The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . rm Mrs. Hunter and others are working for inthus simplifying the habits of life and bringing themback to first principles. Nor need we remark, althoughthe battle seems slow and long, how much alreadypublic opinion has been influenced. Some years agoa well-known physician afiirmed that but for thelow prices at which oranges were placed upon themarket, thus bringing them within reach of thepoorest, we should have had the plague in the countr>^.This may seem a bold statement; but there is morethan a modicum of truth in it. And the g
The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . rm Mrs. Hunter and others are working for inthus simplifying the habits of life and bringing themback to first principles. Nor need we remark, althoughthe battle seems slow and long, how much alreadypublic opinion has been influenced. Some years agoa well-known physician afiirmed that but for thelow prices at which oranges were placed upon themarket, thus bringing them within reach of thepoorest, we should have had the plague in the countr>^.This may seem a bold statement; but there is morethan a modicum of truth in it. And the good effectproduced by the untrammelled import of orangesis now being reinforced by the State-aided importof fruits, such as bananas, pine-apples, and the like,from the West Indies and elsewhere; not to speakof the large accessions to our home-grown fruit supplyby the productions of Canadian and some NewZealand orchards—all which means the making moreand more possible a wholesome dietary basis of lifefor the English of all classes, even to the poorest. 190. Page 191. MR. Sc MRS. SMEDLEY. i CHAPTER XIV. Hydropathy at Mati^ock—John Smedi^ey—BirthAND Training—Goes to Ben Rhydding—OpensA Hydro at His —Goes to Mati^ock—Strikes out a New IvIne in Hydropathy—TheMustard Pack—Crisis—Denounced as a Quack—Characteristics—Dr. Wm. Hunter—Mrs. Smedi^ey. AIvTHOUGH Matlock was the third centre inEngland to be quickened, as we may term it, intohydropathic life, yet in the long run its resultshave, on the whole, been the greatest. This successmay be traced to the character of the man who inthe first instance brought the Water Cure to theDerbyshire Vale, and who so impressed his characterand influence upon the movement he started that theyhave ever since dominated it. The man here referredto was John Smedley, of whom much will have to besaid in tracing the development of hydropathy inDerbyshire, but of whom at this point it will besufficient to give a few pa
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