The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Dyspeptic's Douche

Anonymous. "The Dyspeptic's Douche." Vanity Fair, March 3, 1860, 158.
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Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
Abstract

The Vanity Fair extrapolates from the reported case of a man who dives off the wharves into cold or warm water to cure his dyspepsia.