1957 Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 305-320
The author prescribed experimental bathing in Genzo-yu and the Hot-spring of Narugo-Branch Hospital in the Tohoku University, all in Narugo Spa, Miyagi-ken, to study the effect of the bathing on the serum Ch-E values of children, as well as the bearing they have on the liver function, and arrived at the following conclusion:
1) The effect of once bathing on the serum Ch-E, values was most marked directly after the bath, falling in some cases and rising in others, thus revealing individual differences, but returned to the pre-bath values in 3 hours. The rise or fall was found widest upon bathing in Genzo-yu. No change was seen in the liver function before and after once bathing.
2) During continuous bathing, the serum Ch-E values decreased on the 3rd-7th but reincreased by the 14th day. This fluctuation of the values also was day the most manifest upon bathing in Genzo-yu. The change in the values ran parallel with anomalies appearing in the liver function.
3) The fluctuation of the serum Ch-E values following once bathing became narrowed down in scope by continuous bathing.
4) As symptoms of bathing reaction in children, accentuated 2nd pulmonary sounds, audible femoral sounds, a slight reduction of the serum Ch-E values and a very mild dysfunction of the liver were observed. All these were transient and could be attributed to an anomaly in the function of the liver. In particular, the symptoms could be detected in sucklings on earlier dates of the continuous bathing than in adults, and were apparently more prevalent in the cases with lowered nutrition.
5) The change of the serum Ch-E values following hot-spring bathing seems to be induced by the general and non-specific stimulative exerted by the hot-spring bathing.
