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PubMed1993

[Balneologic rehabilitation in women operated on for ectopic tubal pregnancy].

This paper is in support of balneological rehabilitation in patients operated on due to ectopic pregnancy and still willing to have children. In a group of 203 patients, in which histopathological findings from the material obtained at the time of surgery enabled determination of the cause of ectopic pregnancy, causative pharmacological treatment was established. Than the successive balneological treatment was carried out in 74 out of these 203 patients. Our data shoved that patients who underwent balneological rehabilitation after surgery tended to become pregnant two times more often, number of repeated ectopic pregnancies was just inconspicuous and the preservation of the patency of operated Fallopian tubes was also two times higher.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

[Paracelsus and balneology].

Starting from the words of Paracelsus, 'allein und fremd und anders'--alone and foreign and different--the influence of this important Swiss physician for the balneology of his time is outlined. Up to our days Paracelsus is honored as the real father of balneology, whereas other authors saw and probably still see hypotheses and in part utopias in his specific ideas. Paracelsus has described quite a number of thermal springs in Switzerland, Austria and southern Germany, some of them rather in detail. It is certainly questionable that he visited all of them personally. Bad Pfäfers, however, definitely belongs to them, since undoubted testimonies exist that emerged during his life time. His famous 'Baderbüchlin', though, has been printed after his death in 1562. His theoretical ideas about the effects of bathing are in part very modern, others originate from medieval alchemistic sources. He used this theory of 'Separatio' of the three basal elements sulphur, mercurius and sal, as well as the idea of the 'light of Nature', but beyond that he discussed also influences of personified forces, which he assumed in nymphs, melusins and others. Furthermore, in his balneology he expressed clearly his doctrine about the macro- and microcosmic relation, and he used in his balneotherapy vegetable and mineral compounds up to precious stones. Time, too, had a special importance for the effectiveness of the bath in his eyes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Balneology↗
PubMed1981

Immunglobulins in asthmatic children during balneological treatment in Szczawno spa. With 2 figures.

Experimental studies were carried our on children with extrinsic, intrinsic and mixed type asthma, treated balneologically in a sanatorium. Serum concentrations of immunoglobulins A, G, M, E and D, and serum enzyme inhibitor alpha1-antitrypsin were determined. The results were compared with those obtained in healthy children, and were also analysed in aspects of clinical and aetiological classification of asthma. Authors observed the therapeutic benefit of balneological treatment in childhood asthma. Asthmatic symptoms in children disappeared, or were much less pronounced. Mean immunoglobulin levels, before treatment higher than in healthy children, did not change after treatment, except IgE and IgG. Clinical improvement was accompanied by a significantly increasing IgG level.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

[Balneology--myth versus reality].

Even though spa resorts play an important role in the history of medicine and even if in almost every culture archaeological discoveries of hot springs and treatment at spa exist, modern medicine hardly accepts the effectiveness of spa treatment. Only few studies exist on evidence based medicine. In balneology the empirical side is extremely important and the therapeutic value of mineral springs, known for millenniums, should be evidence enough to allow this healing power a place (a status) in the today's mechanised world. Studies over decades prove the specific as well as the unspecific efficacy of it. For the patient, however, it is most important that his family doctor knows and introduces him to the possibilities of balneo-therapy.

Balneology↗
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[Dr. Lazar Nenadović, gynecologist-obstetrician and founder of balneology and physical medicine in Serbia].

Prof. Dr. Lazar-Laza Nenadović specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology (Modos, 1870--Beograd, 1939), the founder of advanced physical medicine and balneo-climatology in Serbia. Prof. Nenadović, besides a series of papers on obstetrics and gynaecology, is the author of a monograph on obstetrics and gynaecology published in Novi Sad in 1912, being the first of this kind in Serbia. Its title is Diseases of the female, their origin, causes and treatment. He was also one of the pioneers of gynecologic balneology in Yugoslavia and one of the founders of the Belgrade School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, as well as a close collaborator and friend of Prof. Dr Milos Bogdanović, the first head and professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the School of Medicine in Belgrade.

Balneology↗
PubMed1981

[Hygienic problems at the winning of peloids (peats and sludges of lakes) for balneological therapy (author's transl)].

In Austria there exist no regulations for the quality of peats and sludges of lakes for the external usage in balneotherapy. The results of our examinations showed that peats on the whole (Fig. 1) have much better bacteriological results than sludges of shallow, eutrophic lakes (Fig. 2). Typical intestinal germs appeared only in one of the five examined peats during a rain period down to 0.6 m beneath the surface. Three of the peats showed satisfying local and bacteriological conditions, one of the peats had a critical hygienic topography and high bacterial counts were found. The outcome of the bacteriological examinations of the three sludge-samples of two lakes showed quite a worse result. High levels of intestinal bacteria, E. coli, Enterococci, C. perfringens, were detectable. The averages of the bacterial counts of the peats and the sludges of lakes over the whole drilling length shows Fig. 3. The results of our examinations demonstrate that in most cases peats far away from human settlements may be used under appropriate conditions. To the contrary sludges of shallow, eutrophic lakes are not usable for balneological therapy because of the massive contamination with intestinal germs. There obviously is a danger for the patients to catch an illness when being treated with such sludges. Criteria for the bacteriological status of peloids are set up for discussion and the minimal quality demanded is that 1 g of peloid has to be free of intestinal bacteria.

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