_Hydropathy_ (Vol. ix., p. 395.).--"John Smith, C.M." (_i. e._
clock-maker), of the parish of St. Augustin, London, was the author of
several pamphlets. He published in the year 1723 a treatise in
recommendation of the medicinal use of water as "a universal remedy," as
well by drinking as by applying it externally to the body. In the British
Museum there is a French translation of it, which appeared in Paris, A.D.
1725. This is a proof of the notoriety which the treatise obtained. The
tenth edition, dated "Edinburgh, 1740," contains additions communicated by
Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S., and others. In the year 1695 he published a
short treatise entitled _A designed End to the Socinian Controversy; or, a
rational and plain Discourse to prove, that no other Person but the Father
of Christ is God Most High_. This attracted the notice of the civil power,
and by order of parliament it was burnt, and the author prosecuted. (See
Wallace's _Anti-Trinitarian Biography_, vol. iii. p. 398., London, 1850.)