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He was born on July 29, 1840, in Schwersen, which up to 1918 was included in the German Empire and is now part of Poland. He was the son of Bernard and Teresa (Green) Baruch.
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Excerpt from An Epitome of Hydrotherapy for Physicians, Architects and Nurses Moreover, large hospitals - civil and military (recon struction) - also many sanatoria and health resorts have regarded it as a sine qua non of being up to date to con struct costly Hydrotherapeutic instalments. Unfortunate ly, many of the latter are content with the mere possession of these facilities for utilizing the remedial uses of water in chronic maladies, but do not achieve their full value. That physicians do not obtain the best results from Hydrotherapy has so often come to the attention of the author that he has undertaken in this volume to direct attention to some of the causes Of failure and the facile methods Of removing them, not only in chronic, but acute and subacute ailments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Faulty Hydrotherapy: A Paper Read Before the German Medical Society of New York, Feb. 1, 1897 Despite its antiquity water has not obtained a firm footing in therapeutics; despite its marked clinical results it still requires to be brought to the attention of practitioners; despite its espousal by the best authorities in ancient and modern practice and literature the average medical man is not familiar with its history, action, and merits. What are the reasons for this lack of appreciation of hydro therapy existing ln the medical man? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease : for students and practitioners of medicine. 458 Pages.
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Excerpt from The Management of Pneumonia Patients My chief reason for bringing so trite a subject before you is that the fatality of pneumonia and the frequency of the discussion of its treatment indicate that it is very far from being settled in the minds of the profession. Another reason is a desire to sum marize a personal experience extending over one third ofa century in city and country, private and hospital practice, and which represents a therapeutic evolution, a consideration ofwhich may contribute an humble stone to that therapeutic structure which can be reared only by the aggregation of individual ob servations. It is hoped that the discussion of this subject to-night may furnish some clue to a better management of patients suffering from this very prevalent and fatal malady. The most effective therapeusis may be evolved only from the most thor ough comprehension ofthe nature ofdisease. Whether stumbling upon it accidentally, as in the case of quinin for malarial diseases, or by a gradual evolu tion, as in the Brand bath for typhoid fever, or by a process of reasoning, as in the thyroid-gland treat ment for myxedema, our therapeutic achievements are in proportion to our mastery of the nature of the disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Uses of Water in Modern Medicine, Vol. 1 That the proper methods of applying water in disease require to be brought before the American medical public in a comprehensive, practical form has long been the author's observation. He has, therefore, undertaken to write a suc cinct account Of the present status of water as a therapeutic agent. The only work in the English language which has not the taint of quackery, the valuable treatise Of Winternitz in Ziemssen's Handbook of Therapeutics, has long been out of print. Owing to its being a portion of a large work, it has escaped the attention Of the profession, and has not received the appreciation it deserves as a scientific exposition of the views of an author wh,o.has rendered medicine the incalculable service of rescuing the remedial virtues Of water from the empirical environment into which it had fallen, and to which the medical profession appeared until recently to be inclined to abandon it. As Ziemssen has justly said, whatever we know of hydrotherapy, we owe to Winternitz. To Prof. Winternitz I. Am personally indebted, not only for knowledge derived from his numerous scientific and clinical writings, each one Of which is replete with logically Stated truths, but also for personal guidance and instruction during a sojourn at his institution in Kaltenleutgeben, 'where the best informed hydrotherapists in Europe have received their instruction. In this monograph it is not proposed to furnish an ex position Oi hydropathy or the water-cure system, that method Of treatment whose enthusiastic followers claim that it will inaugurate the millennium of therapeutics, becauseits efficacy is not less marvelous than its methods are simple and easily comprehended. It is the author's purpose to sever hydrotherapy from any connection with hydropathy or water cure, and so present the subject that the general practitioner may avail himself Of the former, just as he does Of the medicinal agents, of whose action he really is capable of learning much less. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born on July 29, 1840, in Schwersen, which up to 1918 was included in the German Empire and is now part of Poland. He was the son of Bernard and Teresa (Green) Baruch.
His early education was received in the Gymnasium of his native town; but he emigrated to America before completing his studies and continued his professional training in Charleston, S. C. , and at the Medical College of Virginia. At the age of twenty-two he received his M. D. degree and immediately joined the Confederate Army with the rank of assistant surgeon.
During the next three years he saw much active service. At the close of the war, he settled in Camden, and there practised medicine until 1881, when he moved to New York. He came prominently before the profession and the public in 1888, when he insisted upon an immediate operation in a case which he had diagnosed as appendicitis. The successful outcome of this operation - said to have been the first of its kind in America - led to a treatment of appendicitis which has saved innumerable lives.
Two of Baruch's books, The Uses of Water in Modern Medicine (1892) and The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy (1898), as well as his introduction into this country of the Brand treatment of typhoid fever by means of full baths, attest his deep interest in and extensive knowledge of the subject. Official recognition of his services to medicine came when he was appointed professor of hydrotherapy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The transition from a physician to a public-spirited citizen and philanthropist was in his case a very natural one; for, being interested in the uses of water in medicine, he turned his attention to the importance of free cleansing baths; and largely through his efforts what is claimed to have been the first public bath in America was opened in Rivington St. , New York City, in 1901. Since then more than 100 free municipal bath-houses have been established throughout the country. It was this interest in hydrotherapy which led to Baruch's appointment as a member of the Saratoga Commission, when New York State purchased and restored the Saratoga Mineral Springs.
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Baruch was deeply attached to the United States. Even as late as 1917, when this country entered the World War, he wrote: "If I did not stand ready to consecrate heart and soul and all that I possessed to the defense of my adopted country, I would despise myself as a scoundrel and a perjurer and regard myself as an ingrate to the Government that has, for sixty years, enhanced and protected my life, honor and happiness. "
On November 27, 1867, he married Isabel Wolfe, of Winnsboro, S. C. , a descendant of an old American family.