Confessions of a Water-Patient, 1847: In a Letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Editor of the New Monthly Magazine (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Confessions of a Water-Patient, 1847: In a Letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Editor of the New Monthly Magazine

The following is one of the many cases I witnessed when at Doctor Wilson's establishment, showing how much may be done by a scientific application of the water treatment. It is that of a lady, who had had the lower limbs palsied for nine years, and who could, at the time I saw and conversed with her, walk well - and walk far. This case was the more striking, and I have selected it more particularly, because the cure was effected without the aid of those adjuncts of air or exercise, in which some sceptics are inclined to place the whole benefit which hydropathic treatment confers. For the patient had recovered the use of her - limbs, and was enabled to walk without assistance, before she had once-quitted the two rooms which, for nearly six months, formed the magic limit of the cure. And I confess that I scarce know which to envy most, the delight of this grateful patient at her restoration or the pleasure and honest pride of Doctor Wilson, in so signal a service to humanity, and so undeniable a trophy of his skill.

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Excerpt from Confessions of a Water-Patient, 1847: In a Letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Editor of the New Monthly Magazine

In the writings of the great Liebig, which the univer sality of his knowledge, and the eminently practical bias of his intellect, have diffused as authorities throughout Europe, Priessnitz may be as much surprised to learn upon what abstruse yet infallible laws he has been reno vating the powers of the human frame, as Shakspeare (could he return to the earth) might be to read in Goethe the principles upon which he created Hamlet.'

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