Every Man His Own Doctor / The Cold Water, Tepid Water, and Friction-Cure, as Applicable to Every Disease to Which the Human Frame Is Subject, and Also to the Cure of Disease in Horses and Cattle

by R. T. Claridge

“To this children should be used from their cradles.”

We then find the following prescriptions:—

“For Asthma.—Take a pint of cold water every morning, washing the head in cold water immediately after, and using the cold bath.

“Rickets in Children.—Dip them in cold water every morning.

“To prevent apoplexy.—Use the cold bath and drink only cold water.

“Ague.—Go into a cold bath just before the cold.

“Cancer in the breast.—Use the cold bath. This has cured many. This cured Mrs. Bates, of Leicestershire, of a cancer in her breast, a consumption, a sciatica, and rheumatism, which she had had nearly twenty years.

N.B. Generally where cold bathing is necessary to cure disease, water-drinking is so, to prevent a relapse.

“Hysteric colic.—Mrs. Watts, by using the cold bath two and twenty times in a month, was entirely cured of an hysteric colic, fits, and convulsive motions, continual sweatings and vomitings, wandering pains in her limbs and head, and total loss of appetite.