The water-cure, applied to every known disease : a complete demonstration of the advantages of the hydropathic system of curing diseases : showing, also, the fallacy of the medicinal method, and its utter inability to effect a permanent cure : with an appendix, containing a water diet and rules for bathing / by J.H. Rausse ; translated by C.H. Meeker.

  • Rausse, J. H., 1805-1848.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The water-cure, applied to every known disease : a complete demonstration of the advantages of the hydropathic system of curing diseases : showing, also, the fallacy of the medicinal method, and its utter inability to effect a permanent cure : with an appendix, containing a water diet and rules for bathing / by J.H. Rausse ; translated by C.H. Meeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE I was induced to undertake the translation of the presen work for several important reasons : first, to employ ad- vantageously several leisure hours of each day, which would otherwise have been entirely wasted or misspent; second, as a means of gaining a more intimate acquaint- ance with the principles and processes of the hydriatic art, which is to be acquired only by a diligent study of the writings of the most approved authors and practition- ers of this new system ; third, because it is a most ex- cellent work, containing wonderful and astounding new truths, as every one who reads it must admit; and fourth, because it is written by the most successful and scientific practitioner of hydriatique (the father of the system ex- cepted) in Germany, who spent eight years in studying the various branches of science connected with the water- cure art, though, at first, without the intention of employ- ing his knowledge for the benefit of suffering humani- ty, to which he was, however, afterwards induced, from reasons best known to himself. Three years of his study were passed among the Indians of thf American wilds in