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AND HERALD OF REFORMS, DEVOTED TO f Ijrsifflogg, Jn^npatlgt anJr t|e l^atos at fife.
VOL. XX. NO. 2.] NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1855. [$1.00 A YEAR
$ublist)eti bath is taken in the open air. E.'jperiencc teaches FOWLER AND WELLS, us that, other things being equal, an ablution out of doors is always attended with a better re- No. 808 Broadway, New Tork. action, and a greater degree of invigoration, Hmbk Contributors preaeot their own Opinions, and Me alone respoi than one taken within doors. The air is, in fact, lie for them. Wo do not endorst! all we print, but d^^e out- readeri Contents. •Pbovb All TaiNGa" and to "Hold Fast" only "Sfas Good.** somewljat purer out of doors than it can be in
any room, however well ventilated ; and it is G«siE«L ARTICU8 — Sea Bathing, pags 25; The Troe Reformer, 28 ;
' always more or loss in motion, itself . which inijin Vegetirians, -26 Chronic Dineaaea, 21 ; Flints on Bathing, of ; SEA-B ATHlNp. Pure Air Disinfectants, 28; Case of Pleurisy, 29: The Discussion, causes a considerable diflcrcnce in the effects. Late The Aseoath Nicho'son, 31 ; Hydropathy and ProgrossioD, The Massacliui^tts Slal<, Reform School for Boys, 32. Still another advantage to be derived from BY JOEL SHEW, M.D..^' . iK! To CoUU8P'>M>lNTB, page 38. LlTBBAfiV NoTlcKfl, page 39. its virtues ; and Aristophanes, in the scene of The European cities, with all thelV overcrowding, Noncis, page 40. leading Pluto to the Temple of Esculapius foi; Macntasr-H'mibug of the Borneo " Wild Mrn"—Marriage—Tobacco want of light, danyjfl'ess, intefeperaBce, and —An Angel in the Waters—Tobacco and the Paper-Out-of-Door Eier- the purpose of curing his blindness, choae sea- poverty, would natt«(|]ly be expected to show a dsc—Gold Beating- A Contrast, pages 40, 41 an(^2. bathing as the remedy. ICsT>n.o»T, page 42. higher range of mortality llan the cities- on this Sea-bathing, as generally practiced, is only a continent ; but such i^ not the fact. New York, form of the cold bath. At that season of the BUSINESS. with all its natural advantffges, is yet as sickly, year, however, when it i^..mostly practiced, sea- At Wholesale.—Besides our regular monthly packages probably, as anj of the Huropean cities. This, to Agents, we have recently shipped ca-ses, with an assort- water is of a mild tempqrature, and can readily it is agreed on all hands, must in great part ment of Books, for wholesale and retail, to persons and be borne by almost aijy individual, however be owing to the great heat of " our stammer places as follows :— weak. months. To Jame.^i F. Bu.'^h, Liberty, N. Y. effects " A. R. Smutz, New Haven, Pa. In estimating the of sea-bathing several With regard to sea-bathing, it is te be remem- " be taken into the accounf. ^Vadleigh, Sutton & Quiet, Glen Haven, N. T. circumstances are to bered, moreover, that sea-side locations are in " C. C. Colburn, Massena, N. T. is more dense than fresh it possesses Sea-water ; general free from malarious and miapmatic ema- " Wm. T. Lundy, Toronto, C. W. saline in- the highly stimulating property of the nations of every kind. salt of " A. J Morrill, Windham, Maine. The the ocean is forthis is " gredients contained, aM reason much itself J. Leonidus Spaulding, South Killingly.IjCt. a great source of purity ; and were it not less liable to induce ejSlds than the fresh-water " N. W. Vila.s, Oswego, N. Y. Tor this the world would soon become one vast " Wellman, Farmington, it is not however, that the salt, Jacob Me. bath, claimed, pest-house—one great scene of devastation and, " J. M. D Miller, Durhamville, Tenn. possesses any specific power in curing disease disease. " Chas. E. Griffin, Jamestown. \\ is. Could we have the water perfectly pure and free " Bailey & Foley, Wollsboro', Pa. It would be an easy matter to enumc rate a " from all admixture under such circumstances, it -i N. W. Strong, Fredericktown, O. great variety of ailments in which sea-bathing " still Wm. Chamberlin, llendrysburg, O. would doubtless be better ; and yet it must ) has proved beneficial. It is especially favorable " Chester, Joliet. Dwight HI. be admitted thsit a visit-' to_.the sea-shore in i in that host of disorders that come under the " Allen J. Whitlior, Grand Prairie, Wis. summer is often the source of "great, benefit to " W. W. Ives, Meadvtlle, Miss. | hea4- of dyspepsia, and rheumatism in all it« " health. J. H. Rufi^ Atlanta, Geo. ^ | forms, gout, and sciatica, give 'way before it. ' E. Fallen, Landing great Ledanx's Point, La. One advantage in sea-bathing is the Even palsy has b«cn kno^vn to be cured by the " Wm. Logan, Amherst N. 8. exercise that .is necessarily taken, Jjoth before sea-bathi,- when all ordinary means had failed. Thos. D. Thornton, Warren, HI. and after the bath. So beneficial, irtSetd, is ex- • O. C. Goodenough, Belleville, N. Y. Hypochondriasis, low spirits, melancholy, and '• ercise taken in this way, it be difficult to 8. Aldrich, Mafcrd, St Vincent, C. W. would insanity itself, have been removed in this way. " determine which of the ^.the B. F. Billlngsly, Sweetwater, Tenn. two— exercise or the In all affections of the nervous system and the " James D. Ford, Kingston, Jamaica. bathing— is the more beneficial. '-In connection, various weaknesses pertaining to the sexes, the " E. M. Guffin, Muscatine, Iowa. the two act reciprocally, each rendering the remedy is invaluable. Nor is it less " J. A. McCallon, Monmouth, IlL favorable I other doubly beneficial. " Gary Cox, Marietta, Ga. in diseases of the chest, such as bronchitis, " Gilbert I C. Sweet, Boston, N. Y. Another advantage in this method, is, that" the asthma, and whooping-cough although in deep- ; ; — THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, I !! " seated consumption the sea-side should for the no Baltimore Convention" can resolve him into He is sure to have all manner of evil said of part be avoided, except during the warmer a villain and cut-throat. him, as what reformer has not, even Jesue ( / most not ( months. He fearlessly rebukes sin in high places as well excepted. He may possess the wisdom of Solo- as low, and faithfully exposes error and wrong mon, the patience of Scipio, the perseverance of wherever found, whether in Church or State. He Hannibal, the piety of Stephen, and the devotion will not pander to the whims and caprices of a of Paul, yet all these cannot save him. THE SCIENCE OF SWIMMING, sophisticated public, nor seek approbation and Through his instrumentality, the wildernesB Partictilar J As taught in Ch ilized and Savage Nations, with ' success through any other channel than Bight may bud and blossom as the rose : knowledge Instruction to Learners. Illustrated. By an experienced and virtue Swimmer. Price only 12 cents. Published by and Truth. Yet, he will not seek opposition cover the earth as the waters the ^ ' great FOWLEK AND WELLS, 808 Broadway, New York. merely to make himself conspicuous, or to win deep ; commerce whiten every sea ; the for his or for his arts and sciences improved. While he laurels brow fame for , delves Pots—and Girls toe—should lesin to swim. This little book name ; tell them how to do It. Seudfoui thiec-ceut r"S>»se BlnnirB, will he must have sense enough to know that such new truths from the mountain of science, and or a York shilling, and a cops of the SciENCk OF swimmino will be the Fibst Mail. ^ sent by rettun of honors await no living reformer. scatters broadcast, whereby millions are suc- only standard he acknowledges is cored, the hungry fed, the naked clothed, still The Truth [ and Right, while his rule of action is an enlight- he is held up to the world as a great enemy of THK TRUK REFOKMKK. ^ conscience, rather than the stereotyped his race, and a public nuisance. Yet, in true ened ; question— " What will they say, I say or do dignity, he stands upon the principles of eternal BY H. KKAPP, M. D. if ^ so and so V He does not praise because others truth, and no threats can intimidate, no circum- \ char- do, or to secure favor, nor travel in the ruts of stances discourage him, and no force defeat him. The true Reformer is the most important \ are His only consolation is, that his labors of love the age. He is the man for the times, censure because they deep and broad. He acter of \ social, estimates men according to their true worth, and indefatigable zeal for the good of mankind which are pregnantwith mighty reforms— :; will not the cloth they wear or the ! be appreciated by future generations, who political, medical and religious. He secmsraised by purse they carry. He respects the man, not for his cover- will do justice to his memory when the green up by Providence, like John of old, to prepare | ing, his station, or profession. He does not be- grass of centuries shall have waved above bis the way for those great principles, the produc- \ that money or station constitute 1 mouldering urn ; and that the principles for tion of the present age, which are to regenerate lieve the man, are sometimes \ which he so earnestly contended, and sacrificed the world and remodel the institutions of the although they convenient append- all earthly comforts, even friends, all the old ages. Believing in progression, he cannot be health and day. These reforms must come, and | travel in circle, life, will live and become the rule of action and fogies in Christendom cannot prevent them, for made to a or endorse all the \ " the basis of society in all coming time, depend on principles which man can neither isms" of the past because they are the doc- they \ " Fathers." Neither control or direct. Every age is marked with trines of the will he reject everything in philosophy, some great principles which are peculiar to that as a humbug new re- \ sciences, is the age of reform, ligion, the arts and because it does not CAUCASIAN VECETARIANS. and to no other age. This | when kingdoms and thrones must be demolished, bear their signature. He pins his faith to no sleeve, and accepts the ipse dixit of systems and theories crumble into dust, to be suc- man's no i BY WM. A. ALCOTT, M. D. ceeded by new and better ones. man for argument or facts. He is alike free to a wherefore and whereof in all things. For this work we need men, good and true, to demand The opponents of a radical dietetic reform While he is faithful to point out the errors and proclaim the acceptable year of jubilee, when the ; such a reform as truth and the exigencies of the physical, shall be thrown wrongs of men, he is just to give all due credit. prison doors, mental and | times demand— are continually pressing the idea In every position of life he is true to himself, to open, the captives set fre.e, all wrongs righted, ] that a well-selected vegetable diet is insufCcient and down- suffering humanity, and to his GoD. all evil removed, and the oppressed | to give needful strength, especially in temperate trodden of every land be made the happy recip- He is the unflinching champion of equal rights ; and cold climates. It is true that they do not "con- ients of Heaven's richest blessing— liberty. and privileges. Believing that all men are born descend" to argument, for they probably know | The true Reformer is the leaven which is to free— that knowledge 5ind truth, as well as "life, that stubborn facts are against them,— still, they leaven the whole mass of mind— the embodiment liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,'' are com- ? repeat and reiterate their assertions. In these * of the spirit and principles of the age. To him mon property, to which every child of Adam is circumstances, it may be well to present facts, we are indebted for all the improvements of the legitimate heir, he ignores the idea that truth ^ eyes especially any which have the a before their ; age ; for a more ennobling view of man, his ca- and knowledge has been delegated to any pro- semblance of novelty. ) least pabilities and destiny ; for a purer and more fession or class of men, or been garnered up in The "Caucasus," is the general name applied j spiritual philosophy, or more practical benevo-, some empty nob which terminates the upper ex- to an immense system of mountains which stretch > lence ; for great improvements in the arts and tremity of man, to be be dealt out in Homeo- along the borders of the Black Sea to the Gas- sciences, and new discoveries which will ever pathic doses to the credulous and superstitious. pian, separating Europe from Asia at the south- | 40° distinguish the nineteenth century. The Reformer takes the ground that our brains < east. Extending, as the country does, from is, and And to him are we to look for whatever glo- were made for thought, rathljr than telegraph-wire- ! to 50°, and made up, as it of mountain rious the future has in store for us, and what- like, the passive conductors of other men's ideas it has almost every variety of climate. ; j valley, ever high position awaits our race in the physi- that we are something more than automatons, general, however, it may be regarded as not j In ' cal, social, political and religious act as popes, priests and designing poli- of New England though world;— for which unlike that our own ; he alone leaps the barriers of antiquity, scales ticians pull the string. in some of the mountainous regions its cold mayi | than the walls of conventionalities, and abrogates the Such is the true Reformer ; and such are the perhaps, be a little more excessive at times usages of society and customs of ages, whose men who can meet the demands of the age. Such ' even in Franconia. hoary hairs constitute their only claim upon the men only can pilot the ship of Reform, already This mountainous region is inhabited by a mix- \ generally people of the present century. He repudiates launched upon the surging sea, laden with rich \ ture of population, which, though the musty creeds and ceremonies of the past, to sparkling gems of thought from every class of known by the two names of Caucasians and Geor- which the some resemblances. world has been too long a willing minds to swell the sum of human happiness, ! gians, possesses, nevertheless, slave, and stands unawed upon the chaotic mass through the strong deep of conflicting opinions It amounts, according to a late article in the Na- ; of all, as I anarchy and tyranny, civil • 3,000,000— in and religious ; and and interest of the present times. tional Magazine, to about out a with prophetic eye beholds the glorious fature, Any one who has moral courage to take such a suppose, about fi, 000,000. Let us follow whose morning star characteristics of this mongrel has already arisen—the har- stand, is a true reformer, and is sure to share a ; few of the general ^ binger of said Magazine as peace, liberty and reformer's doom, viz. : to be people ; still adhering to the joy to the world. pointed out as a < ^ " He makes no compromises" with wrong, though target for the missiles of the senseless feuds, who, ^ our principal authority. much it may seem for his interest to flies " general, the morals of these mountaineers do so, and like the of Egypt, infest every circle of life. \ In I Soo.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 27 5 ar ' good. Drunkenness is rare among them. Then mole hills become mountains to the vis- HINTS ON BATHING. They are incredibly abstinent. Boiled millet is ion, the grasshopper becomes a burden, and the I the chief dish in their repasts ; mutton is occa- harvest of the nostrum-peddler is at hand. Such BY DR. J. H. HEKO. j i sioDally presented to an honored guest. When is a brief history of those who resort to Hydro- In a former communication on the battle-field, they live on grain mixed pathic establishments for treatment. we referred to the common error among Hydropathic people gener- with honey ; and a quarter of a pound will con- Had we practitioners who could treat acute ally, of using too severe treatment. rtitute their food for the day."' attacks in strict accordance with approved Hy- home In our section of the oountry We are left somewhat in doubt what kind of dropathic rules of cure, we should find a vast we kn ow such to be the case. grain it is, four ounces of which will support a diminution of the chronic cases of the country. Notwithstanding all that has been said of wa way you will certainly do no harm, and if the right. The elaborating glands become disor- 1. In chemical experiments the facility with it well, you can easily use more ! dered, swollen, and indurated by the presence which oxygen unites with patient bears \ other bodies is often patient se- i of morbific material they can neither employ nor i treatment ; but by treating the too determined by the quantity present. Dilution first, place him in such a con- i expel scrofula in some of its protean forms is i with other gases, Terely at you may ; even with those for which its dition for a time, as to be unable to bear even exhibited ; the subject pines with tables mesen- affinity is strong, will weaken its efTect. | Hence treatment to advantage. We much rather 1 terica, or some active form of bowel or brain a small mild ) amount of a noxious matter in atmos- ' take patients into our establishment who never difficulty kindly steps in to rescue the sufferer pheric mixture is disposed of with greater pro- all, than those have, from the inevitable consumption of a later period. portional facility. used water at take who > It is also well known that a without discretion, used too severe treatment. Nor is it the children of squalor that are the substance will combine with another much more A''ew Malvern Water-Cure, main sufferers. The ignorance of those parents readily when first set free from a previously who devote themselves to wealth causes them existing compound. Vegetation is constantly to choose the most unfitting arrangements for liberating new portions of oxygen, and sending PUKE AIK-DISINFECTANTS. health. The fostering earth and breezes are shut it forth into the atmosphere. The presence of is " vegetation, then, is all away ; the victim cribbed, cabined, and con- potent in purifying the BY G. H. TATLOK, M.D. fined," till the ashy skin, blue veins, and atten- air, not only by the compounds that it abstracte uated features proclaim the frailty of the link for its own nutriment, but by the property of the that binds matter and spirit. oxygen it liberates, to destroy those AiK is the first requisite of life, and its purity forms of Even the foolishly praised and envied precocity matter that are much more noxious. is the first condition of health. It is no exagger- For the res- of children is but the evidence piratory purposes of ation to ascribe a large amount of human infir- of disease thatwiwf air the same considerations destroy its victim. Exciti d mentality hold good less oxygen is taken mity to defective respiration. Herein lies the may arise ; and carbonic " inscrutable Providence." Poisons insidiously as a fruit of physiological unbalance. Periphe- acid given off in a foul air than in a pure one. ral nutrition being l)y 2. Motion, attack the constitution, and undermine it so gen- lessened the before-men- or currents of air, are of obvious tioned causes, and the lack of the stimulus of use, service. Not only is an increased amount of tly, that the foe is called a friend ; or gather air their forces in ambuscade, plotting destruction, the blood is forced prcternaturally into the most thus brought in contact with the respiratory unobstructed channels— that is, organs, but the till the favorable opportunity occurs, when the to the brain, dismissed particles are thus quite literally removed from contact system is irretrievably overwhelmed in ruin. which now and greedily devours the with the body, and a local Numerous facts connected with the history of whole body. accumulation of bad air is dispelled by the same fevers, cholera, and plague, prove the c'ause to It is not intimated that a correct hygiene for- means, and the vicious particles destroyed. be atmospheric, set in operation by circumstances bids men from living in communities and in inti- 3. Humidity will greatly facilitate the same under human control. Real, material principles, mate relations. Society nourishes thought and object. Bodies undergo chemical change in so- the origin of some of which may be well ac- records progress. The isolated individual but lution, as a general rule. A bridge is thus counted for, others of dubious origin, uncogniz- partially secures the objects of existence. By formed, uniting particles, and securing their able by the senses, are diffused in the atmosphere, the mistakes of life and examples of disease complete embrace. The aerating organs of an and so enter and pervade the vital tissues, and nature cautions man and conveys useful instruc- animal arc moist. The moisture in the atmos- tion restraints phere dissolves all its soluble interpose a force tending to their dissolution. ; her compel him to do himself principles, and That class of diseases denominated malarious are justice. returns them to the earth. Moisture without distinctly traceable to such sources in certain In the very constitution of the air itself is free access of air, however, favors the production emanations, proceeding from vegetable decay. founded the conditions for its constant rectifica- of intermediate and unwholesome products. tion. live and move at the bottom of its 4. Sunlight. Herein lies an agency of The atmosphere is the great reservoir of the : We im- mar- mense sea, whose extremely mobile particles vellous power, in maintaining the air in a state elements of organized matter ; and during the en- \ whole existence of the animal, as well as at its velop us on every side. Its oxygen freely per. of respirable purity. Did the sun withdraw his | and permeates our systems. diurnal benignity, the earth a death, the materials composing it are passing ', vades By the rela- would be dreary this element all \ tions of to the living organs blank, destitute of vital forms but, with the into the air, and many times is its weight re- are ; evoked action and sensation, and at the smiles of his countenance, it is constituted a busy peated during the course of its life. In all places I same instant is effected their removal from the scene of the haunts of men. It calls up life, and where people congregate, as in the thickly- ! vital crowded houses of cities and towns, in prisons relation, ultimately to assume the form of com- casts down life's opponents. It casts its glorious | innocuous and on shipboard, especially if there be imperfect ' parativcly forms—water, and carbon- radiance into the deadly rice swamp, and where ventilation, we meet with disease in peculiar site of ammonia. malaria and mephitic vapors concoct their venom, Oxygen is everywhere, both within and with- and into the cramped nooks and lanes of squalor, forms, festering and rankling, to the destruction \ out the physiological domain, laboring and during its presence the noisome fumes are of the human form, while the sufferer is perhaps ! to ac- complish a similar result, satisfying its destroyed, and men dare the now impotent threat wondering at the ways of Providence. It is diffi- ! aflSnity for other matters. It is only when circumstances with impunity. cult to learn that mental attributes and aspira- | tions afford no barrier to the operation of the nterfere with the complete accomplishment of By the same magic that etches one's counte- laws of matter, though the two may be most in- this object that serious harm can occur from an nance upon the iodized plate is the atmospheric ; timately connected. unfavorable reaction upon the vital economy, by o.xygen made to, size the infectious particles in- j agencies either within or without the body. fused in the atmosphere. What solace does reputed science proffer ? It ; Completely decomposed matters that have In malarious districts, large supplies of a pro- tells the sufferer, lyingly, that he may find health ! been organized are devoid of to injure but in- duct, unperceived by the senses, are constantly and comfort, not by seeking conformity to con- power ; | capable of ditions, by forsaking the air of a contaminated termediate products are more or less violent and being distilled from the rank soil, , peculiar diseases but, till night spreads virulent in the action they exert upon living inducing ; locality, but by swallowing yet other poisons, bap- ; sun's tized of reputed science into a change of nature. tissue, and all forms and grades of disease are her mantle, its power is destroyed by the J the prolific and inevitable consequence radiance. Hereby is reason stultified, experience con- / of their is temned, the laws nature and of God outraged, influence. A residence situated at a slight elevation of J sun's and humanity's doom confirmed. Without stopping to discuss whether there be known to afl'ord protection, even with the j influencef. The injurious effects of living closely huddled a peculiar form of oxygen or ozone that aids in aid withdrawn, so limited are these j tbe effect, by overcoming destroying noxious principle is destroyed ere it reaches in ill-ventilated apartments is conspicuously seen ; and the The in the case of the children of the poor of a great ' more stable of the ethereal, noxious forms of mat- a great height, by its diffusion and oxydation. of our city. The-illy purified and poisoned blood with- '. ter, it is sufficient for us to be practically ac- Can we close the doors and windows subtle holds from the muscles the spontaneity, and from quainted with the main conditions whereby so apartments against the entrance of the } ' closely shut the nerves the bounding ecstacy, that is their desirable an object is secured. foe? Very