The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo].

  • Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852
Date:
1845
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Credit: The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE COLD-WATER CURE. ITS USE AND MISUSE. The cold-water cure is a highly artificial course of treatment, which experience has shown to be capable of removing several diseases that were before intractable, and generally, to make a capital restorative for impaired health. The cold-water cure is a sort of training, of which, when conducted with caution and judgment, many more can avail themselves than one would have anticipated. When overdone, it has occasionally led to serious, nay fatal consequences. But there is so much good in it as a whole, that for the most part its misuse even, when not extravagant, leaves the patient with a surplus of benefit. The cold-water cure can hardly be said to contain any new curative element; almost all its means had been tried and approved before, but they had not been com- bined to form a system. The cold-water cure cannot do what medicine can; neither can medicine do what the cold-water cure can. The latter, viewed rationally, does not come in to su- persede the former, but to help it out where it was at fault. There is nothing in the cold-water cure at variance with the use of medicine, or to prevent the two being employed in conjunction, where neither alone would meet B