Rochester and the Water-Cure, 1844-1854 (Rochester History, October, 1970, Vol. XXXII, No. 4)

24 pp. In 1850 there was little on the American medical scene to inspire confidence in the cure, much less in the avoidance of disease. Bacteria and viruses were still to be discovered; save for inoculation for the smallpox and quinine dosing in malarial districts, neither individual nor mass protection against what would subsequently be recognized as infectious diseases was available.