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... treatment " in hydropathic institutions . The effects of water - drinking vary in different people . The disintegration spoken of is greatest in weak people , on whom it may produce an almost febrile state . It is greater in children ...
... treatment " in hydropathic institutions . The effects of water - drinking vary in different people . The disintegration spoken of is greatest in weak people , on whom it may produce an almost febrile state . It is greater in children ...
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... treatment the author has rarely witnessed the simultaneous occurrence of a cold in children suffering from laryn- gismus ; and then the catarrhal symptoms were insignificant . Dashing cold water over the child is the surest and ...
... treatment the author has rarely witnessed the simultaneous occurrence of a cold in children suffering from laryn- gismus ; and then the catarrhal symptoms were insignificant . Dashing cold water over the child is the surest and ...
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... treatment of chorea , cold sponging , repeated several times a day , holds also deservedly a very high place . Whether its good effects are due solely to its tonic properties , or whether the shock plays any part in promoting the cure ...
... treatment of chorea , cold sponging , repeated several times a day , holds also deservedly a very high place . Whether its good effects are due solely to its tonic properties , or whether the shock plays any part in promoting the cure ...
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... treatment of the acute specific fevers , and was especially recommended in scarlet fever . This mode of treatment comes to us sanctioned by the authority of many of the ablest medical men of the past generation . Yet in the present day ...
... treatment of the acute specific fevers , and was especially recommended in scarlet fever . This mode of treatment comes to us sanctioned by the authority of many of the ablest medical men of the past generation . Yet in the present day ...
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... treatment is useful in varicocele . Injections of cold water night and morning into the vagina may be most profitably employed to prevent the recurrence of leucorrhoea after it has been checked by appropriate treatment . A cold - water ...
... treatment is useful in varicocele . Injections of cold water night and morning into the vagina may be most profitably employed to prevent the recurrence of leucorrhoea after it has been checked by appropriate treatment . A cold - water ...
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