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This essay examines a neglected archive of hydropathic memoirs to reconstruct the lay experience of seeking medical agency in the full-fledged alternative medical market in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Two main texts under examination are Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Confessions of a Water Patient (1845) and J. Leech's Three Weeks between Wet Sheets; the Diary and Doings of a Moist Visitor to Malvern (1851). While Bulwer-Lytton's encomium for hydropathy features an invalid subject's journey toward a holistic sense of self-command, L