Excerpt from Outlines of a New Theory of Disease, Applied to Hydropathy, Showing That Water Is the Only True Remedy: With Observations on the Errors Committed in the Practice of Hydropathy; Notes on the Cure of Cholera by Cold Water; And a Critique on Priessnitz's Mode of Treatment

Such misconceptions can only be obviated by a hand-book of hydro therapeutics, which shall exhaust the subject and be available for gen eral use. I am now engaged in the composition of such a hand-book, and hope, in the course of the year 1849, to lay before the public the first part of it, comprising the treatment of acute diseases.* To prevent my being accused of general or indiscriminate censure, I must here remark, that when in this work I speak of physicians in gen eral, and of the incorrigible nature of their errors and prejudices, I by no means mean, by this general mode of expression, to say, that there are not honorable exceptions. In all professions common minds form the great majority. In all professions there are some noble-minded men to whom truth is of more value than their own interest. Many physi cians who love and and acknowledge truth have come over from medi cine to water, and these conversions will, in future, become more common.

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