The Malvern Water Cure

Résumé du livre

The Water Cure, otherwise known as Hydropathy, was one of the most important alternative treatments of the last century, along with homeopathy and hypnosis, it swept through Europe. A Welsh physician, James Wilson, disillusioned with contemporary drug treatment, which did more harm than good to patients, tried the new regime at the Silesian Spa of Graefenberg.He filled his friend, Dr James Gully, with enthusiasm to found a 'Graefenberg in England'. The hills and pure water of Malvern fitted their requirements and this book relates how the town became the foremost centre for Hydropathy in the United Kingdom.To the sophisticated reader of the twentieth century, the activities both of doctors and patients involved in The Cure, are almost unbelievable. What patients had to endure in Malvern borders on the hilarious. Those who came, and what was done to them in the pursuit of health, made the little town famous.