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Wash and be healed : the water-cure movement and women's health /
In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remedies-bloodletting, purging, and leeching, for example-hydropathy was one of the most celebrated alternative forms of medical care. Unlike these other cures, however, hydropathy, which entailed various applications of cold water, also staunchly a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1987.
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| Colección: | Health, society, and policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remedies-bloodletting, purging, and leeching, for example-hydropathy was one of the most celebrated alternative forms of medical care. Unlike these other cures, however, hydropathy, which entailed various applications of cold water, also staunchly advocated the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. Susan E. Cayleff explores the relationship between this fascinating sect of nineteenth-century medicine and the women who took the cure.Wash and Be Healed investigates the theories, pra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439904275 1439904278 9780877224624 0877224625 |