The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . ngland attention was chiefly directed toMalvern because of the prominence that hadbeen given to that place by the joint influence ofDrs. Gully and Wilson, yet that Worcestershirecentre by no means monopolised all the talent andvigour given to the practical application and studyof the Water Cure system. There were others whowere doing equally good—if more modest—^work inthe same cause in various parts of the has already been made to Ben Rhyddingand other contiguous places in the Wharfedale district,as well as to Mat
The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland . ngland attention was chiefly directed toMalvern because of the prominence that hadbeen given to that place by the joint influence ofDrs. Gully and Wilson, yet that Worcestershirecentre by no means monopolised all the talent andvigour given to the practical application and studyof the Water Cure system. There were others whowere doing equally good—if more modest—^work inthe same cause in various parts of the has already been made to Ben Rhyddingand other contiguous places in the Wharfedale district,as well as to Matlock, and later on we shall have tospeak of what has been done in Scotland. But beforetreating of that country of the Water Cure parexcellence it will be convenient to take up thehistory of hydropathy as it affects Southport, wherein the early years of the movement Providencebrought to the front a specially live and enthusiasticpractitioner, to whom for a time the fortunes ofhydrotherapeutics in that district were was Dr. John Goodman. no. P<i<:e iia DR. GOODMAN. SOUTHPORT. Goodman, who for his attainments and generalability must be placed on a par with Dr. Gully andDr. Wilson, came of a well-known Derbyshirefamily residing near Chapel-en-le-Frith. After hisearly education at Manchester he entered theManchester Infirmary as a student, and ultimatelystudied at the lyondon University, from whence heobtained the diploma of Eng., and After practising for some time in Salford,about 1853 he went to reside at Southport, principallyon account of his health. There he soon acquired agood practice, and began to direct his attentionmore assiduously to the practical application ofhydropathy, of the rightness of which he had forsome time been convinced. In 1856 he conceivedthe idea of founding, in conjunction with a numberof other gentlemen, the Hydropathic Hospital there,of which he w^as appointed physician, and whichpost, latterly with help
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