Hydropathic aphorisms : the simple treatment of disease contrasted with medicinal abuses, or, The why and wherefore of the water cure / by John Balbirnie.

  • John Balbirnie
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[1856]
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Credit: Hydropathic aphorisms : the simple treatment of disease contrasted with medicinal abuses, or, The why and wherefore of the water cure / by John Balbirnie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. The art of restoring and preserving health should be no longer the exclusive pursuit of a privileged and interested order. The doctrines relative to health and disease are not subjects of barren speculation, but matter of equal interest to all—one that comes home alike to every man's business and bosom. The public have themselves to blame for having shifted the study of the agencies on which health depends, from the indi- viduals who are themselves most concerned, and for having deputed it to those who make a gain by disease. Patients liave been too long ac- customed to surrender their common sense in the affairs of their health—losing their reason, as it were, in the fumes of the incense offered up at the shrine of medical fashion : and they have heavily ])aid the penalty of their folly or indifference. 8. VVe hope, however, that the time is now arrived wherein how to take care of his corporeal frame, will constitute one of the leading parts of the moral arul intellectual enducation of man. For this purpose, lie must studv the structure and functions of the various bodily organs, the plie- nomena of health and disease, and tlic means of perfecting tlie physical development of iiulividuals and communities, lie will then learn that health