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hygeiotherapy

hygeiotherapy noun: 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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hygeiotherapy (uncountable)

  1. (historical) 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.
    • Hygeiotherapy restores the sick to health by those means which in well persons preserve it.1873, R T Trall, S W Dodds, Diseases of the Throat and Lungs and Principles of Hygeiotherapy, →ISBN
    • 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.1985, Douglas Stalker, Clark N. Glymour, Examining Holistic Medicine, page 45

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What does hygeiotherapy mean?
Hygeiotherapy means 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.
What part of speech is hygeiotherapy?
Hygeiotherapy is a noun.

Words near hygeiotherapy in the dictionary

  1. hygeen
  2. hygeens
  3. Hygeia
  4. hygeian
  5. hygeiolatry
  6. hygeiotherapy
  7. hygeist
  8. hygeistic
  9. hygeists
  10. hygenic
  11. hygenicist

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