The hand book of hydropathy; for professional and domestic use: with an appendix, on the best mode of forming hydropathic establishments. Being the result of twelve years' experience at Grafenberg and Freywaldau / [Josef Weiss].

  • Weiss, Josef, 1797-1847.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The hand book of hydropathy; for professional and domestic use: with an appendix, on the best mode of forming hydropathic establishments. Being the result of twelve years' experience at Grafenberg and Freywaldau / [Josef Weiss]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vi this invaluable system—an undertaking in which he has shown the greatest perseverance and industry, ad- vocating the good cause, by word and deed, and never losing an opportunity of extending its popularity. He not only, with considerable expense of time and labour, published the first popular work on the cold water cure, in the English language, but has, since the appearance of his book, followed up his exertions in propagating” hydropathy, by his popular lectures in England, Scot- land and Ireland. That success has attended his en- deavours, is proved by the extensive sale of his work ;* and the articles which have appeared in the Scotch and Irish newspapers are sufficient evidence, that his exer- tions are gratefully acknowledged by the public—cir- cumstances auguring most favourably for the ultimate success of this new system of treatment in Great Britain. To Captain Claridge my thanks are further due, as it was he who introduced me to Dr. Graham, by whom I was persuaded to leave my native country, and form an hydropathic establishment in England, on the model of that at Grafenberg. Of this institution I have been the director to the present time. Thus my attention has been uninterruptedly and exclusively devoted to the treatment of disease by cold water, during the last * The unprecedented number of 7000 copies of his work, and as many more of the abstract, Iam assured by his publishers, Messrs. Madden and Co., have been disposed of within a very short period.