JAMES MADDEN AND CO., tion, at Griifenberg, in Austrian Silesia, and should deem ourselves negligent of our duty did we not invite public attention to the subject.

" But the direct application of cold water to the cure of diseases is not so great a novelty as some of Priessnitz's admirers appear to imagine. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, prescribes cold water for the treatment of the most serious diseases ; Celsus and Galen recommend its use in both sickness and health ; and we could give a long list of writers who have adopted the same views. We may mention that nearly a century ago, in 1747, John Wesley published a book entitled Primitive Physic ; or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing most Diseases ; in which he gives his opinion that water, properly applied, will cure almost every disease which flesh is heir to. The founder of Methodism was not a physician, but he was a shrewd observer, and the valuable little work to which we have alluded is full of excellent advice, of which a regular practitioner need not be ashamed. But simple remedies do not suit this luxurious generation : they long for what is elaborate and costly ; they are willing to ' do some great thing ;' but when merely told to ' wash and be clean,' like Naaman the Syrian, they turn away from the river in a rage."

" If one-half, or one-fiftieth, or one-hundredth part of the statements be true, and we are not aware that there exists the slightest reason to question any one of them, measures ought to be taken to have Hydropathy introduced among us with as little delay as possible. Having said thus much, all that remains for us to do, is to commend Mr. Claridge's book to a careful and attentive perusal, and that we do most heartily." City Chronicle.

In One Volume, 8vo, 440 pp., bound in cloth, price 7s. 6d., THE HAND-BOOK OF HYDROPATHY, FOR PROFESSIONAL AND DOMESTIC USE.

OTiiti) an ppcnTJij:, On the best mode of forming Hydropathic Establishments ; being the result of Twelve years' experience at Grafenberg and Freiwaldau.

BY DR. J. WEISS, Formerly Director of the Establishment at Freiwaldau, latterly of Stanstead Bury House, Hertfordshire.

CAPTAIN CLARIDGE'S TESTIMONY. My DEAR Sir, I congratulate you on being the publisher of sucli a work, decidedly the best ever written on Hydropathy ; indeed, no other that I am acquainted with bears any comparison. li. T. GLARIDGE.

Messrs. Madden and Co.

" Mr.- Weiss understood and practised the Water Cure with greater safety and more undeviating success than any other of its professors, with the exception of Priessnitz himself." Fide Claridge's ''Hydropathy."

" This is a very lucid and sensible exposition of the Cold Water Cure. Every thing is rendered intelligible and clear, even to the non- professional reader." Naval and Military Gazette.

" Dr. J. Weiss has had much experience of the Cold Water Cure in Germany, and was the director of the Stanstead Bury establishment. His object in the present volume is not scientific, but practical. His book is the best and most rational that has yet appeared on the subject." Spectator.