Ladies' manual of practical hydropathy (not the cold water system) ... / by Mrs. Smedley.

  • Smedley, Caroline Anne, Mrs.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Ladies' manual of practical hydropathy (not the cold water system) ... / by Mrs. Smedley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATLOCK BATH, FROM THE WILD CAT TOE. Almost evert day we hear of persons advancing in life, and with the wear and tear of the present exciting routine of business or social life, become a littlo poorly; the doctor is sent for to remedy Nature's failing powers, and the unnatural drugs, stimu- lants, sub-injection of morphia, iodine, bromide of potassium, as surely close life in suffering and sorrow far before the natural lease God had appointed. Stomach Complaints and Constipation of the bowels are the principal plagues of human life, and the ordinary means used as remedies are unfortunately diametrically opposed to Nature's healthy operations (see page 72), as indeed all internal remedies must necessarily be so. Having been ill, and hopeless of restoration by the ordinary medical practice, I was led to try the cold water cure, and although it laid the foundation of my restoration to health after many months' suffering, I saw in a good deal of the treatment means were used without reason and opposed to the natural restoration of the low state I was brought to. I recovered my health in two years, the latter part of the time by adopting my own v]ews, and without the least idea what it would lead to I opened a Free Hospital for our workpeople, where to this time upwards of five thousand have been restored to health, or saved reffisnng amputations and most of the trreat train of diseases poor humanity u subject to, and not only this, but taught how to live a comfort, and meet casualties witli easy natural treatment. My lannly motto uteuth is ureat, and wilt, prevail, and so we Brand it to be the case with this entirely new method of treat- ment ; until now, after twenty-one years' practice at Lea Mills and Matlock Hank, failing health compels us to resign our chariro .o a physician who has practised our system, and with the complete organization we have eafoblisbed, we believe will go on improv- H