Author Bibliography (in progress)
Shew, Joel (1816-1855)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Joel Shew was an American physician, Grahamite, hydrotherapist and natural hygiene advocate. He was born on 13 November 1816 in Providence, New York, and died on 6 October 1855 in Oyster Bay, Long Island. He established the first hydrotheraphy institute in New York City in 1843 and was associated with the promininet hydrotherapists and Grahamites of the time, such as Mary Gove Nichols. In 1845, Shew founded the The Water-Cure Journal in 1845 which, from 1849, was edited by Russell Trall.
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PUBLICATIONS
Consumption: Its Prevention and Cure by the Water Treatment: its prevention and cure by the water treatment : with advice concerning haemorrhage from the lungs, coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, and sore throat. New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851.
The Hydropathic Family Physician: a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind. New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1854.
Hydrotherapy: Or, the Water-cure. New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1855.
Hydropathy, Or, The Water-Cure: its principles, modes of treatment, &c., illustrated with many cases : compiled chiefly from the most eminent European authors on the subject. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
The Water-Cure Manual: a popular work : embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing, the hygienic and curative effects of air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water-drinking, &c. : together with descriptions of diseases, and the hydropathic means to be employed therein ... New York: Cady and Bubgess [sic] (late Paine and Burgess), 1847.
Marie Louise Shew, revised by Joel Shew. Water-cure for ladies : a popular work on the health, diet, and regimen of females and children, and the prevention and cure of diseases; with a full account of the processes of water-cure; illustrated with various cases. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844.
William Lambe, Water and Vegetable Diet in consumption, scrofula, cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases ... (notes and additions by Joel Shew). New York, Fowlers and Wells; [etc., etc.] 1850.
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