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Rheumatology 2002; 41: 1070-1071
© 2002 British Society for Rheumatology

Letters to the Editor

Hydrotherapy has had and has a rationale

J. Ahlqvist

Sibbvik, FIN-25830 Västanfjärd, Finland

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SIR, Reilly and Bird's [1] review of promising results of hydrotherapy such as swimming is tempered with scientific scepticism. Does this scepticism apply to all scientists?

By 1653 Olof Rudbeck in Uppsala, according to the Finnish physiologist Tigerstedt's translations (Latin original at British Medical Association library in London) into Swedish [2], had found ligation of Asellio's valvular lymphatics to induce swelling of the (lymph) glands and other tissues from which they stem. Familiar with Harvey's circulation of blood from arteries to veins through invisible connections [2], Rudbeck found that hepatic lymph was filtered by some mechanism from blood, but he considered the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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