The water cure in chronic disease : 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 hygienic means / by James Manby Gully.

  • James Manby Gully
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1856
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    and too brief to be designated in a preflice; they are cliiefly in tiae Third Part. The Second Part contains some additional cases and ekicidations of disease. The ceaseless e.\-igencies 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 mquu-ies concermng 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 unnatural stimulation on -n-hieh such numbers of the En(^- 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 affec- tation to say that my mind has been oppressed, weighed down, by accounts which invalids have given of the process by which they became the shattered beings they are; a process almost invariably mcluding years of monstrous drugging, and its unvarying aceom])auiment, intense suf- fering of mind and body. Most sincerely do I hope that these pages may be the means of effectual warning from that destroying plan of treatment, even though tlu^y should fail to establish the more rational system which they pro- fess to teach. But almost every case of every practitioner of the Water Cure is establishing it daily on a broader and deeper basis; and the once most sceptical are now obliged to acknowledge that, at the least, it is a vast addi- tion to the remedial art. J. M. G. Malvern, September 20(/i, 18 L7.