When Dr. F. Wilson Hurd opened the "Wesley Water Cure" Highland Hygiene Home, a health-care sanitarium, in 1873, he had been in practice for 21 years, treating his patients without the use of medicine. His new facility in Experiment Mills (now Minisink Hills) also offered alternative health care in the form of water cures, which had been "discovered" by the Rev. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church in America and noted physician, more than a century earlier.
In 1747, Wesley published a work titled "Primitive Physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases " in which he shared his knowledge of healing with water. His findings were reprinted in medical journals and have been noted in a number of books and periodicals throughout the centuries.
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