Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Internal and external use of water as a therapeutic treatment for all forms of disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The method of treating diseases by the external and internal use of water; hydrotherapeutics, especially in the cruder forms. See water-cure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
therapeutic use ofwater , either internal or external
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the average townfolk turned to fixing themselves as well, trying everything from religion to vegetarianism to hydropathy—the last of which required cold water immersions, foot baths, douches, and the like.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Meanwhile, the average townfolk turned to fixing themselves as well, trying everything from religion to vegetarianism to hydropathy—the last of which required cold water immersions, foot baths, douches, and the like.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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She was a single mother, and she was exploring all sorts of homeopathy, hydropathy, all those things that people did in those days to try to get well.
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John Roebling was a believer in hydropathy, the therapeutic use of water.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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Daily bathing in the river had also something to do with it, -- and, indeed, hydropathy (this may not be generally known) was first learned of the West India Maroons, who did their "packing" in wet clay, -- and it was carried by Dr. Wright to England.
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PRIESSNITZ, the celebrated founder of hydropathy, died at Graefenberg on the 26th of November, at the age of fifty-two.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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Josef could hardly be blamed for not telling us, as in the Tyrol the people regard lying on wet or dewy grass as a natural system of hydropathy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Among other topics of discussion was the value of hygiene and hydropathy, in which a Louisville physician joined, narrating his observations of the system during a practice of fifteen years in Louisville.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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There are but four known and acknowledged methods of developing muscles locally -- viz., massage, movements, electricity and hydropathy.
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Vincenz Priessnitz's innovation of hydropathy or water cure.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
qms commented on the word hydropathy
I think that there surely has got to be
At least a faint taint of hypocrisy
In places that get
Their guests very wet
And call the procedure hydropathy.
September 24, 2018