Richard Russell (doctor)
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Richard Russell (26 November 1687[1] – 1759)[2][lower-alpha 1]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.[4][5] The contemporary equivalent of this is thalassotherapy,[6] although the practice of drinking seawater has largely discontinued.