The hydropathic treatment of diseases peculiar to women; and of women in childbed; with some observations on the management of infants / [Edward Johnson].

  • Johnson, Edward, 1785-1862
Date:
1850
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Credit: The hydropathic treatment of diseases peculiar to women; and of women in childbed; with some observations on the management of infants / [Edward Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases in which drugs are signally inefficient; rarely failing to aggravate the disease they are given to remedy; and often superadding new maladies to those which were already — afflicting the patient; until the antidote at last becomes more fatal than the poison it was given to neutralize. It has fallen to my lot to see a great deal of this class of cases, not, only of late years, but also whilst practising the old treatment in London. I have had, therefore, a fair oppor- tunity of comparing the relative merits of the two treatments—the old one, as still practised by the great majority of medical men; and the new one, or that which I have adopted of late years, and which consists of the Hydropathic method, properly modified to suit the pecu- harities of particular constitutions, added (in certain cases) to the local treatment in general use. By the term, ‘certain cases, I more