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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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is one-ideaism.Priessnitz did not possess that. Hadhe explored the green fields andforests of nature, as well as laved inher limpid waters, he would havebeen less exclusive in his choice ofremedies, and his practice, and thatof his imitators, would have beenmore uniformly successful. Manyhydropathic physicians are begin-ning to see what their prototype,in his blind enthusiasm, failed toperceive, and already mild medication and therapeutic electricityare being introduced in water-cure establishments to some ex-tent. While I do not deny the contracting and relaxing influences ofwater, according to its temperature, and the beneficial effects of eachof these in appropriate cases, I maintain that the real philosophy ofu water-cure is based on electrical principles. Water possesses agreat amount of electricity. If the Hood of an individual containsits natural supply of iron, it attracts the electricity from the water,thereby rendering the body of the invalid in an electrically positive con-
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PKIESSNITZS MEDICINE. WATER. 3U dition compared with the atmosphere. As soon, then, as the applicationhas been made, an active radiation of electricity from the system takesplace, which accelerates the escape of effete matter, and renders the •>. skin, and other organs more active. It is therefore diametri-cally wrong to resort to water in the treatment of invalids with thinblood. Did hydropathists, generally, understand this philosophy, water-cure would not prove so often uater-lcill. My theory isindirectly supported by that of Priessnitz. According to Claridge,beheld: — 1st. That by the hydropathic treatment, the bad juices arebrought to, and discharged by. the skin. Hd. --That a new circulation is given to the diseased or inactiveorgans, and better juices infused into them. 3d. That all the functions of the body are brought into a nor-mal state, not by operating upon any particular function, but upon thewhole. Xow when we consider that whatever moves has a motive power,and t

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