Frigotherapia.
ravetidits; After eight similar I douches, lasting about teii iiiinutes each, he was absolutely cured. This new method ot curing indigestion has received the name of frigotherai pia - _________ i
y . - • At the last meeting of the ; Academic des Sciences, M. Pictefc *'• made a very curious communication. Having remarked, in a series of experiments he had conducted, that in hot-blooded animals such as dogs, placed in a temperature of 100 degrees below zero, the temperature of the surface of their bodies did not change, be naturally concluded that this was accountable for by the stimulus imparted to their vital functions. From this the experimenter "was induced to try the effect of a c°lcl air bath upon himself as a means of curing a stomachic from which he suffered, f^ and which made eating a torture to him. Clothed in a thick pelisse, he entered a pit where the air was kept at 100. deg. At the end of four minutes -lie commenced to feel hungry, and at the end of eight minutes, M. Pictet who had forgotten what appetite meant, was
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Manawatu Herald, 5 February 1895, Page 3
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181Frigotherapia. Manawatu Herald, 5 February 1895, Page 3
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