Hydrotherapy and Alcoholism

In my research this week, I have found more information about the Victorian preoccupation with the Turkish Bath. This hydro-therapy was popularized during the 1850's in different literature and took very little time to cross the Atlantic and begin popping up in America, especially the Northeast.
Among the institutions that medically used the Turkish Bath I have come across Dr. Holbrook's Hygeniec Institution, which eventually became a temperance facility. I have a detailed account of the Turkish Bath there, but can find no description on their temperance practices and how they might help an alcoholic dry-out. Well, after all, this is the Victorian era and we might discuss the evils of alcohol, but we certainly don't discuss those who have succumbed or how to help aleviate them. Until the 1920's there doesn't seem to be any recorded data (that I can find) on medical treatments for alcoholics. My historian has told me that (yay, we're are back in contact!), especially in concern to Victorian women, such problems with alcohol would be treated the same way as any female concern, "so-and-so is delicate" and then shut them away. Placate and keep them from causing problems. Send them away if you must.
And so, I am trying to piece together an accurate depiction of how Bitsy would try to get well from her alcoholim and depression. In treating her "hysteria" (depressive highs and lows), it has become apparent that she drinks, enough to injure her health and cause serious repurcussions. Which came first, the depression or abuse of alcohol? Doesn't matter at this point, just matters how the family, after shutting her away for years, with her consent, mind you, tries to help her get well ... I want to be accurate, not just telling the way I would want it to go. As the author, I have bonded with Bitsy and I see her dilemna and I want her functioning and well, enjoying her life. But is it realistic? Will she get well? Does she have the resources to climb out of several years of prescribed bed-rest (off and on) and drinking to start making mature decisions when her emotions are running high? I don't know. I look forward to discovering more as I write and only pray that as I do, I will remain true to the story, even if it is not the perfect ending I hope for.