Letters from Graefenberg, in the years 1843, 1844, 1845, & 1846 : with the report, and extracts from the correspondence, of the Enniscorthy Hydropathic Society / by John Gibbs.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Letters from Graefenberg, in the years 1843, 1844, 1845, & 1846 : with the report, and extracts from the correspondence, of the Enniscorthy Hydropathic Society / by John Gibbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    exertions, he will certainly be disappointed—for personal, persevering exertions in the pure fresh air, is an essential element of the cure. Thine for the Water Cure, HENRY C. WRIGHT,* Of Philadelphia. I have neither time nor space for much comment on the foregoing valuable testimony to the water cure. With respect to Mr. Wright's case I shall only request your attention to the fact of his abstinence from medi- cine, together with the quickness of his cure, as corro- borative of my sentiments expressed in a former letter. As to the case of small pox which Mr. Wright gives, you ought to be informed that the woman who washed the sheets and bandages caught the disease. This I mention as illustrative of its nature. Ever yours, JOHN GIBBS. ■ LETTER XXII. To H. T. Ridge, Esq. [Republished from the Wexford Papers.] “ That Priessnitz’s system has been successful beyond all prece- dent is a fact.”—A. Courtney, Surgeon, R.N. Grsefenberg, July 8th, 1844. My Dear Ridge—In the report of the proceedings at the sitting of the French academy, held on the 18th of last March, is the following paragraph : “ A paper by M. Leroy d’Etiolles, on the removal of cancer bv the knife was next read. This gentleman asserts that the extirpa- tion as far as it is practicable by surgical operation does not stop the progress of the malady, and, that as a ge- * I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Wright at the World’s Tem- perance Convention, and to learn from his own lips that he had had no return of his disorder.