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This article is the renamed version of the article originally entitled Water Cure. Water cure has two primary definitions: one pertaining to therapy, and one pertaining to torture. However, the Water Cure article dealt only with one aspect, namely torture.
Unsurprisingly, this generated some discussion on the talk page. The talk in relation to this comprised two main issues.
The Water cure (therapy) article is itself impoverished, and better merged into the hydrotherapy article, but that is a separate issue, and a separate set of exercises.
Wotnow ( talk) 23:47, 1 December 2009 (UTC)Wotnow
It is not clear from the article when the slang term/euphemism for torture began to be used - at least outside the US army, which appears to have invented the term, if not the practise. This term is however a euphemism. Would it not be better to retitle the article water torture?
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The article lede says water cure victims are "forced to drink large quantities of water." I propose cases of voluntary fatal water intoxication, such as the Hold your Wee for a Wii contest, be deleted since this article is about the torture method and those incidents are already covered more appropriate articles. Blackguard 22:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Psychiatry Patients used to be tortured with cold baths. I have seen black and white photos of the bathtubs, where there are leather straps on the tub to hold the patient in. Dr David Healy writes the discovery of anti-psychotics are a result of trying to stop patients from shivering from "ice therapy". http://davidhealy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Psychopharmacology-and-The-Government-of-the-Self.pdf Another reference easily found is Dr. Benjamin Rush book, year 1835 "Diseases of the Mind" quote from the book "Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness."