Re: My Two HYDROTHERAPY Newsletters

It is unfortunate that you cannot produce your articles on Cold Sheet treatment. Maybe you need to find a way of presenting the same information in your own words. After all Dr Schulze would most certainly not object to that arrangement. I would like at this moment to present an article I found on John Wesleys teachings on hydrotherapy as found on http://www.hydrotherapyv.com

John Wesley Hydrotherapy Cure Methods
JOHN WESLEY, the noted founder of the great Methodist Church, was a keen observer, and being open-minded, and a great traveler, he gathered in the course of his travels a great amount of practical information concerning the care of the body and for the cure and prevention of disease, which he compiled in a little work entitled
Primitive Physick, from which we quote the following paragraphs on hydrotherapy cure methods:

For ague or intermittent fever, "go into the cold bath just before the cold fit" (this method is still in use in Germany and France) ; or, "drink a quart of cold water just before the cold fit, and then go to bed and sweat."

For a tertian ague, it is recommended to "use light and sparing diet on the day between," "or use the cold bath (unless you are of advanced age or extremely weak [a wise precaution, showing no little experience] ). But when you use this, on any account whatever, it is proper to go in cool; to immerge at once, but not head foremost;
to stay in only two or three minutes (or less at first) ; never to bathe on a full stomach; to bathe twice or thrice a week at least, until you have bathed nine or ten times; to sweat immediately after it (going to bed), in palsies, rickets, etc."

"Before the cold fit begins, go to bed, and continue a large sweat by [drinking] lemonade for six or eight hours. This usually cures in three or four times. If it does not, use the cold bath between the fits."

The writer found this method in use among the laity of the middle part of the United States nearly seventy years ago, 1868, and with success in cases in which quinine and other anti-periodics had failed to effect a cure.

For apoplexy, "to prevent, use the cold bath, and drink only water."

For asthma, "take a pint of cold water every morning, washing the head therein immediately after, and using the cold bath once a fortnight." "For present relief, vomit with a quart or more of warm water. The more you drink of it the better."

For dry or convulsive asthma, "use the cold bath thrice a week."

"To prevent swelling from a bruise, immediately apply a cloth five or six times doubled, dipped in cold water, and new dip when it grows warm."

"To cure a swelling from a bruise, foment it half an hour, morning and evening, with cloths dipped in water as hot as you can bear."

For a burn or a scald, "immediately plunge the part into cold water. Keep it in an hour; or if not well before, perhaps four or five hours.

"To prevent the rickets, ten­derness, and weakness [in children], dip them in cold water every morning, at least until they are eight or nine months old."

For whooping-cough, "use the cold bath daily."

For cholera morbus, "drink two to three quarts of cold water, if strong, or of warm
water, if weak."

For a cold, "drink a pint of cold water lying down in bed."

For colic, "drink a pint of cold water, or a quart of warm water, or [apply] hot water in a bladder, or steep the legs in hot water, a quarter of an hour."

For hysteric colic, "use the cold bath. Using the cold bath two and twenty times a month has entirely cured hysteric colic fits and convulsive motions."

For chronic headache, "keep your feet in warm water a quarter of an hour before you go to bed, for two or three weeks."

For headache from heat, "apply to the forehead cloths dipped in cold water, for an
hour."

For one seemingly killed by lightning or suffocation, "plunge him immediately into cold
water."

For mania, "apply to the head, cloths dipped in cold water, or pour cold water on the head out of a teakettle, or let the patient eat nothing but apples for a month."

For rheumatism, "use the cold bath, with rubbing and sweating."

For rickets, "wash the child every morning in cold water.

For sciatica, "use cold bathing and sweat, together with flesh-brush twice a day; or drink half a pint of cold water daily in the morning and at four in the afternoon."

For stone, to prevent its occurrence, "drink a pint of warm water daily just before dinner."

For swelling of the joints, "pour on the part daily a stream of warm water, or a stream of cold water one day and warm water the next."

"It is also useful to use the hot bath a few days before you use the cold."

Wesley recommended cool bathing for the cure of nearly all the affections of childhood, all chronic diseases, and many surgical cases.

Although Wesley was not a physician, but simply described in his work such successful
remedies as he found in common use, one can not but note the sagacity and wisdom displayed in many of these recommendations, which in many instances could scarcely be improved upon at the present day, and certainly evidence extended and accurate observation of the effects of hydrotherapy applications.http://www.hydrotherapyv.com/2011/12/john-wesley-hydrotherapy-cure-methods.html Tweet