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Loading... Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Healthby Susan E. Cayleff
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In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remedies-bloodletting, purging, and leeching, for example-hydropathy was one of the most celebrated alternative forms of medical care. Unlike these other cures, however, hydropathy, which entailed various applications of cold water, also staunchly advocated the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. Susan E. Cayleff explores the relationship between this fascinating sect of nineteenth-century medicine and the women who took the cure.Wash and Be Healed investigates the theories, pra No library descriptions found. |
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