Miscellanies to the Graefenberg water-cure, or a demonstration of the advantages of the hydropathic method of curing diseases as compared with the medical / translated by C.H. Meeker.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Miscellanies to the Graefenberg water-cure, or a demonstration of the advantages of the hydropathic method of curing diseases as compared with the medical / translated by C.H. Meeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    That is the fundamental principle of the doctrine of healing. Instances of this principle : Water becomes thick and putrid if withdrawn from the decomposing power of agi- tated air ; the air loses its oxygenous principle and be- comes mephitic if it find no water and no vegetables with which to exercise reciprocally its decomposing and assi- milating power. Beasts and plants sicken and die when their surface is so covered that neither air nor water can exercise their decomposing power upon it. When nutriment is withdrawn from an organic being, i. e. the opportunity to appropriate to itself foreign matter, then death follows from a failure of the supply to the juices of the body ; if, on the contrary, this being is withdrawn from the influence of foreign decomposing power, disease follows from the coagulation and corruption of the juices from want of the removal of refuse humors by the power of foreign appropriation.