Heart cooler

The term heart cooler describes a device that is interesting in terms of medical history and that was used to cool the area around the heart from the outside. It was used symptomatically in pericarditis , for example , to reduce stressful symptoms such as palpitations and fever for the patient.

The heart cooler consisted of a rubber hose with cold water flowing through it or a copper coil. The term was also used generally for cold compresses. The heart cooler was placed on the left side of the chest in order to cool the heart area and reflexively lower the heart rate.

Web links

Tariff listing in the Provincial Law Gazette for Vienna from 1958 (PDF; 104 kB)

literature

P. Kröling: " Heart cooler" in the mud bath. Questions from practice. In: Dtsch.Med.Wschr. Volume 116, 1991, p. 1812.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b J. Oppolzer: Lectures on special pathology and therapy. Volume 1, Verlag Enke, 1866, p. 33. (books.google.de)
^ W. Adam: The short life of the Nuremberg poet Wilhelm Kunze: Biographical representation in pictures, documents and personal testimonies: with appendix and unpublished texts. (= Literature and media studies. Volume 106). Igel Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89621-224-5 , p. 15. (books.google.de)

[q1-1] J. Oppolzer: Lectures on special pathology and therapy. Volume 1, Verlag Enke, 1866, p. 33. (books.google.de)

[2] W. Adam: The short life of the Nuremberg poet Wilhelm Kunze: Biographical representation in pictures, documents and personal testimonies: with appendix and unpublished texts. (= Literature and media studies. Volume 106). Igel Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89621-224-5 , p. 15. (books.google.de)