The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-08
Hot. Water Cure.

Years ago., the grandmothers OF the
present generation used to cure their
children of collie by making them drink
warm herb tea and applying no,
drau.lits to their feet. Group was re.
lieved by dipping strips of flannel in
in hot water, %wringing them out, and
then enveloping the child's neck with
them. This old-fashioned method o
using hot water us Il remedy has again
become fashionable, and is spoken of as
something new. at
Halls Journal of Health points on,
the diseases in which the old remedy
will do good, and those. wherein it NAV
do harm.
Take, for example, the case ofa per
son who has taken cold in the lungs.
The circulation of the blood in the
small! blood.yessels in that portion of the
lungs affected becomes slu .gish;ln some
uses IT is quite suspended; the geAcral
circulation is impeded through failure q!
an important organ to do the work re-
CURED OF it., and the whole system
suffers; the man is i'll. -
Now, II we know why the disease ex-
lists, Nv what unnatural condition it is
kept up. the remedy SUCCESS itself; as,
II a water-pipe We're frozen up. any
child knows thatthe remedy is heat.
And here is just where water as warm
as 1t can be comfortably borne will effect
a cure in ordinary cases.
Let the patient 80 to bed. Put bottles
OF hot Saterlo his feet, and cloths wet
In hot water on his chest. Let him
drink hot water as fr-ely as hoc can with
comfort; it matters little whether it is
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theless hot water.
With this treatment We are empIoying
hot water at its full value.
lis internal use tends TO .thaw out the
bl%ood-yessels, and its outward appli-
cation quickens the circulation in the
bl~ood-vessels near the surface: thus
drawing on the deep'seated blood
vessels for supplies to keep up the actlv-
lty. and thus the CONGESTION is relieved
II the patient cured. ..
La dyspepsia, hot water taken inter
naliy. under proper restrictions, is no
doubt useful, since dyspepsia depends
On a con ested anu deranged condition
Of the digestive organs.
But in consumption and other diseases
attended by general debility i, can only
be detrsmental.
When a person is feeble from disease
not marked with acut. inAammatio1,
the hot water treatment necessarily in
creases the debinty.
Here a toi,ic treatment is applicable
a tr ratment that vii, increase and enrich
the blood and Sill 9ply the fuel required
TO keep the machinery of lie in motion.
fIhe hot-water treatment is useful in
removing distractions from the machine
cry, but only iii systems where there is
q surplus of vital DOHer.
10 recapitulate: The drinking Of hot
water at proper intervals and in proper
quantities Is useful in dyspepsia, consti-
patton, torpid liver, congestion of the
stomach, chronic Giarrhoea, and in vari-
GUS affections Of the kidneys and biad.
der; provided that there are not at the
same time serious diseases of the lungs,
with debility.
The water should be as hot as tea is
usually made, tn t is, from ll0deg. to $50,
deg. and should be slipped, not taken
rapidly. The quantity should be from
half a pint to a pint.
1t should be taken one to two hours
after meals, and nothing shonld be
eaten until at least ole hour after ward.
The evening %draugnt should be just be-
fore goingto bed. ..5-4Is
The hot-water treatment should CONT
nue. until 2. cure is effected; the time
required will vary FROM one to six.
months.