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Hydropathist

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hy·drop·a·thy  (h-drp-th)
n. pl. hy·drop·a·thies
Internal and external use of water as a therapeutic treatment for all forms of disease.

hydro·pathic (hdr-pthk), hydro·pathi·cal adj.
hy·dropa·thist, hydro·path n.


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Probably it was the curative, or perhaps the palliative effect of this high temperature which made the Turkish Bath so attractive to hydropathists and to many doctors who had no other means of alleviating pain in rheumatic and gout ridden patients" Malcolm Shifrin concludes.
 
 
 
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