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Emmet Cooper Dent devoted his life to the care and
treatment of the insane. From 1879 until his death in
1906, he supervised the women's asylum in New
York City, and was named superintendent of
Manhattan State Hospital when the city asylums
were consolidated and put under state control in
1905. He was among the first to introduce
hydrotherapy as a treatment for the insane in state
hospitals, greatly reducing the use of sedative and
tonic drugs by doing so. He credited his knowledge
of hydrotherapeutic techniques to Simon Baruch,
who trained both Dent and his staff in their use.

Wet sheet pack. E. C. Dent, "Hydriatic procedures as an adjunct in the treatment of insanity," Proceedings of
the American Medico-Psychological Association, 1902.