[Method of saving a sick person's strength in 19th century medical therapy].

Saving a sick person's strength through limiting physical exercise has been used since the early ages. Slowing down the pace of functioning of the human body was intended to cause the decrease in the body temperature, improve general feeling and accelerate the process of recovery. However, saving patient's strength as a therapeutic method had been described only three years before the end of the 19th century. It was presented by Seweryn Sterling in the publication Krytyka Lekarska (Medical Critique) in 1897, in article entitled Care of the Sick as a Therapeutic Agent. The author presents the most important concepts of the above therapeutic method.