hydropathy
noun
the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
hydropathist
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a word derived from
hydropathy.
Example Sentences
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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 Edmund Vance Cooke
Of course, there was not a little anxiety manifested in the family on his account, and we were deliberating what to do with him, when the late Dr. Shew, the hydropathist, chanced to come in.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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 Giberne Sieveking
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 Albert Levering
In the spring of 1865 she was induced, by the entreaty of friends who had themselves tested his skill, to consult Dr. Schieferdecker, a noted hydropathist, and later to place herself under his care.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
