Richard Russell (doctor)

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Richard Russell (? – 1789) was an eighteenth century British doctor who encouraged his patients to use what was later called the "water cure" — medical therapy by the submersion in, and drinking of, seawater. He recommended especially that they try the water near Brighton, where he later built a house. The water cure was very popular in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries.

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