ineffectually. However — r THE WATI R-CURE JOURNAL 29 from without, through very generally the air we breathe comes \ employed for disinfectant pur- . and the skilful pilot (Dr. Schieferdecker) who pores of the wall. Were it not so we poses. The action of these so safely through, instead of and compounds depends , navigated him chinks I from inore from the excretions on tlie facility i should sutler sti/l ; with which they are decomposed wrecking him, a shattered hulk, on the shelving S ' our own bodies tb;in from what the air contains. when exposed to the air, yielding chlorine and • shores of allopathy. and elevated situation will hyperchlorous acid, A judiciously selected i both acting by the aflinity This sort of miracle is of course common • apprehensions from disease arising they have for hydrogen, and they all in yet hears of I lieve all our decompose enough every Water-Cure who j — Horn this class of causes. atmospheric compounds containing this prin- them unless he takes the '• Journal," or is other- I The atmosphere, then, in its constitution, em- ciple. wise posted up in the true faith? It is really j its bodies reliable conditions for maintaining ; The eflcct of the sulphurous and chlorine gases astonishing to think what multitudes (well- = -unitary qualities. The local operation of cxtra- ! are destructive, aud tlieir influence upon the informed on other subjects) have never even heard it unfit for res- health respired is other ' the nameof Pressnitz nor of his I render when no prejudicial, wonder-working linary causes only can j than the it is piration. These are limited in time by sea- and their fumes should always be carefully ; system of cure ; and quite certain that they decomposing : Scribes and ii, in space by the proximity to avoided. Like all medicines, they have but one i never will if the I'hariices of our day, manized matter. The noxious material cannot tendency in relation to vitality, and that is sub- 5 the Drugopaths, can by any means prevent it. \ especially sunlight, country Is navel far, as diffusion, and ; versive of it. ( And yet the whole deluged with the I il'cct the destruction of its peculiar properties, \ The vapor of vinegar is not without its use as handbills, newspapers, and almanacs of these and convert it into an aliment for the growing ; a disinfectant also. Decomposing animal matters poison-peddlers —free gratis for nothing—and arising from a sick body are often dear at that, if any one is simple enough to seek l.Uint. ; ammoniacal pills, But it is sometimes convenient, proper, and ! in their nature, and their character is often for health iu the syrups, and expectorants lUsirable to call upon other aids than those ^ changed by any acid vapor that may be supplied, so lavishly commended. Why ! one almanac that might boasts of the poken of to arrest at once the effects The popular resort of burning ligneous sub- , (Jayne's) gratuitous circulation of j r.se from sources of this kind, for transient and ; stances, as linen rags, paper, sugar, itc, is not so t'.vo and a half millions of copies annually ! and ' and cal purposes. In the lapid, and putrid, 1 impotent as it might seem. If these substances Wright's and Ayros' are probably not far behind. ;:.hly infectious diseases, the utmost circum- be slowly decomposed by heat, they give rise to Not less than three or four copies of these have II ction is necessary. ; a large amount of smoke, composed of finely, been thrown into my domicil within the last available Two general classes of measures arc divided charcoal and pyroligneous acid (identical week or two ; and there is no knowing how many for this purpose. One is to present some sub- with acetic), and probably some other compounds more are to follow. This Is certainly a " taking" relation to the material stance whose peculiar possessing chemical power. The mode of action ; mode of advertising, since they all contain more impregnating the air is such as to attract it of the two first-named substances has been ex- or less funny matter as antidote, I suppose, to wholly to itself, or cause its absorption. Many plained, and it is not improbable the peculiar the blue pills and nostrum" ry ; and one of them solid and fluid substances possess this power in mode in which they are generated may favor ; gives a couple of pieces of fashionable music by various degrees. Water, and some kinds of earth, their chemical activity. Not only is their chemical ; way of peace-ofl'ering. No wonder these two are efficient, to a limited extent. But the ma- influence favorable, but the process also implies ( and a half million Ayrca can build sarsaparlUa terial chiefly relied on for its effectiveness and an effectual expedient for changing the air of a palaces and eight-story granite gull-traps ! It is cheapness is carbon in the porous state, presented room, the advantages of which have been suffi- their way of advertising ; and I only wish we by coarsely-powdered charcoal, or even swamp ciently set forth. Hydropaths were only half as diligent in calling muck or peat. If dried at a high heat or freshly The reader will be cautioned against sufl"ering public attention privately to the water-" cure" burned, are capable of absorbing many times his credulity to be excited in fiivor of any special as they arc to the poison-" kill.''' I am fully con- their bulk of the gases. But its capacity to ab- virtues arising from burning coffee or other in- vinced it only needs to be known what water can , do and does do to wipe out all opposition, sorb varies with the different gases, and it so gredients, whose virtues are purely hypothetical. except from the mercenary and the interested. I know happens that the offensive ones are much the Also, he should look out for the fallacy of sub- full well how hard it Is to make head against the most powerfully attracted by it. Thus, it has stituting a mere powerful odor, with absolutely " regulars" with their discipline and their esprit been found that one volume of boxwood coal will no chemical power, for true, potential substances. dii corps—aud I have come to the conclusion that It is absorb iu from 24 to 30 hours, The senses may be deceived in this way, but not easier to convert a D. D. to a new faith than make aa M. D. give up his drugs. Yet our the health. Ammonia, 90 volum-s. fathers did beat the regulars" of their day, with " Sulphurous acid, 65 i all their blue-pills aud villanous powders, and " Sulphuretted hydrogen,.. . 81 " , it can be done again. The Journal" is a regu- " CASK OF PLEURISY. Carbonic acid, 35 lar Lancaster—and is doing immense service for " Oxygen 9 the all BY J. J. PKASK, PHILADELPHIA. people—as are your publications ; but I " Nitrogen, 7.5 wish you could give us a cheap edition of your Hydrogen, 1.75 " About ten days ago, the principal of one of Water-Cure Almanac" for general distribution. It surely could cost but little, when the types In all cases the absorbent should be freshly our public schools was knocked "flat " by an are once set, to run oft" a large edition on com- burned and dry by wetting, a part of the ab- ; attack of Pleurisy. He got up again, however, mon paper ; aud if circulated In places where sorbed gas is displaced from its confinement in through wet-cloths and pounded ice the aid of ; your other publications do uot #each, would do the coal. It will be observed that the carbon and proceeded at once to a Water-Cure establish- great service. They should contain specific gives treatment lor the common allmeuts of children- off no neutralizing or destroying principle, ? ment—where, to the astonishment of those who coughs, colds, and that scourge of cities, summer- the action being that entirely of absorbing and know nothing of Hydropathy, he actually got complaint : and, once these were tried in a fam- withdrawing the noxious compound. well ! —and that, too, in spite of wet-sheets, half- ily, tliere would be an end to the drugging. Now, The other mode of disposing of deleterious baths, and the other dreadful appliances of the Messrs. F. & W., what do you say ? Shall we have Hydropathic Almanacs next principles is a million or so of I to diffuse through the air some Pressnitz school, heroically administered. What year to fight the " Roosians" wMth ? vapor or gas having a chemical affinity for adds to the miracle is the fact that the patient Our Quaker City is rather slow in water-cure it or some of its elements. The means at hand had been laboring for many weeks under a ter- as in everything else. We have two establish- to accomplish this are numerous, and we are to ments, how"ever, Dr. Weder's and Dr. Meier's, and rible cough ; expectorating enormous quantities third one is just being started iu what was the lic guided by circumstances as to their choice. of " bad-matter," and, to all appearance, was in a a Columbian Hotel, 7th aud Chestnut st., by Dr. Fumigation with burning sulphur is a primi- fair way of going o!f in a galloping consumption, Schieferdecker, who is once more in the city. . \ e expedient, and it cannot be denied that it is or something as rapidly fatal. From the first day The old establishment at Willow Grove has as elTective as it is disagreeable. The sulphurous he entered the " cure," however, his cough left been kept open by Mr. Bruner and his accom- wife as acid gas thus diffused destroys everything the him the expectoration was next to nothing the plished a summer boarding-house, though ; ; ^ lj it has all the conveniences of a first class "cure," O air holds except its own permanent gases. A not - skin performed its functions, aud he is now at his and ought not to be idle. Can't you send us a 1 '^s effective and more available resort are the post again, mens sana mens corpora, as good as ; graduate of your Hydropathic College to set it ' ilorides of lime, zinc, soda, iron, &c., now so new ; and louder than ever in his praise of water going again ? — ; THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL, [August, DISCUSSION. doctrine that all the other Allopathic errors bad their origin extreme grounds can long be hold. PuEl-ed to Its culmina- THE in the one principle, that " medicines act on the body." I ting point, public feeling will recoil, and perhaps open said, "the true basis of their false I'hlloeophy and ruinous afresh, the indiscriminate dragging of a past period. 'All that irrilnlioii, fever, Inllamma- the world,' no doubt, washing, the DK. CUKTI3 TO THE PUBUC. practice is the doctrine and needs and 'rest of man- , tion are disease," and that I wouM .liseiiss this with you kind" in particular; but the fact is indisputable that people " after you should have copied my ai ticlcs on the present will not, when sick, perpetually wash themselvcB, to the Trail, very liber- qucstio"n" [Do medicines act on li e body]. In your para- entire exclusion of all drugs. T hey feel the want of some- 1. Is the nloTc article* my friend, Dr. graph say: " The immediate question before thing, besides bread and water, to -give nature a jog,' " 6th, p. 1(8, you and ally gives mo cre 1 .. action, proclaimed it essentially. 3. I think, if he will compare what 1 said on pn£,v 1 a noxious thing of the "Eecorder," with his editorial on iJim p ., He v>-as callcu. of course, a fanatic, and a specu- vol. xix., ^hievous of t !;> iator. and all sens of epithets. ""W. C. J.," he will hardly feel justified In the rcnmrk I 1 unpleasant He re than tnc makes in the sixth paragraph of said editorial, inliiimun;: was said to be ultra, to go to the opposite ex- pent of Lci m. and I 1 allow nothing to Water-Cure but simple water. V o trem(.'s, iVc, ffc. that I enough lo compel me iiui have endeavored to give due credit to its excellent svsum ', now science has demonstrated the fact tliat is of diet and exercise, and its prudence and "temperance in alcohol absolutely inimical to every liviuff thiufr. Those " ultraists" " fanatics" all things." Vi'c are not of that cIa.=R who can sec no good and were rmhi, after all. Alcohol is a poison. in anything because wc find something wrong in it. But 1 reciselv such has been, is, will be, the diet, exercise, iV;c., are not peculiar to Hydropathy. Homeo- and Can tl n f historv of arua'-medication. pathy and the Physio-Medical practice arc equally particular f r \)\-. keinbaiiker on this subject Very respectfully, admits that they have been cunanty Ci n vou 1 bv ha vhcther it be used to srreat excess, ^ome of them, be admits, A. CiruTis. ' sweet or sou 9. Lastly, you "poke fun" at the idea of difference be- are poisonous, and yet some, he claims, are . * From the TVater Cure Journal for May. ', a inviting tween provoking and an action. 'When you kindly hygienic ! the the doctors said DR. CURTIS TO DU. TBALL. So people and J: room, fli.'it invited me into your lecture and assured "mo it in the early days of the temperance reformation. would be "in harmony" with your wishes that I should ad- In last, as in former numbersj I S 1. Dear Doctok— my IJrandy, gin, rum, and whiskey, are poisonous requested you to publish, in succession, my articles on pages ' vance and Illustrate my views before your class, ilo you h.id porter, 10t)-S, 113-16, 161-4,177. 1S4, Ibi, 19i), vol. six., Recorder, think that "hygienic airency" the same eflect on nie but then, as to beer, wine, cider, ale, &c., that . d have felt liad sundry of your torcfd and on pages 1 and 6, vol xx., and refute the arguments if enemies these are hygienic. "Wc must not throw away cowpcllid you could. Instead of publishing my articles, according to anrl me to do it in opposiiion to the good to get rid of the evil ; wc must dis- ' ; tlio^c of your class, the conditions of the discussion, and "coming eqiiiirc \ip and and of your coiiibined xpel iiie? I think lliat these different criminate ; we must go to extremes. Teetotalism to the line 'loii ;it i-suo, you co|jy a few of my commenlson causes lu ted on me a.s .liSerentlyaa ren;:!-; - i.t .ut reliminaries," make ymir would a good baked was called, rank and rabid fanaticism ; as Dr, your | and ui> -y. " I iKiiiseulint; dose ol salts. I should have lec- articles fvw. i ' • tr\]ti your readers that you h.i\ e nu t Kcinbanker more than hints that teetotalism in hfl, pointedly at.d dir. ctlv ' what you have not allowed them to drug-medicines is not only folly and fanaticism, lO. Now, don t comment on these "disjointed and un- see. (See Kecorr, vol. xx.. 7, 9, 1 I J p. 1 8, 0, .) ; ' remarks, but go to arguments, but downright knavery ! 2. In your May number ip. ICS), you "quote from my get-at-able" my and publish them. March number" five of my comments (34, 85, 36, 37, 88) on and demolish Very respectfully, Now, where is the difficulty in understanding ; A. Curtis. your former article, not one of which was intended by mo this .subject? Simply this. The nature of drug- as an argnmcnt on the question before us, and then com- DB. TBALL TO DRS. CURTIS, JCHN, rRKTTTMAN, j remedies, their relation to the human system, Diain that "my arguments are disjointed and fragmentary." / COMINGS, AND KEINIIANKKR. is not you, as the nature of i am Inclined to the opinion, Doctor, that if you will look > comprehended by at them where they are, as above referred, you will see Gentlkmen—The above articles from the pen alcohol and its relation to vitality was not, and 'j them so dove-tailed, cemented, and hermetically sealed, of Dr. Curtis, my legitimate opponent in tliis perhaps is not, comprehended by the majority of that you will not be able to find a crevice among them largo (liFCu.=sion, having appcari d in the .June those advocate tem- enough to admit the sh.irpest point of the most attenusited cumber who have advocated and do wedge or drill that you can manufacture, and that they are of his " Physio-Medical Recorder," I am hound, perance. too adhesive to be beaten to powder with your heaviest lioth by inclination and contract, to give them If alcohol in rum or brandy is a poison, how is sledges. niy principal attention. ]!ut, a.s Dr. Keinhankcr alcohol in beer and cider to be innocuous^? And 8. I do not a-k you, Doctor, to prove the negative, "Medicines do not act on the organism." /have proved ' has arrayed himself in tlie list of mv learned od- so, too, if a druL'-remcdy in the shape of*calomel that they rfo, and that you acknowledge this fact ,sce ar- : poiicnls, I will, according to promise and polite- or opium IS poisonous, how is it to be hygienic tides above referred to). All I a-'k of you is to copy ' my ness, reply to a brief C-xIract (rem hi.s article in in the shape ot lobelia or cayenne ? articles, and show their fallacy or give up the contest. the "Worcester .louriial ol Medieiiie. He says: Having tlius said enough, as I hope, to induce Yon may think this unnecessary, If vou chose : hut they arc extensively published in other papers, as well .ns the "The most prominent examples of extn 7,.,.s :,L'nlnst all Dr. Keinbanker to study the subject, I return "Recorder," and are, and will be, accepted as true, till you from this pursuit after one of Dr. Curtis' Allies or somebody else shows their fallacy. Eeiiiembrr I li ive to himself, tlie real Pellissicr, or GortschakofF, not asked you to publish my noif*. It Is not si range tlmt Raglan, of affirmative of our question. " my logic" should " be »7i-(7e<-af-a£'i6'," where 1 never in- or the tended to place it. any less than tl I call ospccial attention to the following sen- You fsked me t*' publish your whole article." I had the ulility ol al lone- ill I he socond paragraph of Dr. Curtis' ar- done so, and simply marked the points for convenience. : water as the ch licl,.' U, the iMililic :— I did not injure the article. •• 4. Yon say: "In my March number I mot your nryu- 1 have now hope even of the Doctor himself, " inents and objecMonsto my position pointeillv .iw] ilirc tllv ihut he will yet see that some agents, by virtue Perhaps yoU'^d; but I have not been able I o ih.- pidiit. III 'their own nature and properties, /CT rfe- In your cigfatf paragraph of that article yiui eluu "! me \' i'li ^ rvcuveh/ upon the or injuriously upon "possibly Intending to publish your nrtii Ic s uit. r I hnve organs " refuted them," though you had only rfftrrtil to iiiiiic ihc functions.'' ' uithiivl i:n\iy\T\<4 tlum! thus accusing - me of an act whieh of them arc in the coiisUmii , ry In that short sentence is embodied the whole ' you pronounced "narrow-minded, ' but which you yourself drugs inserted as 'contr: lr^^^ error, the fundamental mistake of Dr._ Curtis, in wen- lit tfiat rery time perpetrating, and of which / have Rrpurgo. orti: This mm jier- medicines. ^ ii.i of I . ., to not been guilty .at all! Do you call it "meeting a man haps unmerited .judgment; m n n . t,i,,ie jus- relation the modus operandi pointedly" to stay in your bouse, shut the door against liim, tified in some measure by eonsluiilly oeeurnr;,' fuits; and " Some agents act, by virtue of their own na- and then tell your family that yon have clear from given him every the e\ldenccis the more the cireumstnnce that ture, on the living system." Prove this, sir, and advantace—have allowed him to strike first—and still most the efforts agamst drugs arc made more by publishers tliau But, if you please, I will soundly threshed bim. That, Bro. Trail, is just the way by practitioners. Practitioners do, indeed, tor the pay or you have the question. you have met and answered me. (&ee vour March number other considerations, sometimes lend their disprove it. What are the nature and properties and the present, May. Ihey deal See your 1i 8 to nic. p. 108. and 5 8 the use of drugs, even while them out (o tlnir of an mortranic or inanimate thing? Why, sir, In your March number, with your reference 8] to my own patients. Thc-obiect is to weaken public condiU nee In [1 to keep still, to do nothing. You say, to act. "I artlclcs.i Please, Doctor, remove your office from the drugs, that their own business may become more popular " tendency to crystal palace" to some bulwark that will protect you from and lucrative. And thus, by combined efforts, not always say, to remain passive. Inertia, the my mistilcs. lionest or creditable, a considerable amount is drawn from remain forever in the same state and place, isitff .). On your page lC8d, paragraph ."th, say: public p'.irso to sustain the innovation. you "You the Yet few rc- nature, its first, and last, and only property. raise a question an to the " and nature of diseafo 13ut, If you fleclirig men will doubt that here is an extreme as detri- medical Its nature is to act, say you ! Has not the will refer to my 84th comment, you will see that I raised mental to the public health as too great an amount, and the no such question. On the under this delusion, contrary, I was objecting to your too constant use of drugs 1 It Is not at all probable thatsuch world labored long enough THE ^ 1855.J WATER-CURE JOURNAL matter, has the property of that dead, inert me if the more occupation of a portion of space ! several published works and still more unpublished sir no. Living matter has this action? No, ; by the sun, or moon, or stars, or comets, give to Among her principal works aro 3femoir» of JI-t. therein consists its distinc- I property alone, and my eye the knowledge of their character? , .VcDjicuU, Tr»'. i to be. iy is a mere negative one, Dead and to recognize, the ability to feel, appreciate, per- tliougii \ an -Vmarlcan, she ca.ild never forget Irolanct, and iiU'ganic matter more as impelled, as acted ceive and know the nature and character of the never seemed more j happy than when visiting the poor sons ;-on. Living matter acts on everything else, to objects in the external world, has been wisely ; and daughters of Erin in tho shanties on the suburbs of this all plain or to resist. Is not enough ? conferred upon the living creatures. Your posi- Brooklyn, where wo } have sometlmo.i had tho pleasure to Apply these facts, which I think you must aJ- tion would reverse this law, or rather divide the ; .iccainpiny her on h^r missions of ch.irlty anl Christian •:'t arc self-evident, to the operation of medi- capacities and equalize the qualities of dead and ; philanthropy. les, and do this in view of the pr<'mises I laid of living matter. The disease which hastened her mortality w.is an old I ; for your side of the discussion in my last " Can you tell by handling an apple whether ! splual compLalnt, which prob.ibly accelerated by her ticlc. Toll us the disease, your remedy, and it be sweet or sour ?" sir but I can tell No, ; by energetic spirit. Always an early ri- : .administer the consolations of religion, she saiil, with her the occasion of or the inducement to the stom- Yours truly, characteristic spirit of endurance, •' Pray not for any alle- ch"s action but it is the action of the lobelia ; R. T.TRALL, viation of my pain, but only for grace to endure It."' Her I the stomach that you are bound to prove— if P. S. I find in the journals another name ar- faith seemed to comfort her to the last, and, like JonM 11 can. rayed against as dying \on assert, indeed, that you have proved this, me in this discussion. In my next UowABn, she adopted her testimony—'- My hope article I shall have the pleasure of replying to is in Christ." oubtless you think so ; but I think, and there- an even re assert^ the contrary. You have not proved half-dozen. R, T, T. The funeral rites were performed in the Reformed Dutch street, City, Eev. Mr. STsoyo, -H. and cannot, for the simple reason that it is Church, Erie .Jersey by who her last sickness, 1 't provoable. h il attended her during Wm. Go ode W hen lobelia is taken into the stomach, and THE LATE made some statements as to her general character. Eev, stomach throws it out, you affirm that the ASli;NATH NICHOLSON. S. S. Jocelyn offered tho funeral prayer, and her remains iiiting results from the action of the lobelia wore then taken to Greenwood cemetery and interred In the family vault of her generous friend, J. T. Sanger, : the stomach. No, sir; if this v,-ere so, the BT IIENF.Y S. OLUBB. Esq., inach would be expelled instead of the lobelia, to whose private bonavolonce she owed many of the com - DF.vTna liich, I believe, is never the case. When you nmong Vegetarians aro of sucli rare occurrence, forts of her old age. that ;y that the lobelia acts on the stomach, because when they do occnr they become subjects of special Although lacessantly diligent, she never remained In pos- remark, especially ' when In relation to remarkable iffect results from the presence of lobelia in so a per- session of any property she may have a^iuira^ ; her fool. son as stomach, you beg the question. It is for you AsESATH NicnoLSO.v. jUg were too frequently excited by objects of distress and The death of Mrs. XiciioLSoy ' sliow that this effect is occasioned by the action occurred in Jersey City, on misery to think of retaining anything which could minister the 1 th of May, 1S55, ilie lobelia on the stomach, as it is for me to after an affliction of nearly two to the alleviation of sniTorlng. Indeed, she seemet to month.5, during rove that the effect is occasioned by the action which time she was attended with much regard her own privations as of less consequence than tho assiduity ul' the stomach on the lobelia. and care by her adopted sister, Mlas "Waeben, and privations of the Irish exile. friends. numerous Bennett, the anther of it Vegeiarian\im ? I have published every article of yours that ; William Whai Born in Vermont in 1795, she naturally became imbued T have seen written by you since this discussion ! was her best friend in England, and often reconciled to her •' with the principles of Puritanism, eo strongly rooted in the offended her style address. mimenced, and all of the fragmentary notes"' ; those who had boon by of In