Water Cure

a lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become ‘stupid’, but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously The Water Cure (also known as the Kneipp Cure or hydrotherapy) was created in 1816 by a a peasant farmer in Austria. The water cure was later developed and popularized in the 1880s by Father Sebastian Kneipp. later published puff pieces on the water cure in a journal he runs himself. It was accepted as part one of many cure-all treatments in the early days of naturopathy. It has since mostly fallen into disfavor.

Hydropathic organisations did accept women before actual medical schools admitted female students. Historically they treated female patients with respect.

In modern-day non-woo medicine, the term "hydrotherapy" more often refers to physical therapy done in water. Of course NaturalNews is promoting the woo version, even worse they proclaim it a cure to AIDS. Also screw credentials, you don't need a license to practice the hydropathy.

How
Treatments include: covering with wet sheets, foot baths (cold or warm), half-baths (cold or warm), whole-baths (cold or warm), head baths, eye baths, vapor (steam) baths, shower-baths, ablutions, bandages, walking barefoot in the snow, and water drinking. Herbal medicine and diet (bran bread or Kneippbrød, soup and mead) are also used.

You see according to most American hydropaths, the water cure is best applied externally on the skin. Even though skin isn't very good at absorbing water.

Incidentally, hydrotherapy is probably, at least in part, the basis for the old cartoon cliché in which a character suffering from the cold is treated with a heated foot bath.

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