Outlines of a new theory of disease : applied to hydropathy, showing that water is the only true remedy : with observations on the errors committed in the practice of hydropathy, notes on the cure of cholera by cold water, and a critique on Priessnitz's mode of treatment : intended for popular use / by the late H. Francke ; translated from the German by Robert Baikie.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Outlines of a new theory of disease : applied to hydropathy, showing that water is the only true remedy : with observations on the errors committed in the practice of hydropathy, notes on the cure of cholera by cold water, and a critique on Priessnitz's mode of treatment : intended for popular use / by the late H. Francke ; translated from the German by Robert Baikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pathist at a distance, the result of the cure is doubtful, since miscon- ceptions of many kinds cannot fail to occur. When by such miscon- ceptions an aggravation of the complaint instead of a cure is the result, the patient blames the water, which brings the science into discredit. Such misconceptions can only be obviated by a hand-book of hydro- therapeutics, which shall exhaust the subject and be available for gen- eral use. I am now engaged in the composition of such a hand-book, and hope, in the course of the year 1849, to lay before the public the first part of it, comprising the treatment of acute diseases.* To prevent my being accused of general or indiscriminate censure, I must here remark, that when in this work I speak of physicians in gen- eral, and of the incorrigible nature of their errors and prejudices, I by no means mean, by this general mode of expression, to say, that there are not honorable exceptions. In all professions common minds form the great majority. In all professions there are some noble-minded men to whom truth is of more value than their own interest. Many physi- cians who love and and acknowledge truth have come over from medi- cine to water, and these conversions will, in future, become mere common. H. F. Stuer, December, 1845. * This book had, unfortunately, advanced no further than the Introduction when the melancholy event already alluded to toolt place.