The uses of water in health and disease

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By J. H. KELLOGG, M. D.
PUBLISHED AT
THE OFFICE OF THE HEALTH REFORMER,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
1876.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876,
By J. H. KELLOGG, M. D.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Since the announcement of the alleged discovery of Priessnitz, about fifty years ago, there has been no scarcity of books upon “Hydropathy,” “Water Cure,” and kindred topics. With rare exceptions, these works have been, in reality, little better than advertising mediums for some individual or institution. As might be expected in works prepared for such purposes, they have contained numerous and flagrant exaggerations of the effects of water as a remedial agent, often representing it as a specific for certain maladies and a sure preventive of others. These extravagant accounts, together with various absurd teachings relating to methods of application, have rendered just the popular verdict indicated by the fact that the dingy shelves of nearly every second-hand book store in New York and Philadelphia, as well as other large cities, are laden with these musty old volumes which rest beneath the accumulated dust of years.
The objects of this work may be briefly summarized as follows:—