Identifier: hydrotherapiaorw00smet (find matches)
Title: Hydrotherapia, or, The water cure : being a practical view of the cure in all its bearings, exhibiting the great utility of water as a preservative of health and remedy for disease, founded on observations and experience made at Grafenberg : to which is added a description of Grafenberg, and the system there, as practiced by Vincent Priessnitz : illustrated with a portrait, several engravings, and many cases : together with a short sketch of the history of the water-cure from the remotest antiquity, and remarks on sea bathing
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Smethurst, Thomas, b. 1804 or 5
Subjects: Priessnitz, Vincenz, 1790-1851 Graefenberg, Austria. Wasserheilanstalt Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy
Publisher: London : John Snow
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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123 SWEATING IN THE DRY BLANKET. Several hours of the day are generally spent in thisprocess, and few dispense with it. A large, thick, coarse blanket, measuring seven feetby eight, is spread upon the mattress, which is made ofstraw. The patient then lies down upon his back atfull length, naked ; the bath servant immediately wrapsone side of the blanket round him, tucking it wellunder the body; he then draws the other side overtightly, fastening it about the shoulders and feet, so asto exclude the atmospheric air. Over this is placeda down bed, which is tucked under the body, so thatthe figure resembles an Egyptian mummy ; sometimesa counterpane is placed over all. The invalid remainsin the blanket until perspiration has continued therequired time. When the sweating is complete, the servant removesthe coverings, unwraps the blanket at the feet, damp-ing these and the face with cold water ; he then putson the patients feet a pair of straw slippers, and con-ducts him to the cold bath wh

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