Talk:Water cure
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[edit] Made in the USA?
According to the article, only Americans ever practiced this form of torture. - Brunnock 12:07, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Water-cure in America
It is historical fact that America practiced the water cure during the Philippine-American War I added extensive footnotes so no one can debate this. Travb 23:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Water torture article
This needs merging into or at least reconciling with Water torture, since this article's introduction refers to several different methods of water torture. Water torture should be the general article and Water Cure ought to be about one specific method. Ben Finn 13:06, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Add the merge tags if it is important to you, otherwise there is a good chance it will never be done.Travb (talk) 21:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sentence correct?
"Sometimes water torture victims are raised upside down with water in their stomachs, pressing against the intestines, resulting in incredible pain and sometimes death."
This doesn't sound right, if you were to flip someone upside-down with a huge amount of water in their stomach, wouldn't the water-filled stomach "pull the intestines down" rather than "press up against" them? If they were right-side up the water-filled stomach would be pressed against the intestines causing discomfort. The sentence seems cotrary to the laws of gravity.
[edit] made in the US?
I suppose anything is possible, but the water cure sounds suspiciously similar to foie gras to me, and it would be hard for me to believe that it is a uniquely American invention. Americans may have been the most documented, but it seems difficult to believe that there would be no evidence to support this claim that it was used during the French-Algerian war. You'd also then have to ask the question: where did that picture come from, and what are they doing if not the water cure torture?
