Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . rorconcerning haste, and noisy precautions againstheresies and innovations, yield only, when thepublic—having got wearied of the old stock—search elsewhere for fresher wares; in which casethe novelty is appropriated or stolen, and not bor-rowed or avowed—the original discoverer beingvilified, and not thanked, and in proof that hehas no desert, his peculiarities and inevitablemistakes made matter of scorn the while :—yes,Dr Cormack, whether you have met them or not,I assure you there are such men : and do you notagree, t
Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . rorconcerning haste, and noisy precautions againstheresies and innovations, yield only, when thepublic—having got wearied of the old stock—search elsewhere for fresher wares; in which casethe novelty is appropriated or stolen, and not bor-rowed or avowed—the original discoverer beingvilified, and not thanked, and in proof that hehas no desert, his peculiarities and inevitablemistakes made matter of scorn the while :—yes,Dr Cormack, whether you have met them or not,I assure you there are such men : and do you notagree, that however they are clad, or whatevertheir designation, although they flaunt about incaps or gowns, and wear on their solemn phy- DR CORMACK. 135 siognomies the impress of our gravest doctorates,they are not, indeed, cultivators of truth, or re-presentatives of an honourable profession, butinstead, only be-\vigged, second-rate imitators ofyon nimble and astute—(he would beat you,Dr Cormack, to sticks)—yon clever and comicalquack-salver in the market-place 1. 136 III. In so far as my best convictions can assisthim, my reader has it now in his power to reachan opinion concerning the capacities and limita-tions of Hydropathic practice, as well as the degreeof certainty attending it as one form of the Thera-peutic Art. It were to be expected—supposingmy views not vitiated by some disproportionateamount of error—that a system so foundedmust receive the best evidence of its beneficialefficacy in a place like Ben Rhydding, where itsspecial curative action is abetted by all collateralagencies—fresh air, opportunity for invigoratingexercise, the presence of as fine and variedscenery as exists in England, and whatever profes-sional skill can be evolved by sedulous systematicculture aided by a high degree of apt, natural DESTINY. 137 sagacity. While proceeding, therefore, to nar-rate a few illustrative facts, for whose accuracyI beg leave (though I write anonymously) to
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