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a-day/a day
ancle/ankle
aught/ought
a-week/a week
bason/basin
catemenia/catamenia
colic/cholic
degrees/deg./°
diarrhoea/diarrhœa
ear-ache/ear-ach
etc/&c
everywhere/every where
Freywalden/Freywaldau/Freiwaldau
Greenough/Greenhough
headache/head-ache
Homoæpathic/Homeopathy/Homæopathist
Hydropathy/hydropathy and related terms
Hygeia/hygeia
inquire/enquire
Jenison/Jennison
kidnies/kidneys
mattrass/mattress
Packing-sheet/packing-sheet/Packing sheet/packing sheet
Priessnitz’s/Priessnitz’
reaction/re-action
ringworm/ring worm
Rubbing-Sheet/Rubbing-sheet/rubbing-sheet/rubbing sheet
shews/shows
sitting-bath/sitting bath
sitz/Sitz
smallpox/small pox
staid/stayed
tepid-bath/tepid bath
Vanderheyden/Van der Heyden
watercure/water-cure/Water-cure/water cure/Water cure
EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.
THE
COLD WATER, TEPID WATER,
AND
FRICTION-CURE,
AS APPLICABLE TO EVERY DISEASE TO WHICH THE HUMAN
FRAME IS SUBJECT.
AND ALSO TO
BY
CAPTAIN R. T. CLARIDGE.
AUTHOR OF THE “GUIDE ALONG THE DANUBE TO TURKEY AND GREECE;”
“HYDROPATHY, OR THE COLD WATER CURE,” ETC. ETC.
LONDON:
JAMES MADDEN, PUBLISHER,
8, LEADENHALL STREET.
M.DCCC.XLIX.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO.,
CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.