Every man his own doctor, or the cold water cure / by James Clarkson.

  • Clarkson, James.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Every man his own doctor, or the cold water cure / by James Clarkson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Discover what will destroy life, and you are a great man,— what will prolong it, and you are an impostor. Discover some invention in machinery that will make the rich more rich, and the poor more poor, and they will build you a statue. Discover some mystery in art that would equalize physical disparities, and they will pull down their houses to stone you.—Bulwkr, My object in publishing tliis work is to call attention to the Water Cure, being fully aware that a great portion of the inhabi- tants of this country have not heard of the wonderful cures that have been effected by the application of cold water only. Having studied the Water Cure for some time, and experienced its bene- ficial effects on myself, I have come to the determination to devote my time to this practice at present till a better knowledge of it is obtained by the masses of the people. For the last three months I have, by the application of cold water alone, cured a number of persons of all kinds of fevers and chronic diseases. If these cases and treatment were stated, it would take up most of this work. I have stated a few of these cases to encourage the reader, and dispel the doubts that may hang on his mind with respect to tlie virtues of v'ater. I have stated my own case at the outset, with a few others that I have treated, to show the reader more particularly how to proceed in such like diseases, It is, no doubt, highly satisfactory to those who wish well tq Hydropathy, to find that works have already been written, con- firming what I humbly advocate, by Dr. Johnson, Dr. J. Weiss, Dr, Courtney, Dr. Wilson, Mr. Wright, Capt. R. T. Claridge, and others, and that several establishments are in full operation in this country, where cures are constantly efiected upon invalids, who have appealed to drugs in vain. But these books and esta- blishments are so very dear, that it is out of the power of the working class to purchase the former, or go to the latter to be