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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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o acted as assistant for some timeto a local doctor who became interested in him, andto whose library he had access, and of which he madegood use. In addition, he took advantage of theclasses held at the Mechanics Institute to extendand improve his general and special knowledge andeducation. His advice and services were soon soughtby many patients, and such was the success thatattended the treatment he prescribed and gavethat he decided, partly because his occupation at thefoundry was prejudicial to his health, to settle inDouglas, Isle of Man; and there in partnershiphe carried on for a short time baths and hydropathicpractice. It was while at Douglas that Mr. Kenworthymarried, Mrs. Kenworthy in subsequent years becominghis indefatigable helper in the carrying out of thehydropathic treatment and in the founding ofseveral small establishments. From the Isle of Man Kenworthy returned toOldham, and there with others set up in business,but this venture not turning out well he took up ii6
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Page ii6. MR. SAMUEL KENWORTHY. SOUTHPORT. again with his old love and became assistant toDr. Goodman. He remained upwards of two yearsat the hospital, and then, after a brief sojourn inLondon, he opened an establishment at Bowdon,Cheshire. Here after a while his practice becameso extensive and exacting as to lead to a danger ofbreakdown in health ; and he was induced to leaveBowdon and to take over the Thrale Hall HydropathicEstablishment, Streatham, where, however, he foundthat family circumstances especially made it necessaryfor him to return north during the second year. Afterresting for a time in Manchester and Blackpool, hehad the idea of opening an establishment at the latterplace, but was recommended by friends to purchasea property at Southport in 1876, which is now knownas Kenworthys Limes Hydropathic Establishment,and which, beginning in one house, has now attainedconsiderable size, and is under the medical directionand proprietorship of his son. Dr. A. B. Kenworthy,whose e

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