The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-11
COLD WATER NATURES TONIC
Ell iBORtTE DEVICES NOW FOR
l-DROTHERaPY.
streams Of Water ut VARYING Prr~sures
and Temperatures for Nerve suffer-
rrs-N warming y before and AFTER
Sc Essentisi-E Electric Light Baths.

II YOU are one ~ those persons who
jump into a tub Of cold water every morn
ing after getting ont OF bed. or even n
you only throw some cold water on your
chest. you're practising what the doctors
call hydrUtherapy To he sure your"
dong It somewhat prImitively. a. com
pared 10 the way IL IL done a. the new
Rockefeller Hospital. for example. but
nevertheless yon're hydropthsrnpist
While this may encourage you to con-
tinrl., the practice. Of which YOU have no
doubt been Boosting 10 your friends, YOU
NJ light not feel 80 proud n you wcre TO run
up against the men in the big hospitals
and sanitariums for nerve cases who
manage this form OF treatment. In the
first place they would he sure tn ask YOU
IL YOU jumped into that tub when you
were thoroughly warmed up. A. YOU wo'!ld
he after ton minutes exercise or an equa
number OF minutes in one OF the new
electric light baths at n temperature
around $50 degrees
Cold water said one OF the experts
az big Sanitarium. ia one OF nature =
g"atast hoons 10 the human system when
you're warmed UP When you're cold
it's sometimes deadly IN its effect
To be warmed up these men under
stand IT A. 10 have developed AZ least a
slight perSpiration and to have your skin
feel warm TO tho touch Then. they assert
cold water. and the colder the better. IA
on. Of the most powerful tonics and
stirnulants known and the best bracsr for
tho nervous system that has vet been
found
II il for this reason that to-day such
institutions a. the new Rockefeller Hospi-
tai and the Neurological Institute have
sDent thousands OF dollars on bathrooms
whore such treatment il given. The
baths at the Rockefeller Hospital. just
opened. have been pronounced by experts
TO he a. nearly perfect a. any that could
be made
In these institutions the warming up il
essential not only before the applica, ION
but after IL as we'll. another feature of
the cold water treatment which the home
pract II ioner generally neslec's. II you
rub Yourself Of with n coarse towel unit II
YOUR arms ar" tired as perhaps you do
YOU are carrying Out The IDEA 10 Some
extent. hut IL would br much b"r'"r.
saw thps.. experts. II YOU simply wiped tho
wafer OF your skin made rosy bv tho
blood reaction and then did ten mora
minutes exercise You would dry cfY
and warm up again then in she proper
wav and get the full benefit OF the water
Shaving immadiat ely before or aft er
n cold plunge, these men will tell YOU.
isn't the thing 20 DO at all. because IL
isn't a violent enough form of exercise
and you allow your body TO get cold IN
8, cad Of making II warns
In the institut ions where HYDRO
,herapy "a a specially you will see eNer
cising squads before and after the time
for he cold water applicaf :ons Without
this .xercis" a cold -blitz.- a. a st rnam Of
cold water directed Mt YOU under pressure
il called. might be form OF torture
Al the Rockefeller institution and AZ
OF her inst IL uf ions where he lat est wrinkles
in hydrof heTapic treatment have been
inst allied rhe thing which first strikes ths
eve in the bathroom ~ the operator =
battery n in a marble table with all
sorts OF bright nickelled levers. gauges
and thermomete rs These levers mix
hot and cold streams increase and de-
| crease pressure and regulate the number
OF streams you are getting.
By them tho doucheur can throw al
| YOU first a hot stream and then a cold
| with sufficient pressur. TO max. them
feel like a hundred hammers AZ work
Or he may start stream mildly al first
and gradually work il up until instead
81 lukewarm water you are getting water
clos. 20 the freezing point. pounding your
backbone like trip hammer Every
thing - so arranged that tho operator
behind his battery twenty feet away can
sn., AT all times just what you ar. getting
from the gauges and thermometers and
10y moving hls lirtle levers can alter the
treatment AT SIlI
Nor" people are trying th curative
properties Of water than ever before. az
cording - those who are managing thcse
institutions IL - merely on" ~ the
results ~ modern ptrenuosity.
An institution uptown which isn't con-
nectsd with any hospital but TO which