Hydropathy in England 1840–70

Hydropathy in England 1840-70.

As NEUBURGER' observed, the doctrine of the natural healing processes runs like a thin red line through the history of medicine. It is the purpose of this paper to describe a small part of this thin red line as manifested in the rise and acceptance of the Victorian system of hydropathy; it claims to be no more than a footnote to Neuburger's exploratory work on this subject. Warner2 has rightly ...

Classifying protein sequences using hydropathy blocks

The annotation of proteins can be achieved by classifying the protein of interest into a certain known protein family to induce its functional and structural features. This paper presents a new method for classifying protein sequences based upon the hydropathy blocks occurring in protein sequences. First, a fixed-dimensional feature vector is generated for each protein sequence using the freque...

The correlation between GC3 and hydropathy in human genes.

A positive correlation holds between the GC level of third codon positions of human genes (GC(3)) and hydropathy of the encoded proteins. This correlation may appear counterintuitive, since it links a physical property of proteins to the base composition of 'synonymous' sites. We here establish the nontriviality of the correlation, which has recently been contested. In particular, the correlati...

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

The Water Cure in the Bedroom; or, Hydropathy at Home