Ellen Goodell Smith

Ellen Goodell Smith was an American hydropathic physician, vegetarian and writer. She was born on 25 August 1835 and died on 3 November 1906. Hydropathy, also called the water cure, was a nineteenth century system of treatment built around the use of water, and she practised it as a physician while also advocating vegetarianism and writing on these subjects. The lead of the source offers only these facts, so this entry is brief and is a historical record, not medical advice.