The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-24 00:00:00

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,partrar.4.. ,`big
attained the honours of a second editions"-
book" though the work is comically confessed 1"
cbhea,
ttlwir,hoiueghhttalrespplelaascaenitiemtweedeinumtiolef
that profs
and•bis alter ego, his patient, his lay figure'
to
Fadlatleeu. Those honours of a second editisnea°o
already—as we anticipated would prove to hviltd
case very speedily—stamped these seven 11;au
and odd pages of scientific exposition as
Twig
"timbre" of a recognised popularity. ,01,
of this success may be readily enough exP's_,
big
Our author has spoken out of the fullness of
own belief and out of the amplitude of his 1:i.13!10
and estimable knowledge. It would be a gr7t
misapprehension to suppose for an instant tne„rit,
reader of this singular volume has nothing I,°_, to
during the course of its perusal, but to listefib,
the crotchets of some practitioner inspiredtbre.,lo
out by one all-absorbing enthusiasm--a suPitirio
and dominant faith in the efficiency of a tav°,,gsill
scheme of treatment, one of those univert. tee
applicable systems taking the place in these la to
days of the old-fashioned nostrums vended wily
squeak of the Jack Pudding's penny trumPebo,
the wandering quack-salver, half-physieise'is tlat
mountebank. The production under netiee4 the
merely explanatory, as its title intimates,
principles and practice of the " Water Cure after
something more than that ; it is elucidaterYilajoi
the most delightful manner imaginable'daisy
iriti
lofty truths in regard to our animal econetcone
which every thinking man ought in reason to 'oil
in some degree, familiarised. Dr. Wilson sPe.ht to
us, no doubt authoritatively, as he bas the ri!de,io
do, upon a suLject he is known far and wi,
have so completely mastered in capaeitY a
.13Dtt
of the most eminent of living Hydropathists: thee
beyond this, he discourses to us also throng° tints
extraordinarily lucid, and yet i-O
, at the satintelt
no less extraordinarily elaborated, conrers.4
with the wisdom of one whose judgment .I„ingist
grounded in the philosophy of the phYttntel
and of the pathologist, with one whose resettifss
have sounded most of the depths of bornes strati)!
inga in an anxious scrutiny after the sinll3lB.oo
discoverable among the intricate raYbte', Did
-
therapeutics. "Le style c'est l'homrce'
Buffon. And estimating Dr. Wils°ssl4 'lB
cyncracy by that particular stantlat ofl
should assuredly accord to him the wet; of 111
really marvellous precision of logic, and 4101"
equally surprising faculty for clearness of Orr pr
tion. In the unfolding of his physiological °lief)!
thological knowledge to his hypothetical Px/Ip 0
lit
there is no reservation whatsoever. Ile i! „el6l,
to a degree. In his hands the dissecting xmt nag'
bare every fibre of his subject. Moreover, 1 nok
be said he popularises the recondite while eigrner
ing to the unscientific hearer the wonders e„ater
tomical structure, and of physiological °l.a-effer
tion, and of pathological development, 19bitlit
tually as ever the abstruse was populariseu:Aill
philosophic philanthropist. Formerly the 5,,,16.1
of medicine used to imagine, obviouslY,
vulgar could alone be effectually awed :nt° in t)
mage for their abilities by an indulgeocevoll
incomprehensible jargon, such as might leitiodli
sense as to the extent of ieir learning unreB°,;
to the conjectures of the popular imaginatieai9
cording to their notion, as with men, °s e'
things—ornate ignotum pro magnifico. 11°,„wie the
a wiser spirit is happily abroad—now' ww, vla11:1
masses are drinking in exoteric draughts '3'lo'
soppy, upon chemistry through the interposl
Liebig, upon optics through that of Brewster:re
electricity through Faraday, upon corn
anatomy through Owen, upon astrononititi,,,iar
Hind, upon g ology through Murchison. I'sol
of the schools have not disdained to despoil tOO
the porch into the market-place, there tesn t°. the
abroad tlmPelementary stores of knowledge, red'
appreciiiion almost, we bad said, of the nulelo t.. 116
Dr. Wilsd7ir has here in his turn so spoke"hew
apprehension okthe masses upon those great w ten ell;
of physiology and pathology which are of 6° nera
preme and, literally, vital import to the 1,v%,
multitinle. Dividing his work into six welt iM,
sive sections, he has imparted to his reacht lint
sense sense of the mechanism ande functions of the ,
frame, of the nature and origin of its varietlo,
dies, and finally, of course, of the infidee
, 48011,i
cised upon those various maladies by the TRide,!f
water-cure processt s. Setting altogether -hsol'l
we will, the final or sixth section of 01001
namely, that relating to the systematic aPP,of,)
Land practical details of Hydropathy, we,pre'
we so list, derive from the five sectionatiale6,
ceding it, ayfund of information, the abstracttol4
of which its Would he somewhat difficult, nlololl'
absolutely idler to attempt to estimate, tale se,
by any scheme of comparison whatsoever goo'
tion, or Part, I.—consisting of certain in 0004.
