[CURE sb.1 5 b; after G. wasserkur.] A method or course of medical treatment by means of water.
1842. [see CURE sb.1 5 b].
1843. Abdy, Water Cure, 112. To suppose, that the water cure will have as fair a trial in England as vaccination has had in Germany.
1845. Murray’s Hand-bk. Continent (ed. 5), 428. 36 m. beyond Landeck … is the Water Cure establishment of Vincent Priessnitz at Gräfenberg.
1857. Putnam’s Monthly Mag., March, 244/1. We sallied out to climb the long hill—half way up which, shone the white-washed walls of the great Silesian Water-cure.
Hence Water-curer, -curing.
1849. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), II. 46. This shall be the last of my water-curing for the present.
1900. Daily News, 20 Sept., 4/6. The late Pastor Kneip, the Bavarian water-curer.
