Traditional Hydrotherapy

from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...

Treat the same as typhoid but with these additions

In:

Typhoid Fever with:

• Infants
  • Graduated Tub Bath
  • prolonged Neutral Tub Bath
  • Cooling Pack
  • continuous Abdominal Heating Compress
  • Cold Enema
  • Water Drinking or IV
  • Avoid Brand Bath
• The Aged - as Infants with ...
  • Cold Mitten Friction over heart and chest every 3 hours with
  • continuous Abdominal Heating Compress in interval
• Puerperal Fever as Infants with
  • prolonged Neutral Compress
  • Graduated Tub Bath no lower than 27°C
  • Hot Blanket Pack followed by Cold Towel Rub or
    • Cold Mitten Friction
  • hot Pelvic Pack
  • Hot Enema and Intra-Uterine Irrigation and Vaginal Irrigation
  • Precordial Compress or Ice Bag
  • Fomentations over abdomen 5-10 min every 2-3 hours with...
    • Heating Compress 15°C renewed every 20 min in interval
• Pregnancy as for Infants with:
  • Cold Towel Rub or Cold Mitten Friction
  • Wet Sheet Pack
• Erysipelas
  • Ice Bag to inflamed surfaces change every 15 min
  • Fomentations for 5 min every 2 hours
  • After 24 hours Cooling Compress to inflamed part change every 20 min, prolong to Heating Compress as inflammation diminishes
• Diabetes
  • prolonged Tepid Tub Bath
  • Cold Enema
  • Fomentations to Spine and Abdomen followed by neutral Wet Sheet Pack, Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub
• Obesity
  • Cooling Pack
  • Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub
  • Revulsive Compress to chest 2x a day then Cold Enema and
    • Half Chest Pack changed every 2 hours
• Influenza
  • Hot Foot Bath followed by heating Wet Sheet Pack continued to Sweating if possible
  • Hot Leg Pack
  • Short Hot Tub Bath followed by prolonged Neutral Tub Bath with
    • Cold Compress to head
  • See Pericarditis
• Tuberculosis
  • Neutral Tub Bath followed by Cold Towel Rub and
    • Heating Compress to chest changed every 2 hours.
  • Avoid Brand Bath
• Malaria see Chills
  • During chill...
    • as above but use cold Pail Pour patient sitting in tub
  • If febrile...
    • Cooling Pack, Cold Enema and Cooling Compress