Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

45Tunc aegrotantes maritima natationePiscina para nadar, piscina. Baño suave con fin terapéutico cuando se hace en aguas termales. Palabra latina procedente del verbo NATO “para nadar”, preferentemente asociada a las termas higiénicas (Cels.... exercendi atque cataclysmoChorros de agua ¿fríos? curandi, hoc est aquarum illisioneDuchas de agua, suppositis partibus patientibus. animo praeterea securo atque facili esse conuenit curandos et aquarum naturaliumAguas con propiedades salutíferas naturales (temperatura y composición), no calentadas ni creadas artificialmente. usum adhibere, ut sunt in Italia, quae Cotiliae sunt appellatae et Nepesinae; lauacro atque potu aptissime utendum adhibita aeris mutatione longa, terrena, maritima; exercitationibus uariis palaestrarum adhibito praeceptore utendum, atque ita iisdem resumptionibus corpus conuenit recurare. sic enim perseueratione et uentositas excludetur stomachi et aliae quoque supradictae passiones depelluntur.

45Then have the patient take the exercise afforded by swimming in the sea. And prescribe the use of a shower, i.e., the playing of a stream of water over the affected parts. The patient should be kept unworried and calm. And it is well also to prescribe the use of natural springs, for instance, the Cutilian and the Nepesine in Italy; have the patient bathe in these waters and drink them, for this will be most beneficial. Again, have him take a long trip abroad by land or sea to obtain a change of climate. Also pre­scribe varied exercises in the palaestra under the direction of a trainer, and keep building up the bodily strength by these same restorative measures. For continual treatment of this kind will put an end to gas in the esophagus and will also overcome the other ailments mentioned above.