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单词 hydropathy
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Definition of hydropathy in English:

hydropathy

noun hʌɪˈdrɒpəθihaɪˈdrɑpəθi
mass noun
  • The treatment of illness through the use of water, either internally or through external means such as steam baths (not now a part of orthodox medicine).

    水疗法。比较HYDROTHERAPY

    Compare with hydrotherapy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He turned to hydropathy, a Victorian medical fashion in which a patient is given cold showers, steam baths, and wrappings in wet sheets.
    • It jumped from a small local spa to a national one in the middle of the 19th cent. with the popularity of hydropathy.
    • She was a single mother, and she was exploring all sorts of homeopathy, hydropathy, all those things that people did in those days to try to get well.

Derivatives

  • hydropathic

  • adjective hʌɪdrəˈpaθɪkˌhaɪdrəˈpæθɪk
    • In the 19th century this pudding seems to have been known as ‘hydropathic pudding’ because it was served at health resorts where pastry was forbidden.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He subjected himself uncritically to nonsensical and unpleasant hydropathic ‘cures’.
      • She continued her medical lectures and began offering her own hydropathic treatments.
      • He went off to a hydropathic centre, but by May his health appeared to be on the verge of serious breakdown.
  • hydropathist

  • noun
    • We emerge, spluttering and gasping from a genuine cold salt-water bath, such as the hydropathists have no idea of.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She wrote her medical thesis on the preventive approaches she had learned from hydropathists.
      • The practices of the early Hygienists were a composite mixture of hygiene and hydropathy, while most of the practitioners were designated as hydropathists.
      • Above all, the hydropathists reminded us of the inseparable relationship that exists between good health and pure water.
      • Other alternatives included herbalist doctors, who only used plants and plant extracts in their treatments, and hydropathists, who promoted water cures.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from hydro- 'of water', on the pattern of allopathy and homeopathy.

Definition of hydropathy in US English:

hydropathy

nounhīˈdräpəTHēhaɪˈdrɑpəθi
  • The treatment of illness through the use of water, either internally or through external means such as steam baths (not now a part of orthodox medicine).

    水疗法。比较HYDROTHERAPY

    Compare with hydrotherapy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was a single mother, and she was exploring all sorts of homeopathy, hydropathy, all those things that people did in those days to try to get well.
    • It jumped from a small local spa to a national one in the middle of the 19th cent. with the popularity of hydropathy.
    • He turned to hydropathy, a Victorian medical fashion in which a patient is given cold showers, steam baths, and wrappings in wet sheets.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from hydro- ‘of water’, on the pattern of allopathy and homeopathy.

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