Medical reflections on the water cure. / By James Freeman, M. D. Physician to the Cheltenham Hydropathic Institution.
- Freeman, James
- Date:
- 1842
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical reflections on the water cure. / By James Freeman, M. D. Physician to the Cheltenham Hydropathic Institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![healthiness of the soil, the purity of the water, the beauty of the scenery, the gay and cheerful character of the town itself, its abundant accom- modation for visitors, the numerous conveniences and comforts which it presents to invalids, toge- ther with the high reputation which its medicinal springs have deservedly obtained for it, all com- bined to point out Cheltenham as a place in which the benefits of the water-cure might be conveniently and extensively communicated to the public. In concluding these introductory remarks, the writer wishes it to be distinctly understood, that his object is not to dej)reciate the importance or value of any other curative means, much less to bring the profession, of which he has the honour to be a member, into ridicule or disrepute. He is perfectly convinced that, with the educated and reflecting portion of the community, the claims of a new system, before they are gene- rally admitted, must rest upon a more solid foundation than the errors or abuses of an old one; and that the progress of truth and of science is but rarely accelerated by sarcasm, how- ever pungent, or by declamation, however em- ])hatic. He is fully satisfied that the system of hydropathy requires no such spurious support, cither in theory or practice ; and that the day is not far distant when its merits will be universally acknowledged by the wise and benevolent.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28751929_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
