a.  = WATER-CASTER 1. b. = HYDROPATHIST.

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1801.  Sporting Mag., XVII. 8. Mrs. Mayersbatch, widow of the celebrated Water-Doctor of that name.

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1846.  Lytton, Conf. Water-patient, 43. The peculiar ‘crisis,’ sought for so vehemently by the German water-doctors.

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1848.  Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 7), Uromantia..., the art of divining diseases by simple inspection of the urine … One professing to be able to do this is called Uromantes. Vulgarly, a water doctor.

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1849.  E. FitzGerald, Lett. (1889), I. 198. Some one told me that he was gone or going to the Water Doctor at Malvern.

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