Timeline J History of Hydrotherapy
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INDIA GREECE ROME
sacred books
They used water as Antonio Musa and
Vedas and Manu
medicine in Claudius Galenus
prescribe water
temples of Asclepius. 2nd century AD
for treatment of They
ailments. recommended the
therapeutic
water use of
.
Hippocrates sV .
-
BC
I used water
To treat
diseases and
cure fever,
recommended the
bathroom to different
temperatures.
At this time, he acquired
greater boom in
phytotherapy.
People didn't show up
conducive to
hydrotherapy,
because of prejudice
morals of Christianity
and also for the fear of
the infections.
Paracelsus (1493-
~
1541)
He
leaves
us, in
the
middle
of his
great
written
work,
a
treatis
e on
the
baths
(De
Themi
s); in
which
he
mainta
ins
that
the
sick
person
should
be
cured,
not the
diseas
e.
THE RENAISSANCE
Vinzenz Priessni
Fathers Christoph Wilhelm 1851)
Tossignano and Hufeland (1762-1836) Developed new techn
as
Albano Thanks to Hufeland,
Simple or double comp
These two friars began a hydrotherapy began to gain
healing system in which confidence again in dips, total or partial imm
only drinking water was enlightened Europe. their famous cold s
used.
Sigmund Hahn
The numerous cures (1664-1742) This
that his aquarium Silesian doctor used and
therapy produced gave spread cold water
him worldwide fame therapy after seeing that
THE
XIX
Wilhelm Winternitz (1835-1917)
Thanks to this Viennese doctor and university
professor,
hydrotherapy acquired scientific status and began
to be taught in the teaching plans of the
Vienna Medical School and later, at the
rest of Europe.
With it, it can be said that the first steps are taken to
consolidate hydrotherapy as a medical science.
Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897)
Used infusions of medicinal plants
and measures to strengthen the body, such as
walking barefoot in cold water. A note
original of his system was that it did not allow
drying the sick after
application of cold water; the patients
they dressed and evaporated the water when entering
heat.
We find it in spas, spas, etc. although it is more about something recreational than an exclusive system of
treatment of diseases.
