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Thomas Rayner

1826–91

Hydrotherapist. Assistant to James Manby Gully. MD, Edinburgh, 1858; studied in Edinburgh and Paris. Conducted hydropathic establishments in Dublin, at Clydesdale House in Malvern, and at Abbey Road in Malvern. Author of a book on the water cure.

Sources

Medical directory

Metcalfe 1906, pp. 90–1

Warwickshire Anglican registers (Engl/2/1113/DR 225

accessed on Ancestry.com, 27 March 2013).

Bibliography

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

Metcalfe, Richard. 1906. The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.

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