Uses of Electric light bath
There are many conditions of ill-health in which the elec¬tric-light bath is beneficial. It has the same general indications as the Russian Bath and the Turkish Bath, as mentioned under Hydrotherapy. Because it produces perspiration so quickly and freely (the quantity often being double that in the Turkish bath), it is especially valuable in diabetes. In cardiac disease, obesity, toxemias of gastrointestinal origin, and in dropsy from disease of either the heart or kidneys, this bath is of particular value. Good results are secured also in chronic malarial poison¬ing, chorea due to mimicry (habit chorea), migraine, neuralgia, neurasthenia and neuritis, hysteria, syphilis, and tetany. In conditions resulting from pronounced general toxemia, such as chronic rheumatism, the light-bath is superior to all other baths. When the heat-producing capacity is reduced, as in anemia, it is excellent to heat the body thoroughly in prepara¬tion for the tonic cold applications necessary for overcoming the condition. Arteriosclerosis and high blood-pressure, in¬somnia, general gastrointestinal disorders, premature senility and mental diseases are benefited greatly by the light-bath, and various abnormal states of health classifiable under dis¬eases also respond favorably to it.