The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . hobia. So impressed was I with the importance ofthe matter that I spent four years collecting andarranging all the evidence that was obtainable on thesubject of hydrophobia and its treatment. I compiled,as I think, an exhaustive treatise on the subject, goingfully and thoroughly, not only into Pasteurs inoculationmethod of treatment, but also into Dr. Buissons,both historically and theoretically. The result was awork which I hoped would have been convincing to allreasonable men. Unfortunately, however, while inthe printers hands it
The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . hobia. So impressed was I with the importance ofthe matter that I spent four years collecting andarranging all the evidence that was obtainable on thesubject of hydrophobia and its treatment. I compiled,as I think, an exhaustive treatise on the subject, goingfully and thoroughly, not only into Pasteurs inoculationmethod of treatment, but also into Dr. Buissons,both historically and theoretically. The result was awork which I hoped would have been convincing to allreasonable men. Unfortunately, however, while inthe printers hands it was burned in a fire whichconsumed the premises, the only part of the manuscriptwhich was saved being a translation of Dr. Buissonstreatise, which I had been at great trouble to obtainfrom the medical faculty in Paris. Before closing this chapter I must give someparticulars of the career of another man whoseinfluence for good, as regards the progress of hydro-pathy and hygiene in this country, has been secondto none. I refer to Mr. Joseph Constantine of 15a. Page 152. MR. CONSTANTINE, MR. CONSTANTINE. Manchester, whose Turkish baths are one of the bestknown institutions in that city. He was born in theyear 1823 ^t Keighley in Yorkshire, and is now in hiseighty-third year. His parents were ver}^ poor, andhe was obhged to go to work at nine years of age ina worsted factory. At thirteen he was taken from thefactory and put to the woolcombing industry, hisfathers trade, and at this he worked until the hearingof a lecture on the Water Cure by a man named DavidRoss, well known in his day as a temperance advocate,turned his attention to that subject. Ross had theidea of starting a hydro in Manchester, and actuallydid so on a small scale, inviting Constantine to act ashis assistant. He had previously read a good dealabout hydropathy, had heard Dr. Macleod, then atBen Rhydding, lecture on the subject, and had beencalled upon in his humble way to assist sufferingneighbours and others by
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