“A little reflection taught me that the members of a learned
profession are naturally the very persons least disposed to favour
innovation upon the practices which custom and prescription have
rendered sacred in their eyes. A lawyer is not the person to
consult upon bold reforms in jurisprudence. A physician can
scarcely be expected to own that hydropathy will cure diseases that
have resisted an armament of vials.”
On looking about us for some therapeutic system more satisfactory than
the allopathic, simpler in its principles and more consonant with the
laws of nature, we select for examination hydropathy, on account of the
great success which has attended its practice, the simplicity and
rationality of its processes, and the high recommendations it has
received from several eminent men, amongst which we extract the
following. Mr. Herbert Mayo, Senior Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital,
speaking of hydropathy, thus expresses himself:—
“It (hydropathy) more than doubles our power of doing good. Of
course it will meet with much opposition, but none, come from
quarter it may, can possibly prevent its progress, and its taking
firm root. It is like Truth, not to be subverted.”