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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    part of the same which is consistent with true sense and sound reason. It portrays a true picture of the nature of diseases, astonishing us with the sense of the reality that most of the so-called acute diseases are, in truth, a blessing rather than a misfortune, under a correct hydro- therapeutic management; detailing, in particular, and drawing a strict line of antithetical distinction between the medical and hydriatic method of treatment and cure ; representing, from all-recognised principles and laws of physiology, the injuriousness of the medical method, and the advantage and lasting benefit accruing from the hydri- atic treatment of disease. The American public may judge somewhat of its worth and merits by the fact that, through the influence of the members of the medical pro- fession, the public sale of it was prohibited in the Austrian dominions. Still, it was in the possession of almost every Graefenberg cure-guest, and the work was at first brought to my notice and presented to me by Mr. C. von G., a Tyrolean gentleman of fine talents and excellent disposi- tion, who, I am happy to say, was, before my departure from Graefenberg, quite restored to an excellent state of health ; and although not far removed from his third score year of life, and has labored under a complication of the most severe maladies, still avowed that, since his eight- eenth year he had never enjoyed better health. C. H. M.