by Vladimir ROZANOV, Dr. Sc. (Biol.), Cand. Sc. (Phys. & Math.), Deputy Director of the Scientific and Information-Methodological Center Bazis of the RF Ministry of Education and Science, Deputy Director of the Scientific Center of Hydrophysical Studies, Physics Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU); Igor MATVEICHUK, Dr. Sc. (Biol.), Head of the Research and Educational-Methodological Center of Biomedical Technologies of the All-Russia Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs; Academician Valery BYKOV, RAMS and RAAS (Moscow); Nikolai SYSOYEV, Dr. Sc. (Phys. & Math.), Dean of the Physics Department at MGU The effect of water jet on human organism has been used for long and successfully by physicians in their medical practice. Some researchers believe that hydrotherapeutic methods were brought to Europe from Egypt by the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos (570-490 B.C.). Later the famous physician Hippocrates (circa 460 B.C.--between 377 and 356 B.C.) developed this theory and described in detail its substance in his treatise well known in the medical scientific circles (5th cent. B.C.) "On Air, Waters and Localities" ("De aere, aquis et locis"), in which he substantiated methods of physiotherapeutic water effect on man. In the 2nd-1st cent. B.C. the Roman physician Asclepiad (Aesculapius) acted as a follower and continuer of this theory and widely used hydrotherapeutic procedures (in particular, sponge-down and shower baths) in treatment of his patients. стр. 20 WATER JET EFFECT IN PHYSIOTHERAPY The methods of physiotherapeutic procedures in the form of jet effect on human organism originate from the first Italian showers of the 14th century. In modern physiotherapy there are dozens of shower-baths different in technology and purpose such as jet (well known as Charcot's douche), dispersive, needle, rising or perineal, raining, circular*, Scottish, underwater massagedouche, etc., which form f ... Читать далее