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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    in this compilation to enable those of my readers who were unacquainted with his system before to form an intelligent opinion of his merits. As an appendix to my remarks on the subject of empiricism, I trust that this brief enumeration of the medical writers, the cloud of witnesses who have clearly testified from the earliest times in favor of water treatment, may not be deemed out of place, or wholly without value. It would be easy to expand and extend the list, but I have not felt disposed to run the risk of thus wearying the reader—especially since a great deal of information about the ancient uses of water is to be gleaned from the popular works on hydropathy. THE END.