TY  - JOUR
T1  - HYdrotherapy
Y1  - 1909/11/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550210044009
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1746
EP  - 1747
VL  - LIII
IS  - 21
N2  - While it cannot be said that qualified medical men ignore the therapeutic use of water (unless here and there some isolated individual, like one who a few years ago objected to the practice of bathing as insanitary), it can safely be admitted that most physicians do not habitually employ hydrotherapy in many ways in which it might be beneficial to their patients. Many difficulties stand in the way as regards the mass of the profession. A complete hydrotherapeutic outfit is beyond the reach of the average physician, and the means for using the simple domestic methods are not always available in the homes of the poor. The exploiters of hydrotherapeutic methods in our cities, and even in some of the so-called water-cures, often have not the full confidence of the profession. In some of the best hydrotherapeutic establishments one cannot always be sure that the cure is applied in a
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550210044009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550210044009
ER  -