About the year 1862, while the author of this work [1]
was at Dr. Vail's Hydropathic Institute in New
Hampshire, this occurred: A patient considered incur-
able left that institution, and in a few weeks returned
apparently well, having been healed, as he informed [5]
the patients, by one Mr. P. P. Quimby of Portland,
Maine.
After much consultation among ourselves, and a struggle
with pride, the author, in company with several other
patients, left the water-cure, en route for the aforesaid [10]