New England soil, and she carried that "spirit of the fa- ' ;:'.t to my articles then seemed to me to have any this country, J. T. Sanger, Esq., occupied a similar relatlon- thers"—the spirit ' iring on any question between us. But, Dr. self-sacrificing of endurance under difJi- shlpof philanthropy, which was continued to tho last. But cultles—into all Curtis, have you really met the main question the pui-suits of life ; and when, under the the most lasting remembrance of Asenath Nicholson will be teachings of Stlvestek Graham, she espoused the dietetic Irish, between us at all ? You have not yet told us of ! in tho hearts of the thousands among the poor both principles any action whatever that takes place when a taught by that gentleman, she applied tho same in the old conntry and in the now, who will associate her Puritanic zeal drug-remedy is brought in contact with the liv- and Anglo-Saxon egotism to those principles; ' name with tho purest charity and the most self-denying and although her of advocacy was somewhat i i!; mode abrupt, system. All you have said thus far relates ; benevolence. to p.Trtake ' the effects, which I do not dispute, and which and sometimes appeared of uncharitableness, yet - not the question between us. All of your ar- there was alwaj-s visible an intense love of principle and of i HYDROPATHY guments thus far only go to show the effects which truth, which to all but the most superficial observer was an ! AND PROGRESSION. result, wliereas the question is, what action takes atonement for much of that keen repartee which sometimes " feelings place ? Let us ask you to come square up" to wounded the of even her most intimate friends. i n. KNAPP, M.D. the work you have undertaken. She was never the woman to sacrifice a principle. In word BT I You a.sk me, " How can the vital instincts or deed, merely to gain tho approval of her friends, although her love of that approval was considerable. ' An article of mine, which nppeorc* In the September recognize the potato as food and the ' salts as Journai., under tho several years, Mrs. Nicholson ; number of the Water-Cure above foreign and injurious," if neither acts on the tis- For was a successful teacher produced quite a sensation among its readers. sues ?" You might as well ask me how the eye of children, in which capacity she gave the first bias to : caption, has almost every number since, some allusion has been made can recognize the difference between a flower some of the most successful scholars of tho country. She ; In which Its sentiments have been questioned or con- ! it, in and a snake, if neither acts on it! It is the func- has long been known as a vigorous writer and an able to it ' dcmned. Some are very much surprised that was ever ' im of the eye to discriminate by seeing—per- defender of Anti-Slavery, Temperance, and Vegetarian in Journal. By many it Is considered clear plion principles. As early as 1S80-1 she became a regular con- I published tho ; and it is the function of the stomach to ' in hydropathy. They think that -criminate by feeling- organic perception or tributor to the New York Genius of Temperance, and proof of ray unsoundness ' presumpOo-u^, ra«h man, to '> ! The great sin of the article Is, that It ")ked, has no vital instincts that it canuot tell sometimes threatened with mobs, on account of the anti- age and experience i-oL'l water has I proclaims tho /a< t, that been used injudi- " dilference between a stomach or a tooth or a slavery spirit of those who mot under her roof, .among against '] injurioufly, which it ilivary gland. whom was Horace Greeley, who, then a young man, became ciowlij, and, hence, cnutloDS i the people. Yet, who dare deny U f If any living man, let Would it not have been cruel, not to say ridi- deeply impressed with the free-soil doctrines he has since speak, and his case shall be attended to. Tho evils ilous arrangement, to have placed the feeling, so powerfully advocated. ! him injwiU-ious nse of cold water ill attending the mentioned in knowing, and recognizing, in the salts or In Ireland, during the famine, Mrs. Nicholson was unre- j 1" that article, are but few of what might be. named. I have potato instead of the living organism ? You mitting in her personal attentions to that atHIcted people. \ '< in the not denied the use of cold water. It Is the ahunc of it same paragraph, a very singular ques- She walked nearly all over Mo country, and shared the \ ' '>ii, which I repudiate. I am oerffl/n that it is often nscd when "Can the mere occupation of space give hosiillality of rich and poor. She also travelled in Soot- j be better, as I said in that article, I " the vital instincts the knowledge of the char- laud, England, Germany, Franco, and other European ; tepid water would am ter of the occupant?" You might as well ask countries, as well the West India Islandis and has left not aware that hydropathy means cold water, as many !;' : THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, I ftippof ed that This affords occupation to a portion of the boys, while or any particular temperature ; but I supposo, J water of all temperatures, some make lailir^' and children's shoes, others are employed the Water-Cure system inchuled j as can be borne, wldcb, like the in knitting:, s^^^inLr, washing, ironing, cooking, etc., etc.. from u-g cold to as hot I decided by tlie circum- Their workshops arc very large and pleasant, and their manner of its application, is to be j i correspond. Four hours stances and conditions of the case to be treated. If I am school-rooms (eight in number) SICK NEGROES. labor, brotlier will set me right 7716 \ each day are devoted to study, six hours to and the wrong. I tri:st some good CASES UNDEB play. WATER TREATMENT. to Icnow is, !f/i*ii and fio-ic to use the different tem- remainder to devotional exercises and thing I In ray last I Viis depends the success of the practitioner. Most of these boys have run into vices in eonsequence of gave you the treatment of two cases of sick peratures. On I j-arents negroes. I w'ill give of cohl water often produces conges- neglect and bad influences of intemperate : others you some more In the present com- The injudiciovs use ; I cities, have munication. 'i in large towns and tion of the brain, lungs, and heart, which is unknown to the having rcupectahU parents j .«o led to crime ere the Case 3. negro woman, use of tepid water. The more experienced and observing \ found bad company, and have been A aged 45, originally of fine consti- tution, ! parents were aware of the danger and, instead of being but had injured herself very physicians use much less co!d water note than formerly ; much by smoking to- into prison, as was once i bacco, which had especially with nervous patients and persons of low Tita'.ity. { sent to the Penitentiary, or thrust caused great tenderness of the throat" liability is the practice in this State, they are now sent to this institu- ! to colds, falling of the palate, cough, sore The injurious effects of the iiiJuJir: i. ^mi-. d'. .M wmI- r throat ' tion, where they are educated, and acquire habits of indus- &c., &c. I think her digestion was also > injured by the same- seen by our opponents, and can n ; j try, morality, etc. Many of these boys are possessed with cause. Two years since she was taken with a bad cold, are but injuring ourselves, as well . : . good natural abilities, are good to Labor, and progress well \ cough and sore throat. She was treated in the usual i i. th. ^ man- ing in it, merely because of our ver.oi a n r fni! : in their studies. My friend. Dr. Hoyt, gave them a lecture ner by the old practice, that is, had some cathartic medicine '•To err is human; to confess and I'ors.iko is God-like." We j the other evening on the pmoer of habit, and found them given, hot teas to drink, hot foot baths with pepper had a striking, although lamentable illustration of the inju- j and mustard, ) interested in the subject. j gargles of hot pepper tea, rious effects of the inJiuU- iiiis use of cold w.iter, in lliis attentive and and liniments of various similar Institution for girls is about being established \ sorts rubbed on the throat externally. vicinity, a few days ago. A young man from tins place, a A She would improve i th.at an incalculable amount of under this treatment for a while, member of Geneva College, wi-nt into the Genera lake to in this State, and we trust but as soon as she put her good will be derived from it. Notldng can be more needed ; nose out of doors, she would relapse bathe, where he remained some lime. On coming out, he \ and be down again as bad as I In society present than such an Institution, where unfor- ( over. This getting up said to a comrade, " See how my lic.irt beats; it seems as at and down, better and worse, girls, parents, parents, with had lasted a mouth, when, ;, or burst," immediately fell dead. innate who have bad no being on a visit to my father's, 1 though it would and I called to see no kind friend to care for and protect them, can find a good j her, and concluded to take her through It W!«s decided by medical men. that his death w.is f a'..,-i .1 a course anil comfortable where they will be well educated of Water-Cure. I found her throat by the blood being driven from the surface of the borly and home, very red and much in- flamed, . and kept secure from hundreds of foul and base seducers, palate elongated, cough extremities in upon the heart, by tl.e cold water, eanMiiL' a and expectoration, great sensitiveness to ; who always stand ready to make such unfortunate creatures cold air, &c. Her head rupture of some blood-vessel. I hope if any one has more was bundled up in ' ; their prey. cloths and flannels, having only her nose .and month to say about said article, tlicy will define their position," j out "We hope that when this anticipated school shall be carried and her throat externally encrusted with the ointment and stick to it, realizing that it Is much easier to find fault j rub- I bed on, into operation, it will be managed strictly upon hygienic ; and smelling powerfully of turpentine, with u/iat is, than to prescribe a rcmcAy.—[Loclport. camphor, he, &c. I began her ( principles, so that when these young ladies leave that Insti- \ treatment by removing all cloths, &c., from her tution and go out into society, they shall possess not only \ neck and head, had all ointment thoroughly washed off I .shall genteel with ; sound minds, but such bodies as make the and warm water and soap, gave her a tepid bath at 85 , accom- THE MASSACHUSETTS I ! fashionable boarding-school girls feel that whoever obeys panied with abundant rubbing and friction to clean her skin BOYS, \ STATE KEFOKM SCUOOL FOE God's physical laws, is not only rewarded with health and > which was hermetically closed with dirt, had a compress J ] comfort, but with heauty, such beauty as the devotees of put around the waist, well AT -WESTBORO, MASS. , wrung and covered with a dry ' present customs and fashions can never possess. ': cloth, a similar one around the throat, an enema of tepid J. We also hope that ere long the trustees of the boys' schoo' ; water given, clean clothes put on, and the patient i)ut to bed. BY DR. n. DERO. I ' On the following will see the propriety of giving more attention to hygienic ; day, she was packed at 10 o'clock, followed by a tepid at 75", This institution is situated two miles from Westboro : influences among these lads. bath a sitz bath at T5° for 5 minutes, at 6 I and a half from our Cure, and is notice by the report for last year, that 10,091] lbs. of p. M., the compresses renewed three times village, and about a mile j We ; per day, three one of the most magniOcent sites to be found in New pork, and 588 lbs of ham were consumed in this Institution. enemas given during the day, water to driuk as desired, and foot of an eminence, on which the build- Now, as a friend to the Institution, and as a friend to the her throat touched three times a day England. At the ; with a weak solution :' of nitrate silver. ings stand, lies Great Cliauncy Pond, which, together with cause, we would respectfully suggest that it would be incal- : of The diet was plain farinaceous articles the beautiful groves, hills, and valleys surrounding it, af- culably better were these boys to have more unbolted flour, gruel, roasted potatoes, &c., in moderate quantity. The ; fords to the beholder one of the most splendid southern 'i more cracked wheat, more fruit, and more iathinff, with third day treatment was the same, except that she had some be found. this the physical faculties, as well .as mild form of bath views that can anywhere { less pork. In way at sunrise, when gettfng out of bed. She with this place be inter- soon beg.an to mend, to A little anecdote connected may ; mental, would be greatly improved, and scrofula, (which we take exercise out of doors before and esting to the reader. A gentleman by the name of Gassett, prevails among these lads,) would be kept in subjec- after her baths, appetite improved, when a liberal ; -notice diet wag (two miles north of us,) was once belonging to Northboro, ' tion. The result, of course, must be less sickness in the allowed in quantity, but lean meat allowed in small guan- travelling in Europe, and during his travels fell in with an titij at dinner only. Her strength and flesh ; Institution. improved English gentleman, who, on ascertaining that Mr. G. was We would advise all friends of reform, who have occasion daily, her throat assumed a better appearance from day to from Massachusetts, wished to know how far from Boston to come to Massachusetts, to visit this Institution in West- day, her cough left, expectoration ceased, and she was on he resided. Some thirty miles, was Mr. G.'s reply. Ah boro. It is really a curiosity; and we will guarantee that the high road to recovery. The treatment afterwards was said the gentleman, I have a drawing of a farm .-iboiit that trouble. about as follows: rubbing sheet , all will go away feeling well paid for their at 5 a. m., exercise out of distance from Boston, which I snp],ose to ho one ofthc inr.st The superintendent and other officers are always kind and doors, water drank fresh from the spring, and then breakfast; beautiful spots on , arth ; so faying, he drew from liis ]H,eket obliging to visitors, which makes it doubly interesting for pack at 10 a. m. for 40 minutes; half bath at 75" after it; ex- tlie Sketch, and handed it to Mr. G., who reailily reco;,'nized those wishing to give the matter a thorough investigation. ercise, drink fresh from the spring; dinner—sitz bath 76' It to be the Esq. Peter's fann, on which the State Eeforin Every Wednesday, P.M., is set apart for receiving visitors, for 10 minutes at 6 p.m., exercise before and after, drink of School now stands. Mr. G. informed hira that he resided, and showing them over the establishment, though we pre- fresh water from the spring, and then supper. when at home, but a short distance from that farm, and sume that persons coming from abroad, who cannot make The compresses to waist and throat were removed after day fished upon the pond lying south liad many a of the it convenient to visit the place on that day, will be accom- each bath, three enemas given per day, and her throa' buildings. Of course, the gentleman was exceedingly inter- modated on any other day. touched on the inside three times per day with a weak so- ested in the matter, and soon informed Mr. G. how he came New Malvern Water-Cure, Westboro, Mass. lution of nitrate of silver. She continued to gain fVom the by the sketch. beginning in general health, the local affection was soon His grandfather was an officer in the English army at the overcome, and without any relapse or backset she steadily time of the revolutionary war, and on travelling through SiKGULAK DKATn OK TwO CLERGYMEN.—A des- went on improving uutil at the end of a few weeks she WM Massachusetts, visited this farm, and was so delighted with patch to the Columbia Times, dated the 25th ult., from well and resumed her work. She remained well until last the location, that he decided at once that it should be his Charlotte, N. C, says September, (nearly two years,) when she was taken in pre- future home. After having brought Young America under " The Kev. Cyrus Johnson, D. D., of this town, died very cisely the same manner. The " Water-Cure^' was resorted subjection, he would, with his family, come to this country, suddenly of apoplexy this morning. In an omnibus, whilst to for a few days, but li/mid counsels prevailing, it wa« and here dwell in peace and happiness on this Ids favorite going to the railroad depot. lie was on his way to Fort abandoned and the Drug treatment resorted to. She passed spot on earth. Mills for the purpose of marrying a gentleman and lady this from one course to another, from one doctor to another, en- But it proved that Young America was not to be subdued. evening. Ho was the second clergyman who had been sometimes getting better and again worse, until she had be- So that instead of this place being occupied by an English gaged to perform the ceremony. The Rev. A. 8. Watts, come a complete invalid, bedridden and helpless. When I nobleman, it is now the dwelling-place of nearly six hun- who had been engaged for the same purpose, died on the heard from her last, she was confined to her bed, with a none dred boys, who are to be educated and sent forth into the day appointed for the wedding, and was buried yesterday to attend on her, was reduced to a skeleton, had no appetite world as citUerm and as men. Dr. Johnson will be burled to-morrow. and no digestion, throat ulcerated, cough and expectoration, This institution has been in operation about eight years, fever, night sweats, Ac, &c. She has been down four though It has been very much enlarged within the last Death caused by Joy.—The Howard (Mary- months, and without some wondrous change must continue three or four years. The buildings are of brick, three stories land) Advocati', announces th* death of Mr. .I.acob Timanus, to sink until she m.akes a die of it. There is no doubt high, and cover an area of about an acre. The farm con- and says he was the father of Mr. William J. Timanus, who my mind, nor should there be in the mind of any sists of two Imndred acres a course some of excellent land, and Is has just returned from California, and the joy caused by his man, that this woman might have been cured by under the supervision of the as readily State AgricuUnral Society. Eafc return contributed in a degree to the father's death. of water treatment when this attack came on her, ; THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 33 I was absent from home and she was two years ago. But low, and has never been sick, I believe, since his Hydro- ! it removed three (Imcs per day, and drank some fix or eight treatment was tried and the other counsels prevailed; drug pathic course of treatment, two years ago. tumblers of water firesh from the spring. After treating ! I unfortunate. A great fault found by this ca.se three days, result have been most Case 5. This was a negro woman aged about 40 years, of I was compelled to leave home aud go Wator-Curo Is, that it is too slotc and to Orleans, most persons with the good constitution and naturally healthy. She was a subject ; New giving directions to the overseer how to also) the this case (and in many others ( proceed in absence. too troublesome. In of typhus fever during the summer of 1S.58, as was ease 4, my But little was done for him, how- years ago, I took case. When taken two ( ever, and at the end of a few days went to his usual work, reverse Is the and like him was left weak, nervous and broken down. he few after she had been tinkered on for a month, and in a Isaw no more of thc' man for twelve months, whcn.after my her Third day chill and fever had attacked her, and had histed j to go where she pleased, and required no < returnt'rom the hotsprings I to father's. d»y8 she was able with occasional intermissions for three or four niontli^. The of Arkansas, went niy at bath times. In a few weeks she was well ! This old man appro.ached me, hat in hand, his bow, nnrsing except ordinary drug remedies had been tried uiinii h. r during this made her work. In thU attack she ha? been down ! and with a smile asked Iiow health was. replied and resumed time, but had failed to break up the attacks. Heing engaged me my I to her months, most of the time confined 5 to him, when he said. Sir, more than four at the time in treating some other cases on the plautation I come to return you my thanks house, and requiring a nurse constantly to wait upon ; for curing me of the rhjumatism last winter. I well, and bed and by the Wator-Cure system, I ordered her to report herself nm the worst part of the business is, that she is still have been ever since I saw yon last: my health is better than hor. And also, upon the next attack. She came with the chill on her, J it \ 1: i i, . , (,, longer . r but will in all likelihood linger a short time has been fur . ir I r, ..jve you, and no pay no btUer, when I ordered a sitz bath of water at about 110", luul ii which to.drerb i! I, treatment has been the slowest and . most truly-you and die. Which foot bath at the same temperature, the f.mt l.ath to lie laki n troublesome here ? WUich has shown the best rendered lo. .,i Water as a great the most at the same time with the sitz bath. Slu- remained in tljese in,', :;i ; inedi( i . This speech was results? baths until she had gotten perfectly warm tlirougli, all rigor-* e!o.|ie nt. t , \viihont affectation, Cise 4. This was a negro boy about 12 years old, weakly had passed and perspiration had broken out—the time I from and f, . , of the old man's . hI delicate. Typhus fever had prevailed on the plantation supposed was some 20 or 25 minutes. Upon coming 1. . ari. ; I lu It . , of course, than If I • K- summer of 1S63; some 40 or 50 cases had occurred, sev- the hot baths, a rubbing sheet was ordered with abundant had recei.-eil i.ay in -old. -ill deaths, and quite a number left weak, broken down friction, the patient had clean clothes put on and was placed it among others—the in well fever rose, the pa- ] Case 7. This was a negro man, aged about 83 years, orlg- 1 5.1 worthless. This boy had had bed and covered up. When her his case chill and fever, tient was vigorously tepid half baths, tepid inally of good constitution, but some years previous he :yphus fever was followed in by packed, had ; was attacked witli rlicumatism while was at- " hich had lasted, with occasional intermissions, for four injections aud the waist compress, until the pulse became ; from home, months. I found him very thin, weak and nervous—abdo- soft and n.itural, the skin smooth, cool and velvety, and the ' tended by Allopatliic tloetors, and was left weak, stiff, and i:ion swelled, legs spindling, appetite and digestion bad. fever subdued. This required some 12 or 16 hours, when • crippled up aftervvavils, Uinm some exposure two years I wa.. :i;.'aiu, difl"erent Drugs having been tried upon him without success, dc- the patient was allowed some gruel to drink. The next day ; ago, he taken havln- violent pains in first parts of til - l.ody anil liuil,s, but irrmined to try icaier. Upon the accession of the she had three baths, besides a pack at 10 o'clock, tepid : more particularly about at tile siiles an 1 r 'U of tiie dia|jlira'_My. fever, r. ver, he was bath6 ^ I-" for several minutes, to clean his skin and remove the tional farin.iceous food. This treatment broke up tlie chills and no swelliiiL: in any ol' tlie juints or limbs. I began on his 1 encrustation of sweat and dirt wliioh had nccumulated on and fever at once—she had then stronger baths and colder, him as I Ql generally wlien treatini; negi-oes ; that was, to skin until It was almost hernioticMlly closo(l,a tepid enema was was made to exercise out of doors freely, and had more food have the skin well cleansed in a tepid batli, with soap, cloths well, clean clothes rubbing, intfrnal cleansed, :riven large enough to cleanse the bowels allowed and of a more nourishing quality ; lean meat was and abundant then the swr/oM w, re put upon him, and he was put to bed. A wet compress, permitted at dinner. The patient gained very fast under also, by copious tepl 1 enemas, clean clothes put on, the vered with a dry one, was then put around his waist, ex- this treatment for ten days, when apparently without any waist compress put on, and the patient put to bed. After :uling from the pit of the stomach to the lower part of the cause she was taken with chill and fever again. This was lying and eaj.jyin; his new state of cl annefs for an hour 1 "lomen. Those processes soon cooled the skin and lower- soon broken up and the patient put upon the same course or so, a pack was prepared, the man put in and kept some 1 the pulse, but It rose again in half an hour, when he was as at first, i. e., rubbing sheet at sunrise, exercise, visit to the 40 or 60 minutes, until well warmed but not sweating, given, ji.icked in a well-wrung sheet for 20 minutes, which becom- spring and then breakfast; pack at 10 o'clock, followed by : a tepid half bath the waist compress renewed, and ing quite warm in that time, the boy was taken out, the a half bath and pail douche, exercise out of doors, visit to ' the patient then put In bed. This packing and bathing was sheet wrung afresh and the patient repacked for some sitz at -i p. m. kept up on him for two or three days, a mild farinaceous out the spring and then dinner; a bath , preceded 25 or 30 minutes; he was then taken out and a tepid bath and followed by exercise out of doors, and then supper. diet allowed according to appetite, when all pain subsided L'iven at SO", wiped dry and put to bed. The waist compress The patient gained steadily under this treatment , until at the patient grew strong in a few days and resumed his w :is afterwards replaced and a tepid injection given. Water the end of a few weeks she was pronounced well and went I usual labors. He might have been cured entirely, I think, 1 IS given to drink from time to time, as he desired it, but to her work. She has remained well ever since, I believe, . by a course of treatment extending tlirough several months, m small quantities. without any exceptions, now two years. and made as well as ever before, but I left home soon J This packing, followed by the tepid half bath, tepid injec- ' afterwards, and the man being exposed in New Orleans Case 6. This was a negro man about 55 years old, of great tions, up afterwards, badly treated water drinking waist compress, would break , to took them, was by medi- and bodily strength aud vigor, and fine constitution, but had been measles I he fever in from to hours. had no internally, and soon 12 24 When the patient subject occasionally to rheumatic attacks and pain, chiefly cine, became chronically diseased died. 