hydrotherapyn.
/hʌɪdrəʊˈθɛrəpi/ = hydrotherapeutics n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun]
water treatment1832
water cure1834
water curing1842
hydropathy1843
hydrotherapy1876
hydriatry1886
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 54 Alterations of sensibility, analgesia,..hyperæsthesia, are often relieved by hydrotherapy—by the wet-pack, by ice, by local hot and cold effusion.
Derivatives
hydrotheˈrapic adj. hydropathic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > hydrotherapeutics
hydriatric1843
hydropathic1843
hydropathical1844
balneological1879
hydrotherapeutic1885
hydrotherapic1894
balneotherapeutic1906
1894 Daily News 5 May 7/2 The Congress of Hydrotherapy and the International Sanitary and Health Exhibition which are to take place at Boulogne..on the occasion of the opening of the very extensive hydrotherapic establishment recently constructed.
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