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Review Of Literature, &C.
excellence . Bubbles of the Day is a lively satire , unequivocal in its moral . That the theatrical public estimate our author at no mean rate , is shewn in the remarkable fact , that at each of the patent theatres his dramas nightly attract brilliant audiences . On the Monday , AVednesday , and Friday , Bubbles of the Day , at Covent Garden , expose cant and hypocrisy ; while , at Drury Lane , the Prisoner of War , nearly every night holds sway over delighted audiences , enlivening them with whim and frolic .
1 . Hydropathy s or , the Cold Water Cure , as practised by Vincent Priesnitz , at Grilefenberg , Silesia and Austria . By R . T . Claridge , Esq . Svo . pp . 318 . Madden , London . 2 . Cold Water for ever . ' . ' . ' or , Hydriatria s * vulgo , Hydropathy . \ Cousins , Duke-street , Lincoln " s-inn-nelds . AVe shall first dismiss the second of these wonderful productions , which is a kind of tender , or small pail , to the larger water-tub . It has ,
however , the especial merit of correcting the title of its colossal principal by a more correct , though less euphonious , term—unless , indeed , the exposition is intended as a joke . And now to " Hydropathy . "
" The earth hath bubbles as the water hath . "—Shaksiieare . " Never say humbug ; it ' s coarse . # ¦ * * * " And not respectable . a * * * " It was coarse . But the fact is , humbughaa received such high patronage , that now it's quite classic '— Bubbles of the Day .
AVe had waded through this book , and were about to remind the author of " Gil Bias" and other sources of his ill-concealed plagiarisms , in an article ready for type , when we found the . Lancet" had performed an operation on " Hydropathy" so much better to the purpose , that we prefer giving some extracts from the reviewing department of that periodical .
" Hydropathy is a fine word for a water-pain , a science which certainly rests on abetter foundation than homoeopathy , or mesmerism , or any of the other mystic " sciences , " which have latterly issued from that hotbed of absurdities , Austria . * * * If we condemn the humbug of hydropathy , it must not be imagined for a moment that we deny the virtues of cold water as a remedy , when administered with discrimination . * * * Dr . Currie ' s book is still a medical classic . Macartney has shown the real use of water . * * The peculiarity andabsurdity of the water doctors lie in
this , that they carry the administration of water , in all forms , to excess , and apply it indiscriminately in all cases . In this fact consists the originality and the mischievous tendency of VINCENT PIUESNITZ ' S practice . . ' * * " His father was the proprietor of a small farm , on which the establishment is built , and gave his son ( Vincent ) little or no education . Ah old man , who practised the ' water-pain' upon animals , imparted to Vincent Priesnitz the son , his first notions of the science , for he appears to have been too illiterate to acquire the information from a hook on the subject , by Dr . Harn , who resided at Schweidnitz , thirty miles from Graefenberg . "
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Review Of Literature, &C.
excellence . Bubbles of the Day is a lively satire , unequivocal in its moral . That the theatrical public estimate our author at no mean rate , is shewn in the remarkable fact , that at each of the patent theatres his dramas nightly attract brilliant audiences . On the Monday , AVednesday , and Friday , Bubbles of the Day , at Covent Garden , expose cant and hypocrisy ; while , at Drury Lane , the Prisoner of War , nearly every night holds sway over delighted audiences , enlivening them with whim and frolic .
1 . Hydropathy s or , the Cold Water Cure , as practised by Vincent Priesnitz , at Grilefenberg , Silesia and Austria . By R . T . Claridge , Esq . Svo . pp . 318 . Madden , London . 2 . Cold Water for ever . ' . ' . ' or , Hydriatria s * vulgo , Hydropathy . \ Cousins , Duke-street , Lincoln " s-inn-nelds . AVe shall first dismiss the second of these wonderful productions , which is a kind of tender , or small pail , to the larger water-tub . It has ,
however , the especial merit of correcting the title of its colossal principal by a more correct , though less euphonious , term—unless , indeed , the exposition is intended as a joke . And now to " Hydropathy . "
" The earth hath bubbles as the water hath . "—Shaksiieare . " Never say humbug ; it ' s coarse . # ¦ * * * " And not respectable . a * * * " It was coarse . But the fact is , humbughaa received such high patronage , that now it's quite classic '— Bubbles of the Day .
AVe had waded through this book , and were about to remind the author of " Gil Bias" and other sources of his ill-concealed plagiarisms , in an article ready for type , when we found the . Lancet" had performed an operation on " Hydropathy" so much better to the purpose , that we prefer giving some extracts from the reviewing department of that periodical .
" Hydropathy is a fine word for a water-pain , a science which certainly rests on abetter foundation than homoeopathy , or mesmerism , or any of the other mystic " sciences , " which have latterly issued from that hotbed of absurdities , Austria . * * * If we condemn the humbug of hydropathy , it must not be imagined for a moment that we deny the virtues of cold water as a remedy , when administered with discrimination . * * * Dr . Currie ' s book is still a medical classic . Macartney has shown the real use of water . * * The peculiarity andabsurdity of the water doctors lie in
this , that they carry the administration of water , in all forms , to excess , and apply it indiscriminately in all cases . In this fact consists the originality and the mischievous tendency of VINCENT PIUESNITZ ' S practice . . ' * * " His father was the proprietor of a small farm , on which the establishment is built , and gave his son ( Vincent ) little or no education . Ah old man , who practised the ' water-pain' upon animals , imparted to Vincent Priesnitz the son , his first notions of the science , for he appears to have been too illiterate to acquire the information from a hook on the subject , by Dr . Harn , who resided at Schweidnitz , thirty miles from Graefenberg . "