Excerpt from On Cardiac Failure and Its Treatment: With Especial Reference to the Use of Baths and Exercises Ir is the peculiar merit of those who are responsible for the attention now given to the balneological and gymnastic treatment of chronic heart disease, that they have extended into the domain of active therapeutics, and during the pro gress of cardiac failure, the roborant influences of that exercise which, formerly and in greatest measure, found its place in the period of convalescence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.