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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    else fail have dragged themselves to the Bethesda pools. That all thus not only abandoned by hope and the college, but weakened and poisoned by the violent medicines absorbed into their system for a score or so of years—that all should not recover is not surprising ! The wonder is that the number of recoveries should be. so great; that every now and then we should be surprised by the man whose untimely grave we pre- dicted when we last saw him, meeting us in the streets ruddy and stalwart, fresh from the springs of Graefen- berg, Boppart, Petersham, or Malvern. The remedy is not desperate; it is simpler, I do not say than any dose, but than any course of medicine— it is infinitely more agreeable—it admits no remedies for the complaint which are inimical to the constitu- tion. It bequeathes none of the maladies consequent on blue pill and mercury—on purgatives and drastics —on iodine and aconite—on leeches and the lancet. If it cures your complaint, it will assuredly strengthen your whole frame ; if it fails to cure your complaint, it can scarcely fail to improve your general system. As it acts, or ought, scientifically treated, to act, first on the system, lastly on the complaint, placing nature herself in the way to throw off the disease, so it con- stantly happens that the patients at a hydropathic es- tablishment will tell you that the disorder for which they came is not removed, but that in all other respects their health is better than they ever remember it to have been. Thus, I would not only recommend it to those who are sufferers from some grave disease, but