The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo].

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1845
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Credit: The cold-water cure, its use and misuse examined / [Herbert Mayo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Marienberg, St. Martin’s not being ready, for his delay in preparing which Dr. Schmitz made first one then another plausible excuse. At length, when June arrived, Dr. Schmitz, already a gainer, directly and indirectly through my continued residence at his establishment, for whatever reason, declined to carry out our projected plan on the original terms ; and when I expostulated with him, he declared to me, that the contract which he had drawn up, and which had been signed by us the preceding January, was not binding in law, and that he would not ad- here to it; but that I was at liberty to remain at Marienberg the ensuing summer in the capacity of his assistant. I gave Dr. Schmitz two or three days’ time to reflect upon the unjust course he meditated, and then took an opportunity of putting his inten- tions to the test. When, finding that he had deli- berately determined to disavow and break the con- tract, which existed between us, I left his establish- ment of Marienberg, and removed to Miihlbad, another hydropathic institution in the neighbourhood of Bop- pard, the property of Dr. Heussner, who agreed to give me the means of receiving English patients under my care, such as I had stipulated for with Dr. Schmitz. I naturally supposed myself quit of Dr. Schmitz. He had been pleased to break our bargain, and I had suffered him to do so with impunity. His next step, therefore, took me by surprise. When two months had elapsed, taking advantage of my having instituted no legal proceedings against himself, he