Climatotherapy and Balneotherapy: The Climates and Mineral Water Health Resorts (Spas) Of Europe and North Africa, Including the General Principles of Climatotherapy and Balneotherapy, and Hints as to - Hardcover

Hermann Weber

9780265882610: Climatotherapy and Balneotherapy: The Climates and Mineral Water Health Resorts (Spas) Of Europe and North Africa, Including the General Principles of Climatotherapy and Balneotherapy, and Hints as to

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ISBN 10: 0265882613 ISBN 13: 9780265882610

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The present edition is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with Climatotherapy, Balneotherapy, and the Methodical Selection of Health Resorts (including Mineral Waters, In Part I the first two chapters are concerned With the general matter of Medical Climatology, Whilst the remaining portion con tains a description of the Climatic Health Resorts of Europe and North Africa, together with a chapter on Ocean Climates and Sea Voyages.

In Part II the general subjects of Hydrotherapy and Balneo therapy are followed by a description of the Mineral Water Health Resorts (spas). As many of the Spas described in Part II have likewise had to be mentioned amongst Climatic Health Resorts in Part I a certain amount of repetition1 has been unavoidable. Since the publication of the first edition of this book (ten years ago) numerous experimental investigations have been conducted by various observers, chiefly on the Continent, into the action of mineral waters upon the organism, particularly in regard to their effects on the digestive organs and metabolism, both in animals and man, in health and disease. To several of these investiga tions we have referred in Part II, as also to the ion theory and to considerations concerning the osmotic and other 'chemical physical' properties of mineral waters.

Part III is devoted to the selection of Health Resorts and Therapeutic Methods and their various uses in the different chronic diseases and morbid conditions.

Part I is intended to give an account of all health resorts, including a short notice of every well-known spa and its waters, the more detailed account of the waters being reserved for the notice of the spa in Part II.

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