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Holistic Healing

Every Man His Own Doctor

R. T. Claridge

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Richard Claridge championed the cold-water cure of Vincent Priessnitz, promising that plain water could do what drugs could not. His enthusiastic manual asks whether hydropathy is a cure-all and answers with case after confident case. A defining document of the water-cure craze that swept the nineteenth century. Discover the movement that sent thousands to the springs.

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  1. 1EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR. THE COLD WATER, TEPID WATER, AND FRICTION-CURE,
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3PREFACE.
  4. 4ERRATA.
  5. 5HYDROPATHY,
  6. 6I.—Vincent Priessnitz.
  7. 7II.—Hydropathy.
  8. 8III.—What Does Hydropathic Treatment Effect?
  9. 9IV.—How are the Effects described in the last Chapter produced?
  10. 10V.—Is Hydropathy a Panacea? and what Complaints are curable by it?
  11. 11VI.—Is Hydropathy new? Why is it not generally adopted?
  12. 12VII.—The Lancet.
  13. 13VIII.—Authorities in Support of Water as a Curative Agent.
  14. 14IX.—Ablutions.
  15. 15X.—Use of Cold Water for Drinking and Injections.
  16. 16XI.—The Cold Bath.
  17. 17XII.—Is going into the Cold Bath in a State of Perspiration attended with Danger?
  18. 18XIII.—The Packing Sheet, and Sweating Process.

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