ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION



Hot or warm baths favor dilatation of the capillaries and are hypotensors; cold baths contract the capillaries and are hypertensors.

Pardon me for not mentioning diets and physical agents which are in most books on the practice of medicine. A milk diet is known as a hypotensor.

Alcohol, tobacco and coffee should be used very sparingly, if at all. All these are more or less toxic to most persons and it is better to abstain from their use entirely.

Francois Cartier