Author: Mrs Mary S Gove

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780656527755

Excerpt from Lectures to Ladies on Anatomy and Physiology Several years have elapsed since these Lec tures to Women were first penned. They were the fruit of earnest study, and inquiry pursued through many difficulties. Subsequent study and experience have evolved many of the prin ciples and facts contained in the Appendix to this work. The writer commenced the prac tice of water cure in cases of female weakness in 1832. Two or three years later, she com menced the use of water in fevers, according to the practice detailed in Good's Study of Medicine and other medical works. Her prao tice was necessarily very limited and imper feet; but, some years later, she was enlighten ed and encouraged by the hygienic teaching of Dr. S. Graham, and continued her efforts till she obtained a knowledge of the practice of Priessnitz. Since then she has practiced water cure with uniform success. And now, fully. 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.