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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    yi PREFACE. and cordiality of tone, the editor ventures to add the hope that the brotherhood in America may profit by its admonitions and pay heed to its prophetic warnings. Dr. Forbes's article on Hydropathy has already made its mark, and provoked a deal of controversial criticism. It is in- cluded in this volume for the reason that it is perhaps the most thorough and satisfactory demonstration of the real merits and true province of the Water-Treatment yet offered to the public by any one member of the medical profession. Indeed, no compilation of the kind contemplated by the editor would be complete without this calm, able, and searching paper. The succeeding article embraces a couple of chapters from a most excellent Treatise on Healthy Skin, by Erasmus Wilson, JI.D., F.R.S., Consulting Surgeon to the St. Pancras Infirmary, Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in Middlesex Hospital, au- thor of a favorite text-book on Anatomy, etc. Of these two chap- ters the one first given is the ninth in the order of the Treatise '(the tenth, which is appended, being especially devoted to the con- sideration of the Water-Treatment), and follows a series of admira- ble expositions of the distribution of the skin; its division into two layers, the external and internal; the nature of the perspira- tory apparatus, the oil-glands, and the hairs; and the influence of diet, clothing, and exercise upon the health of the skin generally. [This explanation will render perfectly clear to the mind of the reader Dr. Wilson's allusion at the outset to several preceding chapters.] The fourth article consists of » careful abridgment of Sir Charles Scudamore's elegantly-written account of his Medical Visit to Graefenberg, in April and May, 1843. The results of his inquiries are here transcribed, in preference to the narrative part and the details of cases; the latter having already been circulated to a wide extent in this country, in some of the American reprints on the subject of Hydropathy. The editor takes leave to invite the particular attention of his readers to the remarks of Sir Charles Scudamore—a writer and practitioner so generally and deservedly honored both in England and America as to need no formal introduction or eulogy.