Results of hydropathy Author:Edward Johnson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: crutches, and carrying his green pillow under his arm, may now see him walking along those self-same streets, firm and erect, without support of any kind. Thi... more »s gentleman has been kind enough to say that he will think it no trouble to reply to any letter of inquiry as to the authenticity of his case as here reported. His address is, William Peet, Esq. Waterford. All medical men are aware that there is a great number of cases in which all that is necessary to cure them is a tonic ; but in which there is present so much fever, or nervous excitability, that none of the ordinary tonics can be borne, on account of their exciting effects upon the brain and nerves. All that is wanted, in these cases, is a tonic which shall not excite, there being already present too much excitement. The hydropathic treatment is the most powerful of all tonics—and it not only does not excite, but allays excitement. In these cases, therefore, it is the very thing—the very one thing needful. In the case I am about to relate there were present both fever and a high degreeof excitability. All that was required in this case was an efficient tonic—but no efficient tonic could be borne, on account of the increase of fever and excitement which they produced. I believe quinine would have cured her, had not the fever and nervous excitement precluded its use. There are numerous cases of slow chronic inflammation, accompanied by constant and considerable feverish excitement, which only require a powerful tonic for their cure—but then it must be a tonic which has also the effect of allaying fever and irritability. And the whole pharmacopeia does not contain a drug-tonic of this nature. No. ii.—Mrs. Coulter's Case. Mrs. Henry Coulter, of High Street, Chatham, aged thirty-two, fell, on the 26th of June, 18...« less