Meaning of hygeiotherapy | Babel Free

Definitions

A system of alternative medicine introduced by Russell Thacher Trall that grew out of hydropathy, adding lifestyle changes such as abstinence from tobacco and alcohol, a vegetarian diet, fresh air, exercise, and sexual restraint.

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Examples

“Hygeiotherapy restores the sick to health by those means which in well persons preserve⟳ it.”

“In America Kneippism soon expanded to embrace other natural therapies, and in 1900 was rechristened naturopathy, though it differed in no important way from Trall's hygeiotherapy.”

“American naturopathy appears to have⟳ derived most directly from the Kneipp water societies and spas established shortly before the turn⟳ of the century; these, in turn⟳, grew from an earlier movement called hygeiotherapy, a refinement of hydropathy […] Although hygeiotherapy had virtually disappeared by the time of Trall's death in 1877, it underwent a resurgence in the 1890s inf the form⟳ of Kneippism.”

“Other groups discussed in this book include⟳ hydropathy (water therapy) whose advocates opened medical schools and formed a national association in 1850; Grahamism, after the Presbyterian preacher Sylvester Graham (1795-1851), who introduced vegetarianism, diet, hygiene, and moderation in all things; and hygeiotherapy, a variation of hydropathy that expanded water therapy to include⟳ calisthenics, diet, sexual hygiene, and social reform⟳.”

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