'v ver, eases previously, he was allowed gruel to drink, was bathed three times in the small of the back. Two years ago he was taken with He was one of those numerous spoken of !i valuable slave helpless, r day, had tepid injections three times per day, and had severe rheumatism suddenly, in both arms and one side of when a had became comparatively i Doctor) he wet compress renewed three times per day. If the fever his chest. Ho was very loath to try the " Water- Care,'^ with no possible hope of being cured by Drug or off hours, as ; drug-% but might have been cured and made as well as remained 21 he was allowed farinaceous food, when I proposed it to him, saying that wet, cold and damp- there Hydropathic establishments in the coun- bread, hominy and rice, roasted potatoes and molasses. The ness always made him worse, and he was afraid that if I ever if were fever its appearance several after treat- to receive treat patients. made times the water used water on him it would kill him. I made a compromise try and ment was begun, at intervals of two and three days, but the with liim, however, and promised him a plug of tobacco if Case S. This w.as a negro woman, aged about 46 years, of (pells were injured milder each time and more easily subdued. After I failed to relieve him in 86 hours, besides pledging my delicate constitution naturally, and had been greatly some 10 days the boy got stout enough to take exercise reputation as a "Doctor" that ho should not be injured in by taking drugs and using tobacco to excess. Learning that before and after his baths, her with a and spend most of his time out of any manner. The first thing done for him was to place him she was sick, I visited her and found in bed doors walking about. His baths were ch.mged as ho grew in a half bath at 80° and have him thoroughly rubbed and weak, feeble pulse, furred tongue, and complaining of great stronger and the temperature reduced; he had rubbing scrubbed with soap and cloths until he was pronounced wasting and prostration. She had had her period upon excessive (beets at sunrise, tepid half bath and pail douche at 10 CLEAN, something that could not be said in his case at any her for several days, the flow had been in quan- •'clock, and sitz bath at 70*^ for 10 minutes; at 5 p. m. the in- tity, which had prostrated her very much, and the cven- previous time for twenty years. Clean clothes were put on : jections were repeated as at first, the wet compress worn him, a large tepid enema given him to cleanse the bowels, ' Ing before she had been taken with severe purging, which constantly, water drinking to the amount of six or eight a wet compress, covered by a dry one, put around his body, had lasted through the night. All these things combined tumblers ' feeble creature per day, and the food increased in quantity and and the man put to bed. In an hour or so, when perfectly were of course enough to pull down a quality ' prostrate, pulse — lean meat was allowed at dinner. Under this rested from the previous exertion, ho was packed for 40 or as she was, and render her weak and course of ' hospital at once, a sitz treatment the boy's general health improved very 50 minutes, until he was quite warm, and a tepid bath at feeble, &c. I had her carried to the compress ap- much, he grew stouter, improved in flesh and looks, and 80° given. It was a cold day, the man was large and stout, ; bath at SO* given for 1 minutes, the wet "Hissed his chills and fevers. The treatment was not con- plied around lier body, a- enema given at 70=', had her with plenty of heat, and when he came from the pack and : tinued '< w.iter her feet, and a drink as long as it should have been, however, to place was placed in the half bath and water put on him, he fairly put in bed with a bottle of hot to hii '' rice, something like system In a healtliy condition. He was sent to the field quivered in every limb, and the steam and smoke arose as given at intervals, made of parched too early, and the consequence was a relapse after without either milk or sugar. This is a most a week from a burning tar kiln. He was well rubbed in the bath, \ coflTee, but or so, and his diarrhoja, being soothing and nourishing, old complaint, chills and fever, returned. He wiped dry, his compress removed, and he was again put In ; excellent drink in was treated the precisely as first also as an astringent. Upon my next visit, I second time at —when the bed. In some six or eight hours, the packing and bathing ; and acting chill was on, old woman sitting up and seeming to bo quite his feet was bathed in hot water, warm bottles were again gone through with—he lost his plug of tobacco { found the put to his feet flow of the menses had ceased almost entirely, in bed, plenty of blankets put on him until by the time agreed on, for after this second pack and bath > smart; the taken place after he was thoroughly warm, and when the skin got hot and all pain was subdued and the patient was easy before the not a single motion from the bowels had pain fever was present, he was packed repeatedly and had tepid 86 hours set hart more than half elapsed. In less than two her treatment had begun, there was no about the ab- half was good aud the woman was well, savo baths until It was subdued. The treatment when days the patient took Exercise out of doors before and after ; domeu, the pulse no fever was present, was as described at first. The boy his bath, though the weather was quite cold, and appeared debility consequent upon the diarrhoea, &c. This was one got better, marked, speediest and most astonishing cases I missed his chills and fevers, grew stronger, to be well and comfortable. Ho had a liberal diet in quan- j of the most had stronger performed by water. The patient was bad off baths, took more food, exercised out of doors, tity, with lean meat at dinner, after the pain had left-was ! ever saw continued his treatment several weeks, until his health packed twice per day, followed by a tepid half bath, had ^ when 1 first saw her, though not about to die by any means, I waj perfectly re-established. He is now a hearty stout fel- three enemas per day, wore the compress constantly.havlng but by any ordinary dru* treatment do not believe she ^^^^ ; 34 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, she was in six hours and seriously doubting whether tho directions given will a narrow strip would have boon as well iu fix days as of brain lhat was very much infiamcd. an( liospital for sev- cnre it, I beg to offer a few remarks touching its cause and so distinctly by the water treatment I kept her in the colored that it could be traced connecting Ven- somewhat, &c., and cure. eration and eral days to perfect her cure, trim her up Destructiveness and the latter organ and Com- would have been in the first place, respecting its cause, I will just say bativoness then dismissed her to her usual work. She And together; and these organs were very much in- months, that, so far as I it any much benefited by a course of treatment of some have observed, does not depend upon flamed and engorged with blood, while all the other por- conveniences for treatiiig eases perceiv.ible condition of the stomach or other part of the tions of the but I had no time and no brain, except the organs of Veneration, De- longer than was absolutely necessary. This communication system, Induced by a particular regimen, but mainly, if not structiveness, and Combativeness, and the narrow streak fresh entirely, by the rays of the sun falling upon the exposed that has CTown so bulky that I must dispatch it and take a connected them together, had a perfectly healthy ap- start in another. I will merely add as a note, that while on lips of persons generally constituted with brown .«oft hair, pearance -were white, and free from blood. light eyes, thin soft skin, short, lip is but simply a visit to my fathers the other day, I saw the last prescrip- &c. In the This condition of the brain, which, to a phrenologist, cor- tion of Dr. Allopath for the negro woman mentioned as sunburnt. This is evident, from the fact, that this kind of responds exactly with the acts of its owner, was perfectly will probably not survive sore lip is very little, if at all known during tho more cloudy astounding to the operator, case 8, who is now very low and \ and he confessed that he was after a treatment by drugs for four months. In the attack and cool parts of the year. (Observe, W. G. aflirms his lip ! compelled, against his will, to become a believer in Phre- two years ago, when treated by water, she was cured in a is only sore during the warm part of the year.) < nology; and these statements are entitled to the more credit, few weeks. It ran somewhat after this v.iso: '"The negro Now, if this explanation of the cause be correct, the pre- inasmuch as they come from a gentleman who, la | woman, Ilarriet, will take a pill of blue mass of six grs. every vention and cure are simple and effectual. Both will maiuly ( addition to being a man of unquestionable veracity, was, up third night—a dose of cayenne pepper and qniuitU',oiich three consist in protecting the lip from the direct action of tho ! to that time, an uncompromising disbeliever In Phrenol- grs. three times per day, and have her throat touched with sun's rays. This may. perhnp be best accomplished by wear- ( ogy. ot caustic every day. This is sublime, is it not? ing a bro;id-brimni('d li.it, as soon as M arm sunny weather ; a STICK Cases of Tvphoid Fever.—The following are particularly touching the throat with a sti.k of eaitsiic. appears in tlie spring; and if the Up have already become sore, i a few among many cases of typhoid fever which have come it with artifichil covering, This is the yreate THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. > for acme time will, be pained to witness the suflViriDg The Bread Eaters of Paris.—Uoi ace Greeley, and ( Hon of such a case. Yet these very sensitive ladles will go Paris, cruelty practiced by tho system of polsca taking, In scores to hear W ::i a letter to tho Now York Tribune, dated May 1, j Dr. leting's private lectures, just as i When I first became acquainted with the "Water and k'jS, after speaking of ttio laborers in that city as only though it was any more immodest for a man to sit beside \ Nature's cure" plan of combating disease, it was so simple, '•earning from eighteen to some thirty-eight cents each, per ( us and listen, than for one to stand before us and lecture to that covers theiu," i so philosophical, so soothing and harmless, that I thouglit us. I fear day, beyond the cost of tho roof barely \ my brain Is too obtuse to solve eo modest a mys- < In five niiimtes I could convince the most skeptical of Its and wondering how they can afford to drinlc or smoke, adds superiority-but, alas I alas! early education (or organiza- the following testimony respecting their vegetarianism, During tho whole course of lectures, our brother students < tion) has a far firmer hold than I aware of. which though compulsory is nevertheless just as real as if was observed the most gentlemanly deportment. Neither by I \ I sometimes feel very sorrowful in thinking of the suffer- '. It were of choice. "I think dry bread—that is, bread with word, look or action, ln,Iieating the presence of an Impure \ ing that has still to be endured, especially the little chll- water to moisten and render it palatable—is the liabit- by thought. Earnest in the pursuit of knowledge, refined-in only j ! dren, in this medicinally humbugged world. If necessary, nal food of a majority of the day laborers of Paris." feeling, and respectful in manner to us, appreciating our de- ) I could chop off one's head ; but to lend a hand, or even This statement, should it bo noticed by anybody, will sire to loam, and a-sslsting when necessary, we shall ever ' holding I surprise some of the hundreds of thousands who stand by and see grown men and women by main think of them with respect doubtless 1 and esteem, for they proved force a sick, struggling little child, not old enough to say read the Tribune. And yet it is well known from the tes- \ i themselves worthy the name of men. The daily compan - ) papa or mamma, and, by tho help of spoon handles, holding timony of competent witnesses, among whom arc Lamar- lonship of pure-minded men and women does not usually poisons, and ; Its nose, &c., forcing into its little stomach rank have a i ie himself, that about 2.),000 of the 85,000,000 who inhabit tendency to call into action the lowest faculties; on is I will I this, too, right against a God-given instinct, what the contrary, both are Krance, scarcely obtain a mouthful of animal food during refined and elevated ; and were these - will not 1 not do again. Complain yes, I will complain, and reform schools and their principles the whole year, c.\cept occasionally a little for Sunday. In j introduced Into every s hold my peace while the "most enlightened people in the State in the Union, morality truth, the majority of those who do the hard work of France, j would assume a purer tone than I worl'l" both la city and country, are of necessity vegetarians. This are committing such abominations. It now does. I trust the Hydropathic school will continue I tho name of all that is reasonable and right, for what has been eo time immemorial. It is indeed so in most In to receive the encouragement it so well merits. Do I not J j did God give us our instincts, or tastes, or senses, but as 'pulous countries beyond Groat Britian and the United ) repeat the sentiments of all my fellow-students In saying -tatcs of America. guides? This stupid notion of science and reason in the that we shall always remember Dr. Trail and his brother I I instinct, aban- i improvement of nature contrary to must be professors with feelings oftho highest esteem. Hoping that doned, n. B. I many A Beadtifcl Foot ! That would be a rare may yet receive the benefit of their Instructions, and learn to sight Indeed, unless it belonged to a baby. But why should ; live physiologically, we tender our best wishes for not people \ their success and well-doing. — take as much pride iu showing a handsome foot, PROPRIETY. Mns. Eliza De La as a pretty hand? Queer world indeed. But then, I do not Vebgne, New York City. female, created he them." blame them, for the foot of a civilized fashionable man or "Male and woman. Is anything but pretty; toes all crowded together To THE Editoks.—Gentlemen: Having been repcatcdly with big flat heads and small bodies, like a family of muck questioned with regard to the merits of the Hydropathic A LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI. worms, and sometimes muck enough to make the resem- College, No. 15 Lalght street, N. Y. ; also, what are the ten- blance still more striking, but not the less disgusting. dencies and results of admitting both sexes to pursue their To THE Studisxts of the New Yokk Hydko- Where Is that soft felt shoe ? thick at the bottom but your permission studies and investigations together. Wltli PATinc iNSTrrnxE :—Remembered Clas^natcs—Says a sen- limber water proof if as a rag, rendered necessary by India I will reply, through tho Journal, to all wlio have or may sible writer In Harper's well known monthly—June number liubber, Gutta Percha, or better still, perhaps, ajyroccss by express an interest on this subject. It is a duty I owe to —" I do believe that half the passions, crimes^flnd miseries of <'! steamin : which destroys capillary attraction; thereby the Professors of the Institution, to my fellow-students and humanity would be calmed down under the influence of :i lowing air, but not water, to come to the foot. But this opinions thus publicly. myself, to give my Water-Cure." So do we ; and even more than that. :i Hon or idea of keeping the feet always dry, looks to me Having attended the last course of lectures at the Hydro- Water-Cure In and of itself, will not make Christians, but rather foolish; if, indeed, it is not a pernicious one. I would pathic Institute, I cannot speak otherwise than in terms of when its princijiles arc adopted and lived up to, then there like to know what our feet were put upon the ground for ? the highest regard for all connected therewith. Our Pro- will be hett'^r Christians, h. iter citizens, letter Presidents, I guess God knew what was for the best. I sure the am fessors are men who have not only read, studied and ob- letter Governors, letter subjects to be governed, letter healthiest persons in the world are not those who keep their served, but they have VtowjJd, actually done their own laws, letter scholars, letter philosophers, letter farmers feet the driest. But I don't know, we are a smart people. thinking and reasoning, which is not always considered and mechanics, and laborers of all classes, letti-r men, let- was walking with a young man in the street I the other necessary in the present age. And they have put in prac- ter wOMon, and letter children than the world has ever who had on a pair of new boots, with high heels, day and tice the results of their mental labors, and good has sprung known. That age will be marked as an age of intelligence, toes, his boots seemed to be his constant "druv'' up admi- up tho world will bo benefited by. Instead of being a high-toned morality, virtue, reason, and common sense. ration, as his eyes were fastened upon tbem most of the •' school of one ideaism," as some have said, and many sup- The people will learn to live for great and noble i)urposes time; thoy were so rery pretty, looked so rery much like a " pose, it is liberal to all. 'Tis true. It has its favorite theory —live for the high objects for which they were created, and tarred Iron wedge, and they were so feeling t oo I DOW j udge, and praciiva"—but what school has not ? As well may tho be governed and influenced, not by appetites, passions, and shrugged his shoulders, stuck out his for he cringed, elbows, Allopathic, Homceopathic, Botanic, or any other school be mere aidmal gratifications, but by the superior light of their flopped his hands, and floundered along "like a half sled in have fa- said to inculcate but one idea, because they each a i intellectual and moral faculties. Jails, pcnitcntiuries, and the mud." to all others. vorite system which they teach in preference ( prison-houses for criminals, liospitals for the sick, and asy- at street Is filled with the The Medical Library 16 Laight i lums for the blind and insane, will, in a great measure, only " Give us Facts."—Aye, aye, sir. I lay sick Standard works of every school, and every student is ex- left as standing monuments of age \ bo an w lu n people yield- once upon a time. A physician called in to see me on bus- pected to become acquainted with their contents, and judge ed to depraved appetites, and transgressed jihyslologlcal iness; ho was surprised that I had no medical attendant for him or herself of their merits ; and if any should become laws, which is the cause of three-fourths of the misery of other mode of medical treatment is kindly requested to examine my pulse, tongue, &c. ; said I convinced that some this present age. Then there will be no more dram-shoi)S, I was quite sick, bilious, with strong symptoms of typhoid superior to that taught here, no one will interfere with such J sending forth streams of vice, scorpion stings, and remorsc- free discussion, fever. Wanted to know what I took. Told him water, a conviction further than to challenge and > less demons into society, to mar the peace and beauty of " ?" " vinegar and water, apples, turulps and cabbage. prove their position if they can ; and as the agitation of Why \ our cities, towns, and villages—causing business men to Because they tasted good; didn't eat much of either, thought is the beginning of wisdom,'' this is quite proper. fall a thriving causing j "smash up," and from business— though. "Why didn't I take medicine?" 'Cause it didn't None are denounced for differing In belief on any subject. of bright shining intellects to into j young men and run " t«9te good, and was poison. Hadn't I never taken any?" It has already been proved that more than one idea pro- I deeds of guilt and crime, and sink to endless ruin—causing " Tes, but was once greener than I am now. Didn't I in- vails, as the presence of women Indicates : this is at least tho brain of man to run wild with dellriuui, disturbing the I tend to take a drop, doctor; other medical schools yet any?" Not no faith in it; one Idea more than most have j sacred scenes of the family circle. sooner die first. "Good grit—pretty good amount of vi- got through their brains. Now a word to those who op- Then will that deadly narcotic narcotiana tahactim re- tality—quite sick, though—but guess you'll get well." pose men and women studying together. Conversing on sume its proper place in the vegetable kingdom, as one Son had an attack of the erysipelas In his face ; his moth- this subject with a married lady, who thinks she is thor- whose uses are yet unknown, instead of finding its way " er, with a little of my help, kept cold wet cloths on it for oughly educated, she remarked, It Is so very Immodest Into men's mouths, " to steal away their brains," and deaden four days and nights in Succession ; it was tho only thing to listen. In the presence of gentlemen, to lectures on dis- their finer sensibilities—instead of corrupting morals, and that would keep the inflammation down so that he could eases peculiar to females." I replied: " Is it any worse to causing thousands annually to fall into premature graves, re5t It finally subdued it without medicine, cauterizing, listan to lectarcs on these delicate subjects In their presence and converting our churches, Iccture-rooins, legislative r cAarwmjr, which I was told was a very common and than to submit to the personal caro and attendance of gen- halls, steamboats, and rail-cars into cesspools of foul secre- ' ;re cure in those parts. tlemen when afflicted with such diseases? Have you not tions from human bodies Said I to a little boy, to whom the doctor had forbidden always employed a male physician, and, from tho nature of Then will people learn that tho many diseases with which > Hter, and who was apparently near death's door, "What your difnculties, been subjected to much that was far more they are now afllicted are principally the work of their own '•< you want, Homer?" "I want water—good cold wa- unpleosant than listening to lectures or studying the nature hands, and that most of them can be avoided. Then will ter!" said he. In a faint, husky voice. I threw aside the of diseases?" "Oh I" said she, "that was necessary, and I they learn tlmt nature Is the great physician, and that medicine, and answered his instinctive call. The result have entire confidence In my doctor ; but I am sure I never medicines cause, rather than cure disease, and then will was ln^tantancous relief, and in a few hours convalescence, could live through such an ordeal as a course of medical lec- doctors betake themselves to honorable callings in life. and in a few days health. tures to a promiscuous class." I have heard so many ladies Then will tho fair young ladles of our land, (and the old We who have seen the dawning of a brighter day—that insist on the certainty of their dying if they were to attend ones too,) seek to understand their own physical organiza- Is, tho i:itellect, \ evident declension of the drug system, and the sub- these lectures with gentlemen, that I cannot help wondering tions—seek the rich adornment of a cultivated and stitution of one more In harmony with nature—must, and what would be tho decision after a post mortem examina- noble Aeart, rather than outward decorations of the body. — ^^^^ THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, )^ of their very J. W. Ward, of Carolton, 111., are all working as home '^prepare your copy for the printer.'' These whiob many of them do at the expense condllions } \ missionaries. Br. W. has distributed fifty W. C. 6's. Drs- complied with, we will turn out such a paper as no family Uves. T, exargoration but to you, my K. F Dutcher, and S. S. Clement are in the field as lec- can possibly afford to be without. Such a paper as will Thii to nmnv may seem like and understand turers, wo hear. congratulate the people who are so hasten the " good time coming," when we'll have no classmates, who have studied -NVater-Cure, We more it to be true. happy as to listen to them. physic, cod liver lard oil, patent kill-alls, nor any other abom- the great principles wl.ich it embodies, know of all kinds My own report is thirteen cases. Seven uterine, one ination forced down the throats of men, women, Its objecrs are, not only to remove diseases and other sys- labor; twelve W. C. Guides given away. babies. H-ith far better success and more safety than any class, as heard from, 126 tem now known to the world, but to teach the great sn- Summary for the cases. One EscE OF LIFE SO as to ensurc the highest degree of moral Ilnndrcd Journals and si.xty-two W. C. Guides distributed. How IT Looks.