Excerpt from Practical Hydropathy (Not the Cold-Water System): Including Plans of Baths and Remarks on Diet, Clothing, and Habits of Life Another case I name in this book. A flax manufacturer had by enterprise and great industry, accumulated a handsome fortune at the age of fifty-four, and retired from business to enjoy the fruits of his labour, after having escaped the perils of changes in trade and monetary panics. But there was a danger to the frustrating of all his plans for a quiet enjoyable conclusion of life he had no idea of, and that was the very source he looked to for cen tinning life, but which proved his destruction. He went one day to a public dinner, ate of viands made to gratify the palate, not to support life. In the night, at two a.m., awoke with violent sickness; sent for his doctor, who, having no common-sense specific to relieve the burdened stomach, gave arsenic to stop the sickness, which was a natural effort of the organ to expel the indigestible matter. The arsenic stopped the sickness, but laid the foundation of cancer of the stomach, of which he died a year after his seizure. He came in his extremity to me, but after a week's trial I gave up the case, and sent him home to die a distressing death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.