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SCARCE & INTERESTING - EXCELLENT Cond - the address on the card is 49 Ashburnham Road, London - see scans of both sides.
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Nauheim Treatment" is an obsolete treatment that probably never worked - used for certain heart related conditions by bathing in water that had carbonic acid gas bubbling through the water - and was then followed by resistance exercises.
It was also called a Nauheim Bath, or Schott Treatment
Part of an article written in 1906 - During my stay in the United States an article by Dr. J. M. Anders1 of Philadelphia on the action of the Nauheim cure attracted my attention. I deem it my duty to say a few words in reply to his statements, both in the interest of Nauheim and of Americans suffering from heart diseases who are unable to visit Nauheim for relief.
Those not acquainted with Nauheim and the prevailing conditions who read these statements must be led to the conclusion that it is a generally accepted practice at the place to treat heart disease with gymnastic exercises. This is by no means the case. The fact is that out of fifty physicians practicing in Nauheim the Schott treatment is solely applied by Professor Schott. A number of the Nauheim colleagues still occasionally permit the patients to exercise with the Zanders apparatus, but not until the muscles of the heart ...........
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Smallish business card measures 3" x 1.5"
The card you see in the scan is the EXACT one you will receive!
We have acquired thousands of vintage and antique photos & postcards from the early 1900's onwards (including a lot of interesting semi-naked ones, and politically incorrect ones, religious ones, flowers, aircraft, money, trains, motor racing etc from countries all over the world) and will be gradually listing them all in the next few weeks.
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