—Some of our. correspondents I regret that for want of m.itcrial I can present a report rsTtLLECTrAL, and putsical betelopmest. In accom- have expressed a desire to fee our New Family IIaitd abundantly from only fifteen of your number. Instead of forty. plishing this high object, I trust you all will be Be Mill. It is quite impossible to convey by engraving or more punctual in October. successful. Terliaps you wish to know something of my words an accurate idea of this most usefiil invention. But Bespectfully your sister agent, whereabouts. 'Well, I have "pitched my tent" far down in and we have obtained a mere external view, see advertisement, " A. S. the land of sunshine, in the City of Hills." Vicksbnrg Is COGSWELL. wbic"! will enable the reader to form something of an opin- four situated on the eastern bank of the Mississippi P.iver, ion of its general appearance. The inside work, or machi- hundred miles above New Orleans. It is a thriving little nery, which does the grinding, must be seen to bo appre- city, and I think an excellent place for a Water-Cure, which ciated; sulfice it to say, it Is, without exception, a very une- I hope to be able to croct at no very distant day. ful. If not an absolutely indispensable piece of household The people are kind-hearted, intelligent, and blosscl with furniture, and will realize to all who use it our motto, a full supply of '^res'tlors," there being, at least, (wo or A General Agency in New Yoek.—The fre- EvEEY Man nis own Miller. three to every thousand inbabit-ints. Many el' tlnsr .iro quent appUoations from our country friends to transact but we do real gentlemen—men of intelligence and worth, business for them in New York, has induced us to effect The Elmiba TVater-Cuhe.—A mistake, away not hesitate to say that they have been dreadfully lliiuled with the lending liontcs for the purchase arranETciuents and back last June, before the Maine Liquor Law came into by the false philosophy of the drug schools, which necets;!- sale of every variety of merchandise and produce. will We force in New York, somelody among our printers—and it rily leads to an evil practice. select, and forward by express, or otherwise, dry goods, may have been the d 1 himself—placed the engraved Against these, (not men, for we highly respect them and so forth, at wholesale prices, to .my person or groceries, and view of the Fishkill Mountain Water-Cure at the head of their opinions,) false principles and evil practices we openly will also receive ou consignment sell place. We and by auc- Dr. Gleason's advertisement of The Elmiea Watek-Ccre, declare uncompromising warfare, feeling our ability to tion or otherwise, as directed, to the best of our ability, any which, of course, was not exactly the thing bargained for. demonstrate to the good sense of any Intelligent man the article of produce or manufacture sent to our care. The \ We now correct the mistake, by placing a view of the truthfulness of our position. advantages of such an agency are simply these: Elmira House in our advertising columns. For a fall place has been dreadfully scourged for two seasons I This 1st. We are acquainted with the principal importers, ) description of the establishment—its surroundings and «d- learn that a few cases past with yellow fever. We were manufacturers, and dealers. And ! vantages—see Watee-Cuee Jouenal for June, page 189. treated Ilydropathically with entire success by some of the 2d. Residing in the city, we are always on the ground, The New York State Agricultural Fair is to be held this readers of the Water-Cure Jourkal. Should It make its and can have the advantage of the best opportunities for i year in Elmira, Chemung county, on the 2d, 8d, 4th and 5th appearance again, we hope to be able to demonstrate to the buying and selling goods for shipping at each and every of October next, when our friends at that point may count people the superiority of water treatment. arrival or departure. i on "full* houses." We bespeak a room for two, with bath Hadn't been h«me but a few days, before I had a regular 3d. Saving the expense of time and passage-money to the privileges, in advance. Will the doctors S. 0. and E. B. \ Tsl.D. of thirty years' standing, in the "sheets." He thought country dealer or consumer of a trip to the city, his hotel, Gleason be at home. medicine wondrous good in general, but particularly bad in and other expenses, while away from home. We have busi- P. 8. Another grand attraction, more fascinating than all his case. ness connections with Boston, Philadelphia, and all the prin- Hawks, Morgans, ) the Short Horns, Devonshires, Black With the best wishes for you all, I remain ever yours in cipal American cities ; also with Liverpool, London, Paris, Southdowns, Suffolks, Shanghaes. Potatoes or pumpkins j the good cause. etc., etc., etc. ! will be—open for inspection—not exhibited—at that time Vickaburg, July 1, 1S55. JosEPn S. Wise. When goods are ordered, remittances in checks or drafts with appro- ( namely, a new female college will be dedicated —payable to our order—should accompany the same. priate ceremonies. Young men beware 1 HYGIKNIC INSTITUTE. Please address. Fowler and Wells, 308 Broadway, New York. FIE8T QUAETEELY EePORT OK THE STUDENTS OF THE 3d Glen Haven. —As usual, this institution is in TEEM OF THE lIvQiiiNic Ikstititte. 15 Laight street, N. Y. I A Suggestion.—Every business man—and ' a highly flourishing condition. It is conducted with consum- PrestoK, Chenan'jo Co., N. Y. else who writes letters—should unsurpassed enterprise. The physicians everybody have a few ] ate ability and Dr. Mary Case reports two cases, one of Enteritis in a packages of se//-nea!ing letter envelnpen, with his own and managers exert themselves with a judgment and zeal child, who was raised after having been pronounced fatal name and Post Office address plainly but consjdcuoudy which arouses the most torpid, and inspires hope and reso- by the Dr., in consequence of gangrene. The Dr. staid by printed tliereon. Then put on stamps with which to pre- lution in the most desponding. The Patients of Glen for three days, dealing out his doses, which she quietly put pay the postage, and they are on hand ready for use. Then, Haven have sent us a series of " resolutions," highly com- aside. when you write a person requesting an answer, just enclose mendatory of all the surroundings, and everything per- After some days of careful treatment, and the child was one of these printed prepaid envelopes, directed to yourself, taining to that beautiful place. They praise its pure water, much improved, the Dr. then raised the alarm to the and you will be likely to get an answer by return mail. mountain air, the charming lake, its lovely scenery—and. anxious parents, that unless a blister was applied there was A neat engraving on wood, emblematic of your business In other respects, confirming the claims of its many ardent danger of effusion, and a confirmed chronic disease as the or profession, printed on the face of the envelope—not on admirers. sequehe. I have heard of no effusion, but there were the back, say on the upper left-hand corner—would add to The skill of Dr. Jackson and his associate physicians, (ie twelve boils. its beauty and effect, as well as to identify your business superior advantages of the "short dress" for ladies, etc., Netw York City, Allen Street. with yourself, and thus serve as an advertisement. The etc., are heartily eulogized by the patients and inmates of Mrs. De La Vergne reports thirty-one cases ; six uterine, publishers of this Journal have facilities for getting up the '-Cure." two labor, ten acute, thirteen chronic. printed self-scaling-envelopes by the hundred, thousand, or It was further "Resolved" that the New York Hydro- Walerbury, Connecticvt. million, in the most beautil'ul styles, at moderate prices. pathic Collegiate Institute, under the direction of Dr. Trail, ( " deserves the support of a'l the lovers of humanity. " And, Dr. Finette E. Scott reports nine cases under her care. Journal is a health publication ; "That the Watek-Cure Five uterine difficulties. Generous CoNTnmuTOKS continue to favor us all Chase justly entitled to the patronage of ; and we promise our Dr. C. C. has unfurled his ensign of purification In with articles for publication on all the varieties of disease, , Infiuence in extending its circulation." La Crosse, Wisconsin. Dr. J. 8. Wise is locat-d in Vicks- giving their experiences under different modes of treatment, Dated, Glen Haven, 185.=i. burg, Mississippi reports three cases. j ; Dr. D. W. Hall is showing, of course, the superiority of the glorious Water- " all right, \ To all of which we respond, go-a-head." teaching and healing in his peculiar and forcible manner in Cure Though we cannot find room in our ample pages for Elgin City, Illinois: seven cases. Dr. E. W. Gantt, we all these contributions, we sliall from lime to time give is said po.x is hear, is rearing a Water-Cure in Eockford, Illinois, in which brief " extracts" from those which afford the most general ! Hydkopatht.—It that the small killing off the Oswego Indians by wholesale. When taken he is to be assisted by Dr. Helen M. Snow. That is the way. interest. We;solleit «//ort articles with facts instead of "long ; • with the disease they immediately get into the water, and What great enterprise ever succeeds where there is no " yarns." We shall try to adapt the Journal to the people," lie there till death comes. Under this treatment over 200 J woman concerned ? the masses, and prefer to publish such matter as may be of ' have died in less than two weeks.-&>me of Vie Papers. Dr. George E. Kimball of Iowa City, Iowa, reports sixty universal interest and application. Instead of dry documents [A highly probable allopathic story. Where are the 0»- • cases, but adds the humiliating confession, that his ofiBce for learned doctors. Give us the pith. The grain without wego Indians located? Who is their physician? We I physician, (alia-s his wife,) has five cases to his one. The the chaff. The mottle ;—well, yes, we'll take either gold or i quote the statement for the edification of our medicin* doctor strongly advises all young men who desire successi silver and promise to make good use of it — —without the ; men.] to secure, by all means, an agreeable, well-educated wife. dross. But all ye who write for this press, write for the Amen. competi- <) ''people" instead of yourseli e-i, and wo will publish It as Tobacco Essays. —The unsuccessful Br. J. W. Boss, of Keenorsvllle, best Tobacco, »>* ' N. C, reports fifty W. fast as our dozen steam-power presses, with twenty men, > tors for the prize given for the Essay on / C. J's circulated, which seem to if they desire It. All be breaking up the flinty and several as pretty giris as can be found this side of Ire- < requested tosend for their manuscript £ grounds of prejudice In that region. Brs. J. W. Steele of before the first of November will be destroyed, p land, can put on the sheets. So please be brief, write to the \ not called for I ShelbyvlUe, Tenn, Br. 8. E. Fales of Walpole, 808 Broadway, New York. " Mass., and point, dot your Ts, cross your t's, and in all other respects : Address, Fowlee and Wells, : — : 2 1855.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 37 in During the agitation of the Maine law New , to be exempted from the Maine law? In what Jersey last winter, some twenty physicians of possible way could Dr. Gardner have secured j Water-Cure Journal Newark, in tliat State, signed a petition in favor the gratitude of the poor Irishman " forever and j of the exemption of lager beer. Is there any a day," so ctl'ectually as by poisoning him with XKW YORK., AUGUST, 1855. better reason for the special exemption of that a dose of " the critter," the moment he got his population form of alcoholic poison, where the nose out of the ground ? There ought to be a I gode, thtiD by coDfor- is eminently Dutch, than there is for the special monument of brandy ca.sks erected, either to the exemption of Brandy where the people are memory of the doctor who administered the j AUGUST TOPICS, largely American, or wine where the French and drink, or to the Irishman who imbibed it—wc Italian element is strong? Among the advo- don't know which. cates for this exemption of lager beer, we notice WoME.v PiirsiciANs.— TuE M.irsE Law and thk Drcg-Doctoi;s.— In a long article under the name of J. Henry Clark, M.D., who has long I' this head, a late number of the Throughout the Empire State the. prohibitory { Tribune remarks : been conspicuous as a temperance speaker and It is no longer doulitful whctlu r liquor law ia now, theoretically, in force. It is Women can writer. In a late article in the New Jersey Medi- study medicine and s\icccrd in its practice among now unlawful for a citizen of this State to sell his cal Reporter, he labors through several pages to their own sex and children. Experiments to neighbor alcoholic poison in any form of beverage. this end enlighten the people, and especially his " profes- have been tried, and under unfavorable But it is enough to make angels weep and devils auspices, and their results have uniformly proved sional brethren," as to the wonderful virtues of the majori- most encouraging. The movement is a recent l;i'ii;b to witness the zeal with which " lager beer. Some of his experience" is so one, as will be seen by the following detailed song, " I . of our city papers still lead the O wonderful that it ought to be preserved ; so we I account of the institutions which have been the _ »^ is good ;" and the facility with which established for this put it on record in a way to ensure it a wide cir- purpose. During the brief ;i irties interested in the rum trade can purchase period of six years this cause has made great culation. He says progress. best of tlie opinions of distinguished lawyers that the The men and the most excel- I have prescribed it considerably during the lent of women are its friends and \ patrons ; the M.iine law is \inconstitutional ; and procure the last two years. My present experience induces 'i public press is almost unanimous in its favor ; il.'cisious of able judges that legal suasion is all me to recommend it in most ca.^es where a stimu- many medical journals and medical men are I wrong. And it is especially scrio-comical to lant tonic is required. I have found it particu- giving it their iniiuencc legislative ; bodies have sanctioned it, iL\ul in some of our city papers, which were larly useful in dyspeptic and hysteric cases j and few persons now venture daring convalescence from disease, and for nurs- openly to oppose so reasonable and desirable an ver accused nor suspected of any thought or ing mothers. It seems to be well adapted for improvement in the condition of Woman, and in uliuient above advocating that the strongest conditions of feebleness when ordinary tonics the customs of society. All this too has resulted jich would pay the best, lectures to such cler- would not be borne. Its advantages have seem- in spite of the prejudices and tenacity of custom, to be : 1st. it tones gently with- of many oltstacles . nea as Beecher, Tyng, Chapin and King on ed to me That and powerful inffuences, and out producing excitement. 2d. Tluit it does not with limited pecuniary means which have been > 1 ir duties in relation to temperance! These produce headache. 3d. That it does not over- ) laboriously obtained. p.'.jjers gravely undertake to instruct the clergy- It 1)0 stimulate when taken in moderate quantities, j will seen that wherever women, well- men aforesaid as to the particular subjects they ith. That it does not produce acidity in the educated and truly fitted for the office of a phy- should or should not talk about in their pulpits stomach, bth. That it acts upon the kidneys, sician, have entered upon its duties, a high and produces an increased secretion of urine, and ; honorable position has been accorded to them, id elsewhere ; and even are so marvellously seems to relieve that congestion of the organ and thej' have at once commenced a remuner- Ir^ious all at once, as to express apprehensions j which exists in most atonic conditions with con- , practice. The pecuniary reward of their iativo lest by talking about temperance and the Maine siderable functional derangement. labors greatly exceeds the small compensation law before popular audiences, they should lose usually received by women of education and Lager beer is better than milk for babes talent the influence they otherwise might have in the engaged in teaching and other accessible according to Dr. Clark ! Nursing mothers ought ( vocations. The success of those deserving it has saving of souls, &c., &c. Was there ever a to take it, so that, with the furst taste of the naturally drawn a considerable numl)er of incom- broader joke, or more diabolical punning? petont woman into practice. this cannot be mother's milk, the child's blood should be poison- j But But we fear, after all, that mercenary presses, j considered as unfavorable to the feminine col- ed and its taste forever vitiated. The reasons well-feed lawyers, and well-paid judges, will leges, for all their graduates are warranted to be assigned for its employment are too silly for fully qualified for their duties. not exert a worse influence, now that the ques- serious refutation—so far beneath contempt that tion of " rum or no rum" is to be tried before The Gkaddates of Ooii School.—Nearly all, we cannot get dov/n to them. And yet such the law, than will the great body of the medical if not every one of the graduates of the New trash is the current literature, the medical profession. Even those who are known to the York Hydropathic Medical School, who have science of this day and age. It is such teaching public as temperance orators and writers, and as located in professional business, have met with a on the part of medical men who speak in the strong advocates for legal suasion against the warm reception on the part of the public ; and name of science, and as temperance men, that liquor traffic, are beginning to take ground their practice has everywhere been remarkably does the cause more injury than all the news- against the principle of the Maine law. And successful, as compared with all the systems of papers, and lawyers, and judges in the world, why is this? Not because they do not mean well, drug practice. Of those who graduated in May who arc hired by the rum trade to advocate its but because a false theory of medical science, a last, we have come in possession of the following interests. Does not Dr. Clark know the nature false theory of medicating diseases, and a false data of Alcohol, and its relation to the human consti- theory of the modus operandi of alcohol as well Dr. Geo. E. Kimball and wife have opened an tution ? as of all medicines, has blinded their eyes, per- ; establishment in Iowa city. They have already As a fit commentary on Dr. Clark's theory, we is verted their judgment, and caused them to speak all the patients they can attend to ; and what subjoin the practice of Dr. Gardner, of this city, foolishness. . not remarkable, the female physician of the which we find in a late city paper : Oiie amount of professional doctor would have wine exempted from ; twain has the greatest the little Two Irishmen Under a Bank. Workmen is prepared, and well Miine law because there is sometimes a — , business. Dr. K. (Mr.) were digging, Monday morning, to make the sugar in it ; another would exempt ale because, prepared to give the people thereabouts a course connection from a house to a sewer in Fourteenth forsooth, it may contain a little " extractive" or of lectures that will do them more good than a street, between Second and Third Avenues, when hops in its composition; another would exempt suddenly the bank caved and two of them were ' dozen courses of mercury. " gin schnapps," because there is a trace of juni- buried. A lnr,t,'(> crowd soon gathered, and they Dr. D. W. Hall is already doing a fine business iiiniii iliut-!y jirn, cfded to out. per in the stuff, and one would have lager beer dig them One at Elgin, 111. lie will make trouble among the i-iT tli. i:! ''uiiroly covered. When his head e.xempted because he has found his patients drug-doctors in that horriblj' bedruggcd region. was deliveiLMl from its extempore grave. Dr. A. j enjoy it as an excellent " stimulant tonic ;" and Dr. B. W. Gantt has located at Rockford, 111. K. Gahdneii, of Thirteenth street, stood by to \ so all, we go. The doctors arc designed, after to administer a drink of brandy, which greatly com- ) He will soon commence lecturing, and if there be the last and greatest enemies of the temperance, forted him. be any persons, doctors or others, I as they are of all other measures of health- Can any one read this wonderfully skilful feat i drug-doctors, let them go and hear reform. " of Dr. Gardner, and not say that brandy ought \ and discuss" with him, if they (Jare. 38 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, Dr. W. M. De Camp Is travelling in the Western their vitality without material injury to the blood vessels and muscles, than anything of the States with his beautiful bride (which he has sound or normal tissue. This can be done in kind ever before published. recently taken, thereby setting a wholesome ex- various ways, but there is always a best way. The plates were all engrai?ed by Henry A. " The kuife-escision is the least successful of all Daniels, Anatomical Draughtsman they are ample to all young doctors about to settle") ; ; but we hare not heard whether he has selected a methods. Various salts and oxides, preparations executed with singular fidelity to nature, and location. We shall be happy to hear of the com- of arsenic, mercury, iodine, zinc, &c., will dis- finished in the highest style of the art. We must mencement of his professional life, for we feel organize a cancerous mass, but they will also also acknowledge our indebtedness to Dr. James assured of his abundant success. allect injuriously the sound structure beyond, Hambleton, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, Miss Finctte E. Scott, M.D., has put out her besides being dangerous from the liability of and Hygiene, for superintending the work and sign in Waterbury, Conn., where, we learn, she is absorption. Caustic acids and alkalies are not aiding materially in designing the arrangement already appreciated, and is doing a good busi- dangerous in this respect, but their application of the dilferent figures. Dr. Gantt, a graduate ness. She is also engaged in lecturing oa the is so painful that few patients will submit to of our school, on receiving the first three num- " laws of health, as well as prescribing for the them. bers, writes under date of June 27th : Those abnormities of disease. But we are fully satisfied from long attention lithographic plates I received from you exceeded Dr. S. S. Clement is lecturing in Boston and to this subject, th^t the great majority of these altogether my expectations. They are much and vicinity with good acceptance. He is an cases can be cured with no danger or injury, superior to anything of the kind that can be excellent speaker, and a thorough scholar, and and very little suQ'cring on the pirt of the found elsewhere." can hardly fail of a deserved recompense. patient. It has recently been discovered that They can be had of Fowler and Wklls. For Miss Ellen Snow, M.D., we understand is in frigorific mixtures can be so managed as to pro- terms, see the advertisement in another place. duce very complete prolonged anesthesia Rockford, 111., and will probably be associated and ; with Dr. Gautt in business. She is a pleasant and that a cancer or other malignant growth speaker, and will not fail to make a good impress- can be destroyed by freezing it repeatedly alone, or by this process combined with caustics ion as a lecturer. mild ; Mrs. C. M. Smalley, M.D.,is now at Garrettsville, and if these processes of refrigeration, cauteriza- . speuk alw&ya directly to the point. Ohio, with Mrs. Joiner, also one of our pupils- tion, are properly managed, neither of them is Mrs. Smalley is thoroughly prepared to lecture scarcely painful, and not at all dangerous. as well as to practice, and is about to make her On this principle we arc prepared to treat these debut in professional life at Painesville, Ohio, hitherto formidable maladies, and shall open a de- cause has partment of our institute for this speciality of where she and our warm friends, and slip of paper, and will be where we predict she will have warmer friends, medical, or rather surgical practice, on the first and more of them, by-and-bye. day of September next, at which time we shall be General Information Wajitkd. — J. B. C, — j Mrs. Mary A. Case, M.D., is at home, in Pres- ready to receive and treat such patients. We do not Waabiagton City. " Wliat remedies do you advise for Clironic Broncliitis? And is the disease when of three promise to all, for all are curable but | ton, N. Y., and has already had, and what is bet- cure not ; years' standing easily cured ? Wliat is your opinion in re- we are sure of curing all cases that can be cured j ter, cured several interesting cases ; in one or gard to the use of woollen and silk undergarments? Ig it " by any means, and we are equally certain that we two instances after the other doctors" had pro- good or bad policy, to bathe the head in cold water three I . can cure very many cases which are incurable by or four times per day? And is it productive of good to nonnced death. | drink water freely on going to bed? I have a friend i We have heard that doctor C. C. Chase is lec- all the existing plaus of treatment, for the reason troubled with hemorrhage of the lungs, who is rapidly siuk- turing in Michigan. lie is au iudependent- that we shall prescribe and insist on the most iug under the consequent exhaustion; what remedies should pure and perfect hygiene. Our patients will be minded and critical scholar, and will be not far be used, and what course should he pursue? Early, Ml properly, the blandest from the head of that band of health reformers bathed dieted on and most and explicit replies will greatly oblige." Our friend will who are to make au abiding impression on the perfect food, allowed to drink nothing but soft, flud all his questions not only answered, but explained in filtered Croton water, and salt, butter, flesh, and the Encycloptedia. Briefly we may answer his questions in public mind for good. « In their order, thus:— 1. We cannot indicate the particular F. Dutcher is lecturing in Ohio, on all irritating condiments will be strictly prohibit- Dr. Reuben management without reviewing the circumstauccs of the ed while under treatment. Such a regimen will Physiology and Phrenology, with good success. particular case. 2. No. 8. Woollen and Silk undergar- not only render less refrigeration, cauteri- Dr. J. S. Wise has established himself at Vicks- much ments are bad. 4. Tliis depends on the state or condition zation, &c., to effect a cure, but will of the head. 5. It is not, unless the person is very thiitty. burg, Miss., under very flattering auspices. He necessary so jjurify the taint 6. See answer to question 1. is a sound scholar and a good speaker, and will system as to remove every of do his part to rid the South of the curse of calo- the cancerous diathesis, and thereby secure the Tobacco.