Note 25 — Chapter VIII · GOOD AND BAD PRACTICE.

The above remarks may be applied to an exclusive system quite popular just now—I refer to Hydropathy. Cold water is a valuable remedial agent, used both internally and externally, as the recorded experience of medical men abundantly proved long before Priesnitz appeared on the stage. But the indiscriminate and exclusive use of it, which is prescribed by his system, is as bad practice as the indiscriminate and exclusive use of anything else—and a full and impartial record of Hydropathic practice would show it to be so.