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1843

The Hydropaths: Third Treatment - Sweating, Oozing, and Suffocation!

Charles-Émile Jacque

French, 1813 - 1894

Hydropathy, or water therapy, first became popular in the nineteenth century. Its use was both internal, with copious quantities of water imbibed or administered as douches, and external, in the form of hot and cold baths, showers, and sweat-inducing wrappings.

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