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Discover Ludwig"hydropathy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to any form of therapy that uses water as its primary treatment. For example, "My grandfather used to swear by the healing power of hydropathy for his aches and pains."
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hydropathy
noun
The therapeutic use of water, either internal or external
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She later published, with her husband, Nichols Journall of Health, Water-Cure, and Human Progress, which espoused hydropathy, vegetarianism, free love, and spiritualism.
Upon finishing his studies, Lane opened a fashionable spa for hydropathy at Moor Park in Surrey, where his patients — including Charles Darwin — underwent a fanciful range of water cures to calm their irritable nerves.
The man she loved was the married doctor Edward Lane, pioneer homeopath and proprietor of an advanced hydropathy establishment in Surrey where patients were prescribed a bewildering number of different kinds of bath.
To understand Edward and his Moor Park spa we need to know about hydropathy, so we go on a course in alternative medicine and curative bathing (chair baths, hot air baths, wet towel baths, secretly sensuous baths).
A hypochondriac, he was daffy about fashionable fads such as hydropathy.
"I sought knowledge," she wrote, "from the different schools, allopathy, homeopathy, hydropathy, electricity and various humbugs, but without receiving satisfaction".
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Nichols is best known as a promoter of hydropathy the use of water-cures, cold baths, and vegetarianism to cure illness.
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