Spreading the News about Hydropathy: How Did Americans Learn to Stop Worrying and Trust the Water Cure?
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7/25/2012
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This paper was delivered at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in Baltimore. It was included in a panel on information networks in the early republic and explores the question of how some Americans decided to trust information about the water cure, a nineteenth-century health reform movement also known as hydropathy.
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water cure, abolitionism, networks, hydropathy, history of medicine
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McDaniel, W. Caleb. "Spreading the News about Hydropathy: How Did Americans Learn to Stop Worrying and Trust the Water Cure?." (7/25) https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64493.
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