The water-cure. Stomach complaints and drug diseases, their causes, consequences, and cure by water, air, exercise, and diet / With an engraving of Napoleon in the second stage of cancer of the stomach. To which is appended two letters to Dr. Hastings of Worcester, on the results of the water-cure at Malvern [in reply to attacks by the latter. By James Wilson.

  • Wilson, James, M.D.
Date:
1843
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Credit: The water-cure. Stomach complaints and drug diseases, their causes, consequences, and cure by water, air, exercise, and diet / With an engraving of Napoleon in the second stage of cancer of the stomach. To which is appended two letters to Dr. Hastings of Worcester, on the results of the water-cure at Malvern [in reply to attacks by the latter. By James Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such a shrewd old soldier as General L’ Estrange ? &e. &e. &e., and above three hundred more of in- telligence, worth, and rank, who have been or now are my patients—patients who can speak of the Water-cure as the only remedy for evils which your druggery has either begotten or fostered into intolerable growth. Gullibility! passing over the elegance of the term as uttered by a member of an honourable and gentlemanlike calling, what right have you to apply it to those I have men- tioned, whom, had they fallen into the hands of amere drug-doctor, every attempt would have been made to mystify with stale technicalities and mouthy no-meanings? Ill, very ill, does the accusation of deception come from such practisers of mummery, against myself, who tell all the world in plain English what my remedy is, and inform and show all MEDICAL MEN, who have the vove to inquire, how it is employed. But, as I said before, the desperation of curtailed fees and shorn honours is the only motive explanatory of such impudence. Alas for me! that I should have made my resort at Malvern, at the foot of England’s most pleasant hills! What avails it that there the air —the pure, invigorating mountain air—is the