tory conversstions between " Patient" 80,4 :a
t r," the interlocutors throughout,• prePah-hel"
way for those more important themes whitticili'
to he taken, one by one, for after consiuv
After impressing upon us the trot"h"
of tr
prOfeSgif nil subjects are frequently worthi. 4
attention of unprofessional people, it enlarg!;itu"
the duty of our acquiring, each and all aluelte
a knowledge of the human constitution 010013'.
lations to external nature. It reminds us
teriot?'
sources ofAisease are neither occult nor nlYs
ut, on the contrary open and palpable' niitOn,,
closes to view by a sufficiently impressive n tike
the baneful consequences of ignorance 11.nir-001
subjects of organisation, health, disease, l'ouh
regimen, diet, air, and exercise. It desediliotelr
fine, upon the in- 'pendent, impartial, slit pllehro
able operation of the laws of nature, moil' to
cal, ae-d physiological. Section 11. relawinsrill
grand themes of life and organisation, r
by a variety of ramifications through all "le pPet
po
of Physio'ogv. Section 111. consists of iktioa
exposition of the scientific details of Notri:6o Pry!
Digestion. Section IV. unfolds the scientl 0140
ciples of Diet and Regimen. Section Ire e#,l{oo3ll
the general grin ples of Pathology; andSee'roco7,.
as already related, those of the Water-Care_PsOstif
in their manifold application. Among the btetib the
tinned are, of course, included the shallow,alir.,ol
sitz bath, the douche bath, the plunge -the "w
swimming bath, the sweating processes/000;r
sheet peeking, the wet sheet rubbing, th,e,:e 011,7‹,
tions, hot and warm, and the water driEwnwieeer,-1.
water cure treatment. Finally, as an 00.4
we have presented to us a number of ca,s7etf, se
ing evidence of the efficiency anu,s,ntea,nl
the Water Cure, evidence autheo`l4l/I"f4
having been accumulated under • Dr. 00014.
own individual observation. It is ii,e/
to find enumerated among this
donee cases of gout, rheumatism,blonr..„s' ft
d w pep s.a, nervous indigestion, t'e" jerp4
bronchitis,
.neuralgia, apoplexy, sciaticat'ery, the
cons estion, debility, chronic 080,100 0•
chronic inflammation ! We glance :aneelbee 0-
long and -v• ried catalogue in dumb 51'01 0.0
We think of Hysseia turning out attera-tsellole
Naiad, and 2Esculapitis a River God• " -040°*-03%
for a while, as over a fitting subject fora groisgiolit
gorical cartoon, upon the memory esb
011i1 'll
fl
throwing cold water upon the ills that -d AOd io
to. Anti then we revert with increaserstiort-osi
increasing pleasure to the earlier cunsre,vitl3°*iter
the volume, those in which Dr. Wilson' gv. oliefor
admirable lucidity, displays before 11,101
another, the mar vele, Loth structure', too °f of
tit nal, presented to us by the contege:oideet.ro'
human body when viewed under thAeftbe.tj-tirr
so skilled and gifted a physiologist. • 'of. mien,
t°
scope discloses to view the wonders hie `-soieu,"
imagined creation, so does this renla,E%-g. 01300u-
those readers who ahr, strictly speak in ;tshgeti t°,
tifie and unprofessional. We rise fliir° 1110_,1- tor
nation thankful for that labour whi'dittl'iltrilserif
us a lens thrceagh which we have ser" Dr. °'
Lai ,A
crocosm—the labour of love by Tvg..,'" 114 A, cow"
has been enabled to discard from whien," pee
abstruse studies every condite detnoniiiibre` hen.
by possibility preclude them from he-ral
larised under his guidance to the gelle-
sion.

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lisped by Peter Whe leber
The want of a numismatic dictionlrehava s„fr
concise and complete, has been long fined
as we can see Mr. Whelan has Bilee'-nibraCe'nol
plying it. The book, little as it is, e— 1110"
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formation.of every-day utility resPec ir out
coins from the earliest period to Pre
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