Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.

  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    different resources of water as a medica- ment, are to be found in many works easily to be obtained,* and well worth the Study. In this letter 1 suppose myself to be addressing those as thoroughly unac(]uainted with the system as 1 was myself at the first, and I deal, therefore, only in generals. The first point whieli impressed and stnick me was the extreme and utter innocence of the water-cure in skilful hands — in any hands indeed not thoroughly new to the system. Cer- tainly when I went, I believed it to be a * The works of Drs. Johnson, (of Stansled- ^^eiss,, Wilson, Gully, &c., as well as that of Capt. Claridge.
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