—J. M., Waterbury, Conn.—" I do not patient against a relapse. mel and quinine. feel quite satisfied witli the answer to mv qucslions on to- j : was. that the liad a kind of assistant in this surgical i bacco the idea I had Lord We have heard that Dr. John W. Steele, of Shel- As department, and in / second creation, after man had sinned, when he said to practice generally, we have engaged S. M Ailain- cursed he the ground lor lliy enUe. thorns and thisllM by ville, Tenn., is practicing successfully, and that ( ' slKiIl it brinf; forth to thee, and tliou slialt eat the herb of the Landes, M.D., late proprietor oi tlie Ephrata he intends to return to our school next Novem- i field Genusis- iii. I s. Now I am inclined to think that In and (Pa.) Water-Cure, who is familiar with this I tins sf( (ind i rotitioii all the poison things and noxiouB ber, with one or two friends from the same neigh- vrMilious v. L'riiil'lc- «.To made as curses and scourgeeor method, and will in constant attendance who be ' , f til in.iiiluinl. rest It borhood. rh L t ill Ills and tob.icco among the not upon this class of invalids. We shall administer I] I- . ill' 1 I iliiii llu-se sconrges to mankind were The remainder of the graduates of the same III I. iiilu ,ir-i .-ix cla\ s ereation.and not pronounced very exdrhi- no drug-medicines nor charge . whatever, I I and \ I liiivc thi-ir designed eftect ill chatlsing class we should be pleasgd to hear from particu- good, ; , mil. sense very gcii' iMl in this they may be tant and extortionate prices ; but for the i; . .. I larly, and to chronicle their doings, or tlieir pur- 1 p.iiMm. mnliciae and drugs, in the Wi^ SI. , were attendance, charge the same as for other paticn i^. II,, 1 n II 4 imiversally. are truly very bad, and poses in the good cause. Several of them will (iriL'inullv v. rv hail. I may be wrong in my views of thli and for the removal of the cancer or tumor, a ' some D.B., attend another term of our school, probably the subject and would hko to have it discussed by special fee according to the seventy of the case. : who does not love 'tlieweed.' and that through the prB^ ensuing winter term. aud all the pulpits in the land.- ( The really poor will always be dealt with liber- and ) Your views may bo very interesting to some D.D., M ally. more of a theological than medical bearing, we ] they have Cwcons.— It is well known to those who have ' leave the Hold to him and you. examined the subject tliat, as a general thing, Anatomical axd Putsioi.ooical Plates.— cancers, foul ulcers, malignant tumors, are We have had engraved a set of six anatomical &c., DiAHETis.—R. M.. Jefi'ersonville.—" For several with a treated much more successfully by those prac- and physiological plates, designed expressly for years I have labored hard and have suffered much aud under my right slioulder-Dlaaa, titioners paiu in my right side who are called quacks than by regular the New York Ilydropathic Medical College, and sick headache, have f been subject to frequent attacks of the • all kinds of unhealthy food, , physicians. The reason is obvious enough. The for lectures before popularaudieuccs. i had a (/real appetite, and cat They given sweet- such as swine's flesh, rich cakes, tea and cofl'eo, and only correct principle or of medicating these morbid plainer and proliably more perfect representation meats, and for the last year have had a pain in the smaU ^. right hip, a sour and swelled stomach, ereat 1855.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 39 « .•i.vstlon of a friend, I h%ve bocn trying to diet, and nsing ( 1 Veokt.vkianism and Boils. — Several corre- Mrs. D., North Easton. Your ! OvKKDOiNO.— S. — spon^ro baths and wot wkU-r, and such as wet and dry packs, \ pondents have called our attention to the statement of cer- present mode of diet, with moderate exercise or work, and girdle, and was getting considerable better until I took a ) Tlolent cold, which put me back a great deal ; and all tho ! tain persons who pretend to have followed a vegetable diet a dally ablution, will do all for you that can bo done. Prob- tunc in the past year have had a copious discharge of urine, ( until they became weak, and broke out with sore boils, ably you try too hard to get well quick, and thus overdo ftwm three to four gallons In twenty-four hours, very sweet, | and were cured on resuming a flesh diet again. Now these contluually. Eecollcct that reet Is one of nature's requlre- •od also a very sweet taste in the mouth, and sa'dva sweet. and many similar stories be fact or fiction ; and in either mcuts as well as exercise. Hare taken medicine f^om all kinds of physicians until I I may ) un 8ali. Inquire what were tho habits of the patients. I was in- S epileptic spasms, there is no special treatment required. cause you did not diet correctly, and this is probably the fDrined that every one used tobacco and alcoholic liquors, well to the general health, careful ; Attend and be extremely reason you do not now get well. Tou seem to think the .n 1 that some, I do not know how it was with others, were < in the matter of diet Ascertain, also, whether sho la ad- Water-Cure is all water ; but In your case the dietetic part istomed to take frequent doses of calomel and blue pills, ( j dicted to any bad habits, and If so, correct them. 1 nil, fle.sh I have no doubt, eat swine three times a day, \ ofthe treatment is much the most important imer and winter, as is the custom here. Would eating i ilesh of hogs have a tendency to induce that disease? I — E. Constipation. — E. H. N., Middletown. — j Course of Treatment. D. S., Decatur, Mich. . noticed that erysipelas prevails a good deal, where the i —"What length of time will it require to take a thorough [le eat a great quantity of pork, &c." i Probably a correct diet would remove the pain which this course of water-treatment at your establishment, and what We have made many similar observations. Not long since patient complains of; no doubt there is, and has been for a will 1. It aro, what ails you, ^ it cost?" depends on who you > 1 were going to Hartford, Conn., on tho steamer "City of \ long time, hardened feces in tho large intestines. If you and how long you have been so. 2. The expenses are $T to llnrtford." On the bow we noticed a group of half a dozen * cannot carry out the dietetic plan at home send her to our $10 50 per week. lierinau men and women all smoking black, dirty, Water-Cure; not a sham or mongrel water-cure hotel of a rank ^ snd horribly smelling pipes. We approached near enough ; watering place, but a thorough, radical, ultra, kydropaUda ; HoARSKNESs FROM SiNOi.NG.—H. R. B., Ilamb- til get a view of their mouths and lips. One woman had a Water-Cure. | ! den.—The difficulty in your case is want of proper action, ( lukory crust over the whole under lip ; another had a dark i ' or a misuse of the respiratory muscles. Learn to exercise 1 fungous ; bloody eicrescence one man had a worty i Painting.—N. "W., Fairview, Ky.— " Is painting all physiologically, your hoarseness will disappear, or tubercle in one : them and I) corner of tho mouth, and another unhealthy?" As usually practiced it is. If proper precau- | a and all the causes that weaken the abdominal and dorsal thick indurated state of one half of the under lip, > tions were taken to keep the paint from contact with the muscles especially. ; - . &c skin, especially from abraded surfaces, and the effluvia of tur- j pentine, preparations of lead, &c., away from the lungs, it [ A. M. B., Duplain, Mich. GnvVEL, Ac— IT. W. N., Eureka, Wis.—"The Partial Paralysis.— \ would be a much better calling than It now is, as far as ;.stiint has been troubled - — patient is troubled to articulate distinctly. His with the gravel for two or three i "This health is concerned. y«;irs; but not so as to hinder him from working. About thick, and bo cannot walk nor run ; \ tongue appears too til," St of April last he was taken with a pain in his left leg ; 'freely,' and when he stoops down objects appear dark and .lu.l hip. it pained him so that — j he could not sleep or sit up : ! La.we Shoulder. " A poor cripple," whose left off coffee ago, : tea and two weeks and the Ilesh of the leg would twitch and quiver. He has been > confused. Ho case is reported by W. P., Streetsboro, 0., requires very under the care of an old school plivsioian, but has ' been . uses less tobacco now than formerly. He has taken a groat little bathing, but a good deal of dieting. The fact that he growing weaker all the time. The muscles of the leg have ' deal of quinine tho lost two seasons." Tell him to quit to- grown quite loose and flabby. He is of the nervous san- diets "as people generally do," is sufficient to account for guine temperament, uses a great deal of bacco entirely, use plain vegetable food, and wash all over tobacco, and until his deplorable condiiion. Keep him on a proper fruit and this spring has been one of the greatest workers In this ' once or twice a day. farinaceous diet, and give him a tepid bath daily, and nature town." ! will do all elso Give the patient soft water to drink, plain unseasoned that can be done. the skia ; Gravel.—E. C, Lagone, HI.—Keep vegetable and frugivorous food to oat, and break him of to- \ free by daily bathing; use plain vegetable food, and drink bacco-chewing and all other bad habits, and then witli — a Prolapsds Uteri.—B.F., Arabia, Ind. "What only pure eoft water. Salt, alkaUes, &c., are particularly \ little washing ho may get better. It is of no use to talk will cure prolapsus uteri?'' Ordinary water treatment, with objectionable. about remedies while the patients aro poisoning themselves a correct diet, will cure moderate cases. Severe cases re- cuotinually. quires the personal management of a competent physician S. C. Fonda, N. Y.—This Watery Stomach.— , in other words, mechanical treatment, which must bo i<= alwavH a symptom of Indigestion, and is to he curod by at- Silk Shikts.—Tk.*..—Locust.—J. E. E.. Mount adapted to the particular case. tLiidiiiL; t'.ilio general health. The Encyclopicdia will tell Sterling, Ky.— "Permit me to ask you some questions, which please answer through the Water-Curo Journal you all abuut it. They are asked for the purpose of reaching tho truth, and are CuoKiNG.—B. F., Arabia, Ind. — "What will such as specially interest the writer 1. Do you regard Bilk shirts worn next the skin as healthy? 2. Is the use of cure a man of being almost choked while trying to talk or tea necessary for a mother who does not furnish milk enough sing alone?" Find out the cause and then remove it It for her child ? 8. Or in other words, does the use of tea in- may be diflidenco, or It may be a dysphagia, or it may bo creasethe quantity ofthe mother's milk? 4. Is animal food or broth good for a child either before or shortly after wean- a misuse of the whole respiratory system. We suspect tho ing? this department of the W* have, in Kentucky, a most extraordinary quantity latter. If nobody thereabouts (why don't you ask your ] All Works noticed in of ft-ult: is published in America, the land almost covered with locusts. :>. JouKNAL, together with any others Will doctors?) can tell what the cause Is, send the patient to they Iniure the fruit - at the Publishers' prices. by depo.-iling their eggs in it, or by may bo procured at our Ollleo, (lay other somebody who can. by every means ? Many people believe they will" ; Euuoi'KAN WoBKS will bo imported to order the price. 1. steanuir. Books sent by mall on receipt of No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No o. To3. I > All letters and orders should be postpaid, and directed Multitudinous Qni:sTi0N.<.— L. M., St. John.s- to FowLEB AJJD Wklls, 8iIS Broadwav, New Tork. bury, Vt, asks us to answer a whole page of questions, every Pb iLiPSES OP THE BowKM.—E. W., Springfield, Mln.Ter.— one of which is fully explained in the Encycloptedia. She " What is tho treatment for falling ofthe bowels, A Treatise on English Punctuation : designed where it has induced costiveness, assigns as a reason for asking us to write out full answers to kidney affection, dis- for Letter-writers, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of pepsit, weak lungs, etc.? Would a properly constructed each and all of her questions, that she is not able to get the abdominal supporter tho Press, and for tho use of Schools and Academies. be a benefit in such a case ? Would it bo Encyclopa>dia. Now, It would take us several pages to beneficial to wear shoulder braces for contracted chesU With an Appendix, containing rules on tho use of Capi- and stooping form i" answer her questions, so that she could well understand tals, a list of abbreviations, hints on tho preparation of Like most them ; and we would rather give her two Encyclopiedias physicians, you have mistaken tho effects for Copy and on Proof-Kcading, specimen of Proof-sheet, &o. tho cause, than to do it In fact, we could earn four Encyc!opa;dia» and like them, too, you are aiming to remove tho By John Wilsox. Third edition, enlarged and improved. consequences, while while we were doing it So we must hand this case over you allow the causes to continue. For sale by Fowukb and Wells, 808 Broadway, New- I Manipulate and exercise to Messrs. Fowier and Wells. the weak muscles; teach the York. [Price, prepaid, by mall, $1 25.] patient what to eat and how to breathe, and you will soon hand-book, wrote 5 Of an early edition of this valuable we have the best kind of abdomial supporters and shoulder Dyspepsu.—M. P. G., Lex., Ky.—This patient several years ago: "A work wiilch should be in the possess- braces, to suit strong clastic muscles. w ho aspires even to write a letter. . . has had Dyspepsia very badly twenty-nino years ; takenlots ion of every student of calomel, "200 lbs. soda, and numerous other doctors' stuff," It is n perfect guide in all matters covered by the title." To TN.rcRED Hip.—J. S., Columbus, Texas.—Douch- but is improving which we have the pleasure of adding, that the present en- under homajopathic auspices. The less the ; the . part two or three times a day with better, friend, in improvement on tho first, and moderately cool this matter of swallowing drug-poisons. ^ larged edition is a very great r, or hot and cold alternately, would probably be of ser- Get the Encyclopicdia and Cook Book, and attend partl- leaves notliing further to be said or desired on tUo subject , " to your ' weak and stiff oack and hips. culary to tho diet therein recommended. i Every writer should have a copy.. :: — 40 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL, [August, Leaves from a Family Journal. Translated Dr. Frease, of Pittsburgh, announces The Life of North American Insects. Illus- ample his Prof. B. from the French of Emile Soitvestre. New York : D. accommodations at new W. C. Establishment in the lion trated bv namcrous colored engraving:s. By Appleton Co. 12mo, 277. [Price, prepaid by mail, City, on the River 0-h-i-o. [See his advertisement.] Jaeoee. assisted by H. C. Preston, M. D. Kew York & pp. The long experience and careful attention of the Doctor to Fowler & VTells. [Price, prepaid by mail, $3 00.] $1 00.] his One of the best productions of one of the purest and patients, together with other favorable conditions, will In- A higlily scientific work, and yet a popular one, forming most attractive of modern French authors. Those who sure not only a full attendance, but a restoration of that a most valuable addition to the literature of American Eatu- have read "The Attic Philosopher in Paris," will need no priceless boon Health. ral history. The author is a distinguished European natu- other recommendation than the name of Souvestre. The ralist, who has adopted our country as his home, and has Dr. C. C. Chase has recently located at the been zealously engaged in his entomological studies for sev- volume before us has the stamp of genius not less obviously impressed upon it. It is, as its title indicates, tale flourishing town of La Crosse, AVisconsin, and offers bis eral years. "SVe have some of the results in the present a of domestic life. services, as a Hydropathic practitioner, to all who may need beautiful volume. In connection with the lucid scientific them. details, appropriate to the subject, the author presents sev- Dickens.—T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia, issues episodes of his travels, which show that he commands \ eral fi.vNos! a uniform cheap edition of Dickens' works. " Hall's Celestial —We take pleasure a descriptive pen, which, in liveliness and vigor, is not The Mother readers to this and Step-mother," a capital story, is the last of tho in inviting the attention of our new and often surp.assed. The work is illustrated by colored en- volume beautiful improvement, manufactured by Bennett & Co., gravings, drawn and painted from nature. "We recommend series received by us. [Price, prepaid by mail, 12 cents.] 800 Broadway, as will be seen by advertisement in another it to the liberal patronage to which it is entitled by its column. Purchasers would not lose the time by visiting merits. Composition for Beginners.—A. S. Barnes & these warerooms, as all kinds of Pianos aud Melodeons, it Co., New York, have lately published the "First Book of reduced prices, can bo seen at all times. OcK CocsTKTMEN- or, Brief Memoirs of Eminent ; Composition," by F. Brookfield, a little manual for begin- Americans. Benson J. Lossing. Now York : A. By ners, based on an entirely new plan. Vfe like the design Eanney. 12mo, pp. 407. [Price, prepaid by mail, $1 25.] and execution of the work, and heartily commend it to valuable and entertaining manual of American biogra- A parents and teachers. [Price, prepaid by mail, 31 cents.] phy, containing about three hundred and seventy-five con- cise memoirs of persons distinguished in some department " of life, and deemed worthy to be held in remembrance by MoREDUN."—W. P. Fetridge & Co., New York, HUMBUO their The author expresses a hope, in which countrymen. have issued a reprint from the London edition of this most OF THE BORNEO " WILD MEN." " these every true American will join, that the reading of preposterous of literary impositions. It is put forth as a there appeared in this region an sketches will serve to incite his young compatriots to a hitherto unpublished novel of Sir Walter Scott, lately dis- Some months ago "ExhiU- tion,'^ two boys, or small men, represented noble ambition to rival these historical men in their labors covered in manuscript by a literary Frenchman—M. Caba- consisting of by attendant, or keeper, to be natives of the Island of and achievements." 'We cheerfully commend it to all our ny, under whose auspices it has been olTered to a credulous their will Borneo, whom he announced in magnificent handbills and young fellow-countrymen, as a book which they read public. If any one, after reading a single chapter of it, can posters, presented to the public as a pair of "Wild with pleasure and profit. It is illustrated with one hun- still retain the faintest shadow of belief in its pretended and remarkable for dred and three portraits. authorship, we will leave him to enjoy his delusion in Men,'' captured in Borneo, and their com- of stature, enormous strength, and i peace. [Price, prepaid by mail, 62 cents.' binatiun diminutive possibly probably hybrid origin from Man and Coeners or, the Experiences of a ( and Cone Cut ; Monkey ! Conservative Family in Fanatical Times : involving some account of a Connecticut village, the people who lived in My friend. Dr. Hoyt, a thoroughly educated, skilful, and scientific physician (formerly of this city, but now of Bos it, and those who came there from the city. By Ben- ton), proposed to visit this exhibition with me, and to make AtJLY. New York: Mason Brothers. 12mo, pp. 456. J [Price, prepaid by mail, 25.] Half Yearly.— Our plan of sending the Jour- a physiological examination of these pretended "WUd $1 ; or 3fan-3fon!cey Borneoans. The keeper, with This is a Maine Law tale of considerable literary merit, nal half a year to those who desire to " try it," works " first Men," permitted the to and a decided practical bearing. It will have a tremendous rate." Large numbers, who would not venture on a twelve hesitation and evident reluctance, Doctor so to some limited extent, in the presence of those who influence in favor of prohibition. A dozen temperance months' voyage, have no objections to a six months' trip. do had paid their dimes to the door-keeper for admission. lecturers would not do as much good. The writer is not The consequence is, we are likely to get all we can carry. of corporeal strength were indeed wonderfa! known to us, but ho is evidently a man of decided ability, Our friend in the West, who promised one hundred new Their feats very wonderful thing about them. and writes with an earnest purpose. Tho book is hand- subscribers, has already redeemed his promise, and bids fair and the only conclusions to which the Doctor came (and as I somely and rather quaintly illustrated, and is one of the to double it. Others set about the work in good earnest. The the following letter, which I handsomest of the season. Wherever we now have a sin-gle subscriber we are likely think, correctly) are stated in j have recently obtained his permission to present, with some ( to geta d.ozen or more on the sijo mon'hs' plan. Physicians explanatory notes, for publication in the Watee-Cttm St. Petersburg : rrs People ; their Charac- and patients of most of the Water-Cures have responded This "Exhibition" is still probably stroUlOg TEE AND I.vsTiTL-TiONS. By Edwakd Jereman. Trans- most heartily, and long lists of names are coming in daily Journal. and should be exposed as one of the lated from the German by Frederick Haedman. New which pleases us greatly. We like good round numbers- about the country, itinerant humhugs of the age. In his letter Dr. Hoyt has York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 12mo, pp. 234. [Price, pro- say ten, twenty, fifty, and a hundred at a ti.me ! It is not this in such a clear, scientific, masterly, and appro- paid by mail, 75 cents.] yet too late for clubs to be formed. We can still supply all done ( that its publication in your Journal, clrcn- An admirable series of sketches of Eussian society, subscribers with the July and August numbers, and a few priate manner, lating, as it does, widely all over the Union, would doubt- drawn with boldness, spirit, and apparent fidelity to trulh with tho numbers from January of the present year. But the " Wild Men,'' wherever they may be, andthna and nature. Its timely appearance, now that all eyes are we hope each and every present suhscriber will Induce less meet ways be a public benefit. turned with such intense interest towards eastern Europe, from twenty to fifty of their neighbors to take a six months' in various Yours truly, Jesse W. Goodeiob. will insure it an extensive sale. trip with us, in our clean, safe and well-providod ships of hth, 1865. health. Worcester, July copies of this JotraNAi. six [ We will send one hundred Boston, April 12tt, 18» The Controversy between Sen.