Excerpt from Practical Hydropathy: Including Plans of Baths, and Remarks on Diet, Clothing, and Habits of Life
A selection of baths for the most ordinary diseases will be. Found page 429 and Home Treatment, page 6.
Spongio or mackintosh bandages should not be washed in warm water, but merely dipped in cold water and squeezed out, not rubbed.
Full Index to the various matters contained in this work will be found page 437. Baths, bandages, and all appliances mentioned in this work, and books, may be had of john higdon, Lea, Mills, Derby.
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