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The douche, showing wall control and shower needle baths in action. The table control is much more expensive and elaborate.

Identifier: reclaimingmaimed00mcke (find matches)
Title: Reclaiming the maimed; a handbook of physical therapy
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: McKenzie, R. Tait (Robert Tait), 1867-1938
Subjects: Military Medicine Wounds and Injuries
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
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the insane, and the conditions are suffi-ciently close to form an analogy. Water is a good conductor of electricity, so that this agentmay be applied through a local or general bath, as alreadydescribed in Chapter II. The hydro therapeutic equipment, necessary for the treat-ment of disabled men, consists of a douche and shower,immersion tubs, or a pool for water, kept at a constant tem-perature, local baths for the treatment of arms and legs, andelectric baths for both local and general application. The Douche. — The douche should have a powerful jet,the stimulant effect of the water being increased by itsforce which may go up to thirty pounds. A treatment should always begin by warm water (90°),rising to hot (115°) and ending with cold (60)°. Itshould not last more than one or two minutes, and,where the stimulant effect must be great, the Scottishdouche should be applied. In this two jets, one at100 degrees and the other at 60 degrees, are applied alter- 48 RECLAIMING THE MAIMED
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nately by a lateral sweep of the nozzle up and down the spine.This plan is also used in the local contrast baths of RobertJones for exercising the circulation of an arm or leg. Theshower is a gentler form of this treatment in which the RECLAIMING THE MAIMED 49 massage of the water jet is absent, but the same rules applyto it as to the douche. Immersion Baths. — Immersion baths are given at threetemperatures, below, at, and above the skin temperature.The bath at 94 degrees, skin temperature, is soothing incharacter, a good sedative. Its greatest use is in decreasing

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