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Definition of Hydropathies
1. hydropathy [n] - See also: hydropathy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydropathies
Literary usage of Hydropathies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Though with small crop of these Faiths in hydropathies, Punch would a wrap o'
these Wet sheets endure, Could he rely upon Such helpt to try upon, ..."
2. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"... ALEXIA; SOMERSET HOUSE; NORTH EASTERN STATION, convenient for passing Hers;
PEOPLE'S TEMPERANCE, Albert St. — hydropathies. Surrogate, 63s. per week-, ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... is replaced by tourist talk of connections by train and coach, o hotels and
hydropathies, and most of us have cunning little books full of coupons that ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1891)
"This urinary increase evidently shows that the cold water is absorbed, and that
the body and blood are cooled, and more certainly than by other hydropathies ..."
5. Half-hours with the Best American Authors by Charles Morris (1886)
"... as the eye of his glanced fearfully round the room for am and redress. Nay,
her hand rested for pitcher, while thoughts of hydropathies, baths, ..."
6. The Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"Nay, her hand rested for an instant upon a pitcher, while thoughts of hydropathies,
douches, shower- baths, ..."
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