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The Women's Water Cure Movement
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Your Host - Kate
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213 water cure centers were established in America between 1843 and 1900. Although most treated both sexes, the centers were especially popular with women; and women, who had long been denied access to the "regular" medical field, not only gained acceptance but took the lead as water-cure physicians.
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The water cure in America: over three hundred cases of various diseases treated with water, by Drs. Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, Trall, Nichols, and others. With cases of domestic practice ; designed for popular as well as professional reading / edited by a water patient. Imprint New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1856.
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"What distinguishes Donegan's work is her detailed elucidation of the feminist ideology and activities of hydropaths.... Donegan's work will be of special interest to scholars in medical, social, and women's history."-ISIS
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Amelia Bloomer
In her Bloomer costume,
From The Water-Cure Journal, October 1851 |
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The advancement of women as health practitioners was strongly advocated by the very influential Water Cure Journal , a publication that from 1845 through the 1850s promoted hydropathy as well as the related issues of temperance, women's rights, and dress and medical reform. |
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French Water Cure Diet 
