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Definition of Hydropathy
1. Noun. The internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease.
Definition of Hydropathy
1. n. The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.
Definition of Hydropathy
1. Noun. The therapeutic use of water, either internal or external ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydropathy
1. [n -THIES]
Medical Definition of Hydropathy
1. The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally. Origin: Hydro-, 1 + Gr, to suffer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydropathy
Literary usage of Hydropathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"But the distinctive " water cure,'1 or hydropathy, owes its origin to the fertility
of invention ... Claridge, and entitled "hydropathy, or the Cold Water ..."
2. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1847)
"These gentlemen endeavour to salve their consciences by the statement, that
hydropathy must be employed as one of tho instruments of medicine and by ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"It is then floated in hydropathy (Gr. ... But the distinctive " water cure," or
hydropathy, ... hydropathy."
4. The Christian Examiner (1848)
"The Water-Cure, or hydropathy. From the British nnd Foreign Medical Review.
By JOHN FORBES, MD, FRS (Reprinted in the " Green Mountain Spring," ..."
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