Practical observations on mineral waters and baths; with notices of some continental climates, and a reprint (the third) of the Cold-water cure / [Edwin Lee].

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870
Date:
1846
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Credit: Practical observations on mineral waters and baths; with notices of some continental climates, and a reprint (the third) of the Cold-water cure / [Edwin Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water cure, it will be easy to perceive that the method is not so generally successful as some of its more enthusiastic partisans would lead us to suppose ; and that some of the cases have a fatal termination, even while under the treatment, or within a short time afterwards. Some of the exclusive advocates of the method boast of the small number of deaths which have occurred in the establishments where it is practised, as com- pared with those which take place where a purely medicinal treatment is pursued ; but the compari- son is not a fair one, inasmuch as the number of those who would leave their homes, when in a state of health attended with danger, to resort to a water cure establishment, must be extremely limited. The great bulk of the cases met with in these establishments is composed of persons labouring under various derangements of the health unattended with danger, which is most to be apprehended from the imprudent use of the remedy from which they seek restoration. “Of the patients who resort to Malvern,” says Dr. Wilson in his recent work,* “for the treatment by water, alr, exercise, and diet, seven out of ten labour under the interruption of more or fewer of the organs which minister to the digestion of food ;” and in fact the same may be said of a large pro- * The Dangers of the Cold Water Cure.