Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Use:

• Wet Sheet Pack
• Half Bath for children with fever

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Gastric Dilation
• Gout - 2
• Typhoid Fever - 3
• Scarlet Fever - 2
• Smallpox - 3
• Meningitis - especially Wet Sheet Pack and cold to head
• Lobar Pneumonia - 4
• Typhus Fever - with Ice Bag to head and neck
• Yellow Fever
• Complications of Acute Fevers 1 and 3

Treatment Method:

• prolonged Hot Blanket Pack followed by Cold Mitten Friction
• heating Wet Sheet Pack with Cooling Coil followed by Dry Pack
• Gastric Lavage or Coloclyster

2. Above and...

• Ice Bag to head and neck
• Hot Tub Bath or Fomentations to spine then Wet Sheet Pack

3.

• Cooling Coil and Ice Collar
• Alternate Compress or Sponge to upper spine
• prolonged Tepid Tub Bath 31°C 1-4 hrs
• Cooling Pack 3-5 changes, removed after reaches heating stage on last
• Hot Foot Bath and Hand Bath if extremities are cold
• Cold Enema every 3 hours

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Cerebral Congestion
• Cerebral Irritability
• Nervous System Irritability

Treatment:

• cold Local Pail Pour
• Hypnotic in Typhoid Fever

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

• cold Pail Pour to head and neck
• Neutral Pack
• In Lobar Pneumonia : Water Drinking or lemon, hot better where stomach distress