The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02

ment except under the care of a skilled
] operator-preferably one who had per-
sonally studied the German method
If gymnasium instructors were TO take
it up, for instance, / am afraid they
could not be thoroughly impressed with
the absolute necessity of going slow.
Every movement should be made as
slowly as possible, and the rests be-
tween each movement are quite as i'm
portant as the movement itself. On
the other hand, I believe the cure can
be carried on with even better effect
in America than in Germany. Schott
has no exclusive right to the baths.
They are public affairs under the con-
troll of the government. and there are
twenty doctors in Nauheim giving the
treatment. The baths, too. are open
only during the summer months. In
America our excellent plumbing ar
engagements are well adapted to the
purpose In Nauheim the patients
have TO go in the day time and stand
around in the open, waiting to cool off.
Here, we give the baths at bed time
with much greater effect. The diff
Guilty of procuring a substitute for the
Nauheim salts will have to be bridged
by the family physician. l believe the
crystaliZed product of the baths can
be imported. but the ingredients can be
produced chemically. If you can OBJ
carbonate of soda, muriatic acid and
a bath tub. you will have all of the
essentials of the Nauheim bath, but |
should not care to put these chemicals
into the hands of the inexperienced
layman. He might do damage to him.
self and the tub. Better so 10 a chem
list and have him mix you up the nee
eSsary ingredients. Almost any doc
tor should be able to give the prescrip-
ton. The bath should be only slightly
saline at first, gradually increasing in
strength as the days go forward. Do
not attempt the strong solution at first
or it might have bad effects. After
all. the best way is simply to go to
your family physician and tell him you
want the Nauheim treatment. If he
is up-to-date, he will be able to give it
to you without sending you to Ger
many.
Personally. 1 have had no bad re-
suits from the Nauheim treatment. On
the contrary l feel that it introduces a
new era in cardiac therapeutics. But
in saying this | must state that sue
cess means that the patient must sur
render himself to requirements of a
systematic course. and the physician
must have daily acquaintance with the
condition of his patient. There should
be definite system as to diet. baths,
etc, but the physician must be pre-
pared to modify them if necessary, and
that means, in every case. The
best results are, of course, obtained by
baths and exercises combined, but the
exercises will accomplish good results
without baths, though the course will
be longer.
In connection with this treatment
l have adopted a new and simple
method of showing the size and posi-
ton of the heart. l draw on the skin
with a pencil line through the nipple
and a vertical line from the apisternal
notch TO the umbilicus. | then trace
out by percussion the outline of the
heart and indicate the position of the
apex with an Y. / then apply tracing
paper to the chest and trace the draw
ing through on the paper. AT each
examination l make a similar tracing.
In this way 1 have an accurate dia
gram of the heart, showing the changes
it undergoes from time TO time. In
Germany, as the treatment goes on,
X-ray photographs are taken of each
patient, so that radical changes in the
organs of the body may be watched"