\.tor Brooks months to one or one hundred different persons, to one or Dear Sir,—I regretted exceedingly being obliged tolem AND "t-JoHn," ABcnBisnop or York. Arranged New one hundred diiferent Post-olHces, for twenty-Jles dollars. Brinley Hall, in your good City of Worcester, with muh for publication by W. S. Tisdale. York : Dewltt abruptness, after the brief examination New Fifty copies, six months, for $12 and Twenty copies, six apparent to of his ifi "IRIo & Davenport. Pp. 80. [Price, prepaid by mail, 30 cts.] that "Yankee" permitted me make ' months, for only 1 1 I t=> Men!" I sliould have been pleased to carry my investjg*- Here we have the rauch-talked-of Church Tenuro Con- railroad } Adilress Fowlee and Wells, 308 Broadway, New York. tions further, and would have so done, had not the troversy in a convenient form far perusal and preservation. train for this city, which, like the tide, " waits for no mm," ( . developed to We have not read it, and have no intention of expressing spirited me away. Enough, however, was tlist the idea put forth by the exhibitor of t*-^ an opinion here on the questions debated. A cotemporary the Granite State. co-worker writes satisfy mo ; From A — being fnimxtertt—a " cross" between the human and moiDonker who says he has read it attentively, sums it up aj follows which ^ from Franklin, N. H., as follows: —Enclosed I send you the races, is liumhiig—an inipo.sition upon the public wi alike repudiated by all "The Senator is an able man. Tho BLshop la a wily antag- money for 25 new subscribers. I shall send you ere long ought to be exposed. The theory is their physical signs and intellectual capacities, so ftu- M • onist. The Senator does not maintain his original position. "a few more of the same sort." The good cause is flourish- knowledge of the hitter can be gathered, despite their Bishop fails to keep his ground. And there the question The ing among the Granite hills of New Hampshire. It is training. will interest Instruct those engaged are dvar's, or more rests." It and perhaps I rapidly making its way to the understanding, and incorpo- The truth is those ''Wild Men" most partlculaW, the politico-theological controversies of the day. properly small men, admirably formed in In ( rating Itself into the faith of the people. with physical developments of a high order. We rarely «ee has opened and splen- \ Dr. v., formerly of Concord, a new such magnificent chests, such great proportional amount w acknowledged by all to bo one of shoulders, such erect figures, with Staib-Bdildino.—A. Ranney, New York, has ! did establishment hero, lungs, such beautiful backward curves of the spine, such capital exhibition 01 Just Issued a book which should be in the hands of every ' the very best. It bids fair for an extensive patronage. muscle, such rotund limbs. ; Bo the new Idea moves steadily onward, and is destined 6tral|l)t- carpenter. It is entitled "The Art of Stair-Building, by Not less significant are tho light color, fineness, and deli- J. R. Perry, Stair-Builder." It embraces some of the to continuo Us triumphant course. The false notion that ncss, and length of their hair, with the whiteness the pure Anglo- provided poisons for human use will have been cacy of skin, all marking in a high degree greatest Improvements ever made in stair-building, espe- i God has penons Saxon blood. I fear they are a couple of friendless ci.-i!ly In tho matter utterly exploded when tho people discover that the friendly Invelglea of hand-rails. It contains twenty-eight of weak intellect perhaps, who may have heeo means, wr lithographic plates, and upwards of seventy figures, illus- elements with which ho has surrounded them are the true from their homes, and are now held by coercive never saw tne Yours truly, J. A. Wueeler. m oney-making purposes, and probably trating every part completely. [See advertisement.] ; remedies for disease. — —; ! : ; ^ ISoo.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 41 i.'.ando' Born'o." t\vs place of their pretended origin. ant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, aai apt to hint ss to how tbey may convert these sinning pastors That lliev «rc youthful is shown by their teeth. ! take alarm at every unkind word. After the hearts of the nasaely, put a copy of ttl? following documents into the to t"hcir componnd or hybrid nature, the idea is sim- As man and the wife endeared and hardened by a hands i are mu- of each smoker, snuflfer, or chewer of the weed ply ridiculuua. It is evidently a part of a financial scheme, vllhont even a shadow of evidence to sustain it, in my J tual confidence and experience, longer than artifice or pre- Tobacco; its Effect on the Body and Mind. Bv Dr. Shew. it really exist, might be settled The best work on tho opinion. The question, did i tenco can last, there are a great many remembrances, and subject. Everybody should read MTsnl wavs^ Were such their condition, they would carry it Price 80 cents. i some things present, that dash all little unkindnesses in with them indubitable evidence of the "cross" in their Tobacco, Use of: lu Physical, Intellectual and Moral Ef- Such is not the fact. The following evi- pieces. fects. By AUott 15 cents. organization. J dences, amonp others, would be prominent and marked: Tobacco: three Prize Essays. By Drs. Trail, Shew, and of the foot, which. In the ournng outanfi.has Baldwin. 15 cents. 1. By the form Tobacco. — A correspondent in Telfair Co., \ to appendage like a thumb, and resembles a human hand For sole at this office.] Georgia, orders, among other things. Prize Essays on To- more than hum.in foot The feet of these "wild men" are ; : symmetrical and beautifully human. ; bacco, and writes the r'tUns^i of the calf of the leg and the swelled OcT-oF-Dooil ExEBcisE. 8. By i Tobacco-using prevails greatly in this State in all places —Every woman, every contour of the thigh. This development of muscle is a that I have visited, and I have been over a large part of it fashionable woman even, has a heart at least considered as the marked characteristic of the human species; but is always j organ of circulation The women ruisnufaad smoke, and, incredible as it ; and blood-vessels, on the healthy play deficient in the Simla tribe, i may of the 8. By the form of the pelvis (hip bones) which are wide seem, little girls of six and seven years old may be seen with which depends bloom of her face, and which will not ; and short in the human family, and particufarly .so in both play healthily without out-of-door exercise. : a tnuf-stick in their mouths. The preachers, also, are She has also these specimens, but which should he long and narrow if great consumers of the noxious weed. During the last muscles and ligaments, which have to brace her up, hold the monkev blood obtained. ; two her /brm-t of their hands, which in both these in- years, I have had an introduction to no less than together, and keep her clean-limbed, but will do 4. By the ; eighteen nothing of ici'l'- and short : having well-spread dividuals are unnsally Methodist preachers, and of that number there were only the sort for long, unless they are maintained in proper ten- palms, short thumbs and fingers with elegant finger nails. three who did not use tobacco just one in six. I attribute sion by the same means. Let her loll about all day in a This is unlike the fore-paw of an t'urang in every particu- ; '• " ' close muggy house, instead of exerting herself lar. Such could not be the fact if any affinities for this tho prevalence of its use among them to the frequent and for a due animal existed. e.xhaasting excitements experienced " time in the tresh air, and she quickly begins to droop and look 8. By the iriiyiV of their arms : the extremiMcs of the unwholesome. Soon her complexion fades or grows dis- fingers reaching only midway the thigh; whereas those of colored, her features are puffed an Onrang extend nearly to the ankle. or slirunken, her form either «»;«.• roundiifst of arms, are truly ; ANGKL IN wastes or swells, 6. By the and the which AN THE WATERS. she gets either haggard and lanky, or round elassic in form, and bear no rc:^cmb3uce to the aforesaid and fat ; her figure tumbles all of a heap ; her ankles give brute. ! BY G. W. BUNGAY. out her feet spread and flatten ; her elastic step becomes a T. By the posHvm of the he,id, the axis of which is per- pendicular with a line of the body. The head of an Ourang waddle ; and her person altogether acquires the style of a ; Betiiesda's wafers move to day is thrown upward, at an aiujl^ with said line. cow. Brilliant eyes, on the other hand, complexion to match, is The steps are wet with falling 8. By the form of the lower jaw, which short and does \ spray— features retaining the chiselled outline, a slim and smart not project. In the Ourang it is tcm-g, and is so arranged ; 'Wait not for one another. tbkt when walking on "all fours," the facial angle, while it figure, neatly-turned ankles, finely-arched insteps, are the If fever smites thee in its wrath, is perpendicular to the earth, f >rms, at the same time, nearly ; reward of walking or riding out at a good pace, and for a right angle with a line of its body. f Seek refuge in the cooling bath • reasonable distance, every practicable day. And by these 9. By the ,'orm and poxition of their teeth, which are Wait not, my halting brother j means is preserved for boman altogether. many a year a contour, the cut of 10. By their incapacity of walking and running on " all wbich resembles that of the doe or the gazelle. At no period Unbind the napkin on thy head, length, or of ; fours," nut having either the right si^e, form of the year is any healthy yoving woman, of whatever sta- limbs: nor suitable joints, nor any organic arrangement \ Else up, rise up and take thy bed, tion, obliged to exchange out-of-door recreation for In-door adapted to the performnce of locomotion, as a quadruped. \ For light will be the burden ; 11. R'lt p.vticularly by the articulation of the words amusement, except when it halls, or niins, or snows, or Plunge in the pool, and wash away "twenty-three," which were enunciated with distinctness ; thunders or lightnings, or blows a hurricane. Are there not and accuracy. The "tw"and "thr" are difficult conso- \ Disease, as Naaman did the day furs? never mind the expense : the war with Eussia has not iUDt» to combine with vowels. To pronounce them correctly \ He dipped himself in Jordan. requires not only a practiced and discriminating ear, but made them dearer than the attendance ofa simpering doctor. •bo perfect /in<7« THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, ^ every telegraph line neighbor. Aa for choice, woul in Fobrnarr, 1852, at which time and St of York, now living throughout the country, from Halifax to New York New but I Hatrimoitg. tnrirtli in bcilef and practice. Louis, was rendered completely inoperative. L09ici.L JuUBNALB. Am anxic MATRIMONIAL CORRKSPONDENCE. The Syracuse Standard say3 : No. 132.-1 am thirty-two years Too Tkue.— of ai^e, of i gather around alio. Have moMtnl dari hair, ejtt and "Wlien a rakish youth goes astray, friends NEW SERIES. couipleslo restore him to the path of virtue. Gentle- hava good cation, bopcfu him in order to us to reply to their letters, Persons wishing or to re there; ness and kindness are lavished upon him to win him back rwftrd those which thay enclose u> us, mtbt cucloco a stamp to ly tlio same, else iio attention will be given them. again to innocence and peace. No one would suspect .-iinned. when a poor, couflding girl is that he had ever But 1 publicity, the counlry | betrayed, she receives the brand of society, and is hence- forth driven from the ways of virtue. Tlie betrayer is hon- withdraws, " having half.' independent, "rlslll- there is peace for her this side No. 12 found the other ored, respected, esteemed; no ifi his soul lu patlanee, for 111 by no means coarM, of the grave. Society has no loving, helping hand her ; Afe'e maj tui earth- no smile of peace, no voice of forgiveness ^ Those are ly moralities unknown to heaven. There is a deep wrong Mk-ssrs. Fowlers and vVem.s: -You may, if you in them, and fearftil are the consequences." choose to, say that No. 9, old Bories, la ha] quanco ol Ills adveil No. 1.'!:;.— I am about thirty-five ; wish to make the :(ialnt/ince of a lady competent to instruct, posses^lnit quajlflea- ons suitable to make a home detirnble. It Is real worth I wlih, A CONTRAST. - vanity; (food seuso, anj a deslie to do light. Any on« of your readers' dlspos ' " 'Jdress, wltli real name and reeidenco, will Iw Address BY HORACE S. KUMSET. New Oriealis, La. No. 1.>1 —A farmer » daughter, ready to euter into " Look on lhi> picture, then on this." 1 am.mte any with one or her Uydiofathlc li lends, who coniM I KN-EW a man of threescore years, Ue nil Irty thrwe to fort.\ -three, tall, well-propor- ;eltcr 79 of the Possessed of wealth an ample store, No. April .^e.^, tSitiin t conipialn II be is Kood-looklng,) Tet troubled was with mmy fears Of poverty, and sighed for more. ErT\' s t'l become mated, physi He schemed and toiled from day to day. No peace or comfort would he take ; And while upon his couch lie lay. llher wealth or beauty, ud awake. con.^tttullon, Ihe The fear of loss kept him for those who come op .a. The limn \vl Though of a numerous flock possessed. 1 means of getting on«, I whi.eo siusibl Whose fleeces yielded him much gold, ved or liloumer Tet like a beggar he went dressed, In garments tattered, worn and old. one years old, healthy. Wile : a sensible, industrious, And deaf and dumb, and blind was he. tliy, indepeiuleut young lady, DotoTftT f Koi^d pi liicii.les, with siifficKut leva To all the suit 'rings of the poor; ai I to iiinki- a pumpkin jile or enjoy • His family lived in misery. Mill, y, uiul by the ilver blink; aud IT "11 lior; Ht iiek, so much the better. 1 aia And want went Jrembling from his door. t;rtiu!n hl/^', healthy, and good-Iooklnj; lo.iklii.: out When his rheumatic, haggard form, for au advait agaous i In the embraco of death was clasped, He raised his witlicred, Im'.iy arm. And for " that other dollar ' grasped. "Poor fool," an offspring of the clod. -I am twenty-one yeais old, of average Humanity's base counterfeit, tlncly , and evenly organized throughout, with daik aud light complexion anti-slavery, rum, tobacco, libel the works God, ; A on of patliy, lazoi s, tasblons aud feather teds ; a believer Unfit to live, to die unfit. Iniii, the e-iuaiity of the bc-\ee, and an upright, con. i;,rKe ol iUu> unli ***** , am nielled and uugovei lied by coi- I know another, in whose breast Benevolence made her abode He sought the homes of the distressed- 111 Co., Ohio, ug and fiult- was an almoner of God. He -e plij sically, He daily toiled with willing hand. , Indiisti iou0, Yet not for self alone wrought he. But that he might have at command The means for deeds of charity. oi'L" hei'thl will ideaM Ho raised the broken-hearted up. His words fell soothing on the ear; He oft removed grief's bitter cup. FnArvK IS a farmer, And wiped away the falling tear. No twenty five yeata CO, foot 10 inohvs ill h. lfht, weiglit one bundled and Ml Within his own sweet quiet cot, o1s, iiml joiss.ibly K I-Iooking. Antl-ruln, tobacco, lea, eoflw dlug^ ; I'Olieve ill « oniun's 1 ighls and the dicss letotln lor* A little p.aradise was found ; Ic and Nntin e's curiosities ; not rich, but know how to work, a wife I wlsii one that iias Independotice enough lo wear tbt Oh ! happy man, how blest his lot, sing and play, and work, II ictiulretl. \Vith wife and children smiling round. No. 12D - f nm i ontv four, medium At evening hours, to them he read Some pleasing book, now laws of health A calm and temperate life he led— Love, peace of mind, his greatest wealth. No passions wild disturbed his breast, have He held them all in sweet control -which Like ocean billows sunk to rest. Was the composure of his soul. admired foi though hai living. Till fonrscore years their snows had cast toUccc, Upon his locks, life's ways he trod. id lusllre. I use no and alToclIonae heart, U« Beloved by all ; ho breathed his last h wisdom, moderation, Ul^ er nie hoiioied and balovML With an unshaken truft in God " I-ook on this picture, then on this," ' Ol loiiiper sweet, of vleldlng will, 01 111 m, yet placid mind And tell us mortals, if ; ye can. With uU mv r^lts will love nic still, In what true happiness consists, No 131.—Would find a corjiiKal partner, if it can I And which was nature's nobleman ? he, In the wide world. I am not forty, hut two more y?ars will cal, loving, forgiving, t^ nil the vacancy. Oo lu for all the reloinis of the ago. As to icllg- P. S. My name, P. 0.« I Elmira WaUr-Cure, N. Y. lou, a Now Chaichinan, lut can fctlowshli) all who love their by applying to Fotvi.BR : | .-5.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL, 43 ^ seearin^ the meet i Atrol is in na for niakiDs: tbeir patli WATEK-CmE one of Aillirrtisnnriiti ' ' and' bealthfulEealthfiil whfnwhi*n IhpydepaiIhpy depart. the most salubrious and beautiful localities residence at this tCstablishment, that can anywhere be found. The Water is of the beat quality, pute, and soft. Hhady roada A LunTED space of this Journal and walks, a loroanllc valley and a babbling brook, jiiiriDg eztraonlinaiy accommodatiutiS and aio In close prozlmlty^lo the E»abllabnient. And 3« j:ivtfD w AiiTertiBtments, on Ihe foIlowLnif ickkb % .U be charged accordinf to the amount of Offlce^, the churches, and the stores of the place. for • ftill pa^. on© month, . . . »15 00 T' f Gntchell will lecture three or four times weekly Phyaiology and Hygiene, InBtmcting h..w to avoid most unprecedented beat ol last slimmer, our 1 her- asu and preserve health efler its restoration. monieter rose only to 92 degrees; and the picvloua re requested to funii.sh themstlvee with a aammer 'ooiily 86 dcgiees. Wo are confldeni, that rubber shoee. six crash towels for twtbing, forthecojnblned advantages which ai e conducive to 0»piM of thia JocitNAL are kepi on lUe at all tl This Establishment for the cure of Adrirees, Yokk City, Boston, Water-Cure for the rooR.—Not- prtaeiH HoWla la Nxw emu CnRONto DISKA3E3 ia now open for the recep- "CRYSTAL FOUXTAIN WATER-CURE," withstanding DXLraiA, ftad oo tlie Stkambils. tion of patients. Bbblin HsiSHTS, Erie County, Ohio. the greatly increased expenses of "necessaries" the picsenl i-eason, Drs. Tiall and All AnTiBTUtMBNTS for ttiia Jocenal ehoald t The ti4fetment of patients will be conducted May have so incieased their rooms and facilities for I (o the Publiahers by the first of the month pn by Dr. li. L. Hill (Professor of Surgery in the my LEBANON SPRINGS WATER- Waler-Tientinent, as to be enabled to lake pstleuta ; tlut ia wiiidi thej ar« exptjote^i to appeiu-. Uomoeopathic College, CleveUmd, 0.), and at the u«usl prices. They will make tbby liberal Prof. H. P. O.iTCHELL,—skilful and experienced CURE, N. Y., William S. Bcsu,M.D., Physicians and able Hydropatbs. Physician. — This Institution, situated in an "fI with would prerni to remain a pai t of their time at each. treatment of all forma of Chronic Disease, and especially the most beautiful mountain romantic and For tiinl.or lulorninllon, cl.cniars. ic. addiese rOKOPATHIC AND IIyHIENIC IxSTI- the different forms of Dyspepsia. Diseases of the Liver, scenery and is unrivaled in its natural advan- li. T. TKAI.I,, -M. D., 1,^ Lalfht St.. New Yoik opine, U. T. Trall, M.D., Proprietor. Tliia com- and Nervous bvatcm. Rheumatic Auections, Fe- 0. W. M. D., Flsbkill male Affections, and Incipient Conscmption. MAY, Landing, N. Y. LIS establishniciit. lb Luiglit ^t.. cnn now as well as diseases produced by improper or eiceasive medication, iiiodate one liiin(ire Th« FK.MALI DuPABTMsNr in this Cure is under the :rABTieE! ' ., method 01 treat .eni^to the cure ot Feurli i , -iiooL Dbpaetxb»t. for the ediicatlull of phy- ' titles her to the confidence of her 8utl' r : cal teAchors aiul IcctursrA. and Hydropathic No DBDdS will be used in the Estii! most improved Hydropathic course v. ; ins. Tkaohbss : Dr. TiAll. Dr. Taylor. Dr. The stnctei^t attention will be paid ion, Dr. Landes, Ur. Drlgg». L. N. Powier, >. Cog.well. pie's.' The patients who desire u Tennstlvama Water -Cure. : ir tarms of Lectures, from November 1 to e most siilfiil Homoo..] reach year. Private or snnimer teim. with prescripti -an advantage enioyud i I-L'ssons aod occasional :eclu:e.s. from May 1 ; i»ti3 : Tuition for the Winter term. $7.-.: do.. slsted by experienced JIOO.' ^>>vi6i0N Depot, for the mannfacturc of pure • rer articles of whealen R! Us. hi.niiiiy. <'At- a, crackers. *c. O.i Columbus Water-Cure, For Ladiks I I tlrularsa.lij.e.s J B. ExcLrsiVELT.—In founding this Institution, our CiMfEKLL, A. M. . M .D { Arrangements have been nin June 3t rhllllpibur?li, Be,-irei County, Pa. object has been to combine the best, most mo- Dr. O. W. May. of the 1 Cure, at Flshklll. N. Y.. by dern, and most scientific treatment for the cure nalc tracts: tracts i-our change. Since our announcement in the ngphjs Journal of May, that our Physicians were pre- The Bnlti-rooms n paring Circulnrs on specific subjects, which LixcixNATi TVatcr Curo is located wf. \Y uM gladly distribute, we have issued .ve miles from the city, on the Cincinnati. I Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad, a few rods 'rom the Carthage t^tatlon. This large and l-iilug Inslltutiiin is not excilled In point of Water-Cnre, Co Clf.yeland "W ater -Cure Estar- inter them from i iiMEST.— The above establishment is now' riew can be had of 1 Miiiiencing its eighth season. It being the j listance of over fifty i r IJest establishment in the West, the proprie- j — tor intends that it shall still maintain itsrepu- Tbius: For Board. Medical services and i | ordinary atloiidance. from ST to « 10 per week. 1.1 dry, the air pure,^and tlie local- tation of being the best. Address, D. A. FE.iSE. M. D Caithage. Ilanillt. , Great imiirovemeiua have been made to It since -o.jOhlo. April ever made ils appearance here. | PiIN£.SVn,r,li, OHIO. AVATl RCUitE. ' The proprietor bavinir. hv his suc- L-ess. rendered it necessary to enlarge this current flowing through the top of t wpalar Establishment, tenders his thanks j to B delightful: on Ihe elevated 1 lis numerous patrons, and is now ^ better pre- rs south of. several hundre.1 leet above, an CilAl I.l.N. HASKELL 4 BIIEWSTEU. ting Lake trie ; fur enough off to rscape ihe to the severe cold and frosts of the central pt rttons of the laa been very great, and we I Stale. It IS very a cesf'ble. being 'JJj miles south from Worcester IlTDRorATiiic Institu- In that e the Berlin Station, on the Cleveland and Sandusky Rail- .varrants ua saying they I rapidity In road. 4 miles north from Townsend Station. Cleveland —oven thuir most a: tion.—During the past winter, this institution and Toledo Railroad, and 8 miles from Norwalk. has undergone thoroiiirb icpnira. and It now offers I'Assengers coming here Via Cincinnati or Davton. np Inducements than ever before to those the Mud River Railroad, will come to aandosky. and greater who I (lepariment, ( take the Cleveland aod Ssnduekv Railroad to rlin and wnose deslie home comforts while regaining their heallb. Station. Those e«mii,g from the West, Ihe Cleve. I her pccullarlv qualified t on For particulars, address land and Toledo Railroad, will leave the Southern Divi- T. T. iSKKLYl, sion at E P. ROGERS, Snpt . or Clyde, and come via Sandusky ; or, if on the Accommodation Train from Toledo, go on to the Town- S. BOQEBS, H. D. rbyslclan. send Station of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad. Worcssler, Mass. Apr tf Coming from the South, via Mansfield, proceed to Sun- jAifESTOWN Water-Cure, at James- dusky. Coming from the East, via Cleveland, take the . Y. For particulars aee Cleveland and Sandusky Road to Berlin Stlstlon. or the Wator-Ciire Journal Ad* Cleveland and Toledo Railroad to To«nsend Station. IS. TASKBit i MITKB. Miss M. H. MowRT, M.D., late pro- fessor in the Fem.iU Medical College, Philadelphia, will orgia Water-Cuhe.—At Rock leir cases, at all times; as no orji will be employ,'d, attend to patients in City or Country. OBice iirse or at'cndant, who ia not on9 well educated in lerms, Main Street, Providence, R, I. Office hours I |tO pcr'm'lnlhf "b.'cox^M. DiyPr.^^.ri"''- nie r r her prof-seion, but also posseest-d of refined lus'e, Dr. Bkdoktua's AVater-Cuke Sprinss. Ac A.M., and from 11 to 3, .aid 6 to 7 P.M. 1 tender Bympalhles,and the {mrest racr.ila. The Propri- »Li»8M«Nr is at S .raloga 10 : 44 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, V HAVEN—HOW STANDS IT lioaring to the deaf, sight to the blind, feet to the lame, and speech to the paralyzed: tbst GLKN strength has come to the feeble, rosy cheeks to the alabaster-faced, and elaiticity to tbon f who had become aged, in the prime of thHr years. tell tliat despairing, J. C. JACKSON. M. P., We you tho sick have come to us discouraged, desponding, and hope- W CHAPI.IX, ) I less, abandoiiud by physicians as incurable, and they have left Glen Haven with courage C. T. HASKELL. W IIARKIET J{. AUSTIN, VruTSiciA! JANSEN, and cheerfnlni^s to the briui, faith and hope that nothing could daunt, and health over- H. A. BKEWSTER, j WILLIAM sh.-ulon ing them like a ministering angel. We toll you tint we .are peculiar. Our place is peculiarly beautirul, our air is peculiarly On this first day of July we send this advertisement for insertion in the Water-Cuke bracing', our water is peculiarly soft and abundant, our Physicians are peculiarly earoeM JoL-BSiL for August, and have in our Ci seventy-live patients—forty three males and and Watchful, and very peculiar in their ideas and notions of Water-Cure. thirtv two females, who have come to u from seventeen States and Canada, in quest of Tliey and u e tliink that the laws of the physical constitution are the utterances of the Health. Of this wh<,!< numl., r. with all lu ir ilivcrsity of rlisc-iscs. wUli wliicli fluy li.-wo Ahri-hty, .leliver. d with wonderful clearness, and pregnant with infinite wisdom. That f" t.i , . 