Excerpt from The Uses of Water in Modern Medicine, Vol. 1 That the proper methods of applying water in disease require to be brought before the American medical public in a comprehensive, practical form has long been the author's observation. He has, therefore, undertaken to write a suc cinct account Of the present status of water as a therapeutic agent. The only work in the English language which has not the taint of quackery, the valuable treatise Of Winternitz in Ziemssen's Handbook of Therapeutics, has long been out of print. Owing to its being a portion of a large work, it has escaped the attention Of the profession, and has not received the appreciation it deserves as a scientific exposition of the views of an author wh, o.has rendered medicine the incalculable service of rescuing the remedial virtues Of water from the empirical environment into which it had fallen, and to which the medical profession appeared until recently to be inclined to abandon it. As Ziemssen has justly said, whatever we know of hydrotherapy, we owe to Winternitz. To Prof. Winternitz I. Am personally indebted, not only for knowledge derived from his numerous scientific and clinical writings, each one Of which is replete with logically Stated truths, but also for personal guidance and instruction during a sojourn at his institution in Kaltenleutgeben, 'where the best informed hydrotherapists in Europe have received their instruction. In this monograph it is not proposed to furnish an ex position Oi hydropathy or the water-cure system, that method Of treatment whose enthusiastic followers claim that it will inaugurate the millennium of therapeutics, becauseits efficacy is not less marvelous than its methods are simple and easily comprehended. It is the author's purpose to sever hydrotherapy from any connection with hydropathy or water cure, and so present the subject that the general practitioner may avail himself Of the former, just as he does Of the medicinal agents, of whose action he really is capable of learning much less. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.