Mud therapy for surgical diseases

Prof. VI Razumovsky (Med. Sat. Kavk. Min. V., issue 2, 1925), considers the following surgical diseases to be indicative of mud therapy; first of all, various forms of articular diseases, especially rheumatic ones with a chronic course, intra-articular and periarticular exudates, pain, stiffness, etc., as well as non-started gouty (on the contrary, infectious and toxic forms are more difficult to treat with mud), then chronic osteomyelitis and their consequences , thrombophlebitis (especially of gouty origin), consequences of varicose processes (dermatitis, leg ulcers, etc.), consequences of inflammatory processes in the abdominal cavity (perigastritis, pericholecystitis, periapendicitis, peri-and parametritis, etc.), ischias, chronic prostatitis, consequences trauma, some forms of tbc and, finally, angiosclerotic gangrene.