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  • Title: Hydrotherapy in state mental hospitals in the mid-twentieth century.
    Author: Harmon RB.
    Journal: Issues Ment Health Nurs; 2009 Aug; 30(8):491-4. PubMed ID: 19591022.
    Abstract:
    This research describes nurses' experiences in administering "the water cure," hot or cold wet sheet packs, and continuous tub baths in state mental hospitals during the early twentieth century. Student and graduate nurses were required to demonstrate competence in hydrotherapy treatments used to calm agitated or manic patients in the era before neuroleptics. The nurses interviewed for this study indicated that, although labor intensive, hydrotherapy worked, at least temporarily. Although no longer used in state hospitals, hydrotherapy is regaining popularity with the general public and may serve as an adjunct to pharmacological treatments to calm hospitalized patients in the future.
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