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The Dangers of the Water Cure and Its Efficacy Examined and Compared With Those of the Drug Treatment of Diseases
The Dangers of the Water Cure and Its Efficacy Examined and Compared With Those of the Drug Treatment of Diseases Author:James Wilson Subtitle: With an Account of Cases Treated at Malvern, and a Prospectus of the Water Cure Establishment at That Place. by J. Wilson and J.m. Gully General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: Cunningham Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Still we have nothing of water in all this ; and mercury is assuredly no part of the Water Cure. The fact is, and educated medical men know it, that when a large quantity of water is introduced into the circulation, it passes off by the skin in the shape of sweat, if external heat be applied : or by the kidneys, if the surface "be kept cool, this being a process of filtering only, and unaccompanied by the stimulation which marks the operation of saline and acrid diuretics, whose aim is to force the kidneys at the expense of other organs. It requires no depth of reflection to conclude which is the more likely to bring on renal dropsy. We may add, by way of rider, that Dr. Copland enumerates " the drastic operation of purgatives" among the causes of dropsy :l but does not place copious dilution in the list. 6. "THE Water Cure Causes Rheumatism." If so, the dogma on which Homoeopathy is based, and which asserts that the same remedy which cures will cause a disease, is correct. For in no complaint hitherto submitted to the Water Cure are its curative effects more decided, and even surprising, than in rheumatism, whether acute or chronic. But the comfortable prejudices in favour of abundance of flannel, a wilderness of fur, and the atmosphere of ovens, stamps the promulgation of this dread of rheumatism with the only ingenuity that it can fairly claim : for daily and hourly experience leave it without a vestige of foundation. ...« less