Hydropathy: the cold water cure in cartoons

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Wringing the patient

A patient at the Water Cure, getting well drench'd, & wrench'd, & restored to health

Carrying the patient

I am inclined to knock these fellows down. But how can I, bound hand and foot like this?

The Rain Bath

As if there were not cruelties enough, they have actually invented a Rain Bath

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