What is hydrotherapy? - Answer Application of hot and cold water/ application to
manipulate systems.
Hydrotherapy manipulate what 8 systems? - Answer 1. Metabolism of body tissues and
body as a whole
2. Blood Flow
3. Lymphatic Flow
4. Life Force (Qi, Prana)
5. Muscle Tone
6. Nervous System Function
7. Bronchial and Respiratory Function
8. Colon Function
What two things was hydrotherapy historical valued for? - Answer 1. Muscle soreness
2. Fatigue
Which practitioner started exploring the use of hydrotherapy for mental disorders? -
Answer Practitioner J.B. Van Helmont
In the 18th century, hydrotherapy was also known as? - Answer Water Cure
In the 18th century, particularly in Europe, hydrotherapy was typically combined with
what two things? - Answer 1. Healthy Diet
2. Fresh Air
Who established principles of modern hydrotherapy in Germany with his father and
brother? - Answer Johan Hahn
Johan Hahn was particularly successful with what disease? - Answer Small Pox
Which physician in Litchfield, England advocated for cold bathing? - Answer John
Floyer
In 1697, The history of Hot and Cold Bathing was published by who? - Answer John
Floyer
Which practitioner successfully treated his own broken ribs with cold applications and
treated his neighbors? - Answer Vincent Priessnitz
Who provided treatments including cold water applications, simple, pure diets, and the
clean environment of his mountain home? - Answer VIncent Priessnitx
Who refined many of Preissnitz methods and emphasized the need to treat patients with
respect for individual needs for tolerance? - Answer J.H. Rausse
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Who combined sweat baths, water treatments and dry fasting? - Answer Johann
Schroth
Who described "unity if disease"? - Answer Louis Kuhne
Who wrote the Return to Nature? - Answer Adolf Just
Who wrote The Natural Healing Method? - Answer F.E. Blitz
Who helped establish Battle Creek Sanatorium in Michigan? - Answer John Harvey
Kellogg
Who wrote Rational Hydrotherapy and many books on massage, sine wave, and diet
therapy? - Answer John Harvey Kellogg
Who designed and equipped Bloomindale hospital in NY? - Answer Simon Baruch
Who wrote The Principles and Practices of Hydrotherapy and An Epitome of
Hydrotherapy? - Answer SImon Baruch
Who cured Preissnitz of rheumatic fever? - Answer Robert Wesselhoeft
Who immigrated to America, studies medicine, and established Brattleboro infirmary in
Vermont using water cure methods? - Answer Robert Wesselhoeft
Who was rejected when he initially applied for priesthood because he had tuberculosis?
- Answer Sebastian Kneipp
Who cured himself of tuberculosis primarily through water treatments and diet? -
Answer Sebastian Kneipp
Who wrote My Water Cure? - Answer Sebastian Kneipp
Who wrote The Water Cure in Chronic Disease? - Answer James Gully
Who established water cure as scientifically valid medical therapy in France and
Austria? - Answer Louis Fleury
Who trained and mentored Dr. Simon Baruch and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg at his
Kaltenleutgbn instititutes? - Answer Wilhelm Winternitz
Who emphasized the water therapy effected mediated thought the nervous system
which demonstrated physiologic changes (pulse and others) from water therapies? -
Answer Wilhelm Winternitz
Who was one of the few black men in hydrotherapy? - Answer David Ruggles