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The Shower-bath in Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

John A. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Garlands Asylum, Carlisle

Extract

At a meeting of a Society such as ours, where everything which has the remotest tendency to promote or aid the recovery of patients who labour under mental alienation, becomes an object of interest, I feel no hesitation in bringing forward a short paper on the use of cold water applied to the human body in the form and much after the same fashion as that in which nature finds it most beneficial to the vegetable kingdom.

Type
Part 1.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1873 

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