Wash and be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health (Health, Society, and Policy)

by Susan E. Cayleff

Book Overview

In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remediesOCobloodletting, purging, and leeching, for exampleOCohydropathy 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877224625
• ISBN13: 9780877224624
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.