Richard Russell

ON THIS SITE STOOD RUSSELL HOUSE WHERE LIVED FROM 1759 RICHARD RUSSELL, MD, FRS. IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND.

Richard Russell (26 November 1687 – 1759) was an 18th-century British physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater. The contemporary equivalent of this is thalassotherapy, although the practice of drinking sea water has largely discontinued.

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