hydropathist
- a word derived from hydropathy.
Example Sentences
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In truth, I know of no sensible hydropathist who, in such a case, would rely upon the douche alone; which is to concede, practically, all that I desire to claim.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
I am about to send her to Malvern, where one of her sisters now is, to try a hydropathist physician there—a regularly educated man.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne
She had a yearning chronic To try each novel tonic, Elixir, panacea, lotion, opiate, and balm; And from a homœopathist Would change to an hydropathist, And back again, with stupefying calm!
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert
In medicine, Mr. Glazier was an equally rigid hydropathist.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by Owens, John Algernon
True, some hydropathist of stocks, Or one whose trade is picking locks, May make objection: Yet even those gentry always lurk Where booming first has done its work.
From Impertinent Poems by Cooke, Edmund Vance
