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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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f hydropathy. Of the works above referred to, the DoctorsHydropathy: Its Principles and Practice is thechief. A smaller work is The Head : Its Relation tothe Body in Health and Disease. His other worksinclude Health, Happiness and Longevity andnumerous pamphlets which deal with such subjectsas infantile mortality, diseases of childhood, and thelaws of health and h3^gienic treatment. Dr. Hunter was an indomitable worker, and gotthroiigh as much labour in the course of a year aswould have killed or laid by two ordinary men.Though resident at Bridge of Allan and devoting muchof his energy to work there, he never gave up hisconnection with Glasgow, and to the last carried on aconsulting practice there. He was also in the habitof visiting Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, and Paisley oncea month to see patients and prescribe for them. Healways made a great point of instructing his patientsin the laws of health, so that they might the bettertake care of their own health and that of their children* i68
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Page i6q. DR. STEWART AND SCOTIyAND. This constant and unremitting work at length beganto tell upon Dr. Hunters constitution, iron-strongthough it appeared to be, and, as we have alreadysaid, he was obliged to retire in 1894. He onlysurvived his retirement four weeks, dying in Augustof the year named.* He was buried in IvOgie church-yard. He was twice married, and is survived by hiswidow, as enthusiastic in the cause of hydropathy asher late husband, and still as active as he was,according to her strength, in making its truths known. It is needless of course to refer to every estabUsh-ment that has at one time or another been openedin Scotland, but I must mention the EdinburghHydropathic, situated at Slateford, a few miles fromEdinburgh, which is doing such good work, and theDeeside Hydropathic, situated at Murtle, on the rivernear Aberdeen. The Deeside Hydro was first openedin the autumn of 1874 by the late Bailie AdamMitchell and Dr. David Johnston, and was takenover by Dr. Alexande

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