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Excerpt from The Smedleys of Matlock Bank: Being a Review of the Religious and Philanthropic Labours of Mr. And Mrs. John Smedley
The employment of water as an agency in the cure of disease is probably as Old as the human experience Of suffering. It is hardly necessary to present the evidence which history supplies that bathing was used as a remedy in very early times.
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