Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton. 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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    Effects of Water, cold and warm, as a Remedy in Fever and other diseases, whether applied to the Sur- face of the Body or used Internally. The work is in two volumes,* the first of which includes An inquiry into the circumstances that render Cold Drink, or the Cold Bath, dangerous in Health ; to which are added observations on the nature of fever, and on the effects of opium, alcohol, and inanition ; while the second vol- ume consists mainly of Dr. Currie's experience of his Remedy, subsequent to the second edition of the pre- ceding volume, and of important communications upon the same subject. Dr. Forbes has already given the reader some idea of this work, which is one of really philosophical beauty and completeness, unusual ele- gance with respect to style, and the most scientific precision as regards the rules and rationale of the new treatment. I would that I could include in this compilation something farther from the pen of so pure a man as Dr. James Currie, for he is a writer whose orthodoxy is unquestionable ; but my limits compel me to refrain from so doing, and to content myself with the hope that the public may call for a revival of his work at no distant day. Of Vincent Priessnitz it is needless for me to say much in this place ; his career and reputation are fami- liar to the public, and sufficient has been reprinted in this compilation to enable those of my readers who were unacquainted with his system before to form an intelligent opinion of his merits. * I believe it is now very rarely to be procured. I have in my own possession the Philadelphia edition of 1808, two volumes in one, printed from the fourth London edition, corrected and enlarged, for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite.