Thuja [Thuj]
paint the affected parts with Thuja 0 and give Thuja 30 internally, and a cure will follow, said Dr. P.C. Sanderson.
Bath Cure Hot Baths.
Warm baths Dr. A. rose, of New York, was a warm advocate of the warm bath for many diseases. In surgery the warm bath, is advocated for surgical operations where possible both to prevent infection and inflammation. The same applies to burns. In cerebro-spinal meningitis the continuous warm bath he says, is among the best treatments. The warm bath is also useful in delirium insanity tuberculosis, and many other states.
The duration of the bath, or, by more properly the remaining in comfortably warm water, is not nor cannot be definitely stated. Fresh water should be run in, continuously, if possible.
Probably the best thing is to let the immersion last as long as it is comfortable to the patient, and then repeat when it again feels good.
This is condensed from International Clinics, Vol. II, 23rd series. It may be also stated that the assertion has been made that a very hot bath, short, of course, of doing injury, is the best thing in extreme cases of hydrophobia if there is such a disease and in lock-jaw. Presumably the idea is that the warm bath, as all know, is very relaxing. But remember that the bath should not be warmer than you, who are in health, could bear. This is well to remember, for it has been intimated that patients have been done to death by too hot baths.
