Identifier: riseprogressofhy00metc (find matches)
Title: The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Metcalfe, Richard Lee, b. 1861
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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isthe victim of the system that brings him into beingas a medical man, and that if he had not much morethan the common share of force and individuality heis tied by bands as strong as iron to that system. Buthe knew there were men of such individuality, and heknew that such men, when they had reached the breadthof mind and knowledge to add hydrotherapeutics totheir other medical science, must be better than aman with all possible knowledge of hydropathy butwithout medical training. Such a man he found in Dr. William Bell Hunter,son of Mr. Archibald Hunter, of Bridge of Allan, who,as we have shown elsewhere, did so important a w^orkfor hydropathy in Scotland ; and to him he committedthe fortunes of the Matlock Hydro. And well did hecontinue what we may call the tradition of treat-ment established by the founder, so that instead ofthere being anything like a break in that treatmenton the death of Mr. Smedley, in 1874, the continuitywas imbroken, and we may add, has been ever since. 204
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Page 204. DR. W. B. HUNTER. HYDROPATHY AT MATIyOCK. Before quitting the subject of these remarks wemust say a few words about John Smedleys activityas a writer. He was an active controversialist, andthrew off in the heat of battle innumerable pamphletson those aspects of reUgion which interested him.But of these we can take no note here, reserving ourremarks xmder the head of authorship to his greaterwork on the Water Cure, * Smedleys Practical Hydro-pathy *; which is, and will probably long remain, thebest work extant on the subject for practical house-hold use. He regarded this as the great work of hislife. It was written chiefly whilst he was residingat River Hall, a quiet old house, close to where RiverCastle, his later residence, now stands. This book,which consists of three himdred and fifty pages, andis well illustrated, bears the stamp of perseveringindustry and patient research. Finally, in closing these remarks about the founderof the Matlock Hydro, some few words must bedev

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