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Credit: Ben Rhydding and the water cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![J8‘2 ]iave had but unsatisfactory results from medical liomoeopathy. The first case I select for illustrating this position, is one to which the objection may arise, whether recovery could not have been effected under homoeo- pathic treatment. My belief is, that it might, but that it would certainly have been a very tedious case, and that it was such a case as we should be in no way particularly ambitious of staking the credit of homoepathy upon. It is related by the distinguished patient himself, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and done so pleasantly and well, that, although somewhat long, it well repays perusal. “ I have been a workman in my day,” he says j “ I began to write and to toil, and to win some kind of a name, which I had tlie ambition to improve when yet little more than a boy. With strong love for study in hooks—with yet greater desire to accomplish myself in the knowledge of men—for sixteen years, I can conceive no life to have been filled with more occupation than mine. What time was not given to action was given to study; what time not given to study, to action—labour in both ! In a constitution naturally far from strong I allowed no pause or respite. The wear and tear went on without intermission—the whirl of the wheel never ceased. Sometimes, indeed, thoroughly overpowered and exhausted, I sought for escape. The physi- cians said ‘ travel,’ and I travelled; ‘go into the country,’ and I went. But in such attempts at repose all my ailments gathered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21535917_0198.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
