Hydropathy, or, The water cure: its principles, modes of treatment / Compiled chiefly from the most eminent English authors on the subject.

  • Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.
Date:
1844
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    the Graefenburg establishment, and of the great power of water, there can be no sort of question whatever. Dr. Edward Johnson, for years a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, a practitioner of more than twenty years, in which time he has had occasion to write at different times as many as twenty thousand prescriptions in a single year, a man well known as an author as well as a practitioner, after remaining at Graefenberg during a whole winter, trying the various processes upon his own person, and after having abundant opportunity of witnessing the cures per- formed there, says, Priessnitz in his practice has met with an amount of success perfectly unparallelled in the history of disease and its treatment. And he further says, I am perfectly convinced that I can cure a greater number of diseases, and in a shorter time, by the hydro- pathic treatment, than I can by the exhibition of drugs j and that there are many diseases which I can thus cure which are wholly incurable by any other known means. Again : Dr. Johnson says, There is no well-educated man in England, who dare for his reputation's sake, refuse to admit that a remedy which can produce (at will) the most profuse perspiration, and which can also (at will) lower the temperature, and the velocity of the heart's action, to any given degree, even to the extinction of life—I say there is no well-educated man in England who dare deny that such a remedy must possess an immense power over diseases of every kind. Sir Charles Scudamore, in his valuable work on Hydro- pathy, says, The principles of the water-cure treatment are founded in truth and nature, and rest, therefore, on an immutable basis. The practice may be occasionally abused,