Hydropathy for the people : with plain observations on drugs, diet, water, air, and exercise / by William Horsell ; with notes and observations by R.T. Trall.

  • Horsell, William, 1808-1863.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Hydropathy for the people : with plain observations on drugs, diet, water, air, and exercise / by William Horsell ; with notes and observations by R.T. Trall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Vll noil. and Hancock—Tissot's Advice to the People—Bathing or washing part of the Mahometan religion—Ancient Britons—Ras- pail's remarks—John Wesley's recommendations—Webb the pe- destrian—William Cobbett—Remarks of Richerand, Drs. Cullen, Gregory, Duncan, Cheyne, Rush, Oliver, Johnson, Thackray, Gre- ville, Pratt, Hoffman, Garnett, Fane, Hufeland, Arbuthnot, Orphen, Kitchener—Dr. Wilson's account of himself when at Graefen- burg—Statement of Campbell regarding Mr. Camver, a traveler in Africa—Proper times for drinking water—Various kinds of grass eaten by cows, horses, goats, sheep, swine—Water alone necessary for animals—Whitlaw's remarks on swine—Eating swine's flesh the cause of cutaneous disorders—Scriptural illustra- tions of water drinking—Song of the Horebite— Address of the Town Pump—Remarks of author. CHAPTER VIII. ON DRUGS, 114-135 Goethe's Faust—Wealth amassed by patent-medicine venders— Six. tons shipped by one London house for South America—No surgeons in China—Story of an Irish sailor—Ambiguous phrase- ology of the profession—Illustrative anecdote—Physicians in Hol- land—Prohibition of the use of mercury, and consequent decrease of disease in that country—The country practitioner and his three draughts—Doctors' learned nonsense, and their obscure lan- guage—Confidence in drugs by the vulgar—Exchange of the lancet for the ploughshare by distinguished men—Small-pox not common in ancient times—Medicinal murders—A physician of Worcester and his watch—Drugs used in porter and ale, and the duties paid on them—Voltaire's story of Zadig—Lord Byron, Mo- liere, etc.—Sarcastic remarks on doctors and medicine—Drug- ging system opposed to nature—The monk Bernardo's cure with water, in 1724—The excessive charges of doctors. CHAPTER IX. AIR, . 136-144 Substance of air—Respiration—Necessity of pure air—The Black Hole of Calcutta—Anecdote of Dr. E. Johnson—Darwin's ad- dress to the people of Nottingham—Mode of changing air by swinging the door. CHAPTER X. EXERCISE, 145-153 Necessity of exercise—Motion the soul of the universe—Inactivity disposes to disease—Remarks of Dryden—Voltaire's story of Caul and Ogul—Employments of distinguished men—Reasons showing the value of exercise.