< The Rise and progress of
hydropathy in England and Scotland / Richard Metcalfe. — 2nd ed. —
London : Simpkin Marshall, 1912. — pp.158-63 |
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Congregational minister of a small chapel at Skene, near Aberdeen, Munro
studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen but was not allowed to
graduate as he was already a practising hydropathist. He wrote articles for
the Glasgow Christian news, started and edited the Journal of
health which was then succeeded by the Aberdeen water cure journal
and sanitary reformer.
Munro started a hydro at Angusfield in 1850 but for some reason this proved
unsatisfactory and he started a second one in its place a year later at
Lochhead, where he stayed for about twelve years. He then moved to become
Superintendent of the Cluny Hill Hydro at Forres, moving on to the Waverley
Hydro at Melrose and, in 1873, back to Cluny Hill until 1881. After a year
lecturing round Scotland, he took charge of Carpenter's hydro at Bishop's
Teignton, Devon where he stayed till his death on 13 January 1883, aged 72. |
