralysis

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Problems:

• Infectious Arthritis
• Organic Headaches
• Valvular Heart Disease

Use:

• Diaphoretics in secondary syphilis
  • Therapeutic Fever if in CNS