Hydropathy : the theory, principles, and practice of the water cure shewn to be in accordance with medical science and the teachings of common sense : illustrated with many important cases / by Edward Johnson.

  • Johnson, Edward, 1785-1862.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Hydropathy : the theory, principles, and practice of the water cure shewn to be in accordance with medical science and the teachings of common sense : illustrated with many important cases / by Edward Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    it has frequently occurred to me to write as many as twenty thousand prescriptions in a single year. I only mention this circumstance, however, to show that I have not been entirely without pro- fessional experience—and for the purpose of giving more weight to this my declaration, viz., that I am perfectly convinced that I can cure a greater number of diseases, and in a shorter time, by the hydropathic treatment, than I can by the exhibition of drugs—and that there are many diseases which I can thus cure which are wholly incurable by any other known means. The great, and, as I believe, the only objection to the hydropathic treatment is, that it costs a good deal of both time and trouble. It is, there- fore, in a country like this, where time is money, a very expensive treatment. On this account, it is never likely to become the treatment first resorted to, at the onset of disease. Its legiti- mate sphere of action therefore is, and must remain, amongst those diseases which have already resisted the ordinary treatment, as a dernier resort—and amongst those other disorders over which it is allowed that medicine possesses scarcely any control—such as chronic gout, chronic rheumatism, nervous disease, indigestion,