Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 6 | Names in the News

Names in the News. Chemin des Dames pronounced she man day dahm literally meaning "ladies' road," is a road along the ridge overlooking the Ailetle river in France. It was the scene of some of the most desperate des-perate fighting of the war In the summer sum-mer of 1 J 1 7 . Its name is due to the fact that it was a fashionable highway in for mer days. Hydrotherapy, or "water cure," has come into prominence as part of tho treatment for victims of shell shock. It consists, usually, in the so-railed "continuous "con-tinuous bath," the needle bath, the Turkish Turk-ish ha th and modifications of the old Roman baths. The constant play of water wa-ter on the pores of the patient, together with gradual or radical changes in temperature, tem-perature, have a sedative effect, calculated calcu-lated to restore nervous equilibrium. Such treatment, according to physicians, ran be easily overdone. Unless it Is applied with great discretion, it may leave the paiient worse off than In the beginning. Hydrotherapy, in one form or another, has existed for cent uric. Its' application applica-tion in American and European sanitariums sani-tariums is an outgrowth of the old Spa: system.