Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment : a compilation of papers on the subject of hygiene and rational hydropathy; edited with additional matters.

  • Houghton, Roland S.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment : a compilation of papers on the subject of hygiene and rational hydropathy; edited with additional matters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Vll The fifth paper in the compilation is an abridgment of a very able work entitled, The Cold-Water Cure: its Use and Misuse Examined, by Herbert Mayo, M.D., F.R.S., formerly Surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, London, and latterly Physician to the Hy- dropathic establishment at MUhlbad, Boppard-on-the-Rhine. Dr. Mayo had, previously to his taking up his> residence upon the Con- tinent, suffered severely from chronic rheumatism, insomuch that he was persuaded to try the Water-Cure as a last resort, though at the expense of relinquishing a professional career in London, which was full of interest and promise of success. Dr. Mayo's amendment was so striking, that gratitude for his improvement im- mediately prompted him to impart to others his sense of the merits of Rational Hydropathy. The editor has preferred to reprint these papers without notes or material abridgment, rather than run the risk of doing injustice to their authors, and at the same time interrupting the attention of the careful reader. There may be some few points of a minor nature on which his opinions are at variance, to a greater or less extent, with those set forth in these papers with such brilliancy and force; but the occasion does not call for any detailed notice of them here. His own position the editor has felt it to be most proper to de- fine in a separate paper at the close of the volume. To this he respectfully refers the reader. No. 8, West Eleventh Stbeet, New Yobk City.