Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton.

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1849
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Credit: Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Water-Treatment yet offered to the public by any one member of the medical profession. Indeed, no compilation of the kind contemplated by the editor would be complete without this calm, able, and search- ing paper. The succeeding article embraces a couple of chapters from a most excellent Treatise on Healthy Skin, by Erasmus Wilson, M. D., F. R. S., Consulting Surgeon to the St. Pancras Infirmary, Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in Middlesex Hospital, Author of a favorite Text-book on Anatomy, etc. Of these two chapters the one first given is the ninth in the order of the Treatise (the tenth, which is appended, being especially devoted to the consideration of the Water-Treatment), and follows a series of admirable expositions of the distribution of the skin ; its division into two layers, the exter- nal and internal; the nature of the perspiratory apparatus, the oil- glands and the hairs; and the influence of diet, clothing, and exercise upon the health of the skin generally. [This explanation will ren- der perfectly clear to the mind of the reader Dr. Wilson's allusion at the outset to several preceding chapters.] The fourth article is composed of a variety of testimonials to the efficacy of the Water-Treatment, voluntarily published to the world by some of the ablest members of the medical profession in England. As a fair sample of these, the editor would particularly refer to the frank, candid, and manly sentiments of Sir Charles Scudamore—a name so widely and deservedly honored both in England and America, that he needs no formal introduction or eulogy. The editor has preferred to reprint these papers without notes or abridgment, rather than run the risk of doing injustice to their authors, and at the same time interrupting the attention of the careful reader. There may be some few points of a minor nature on which his opin- ions are at variance, to a greater or less extent, with those set forth in these papers with such brilliancy and force; but the occasion does not call for any detailed notice of them here. His own position the editor has felt it to be most proper to define in a separate pa- per at the close of the volume. To this he respectfully refers the reader. 51 Tenth-street, New-York, July 14, 1849.