This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In frequently recurrent attacks of this affection - "always catching cold" - a condition generally dependent on impaired nerve-power and over-sensitive skin, the Turkish bath proves very useful; but when inadmissible for any reason, simple cold wet-towel friction in the morning should be substituted.
 
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