Medical Testimony of Hydropathy.
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"We have no doubt that these copious Ii
bations of cold water form a most important
part of the treatment, and contribute, with the
fresh air and exercise, more powerfully and
efficiently to the recovery of patients, than all
the other treatment put together. The inter-


nal use of cold water, as here practised i'm
plies not only the exclusion and rejection of
much that is detrimental, but the introduction
into the system of an agent most beneficial in
preserving health and efficient in restoring it.


It's use excludes that of wine, spirits, liquors,
malt liquors, Of any kind; and, indeed, all
those artificial liquors which impair the action
of the stomach and liver, which disorder and
prevent the circulation, dispose to steatoma-
tous dispositions in the arteries, and, indeed,
render the human frame so susceptible to the


influence of morbifc agents. Thus by its di-
luent properties, it fayors the normal Auidity
Of the blood, promotes the circulation, allays


rritations in various organs, and facilitates all
the secretions, and often checks the progress
of disease and its origin. Edinburgh Ne
dicaI and Surgical Journal, for JtS5y, 1872.