The water-cure in chronic diseases : an exposition of the causes, progress, and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lungs, nerves, limbs, and skin, and of their treatment by water, and other hygenic means / by James Manby Gully.

  • James Manby Gully
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1854
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Credit: The water-cure in chronic diseases : an exposition of the causes, progress, and terminations of various chronic diseases of the digestive organs, lungs, nerves, limbs, and skin, and of their treatment by water, and other hygenic means / by James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    too lirief to 1)e desi,£,T]ated in a preface; they are chiefly in the Third Part. The Second Part contaius some addi- tional cases and elucidations of disease. The ceaseless exigencies of medical practice have retarded the completion of this edition beyond the ordinary period for similar reproductions. I have no other and need no more sufficient apology for the many inquiries concerning it at the publisher's. My hope is, that this book may open the eyes of all who read it, to the destructive tendency of the drugging and nnnatm-al stimulation on which such numbers of the Eng- lish public maintain a feverish vitality for a few years, to sink at last into the condition of hopeless valetudinarians. The past history and present state of many such who are under my observation are perfectly terrific. It is no aftec tation to say that my mind has been oppressed, weighed d(wn, by accounts which invalids have given of the process by which they became the shattered beings they are; a process almost invariably including years of monstrous di'ugging and its unvarjdng accompaniment, intense .suf- fering of mind and body. Most sincerely do I hope that these pages may be the means of efl'ectual warning from that destroying plan of treatment, even though they should fail to establish the more rational system which they profess to teach. But almost every case of eveiy practitioner of the Water Ciire is establishing it daily on a broader and deeper basis ; and the once most sceptical axe now obliged to aclcnowdedge tliat, at the least, it is a vast addition to the remedial ai-t. J. il. G. JIai.veun, Sei^lembev 20lli, 1817.
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