Identifier: riseprogressofhy00metc (find matches)
Title: The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Metcalfe, Richard Lee, b. 1861
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ntry, and thesame month or the following, he opened his far-famedestablishment at Sudbrook Park, near Richmond.The venture was not of course his own; the pro-prietors of the concern were James D. Wood, JamesHutchinson, and John Cunninghame, but Weiss hadfull control of the place and all connected with it. Sudbrook Park is in many respects the mostimportant place connected with the history ofhydropathy in England. Bestowed by George I. uponthe Duke of Argyll and Greenwich as a reward forhis services at the battle of Sherriffmuir, it passed athis death, in 1743, to his daughter, the BaronessGreenwich and Countess of Dalkeith, who made it herresidence. Her son, the Duke of Buccleuch, sold theproperty to Mr. Raikes, the banker, who in turndisposed of it to Sir Robert Wihnot Horton, bywhom the annex to the east was built. For some years it was occupied by George Channing,whose daughter, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, wasmarried there. In 1832, Sudbrook Park was in the occupation of the 48
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PIONEERS OF THE WATER CURE. Earl of Durham, and the Reform Bill of that datewas drawn up there, in a room which has since beencalled the Reform Room. In 1839 ^^^ property wasrepurchased by the Crown, and in 1844 was rented bythe gentlemen above named, and was opened, as wehave seen, as a hydropathic establishment, under themanagement of Dr. Weiss. His health, however,broke down in the following year, and, in the hope ofregaining it by a visit to the Continent, he confidedthe direction of the hydro to his friend and pupil,Dr. Ellis. He died, however, of acute gout atFreiwaldau in 1847, ^^^ the establishment atPetersham passed into the hands of Dr. Ellis, ofwhom I shall have something to say on a subsequent page.Dr. Weisss Handbook of Hydropathy forProfessional and Domestic Use (originally publishedat Breslau in 1837) was issued in English in 1843, andwas the first treatise published in this country placinghydropathy on a scientific basis. For such a work—that is, a book dealing with

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