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ˈwater-cure
[cure n.1 5 b; after G. wasserkur.]
1. A method or course of medical treatment by means of water.
1842[see cure n.1 5 b]. 1843Abdy Water Cure 112 To suppose, that the water cure will have as fair a trial in England as vaccination has had in Germany. 1845Murray's Hand-bk. Continent (ed. 5) 428, 36 m. beyond Landeck..is the Water Cure establishment of Vincent Priessnitz at Gräfenberg. 1857Putnam's Monthly Mag. Mar. 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.
2. In the Philippines, torture by forcing a person to drink large quantities of water in a short time.
1902‘Mark Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. May 623 The torturing of Filipinos by the awful ‘water-cure’..to make them confess. 1976New Yorker 3 May 96/2 The Civil Liberties Union of the Philippines..accused the police and the military of employing ‘water cures’ and electric shocks as well as beatings with clubs.
Hence ˈwater-ˌcurer, -ˌcuring.
1849Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 46 This shall be the last of my water-curing for the present. 1900Daily News 20 Sept. 4/6 The late Pastor Kneip, the Bavarian water-curer. |