![]() | Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women''s Health Subjects: Hydrotherapy -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 19th century; 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. Susan E. Cayleff is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. |
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