The origins of hydrotherapy can be traced as far back as the ancient Greeks and early eastern cultures in China and Japan, where minerals were added to baths. The most common medical practice was to bathe sufferers in water, both hot and cold water, sometimes interchangeably in order to sooth pain, cure diseases or relieve symptoms.
Category: Medical
The Electrifying Cure
Galvanism is not something you would necessarily assume to be tied to health. But one of the definitions “The therapeutic use of currents” makes it clear that this has often been the case. Today we use currents in pacemakers and defibrillators, but in the Victorian era the uses were wide ranging and often disturbing.