fangon.
A kind of mud obtained from the thermal springs at Battaglia in the Veneto in Italy, used in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, and other ailments.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for arthritis, rheumatism, or gout > mineral-derived
gold salt1846
fango1900
Myocrisin1934
1900 G. M. Gould Pocket Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 249 Fango.
1904 E. Rutherford Radio-activity 363 ‘Fango’—a fine mud obtained from hot springs in Battaglia, Northern Italy.
1905 Jrnl. Balneology Jan. 5 The annual visits of several patients to Italy for the sole purpose of taking a course of fango~packs.
1906 Christian World 22 Mar. I have just returned from a trial of ‘Fango’ at the Royal Hotel and Baths, Matlock Bath.
1906 Punch 2 Feb. 161/1 The Italians are rightly proud of their [spa] muds (do they not still send us Fango?).
1913 J. Lindsay Gout xxxi. 204 Peat, mud, fango, and similar semi-solid baths are of therapeutic value on account of their thermal action.
1940 B. I. Comroe Arthritis xxvii. 332 In some spas, fango is used extensively.
Derivatives
fangoˈtherapy n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment with mud, sand, etc. > [noun]
pication1684
arenation1717
saburration1763
earth bath1765
mudbath1782
sand-bath1869
moor bath1878
fangotherapy1903
pelotherapy1933
1903 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 264/1 Fangotherapy, treatment by the application of fango.
1940 B. I. Comroe Arthritis xxvii. 333 Fango therapy produces marked hyperemia of the skin.
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