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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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n his old colleague andfriend, Dr. Gully, contributed a sympathetic obituarynotice in The Malvern News for January 19th,1867, from which some quotations have been madeabove. Sixteen years later, returning to the same subjectof the credit due to his friend as the pioneer ofhydropathy in England, Dr. Gully wrote, Andhere I desire to impress upon you the fact thatI did this not only on the groimd of my ownconvictions, but because Wilson agreed with me andI was well assured that his medical tact had notfailed, as, indeed, it never did. Through many yearsobservation of him I could not but remark themedical intuition which was a quality of his, bothas regarded the nature of the malady and theremedial means against it. For some time, insubsequent years, silly and malicious people separatedour medical alliance; fortunately this did not last,and before he died we were good friends as of old.But even had it been otherwise, truth would obligeme to state—and I trust it wiU impel you to state 64
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Page 65. DR. GULLY. DR. JAMES GUIvIvY. also—that hydropathy was first of all introducedinto England by Dr. Wilson,* and that none haveexcelled him in the acute application of it. Heand I thoroughly believed in it, and I do not thinkI am straying from the fact when I further state thatwe were the only practitioners of it who never mixedit with the old iniqmty of drugging. It is now necessary to speak more fully of theunrivalled chief of the pioneer band of Englishhydropathists, James M. Gully. He was bornin the year 1808, at Kingston, Jamaica, where hisfather owned a flourishing coffee plantation. Hewas brought to England when he was eight or nineyears of age, and a few years later became a pupilof the Rev. V. Pulsford, of lyiverpool. Later hewas transferred to the College of Ste. Barbe, inParis. At the age of seventeen he entered theUniversity of Edinburgh as a student of medicine,continuing there three years, when he returned toParis to study under the celebrated French surgeonand

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