Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Hydrothermic Remedies...

Use:

• Wet Sheet Pack

In Newborns:

• Sun Bath

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

In:

• Cirrhosis
• Hyperthyroidism
• Lobar Pneumonia - Fomentations and Coloclyster
• Yellow Fever - prolonged Neutral Tub Bath and Fomentations

Treatment Method:

• Wet Sheet Pack then Wet Sheet Rub
• Electric Light Bath then Graduated Shower or Wet Sheet Rub
• Sweating Treatments 15 min, then prolonged Neutral Tub Bath

Once or 2x a day if patient can bear

• copious Water Drinking
• Large Hot Enema or Coloclyster 2x a day followed by...
  • small Cold Enema
• Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub 2x a day
• Alternate Compress over liver and stomach 2x a day or
  • Fomentations 15 min every 2-6 hours then Heating Compress or
  • Wet Girdle during interval change every 30 min

from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...

Problems:

• Autointoxication
• Itching
• Toxaemia
• Jaundice Headache

General Method:

• hot Coloclyster
• Aseptic Diet

Treatment:

• Spoliatives
• Eliminative
  • Cold Enema
  • cold Fan Douche - if no pain
  • Cold Sitz Bath
• Analgesic
  • general Hot Douche
  • Neutral Douche
  • Revulsive Fan Douche

Icterus Neonatorum

• Wet Girdle

from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...

Mild Diaphoretics - to increase sweating off of bile relieving nervous irritability and pruritus

Best

• Electric Light Bath
• Water Drinking freely
• short Sweating Pack

Problems:

• Itching - Alkaline Bath

Contra-indications

• extreme Diaphoretics