A code of instructions for the treatment of sufferers from railroad and steam-boat accidents : sudden attacks of illness, and suspended animation from various causes, until medical aid can be procured ; also, an essay on the cure of disease, by means of water, exercise, and diet / by Sir Arthur Clarke.

  • Clarke, Arthur, Sir, 1778-1857.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A code of instructions for the treatment of sufferers from railroad and steam-boat accidents : sudden attacks of illness, and suspended animation from various causes, until medical aid can be procured ; also, an essay on the cure of disease, by means of water, exercise, and diet / by Sir Arthur Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one human being from an untimely grave, or of relieving the sufferings of a single in- dividual, his endeavours, however humble, will not be in vain. The Second Part of this essay, on the cure of diseases by water, exercise, and diet, or, as it is familiarly called, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure, is a branch of the healing art, which, for many reasons, finds no favour with the medical profession generally; it there- fore behoves the rest of the intelligent world, to carefully examine into its merits, and without prejudice, to weigh the evidence in its favour. Many professional men ridicule this branch of medical science, merely from never having studied it, or seen it practised, and of course must be totally ignorant of it; but the author avers, that the power of curing an inflammatory or febrile complaint, in a short space of time, without lowering the system by bleeding, blistering, and drugging, is of the utmost importance to life and health; and that the water cure, judiciously managed,