(1) The internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease
(1) She was a single mother, and she was exploring all sorts of homeopathy, hydropathy , all those things that people did in those days to try to get well.
(2) He turned to hydropathy , a Victorian medical fashion in which a patient is given cold showers, steam baths, and wrappings in wet sheets.
(3) It jumped from a small local spa to a national one in the middle of the 19th cent. with the popularity of hydropathy .
(4) He subjected himself uncritically to nonsensical and unpleasant hydropathic ‘cures’.
(5) She continued her medical lectures and began offering her own hydropathic treatments.
(6) He went off to a hydropathic centre, but by May his health appeared to be on the verge of serious breakdown.
(7) In the 19th century this pudding seems to have been known as ‘ hydropathic pudding’ because it was served at health resorts where pastry was forbidden.
(8) The practices of the early Hygienists were a composite mixture of hygiene and hydropathy, while most of the practitioners were designated as hydropathists .
(9) Other alternatives included herbalist doctors, who only used plants and plant extracts in their treatments, and hydropathists , who promoted water cures.
(10) She wrote her medical thesis on the preventive approaches she had learned from hydropathists .
(11) Above all, the hydropathists reminded us of the inseparable relationship that exists between good health and pure water.
(12) We emerge, spluttering and gasping from a genuine cold salt-water bath, such as the hydropathists have no idea of.
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