Hydropathy, or the cold water cure; a popular exposition of the above system of curing diseases, as adopted by Vincent Priessnitz. At Gräfenbert, Silesia, Austria; exhibiting how far the plan is original, useful, or injurious / [Robert James Culverwell].

  • Robert James Culverwell
Date:
1842
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Credit: Hydropathy, or the cold water cure; a popular exposition of the above system of curing diseases, as adopted by Vincent Priessnitz. At Gräfenbert, Silesia, Austria; exhibiting how far the plan is original, useful, or injurious / [Robert James Culverwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wrung out in water to be worn—to irrigate under water-falls, to drink like fish ; the world will be¬ come amphibious to be fresh and sweet. Hold, Mr. Merryman. Your absurdities are neither so novel nor so outrageous as you seem to fear : water- worshipping is ‘‘as old as the hills and scarcely aJ century past we had learned philosophers prescribing pills of cobwebs, and plaisters of treacle and soot, for the cure of the ague ; bolusses of dried and powdered toads for convulsions ; black beetles boiled in oils and served a la Frangais, with sprinklings of pow¬ dered egg shells, for cancers ; warm lamb’s lungs, cold raw lean beafsteaks and live puppies instead of bread for cataplasms ; dead felons’ touches and live kings’ blessings charmed away infirmities that the knife now suggests a readier remedy for. But we waste time. HYDROPATHY. Among the new publications of the last month has appeared an Exposition of the principles and im_ portance of Hydropathy, or the Cold Water Cure :* * Hydropathy, or the Cold Water Cure, as practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Griifenberg, in Silesia, Austria; by R. J. Claridge, Esq.—Madden & Co., 8, Leadenhall Street.
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