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Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy: A Guide to the Application of Water in Disease, for Students and Practitioners of Medicine It will surely inure to the progress and development of hydro therapy, i. E. The scientific application of water in disease, if this false conception of its being a cold-water treatment be removed from the minds of the profession and the people. There seems to exist in the human mind a strong feeling of repulsion against cold baths, wet packs, and other hydriatric procedures. The former conjure up in the mind of the timid practitioner vague apprehensions of Shock and heart failure; the latter remind him of damp sheets bearing rheumatism and colds in their train. The reader who shall follow these pages will find in them ample illustrations of the untenability and the absurdity of such views. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.