Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . ain—I have neverheard of Hydropathy being yet applied. Fever-wards in hospitals we have; and Fever-hospitalsapart, when the mortality is more than usuallymenacing ; and by gigantic efforts the spread ofthe disease is frequently arrested; bid ivhat isthe ratio of deaths? The state of the case ismost simple ; it is summed up in two proposi-tions, admitting of no dispute :—Fever is, of all-diseases, the least tractable by ordinary medicine:To Hydropathy, on the contrary, it yields almostwithout resistance. As a people, we
Memorials from Ben Rhydding; concerning the place, its people, its cures . ain—I have neverheard of Hydropathy being yet applied. Fever-wards in hospitals we have; and Fever-hospitalsapart, when the mortality is more than usuallymenacing ; and by gigantic efforts the spread ofthe disease is frequently arrested; bid ivhat isthe ratio of deaths? The state of the case ismost simple ; it is summed up in two proposi-tions, admitting of no dispute :—Fever is, of all-diseases, the least tractable by ordinary medicine:To Hydropathy, on the contrary, it yields almostwithout resistance. As a people, we are fond ofphilanthropy. * Let a good be even hoped for, andwe have services in profusion ; in behalf of propo-sitions whose foundations are somewhat question-able, we can marshal self-sacrifice in every form :is it not right, then, to ask attention, thus formally,to a field of exertion, as extensive as the necessity 162 HYDROPATHIC FEVER WARDS. is clamant—one in which the exercise of benevo-lence could never fail to merit the loftier designa-tion of Beneficence \. THE 8HRINE Chapter W. miin. IMSSLOSINII our long disquisition, let us againbreathe a space. How does one live at Ben Rhydding 1 The 164 BUSINESS. Chariot of the Hours, rolls it quickly there, orsomewhat like the Moon in Ajalon 1 As vigourof frame increases, comes there with it langour oractivity of brain ? And, in absence of wine andthe dice-box, or other rational amusements—(otter-hunts in the Wharfe are sometimes got upwith worthy pomp by Squires and Dames of theWest Riding, loyally attended by the mob ofOtley)—what resource on the chance occurrenceof any disposable activity1? How is that largeidle company protected on a rainy day againsta permanent state of drawn-out, open-mouthedexofatimP* Now, as to this leisure, it cannot hang veryheavy, for two reasons ; the first being, that there * Qy. Does the learned author mean that, in bad weather, thepeople at Ben Ebydding are like to get into a yawn, and not
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