1 been alDiCted from fix iii-;irli- ; a Mvino ;/H((rtt;a93 for one's li e, the laws must be o6.'y3(i cheerfully and from the • :•• . they sought rclior in lu.r... . , ,. of To the truth of t'.ii- -i.i' ., } ill « e think that the customs, manners, pleasures and indulgences civilized ^ i. II i> 111 ral and selves would testify, if ,i.-:v> .i ; iuii ili. ir i n, are .leliant of the laws of health, and so disrespectful to God degrading ones liold of our Cure, aud of the skill o ckson reference to the WATER-CtiBB Joursai. for July. In i Vis number we proi>oso to give I'liey and \vi- tliink (lie ilir'. 'i.' h ihits, Ihr dress habits, the business habits, the convivial evidence from those who have gone away. habits, the hahiis ..f \\ ,.i k ami "f ua.i-lii|. of tin- peuplc at large, are opposed to reason and X< Kevelalion,— arc uiM.hilnsi.iihi.ail aim irr.-li-imis. Thev think lliat to tak.- a hiiniaa ein^, rnfeebled by disease, and administer poison to is that of a fine young man, well-niu'Ii lii n 1 him in the name of 'n-i, n witli a v •w til re.-torc him to health, is to commit a great ont- He was greatly emaciated, and put on. . xun ali; rage, wljose criaiinalitv is onlv dimii ..lieil by reason of the horrible illusion under which ther accompanied him, and frankly ^l:ll^ il lliai iIk the ailmir.iftraror lalim-s. of medical men, were that no helin ouiil I c aihiu • iiir Mi-< Aii~iiii. in inv. ^liua i i_' Iho eauM f of disease peculiar tn woman, and the best him a thorough examination, and put tiim unde - , . . .. i . i .iiai I reiin I, , ;i r : ei !m 'e found the dress of woiiian to be a grand pr6- follows dirjio 1 . I lie of health. Her reasons for adeocating my duty lo write and tlinnk you far your K'eat . - '" > ; , I the , iliJs, and are so cogent a^ to convince ; I anl roinrrt n ai v \u,.j aii iioi m, ;,. ivisli to roUiain well.' The call for hor letter on />/< AS ha!-, heeii liimu use, and has come from all parts of the Union. Such bu been the deni.and lor it, that we have been compelled repeatedly to issue large editions of it. The criticisms on it h.ive been kind and highly creditable to her abilities, and the great uvDlly beueUt liuniaiiitv eirculatiou it has had has placed her practically at the head of the reform. is the < ) of a marrieil lady nj bhe was umcli en OtIP. TRACT ENTERPRISE. as a I't ician to help her, if Thereputa 1 acquired as a .skilful practilioncr, induced extensive appU- larL'r nnmbeis the ajijiUcants were poor, unable to pays I I S III letters. invUirir him to come and speak in tlidr \ ,1- ].rofessional Imsine.'s increased, this grew burden- . 1 1 I I.Ian of ineiiariiiL' i 1 r^'iv.^ on spccihc diseases, and a|.|il>. This silling he suggested to us that it might be 111.1 (.Ion Haven, to adveriise in I he JotiBNAL our reaaineM I who would like to distribute them in their neighborhoods. ! demand M ould be one hundredth p.irt as great as it has IS a young lady nmeteen ve ve hi.i ii made, we should circulate a million copies per to be earned up and down s uv. Letters from all parts ot the country, from Kansas, for ye.-irs, back into ehildlui e East and West. North and South, come pouring in on ns, purpose. Ii has done but rather grew worse. ! iromisinL' to circulate them to good and left us strong, viiroroiis at the applicants are to break up the fallows of their neigh- .I.'i ithu.siasm are not alone : but it has saddened us incx- . we She writ... lir. kMin : •essibly to feel that cans are totally inadequate to this Missionary enterprise. he cry is for light, ;ht!' Tell better i how we can avoid b ibute our Circulars throngb tmasters, itinerant peddlers litors, clerks in stores, cash- I at our hands. In many upplii In the next Journal we vhat an undertow is setting is the case of a gentleman li- ing in North-Ea r. glorious as this is in pros- over bv all the physicians w el of friends, we concluded II I J k ur PbysieiaiiB prepare with f— circulating as many gra- ding th( 5 with the friends of Water- 3r of the Journal. Our Tracts will nsively than circulars, will be more an to have them written so that they of the EK-CuKE Journal and Water-Cure rm tb< pol of Drug-medication, of pernicious habit, offals shutti If up in selfish IndifTerence. There are OhrUtiaii.'i the great Revolution Is a redemptirn one, to be ed qu ngly fn ice in developing a better leir health and dally IS from lady moral and intellectual le people ; who a of high social position and talents in Massacliusetts. She. an i pray that God s will may bo done o 1 Earth, as in Heaven. Dr. Jackson and Dr. Austin and daughter, were patients at the Glen at one time. The daughter and m.-i have written tracti), half-a-dozen of e ther of whii h, introduced in your iiclghborhoods,woald perate cases, having put to the fault the wisest Allopathists in the Slate i^lie wr set them at thought. Once thinkini lies the W ATER-CuRK Journal, which sets them readinir. Once readin;:—comes com 1. and that is followed by conversion, and this by Reformation, and this by glorious,8. rosv-choeked; Health. 01 to see yourselves and yonr iborbolods free fn . to see the people live to good old ase : to have Death iself not as a gaunt-l 3d messenger of terror, but as blessed angel in yonr midst, you to your lathers a shock of corn, fully ripe, is gathered in in its season. Is It, ptie Well, if it is, take ht ' tract, buy it. and sot it coursing the to a tho Mieh kind, so. If are able to , we circle of your acqna do vou we will subject ourselves to this test: ants buy plentifully, do s. V. not even one. say so. and you shall or mechanics, ministers or he-, sin. ^ ii;7, .' men. e, is have them without i Do something to deliver yoor hereby invited to visit Glen Haven. Tl our neighbors from thei dniLrs. and di8ca.so. For Humanity's lakes, shall breathe o'lr air. shall eat our our sake, if you have bei vital truth that underlies this Movi- water, shall have interviews with our PI) in his tr access to our patients, our assistants, our Put t t ar from you. If yo mo any iiivesiigalions they choose, only v. and if you are salisfled. send for ot find our location more beautiful than^ on the subicct chosen, they are s thev c.v..r i.rra n..'l. our water as good a' and. think, eminently calculated to do , I o s w h : I. ..ur 1-hysicians and II 1 tl c h.o may think of v the Glen for treatment, we sav—vou will find OS In heu lei I .11 a,., aiiil the people hear, pulation—that Ihey pled us of one heart and one mind— physicians, patienta, bcir h on Mr t'l r, n ler a judgment accordiiifj pav. "iOil will find us not anxious to krep those who ijur xtck- are here from the uttermost li the farthest edio of WisconsI et those who do not wish to come. Our paiientsare •orn Cinada to the heart of Missi.ssippi. No obstacles could prevent them om» to t!ie Glen, who have longfd to get to us. and 5, lo get fresii baptisms of life, to go out into the world and spend their oner year to year, most heartily and heroically cooperated n .-. -th-iiidd.. W e offer them as wUnfUnes. \\ I I lelf- O ir helper! have sought homes with us from six different States, besi 'e N I ne We r.j at liberty to speak. If we believe dltfcrently from what wo preach, oi ... ..: iheni forlbeir i. : tell you that in Wate re tliere is a hi to or from power to restore to health bodies which Railroad ' to Si/racune. thence on Syracuse & Binghamton Railroad Homer : long and severely di 1, which those who t/zte and those who take drui.'s kn l';a,st or West on T*- Y- & Erie Ballrond to Binghamton. and Bo on Syracuse & Binghamton Railroad to Homer, thence to the QUn by stage or livei W you that ^ in f.,len Haven that poiccr, under the Divine blessing, has wrought out Respectfully, THE PROPRIETORS. p — 1855.] THE WATER-CURE JOURiNAL. DR. TRALL'S A Card.—CHEAPumJO and Per- .Elmiba Water-Cube.— ofleo been ob- wnao WATra CcBK.-It This Cure cUtmi for llielf • good repa- ANATOMICAL & mYSIOLOGICAL expensive a ^led that water treatment is so that few com- PLATES. Ktbod in the establishments, themselves B»r»UTeIy who desire it can avail These plates, which were arranged 'With a view of obviating of Its advantages. expressly for the New York Hydropathic Med- great extent, the under- thii objection to a ical College, and for Lectures on Health, Phy- past, been engaged in ifoed has for a time siology, 4c., by H. A. Daniell's Anatomical the treatment may maturing plans by which Draughtsman, are now completed. in price in certain be very much lessened They are six in number, representing the with what has ordinarily been ewes, compared normal position and life size of all the internal of this kind, while at the charged in concerns viscera, magnified illustrations of the organs value and efTectiveness shall •ame time its real of the special senses, and a view of the princi- deteriorated- but rather en- in no respect be pal nerves, arteries, veins, muscles, ic. For Thus many who come to us for this hanced. ELMlRi TVATER-CURE, EUIIRA, N. T. popular instruction for families, schools, and are really, when kind of physical discipline, for professional reference, they will be found understood, able to the method Is properly far superior to anything of the k nd heretofore without the aid of expen- take the treatment Diis. Shew htd Taylor's Water- Mt. Prospect Water-Ccre, Bing- published, as they are more complete and per' aid each Others, likewise, may ' live servants. CCRB.—By the arrangement of having two hamton, Broome County, New York. — This feet in artistic design and finish. and thus benefit themselves other in the cure, ggtablighments conjoined we can present our beautiful retreat for Invalids continues with Price for the set. fully colored, backed and as well as render their expenses . physically ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ diverse attractions of city 'ncre.elns prn,re,itv, large addition, having been mounted on rollers. $12. For sale by FOWLER pleasantly less, and cause the time to pass more .^^ , „„„ ,,^,.,1. WELLS, j to accommodate ineone bunbundleddied pat.ents.pYtle'nu"".",,".n,l c.H^vc»„ ..v AND by. We shall then, henceforward, both winter !,.„,„h„,^^„„,h,„,. rements and. practical 308 Broadway, N. Y. and summer, receive persons of this class as iMents will afford a rger scope for render- excelled 1 of the low as »3 50 per week, after the payment ^^^„,^^'°^'^^}Zg long treatment, wl h a degr« of For healthfu'ness of climate, pnrlf ; Van AifDEN's Temperance Hotel. usual initiatory fee of 00. which is charged ' mental as well as suitable ph\stologlcal discipline, general adaptation for pursuing Water-Tieatnient, o HOHKB, N. Y. The Propi letor of this House wishes ! this facilities. The unrivaled. _. _ , , ^_ can by means have unusual this place Is • remark, moreover that new patients. We ^„,e„;,„„,e„,, well as the diet exercise, and a few rods from the "Cure- Is the beautiful the pnbllc generally, and to those Intend- j to say to - all good and ample for bathing of the patient, are e<)uall. provided for. i " Chenango River," which furnishes abundant op- apartments are ing to visit Glen Haven, Id particular, that he keeps ' portnnltles for rowing and sailing. We are fitting health. We have also high T'.eC."«i.'^»V'l«.»='f^;<^"!'°^^°^S'^••'*T*^^^ ryporposeof Tblrly-Elelith Street, IB In the > part a Tempebancb house from principle, that he keeps to best, so of the town, afforda a frreat Td It clean, sets a good table, looks to his guests, r r.cc accommodation, and equal the and neat, niences for single persona or famlllef provide ves with and has the pleas ni e of knowing that he satisfies of all tastes may be satisfied in that perons by t!ie Sixth Avenue cars and stages. tlieni.ss regaicl? attention and price. He knows this respect. Our bowling alley and gymnas- The CooxBT Establishment, at Oyster Ba The Medical department is under the charge of how to lake ca:e of WATBB-CrBE people—the great I., reached dally per steamer Oroton, at 3 p. m., I Dis. O. V. Thayer and Mrs. H. H. Thayer, whose majorllv of th. se visiting Glen Haven stopping free to all. ium are ample and Market, large experience In Hydropathic practice, thorough with hiin on ttteir arrival at Homer. He will send A word, likewise, as to our location. The Brooklyn knowledge of disease, and the success that has at. you by stage or livery to the Glen at such a price as tended their efforts, are sufficient evidences of theli the Hropi letor of Glen Haven will say Is reasonable. village of Oyster Bay is situated some twenty- skill In attending to, and relieving the wants of, Passengers, ou leaving the cars at Homer, w 111 find five miles from the city of New York, on the Alley—all private t.) our patrons. diseased humanity. fine carriages to take them to his Hotel, and will there are Medical lectures dally dnrtn? north side of Long Island, and is one of the At the country place the entire year, and water, groves, shady walki upon .Vnatomy, Physiology, the Laws of Health, the being sent by stage or livery to any part of the "! .St healthful and romantic regions our own bathing, and rowing. History, Pathology, Causes, and Symptoms of Dis- country. So, give him a call. References—Propri- »1 'o $1 50 per day. Tt the Theory Practice Haven Water-Cuie, and all the ;iny other country affords. It has a mild Tkbms.—Prom eases, and and of Water-Cure. etors of the Glen lulring extra room. pay accordingly. Such We treat all curable diseases suocessfully, W« Temperance folks in Cortland County. springs i genial climate, and the numerous limited means are duly considered. Usuall have made the following diseases oui- special study. August 1, 1S55. Aug tf trance fee entitling to advice forborne tre. ,, re purer than those of any known place. Salt Is requl'-ed. Families and other boarders c "Female Complalnti Our in bathing, likewise, an invaluable method the hyglen and cuiing those dl»ei lar to females Pittsburgh Wateb-Cure. — This multitudes of cases, is practical even till very ladies who are now s'n Institution is situated on the Ohio River and late in autumn, and without danger of surf. Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad, ten miles west T .e same also is to be said of sailing, fishing, Partner TVaxted.—The proprietors of the city at BausciUe Station, and is under Ive ua ac.tll. sports, : i rowing for those who enjoy these of the DAXSVILLE MODEL WATER-CURE. "Di-ieases of he Lun the charge of Drs. and Mrs Fi ease, heretofore of the tion to Hydropathic tre nt, Inhalatioi nr cure is reached per steamer Glen Cove, pletiD nding their Sugar Creek Falls Wator-Cnre. We are within cated vapor, and since adoption we p. modatloii ta Partner wl . ;y, from Peek-Slip, New York, at 4 M., and ceeded beyond our m<'Sl tal. whici . railroad mornings and afternoons from Hydropa IT person who wishes to engage ;he house. We int scenery, - in a pleasant Dusiiiess, this Is a valuable oppor- have the most vailed and magnltlc ith Ferry, Brooklyn. ; tunltv. For partlcnla-s address DB. W. M. STE- river, ral'road, lofty hills and deep valleys, green Tims, we flatter ourselves, we have a com- PHENS, Dansvllle, N. T. Aug It woods and cultivated fields. We si ition of circumstances which are strikingly people here dally, lug to all points I the compass, ur bath rnoma ixorable to health. The climate is a mild lated, and are Kenosha Water-Cure, at Kenosha, new, and It seld. • first second floor the building. . ; our air, water, soil, grain, vegetables and and Institution l< now In a flourishing Wisconsin. This lu short, our location and f( rmi ts of numerous kinds are of exceeding great condition. Thei e Is every thing about It that will according to room cessful treatment of disease I purity, while the senses are feasted continually from our long expeilcnceand s Cur. lura' ride of Chicago or The Cure practice, we feel confident I togiv by a combination of rural beauty that becomes lilwankle -e Railroad. M. D. greater the more it is known. Here then it Aug tf A. T. SEELET, The feinal tment Is under the ~ graduate of the New York ~ ~ .Irs. C. P. B. t re , a shall be our business (P.rovidence permitting) I Tv.lropatbic InsI le and the Eclectic Medical Col- to heal the sick. We shall endeavor by our GeO. HoTT, M, D., 77 Bedford St., | THE PEOPLE'S WATER-CURE. should bring ! to of Patlenta treatment, our exercises and lectures, be Boston, makes critical stethoscopic examina- comforts, 6 | and DR. V.\IL'S Granite State Establishment is ; woollen blankets, 2 Terir real service to the invalid, and in no respect tions of the lungs, attends specially to uterine decidedly the Peopls's Institute. It meets vill fninish them for 5( week. ayable weekly p»pder to the foolish and perverted habits of visits patients both at a distance more fully the wants of the present ase than diseases, and physicians, PItl any other establishment ha? yet done. It in FHE.\s:E, mankind. and the city. affords to patients the means of rediicinR their burgh, Pa., Box 1 S. H. FREASE, M. D.. JOEL SHEW. MD.. expenses to the lowest pr.ictic-ible sum. if they Aug tf C. P. K. FREASE, 1 Oyster Bay. L. L. N.Y. New-Maltern Water-Cube, West- choose. It furnishes every elegance of accom- modation to those who desire it. at a more P.S. Dr. Shew may be consulted during the moderate rate than iro'. Mass.. is in successful operation. Dr- J any other establishment. Diddle of the day. Wednesdays, at Fowlek asd The location, buildings, and appurtenances are all perfectly adapted PIIYSIO-MEDICAL COLLEGE Wills. 30% Broadway. New York. to the ends 'and purposes of a first class cure. In autumn or in spring, in in OF OHIO. winter or summer, the invalid will find it — j ""^ ""c plcasantest resorts. A circular T%-r> TTd ivTiTTTv-'i! nijTi-vTiT PTvnBft- Term of WTOitiNG Water Cure.—For terms UB. franklin S UKIENTAL hydro- containing an engravingof the establishment. The Nineteenth Winter ' operaii. n. tim other particulars see the May number of the f"J with full particulars, will be Sen t to applicants. Lectures in the Phtsio-Mbdical College of For Clrc Address the Proprietor. Franklin, N. H. s reach us first Monday in WiTEE^IcsE JopRNAL. Pstlen by D. . Fredonia, < will on the FRANKLIN. Aug It. Ohio, commence tauqne Co., N. Y. A partner wanted In the a1: i.'i^alo it N. y. City Railroad. Those from the November. 1855. at the College Hall. Cincinnati. Instl ute, either Male or Female.) Jnly rst stop at Linden, where they will always find, FACULTY. Cleveland Water Cure, in the > arrival of ;be morning mall train from Buffalo, McCARTinr, M.D., Anatomy and Physiology. ' D. a Rktreat, on carriage In walling to convey them to the Cure. Chicago WATEK-CrRE charge of T. T. Seelye, M. D., now In its W. H. Cook, M. D., Medical and Operative Sur- Pt'leDts from the East may come to Linden by an eighth season, is the oldest establishment of r Patients. D.. institutes and Practice of ••riy train, or stop at Warsaw, where a convey- X. ^CBTis. M. 11 We also the kind in the United States, which has been ance can be easily obtained. P. H. HATES, M.D., ril^nd'nd patienu in the c S. R^JoneS^M. D.. Botany. Therapeutics, and Dec If TF.R, M.D. under the supervision of the same physician Wyoming, Wyoming Co., K. Y. j I Ju. since Its commencemenL S. e". Carby, Mfo'.'^'bbstetrics and Medical risprudence. Mercer Water-Ccre again open _ , „ . . Canton Water Cure and Physio- G. W. MrrcBKLL, Chemistry and Toxicology. for the reception of patients. This building, Medical iNSTnoTE, at Canton. HI., is now in E. Potter, M. D., Water-Cure Phy- Bocce»a^e.^op^ral,ou. fourteen years having large airy rooms, which ' an.at Laporle, In. liana, has had Legislature, and enjoys all the privileges, rights, • number of light, j'JJ'^gg gjjjjggiy^' and powers of a UnlversI y. It possesses an Ana- ara directly connected with six l>alh rooms that Feb. If Proprietor. Electi leal and Micro- tomical Mnseum ; Chemical, Botanieal collections . full variety ( S, Is ! scopical Apparatus; extensive management and a verv choice Library. It Is the oldest College of Dr. 1 New Graepknbero Water-Cube.— WANTED. of the kliid In the world. who will devote For fr'l, printed {urtic.Inra, address R. Holland, D privileges of the theli M , FiMALis are admitted to all the Graefenberg, N. Y. Aug tf all New the Gr.in!te State Water Cure, two or Institution. that may wish their services. Having the ad- At „ . . three vigorous young women, in the different Tekhb.—For all the Tickets. $60. Malrlcn atlon, antageaof a fine location, pure air and soft water, Applicants competent and Is. Graduation, /-I TT- J labor departments. with a competent knowledge of Hydropathic prln- Spring EiDQE WaTER-CuRR, Hinds willing to work win find a good home, and re- COOK. M.D., they feel ceive an adequate compens_ation Jclples, confident as to the successful Oounty, Mississippi. H. J. Holmes, Jr., M. D. " " Dean of the Facnity, } rasnlt of their labors. For fui ther partlculai s ad- Feiimis U.S"...«.-s, .^r Diseases of toe womb, treated ' | 0. 1 E. Third St., Cincinnati, ^ dress DR. N. H. PUTNAM, Merc.l , Pa. July It ' 46 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, agrlculcultural coU«(«, A WORD TO TEACHERS ABOUT IMPORTANT MUSICAL PUBLICATION. tb« II, e l,„ildlng«, wllh for GRAMMAR.—The great demand . Kpilllg8«D4 TOWER'S ELEMENTS OF GRAMMAR has We s'lall Publish on, the 20th of July, 1856, .,.r„v„.,*c) = obliged us to issue several large editions in rapid succession, and another is now in press. BAKER'S CHURCH MU^SIC It is no exaggeration to say that it is better to Ilv« ui six BcrM adapted to tlie mind of the young pupil than A COLLECTION OF any other Primary Grammar in use, and it is t II. Comprising eight :n Garden Plot», of so for the reason that it recoguizes the fact HYMN-TUNES, CHANTS, SENTENCES, AND ANTHEMS, that the child before he enters school, has be- Iguous to the mail beds. gun to make a grammar of the language for SELECTED AND ARRANGED FROM THE III. Com|>rtelug ten Farms, couUlolDf himself, and merely wants encouragement and Illy to eighty acres each, and having du guidance to accomplish his task. "Even the WORKS OF BOTH ANCIENT AND JIODIiRN MASTERS, ea of upland, meadow, woodland, orchards, errors of children," says the author, "show TOGiiTUER WITH MANY how early they acquire a knowledge of its gen- IV. Six Wood ; five to six eral structure." The object of this little work ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS. I flop Brook, is to furnish the child such guidance as he re- quires, and to make grammar an intellectual BV B. F. BAREK. exercise, without loading the memory with ab- stract terms which it is the impos-sible for This Work is intended particularly for the use of choirs in churches, pupil to understand. Its definitions are clear as but it contains a complete series o!' elementary studies for schools and classes, together with crystal, and the sentences which are used for heearthy and some of the organic con- illustration are perfectly simple and trans- a variety of pieces suitable for Singing Societies and Musical Conventions. I vegetation. The beds have been ex- I arent, because they are intended for children, P 6 the depth of forty feet without going ^ • ~ • - • y whose tliouglits are simple, and whose minds avoiding ped; The suhjecl are untrained to any severe exercise of the To those who are not familiar with the Estata or powers of discrimination, classification or its locillty, it may be proper to mention that th« ab- by 1 locution is upon the celebrated " Green Sand Marl" ) f Who will have a copy of the ubruary next, when deeds and pos- eeeeion will be given, and mortgiig«$ taken for the rf- CY. CLOPEDIA five UNION ADAMS, muinder of the purchase money payable in annoal iDSialments, dUing from the day of sale, with intersst No. 591 Broadway, (opposite the Metropolitan Hotel, New York. Btmi-anniially. RARE AND VALUABLE INFORJTATION! For the movable property, delivered on day of sale, snins under twenty five dollars, cash on delivery ; sural Embracing the Art of Magic and of twenty.five to one hundred dollars, a credit of two Sleight of Hand; all the best "Ways to Make Governess.—A lady wishes a situ- months allowed; sums of one to three hundred doHan, M^ney,'* bow to prevcut ur cure l-ever ana ARue, I.>vb- ation at the South, the last of October, as Teacher pepsii, Nervousness, CHOt bba, Ac. ; valuable recipes for the Ladies, Artista, and everybody else ; and many or Governess. A graduate of one of our best semi' other things t cartes in the English branches. Unaciualnted NORTH AMERICAN PHALANX with music. Hydropathlit and Vegetailan. Been and w aler work on the grounds. OFFERS FOE SALE ITS Uefeh to Drew A French, S5 Barclay street; R. H. a successful Teacher for several years ; best of lefer- SIR WALTER SCOTT'S Manning, 54 Courtlandt strwet; Tappei & TowoseBd, ences. Apidy, statins particulars, to Box ti2, Fort ENTIRE ESTATE, E N. Kellogg, 19U" Fulton street; J. streets Jaa. M O R E D U N. Madison, Lee Co., Iowa. Aus It* EEAL AND MOVABLE. F a. Smith, cor. Broadwav and Broome : P. Duker,.'5S-2 Sixth avenue; Office of the Working FaMMT, W. p. FETRIDGE & CO., 14;i Fulton street. New Y.-rk; Prof J. J. Mapes, New- The domain contains nearly seven ark. J. James F. Fisher. 19 South M^irkel itrMt, 831 PEARL .'-TKKET FRANKLIN St^UARE, THE NEW POCKET SYKIXGE. N. ; Boston; B.F.Clark. 92 Arch street, Philadelphia B»rj. PtTBLISH THIS DAV, hundred acres, comprising a diversity of ; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR ITS USE. soil Urner, Cincinnati, wliere maps and description of »• M O R E D U N, in good culture, of easy tillage, and having undersigned take pleasure in offering to A TALE OP THE 1310. The extensive improvements and great natural ConialDlos fac-^lmllc of Autosragh letter d the public, the nydropathic Profession, and especially to families, a new and superior In CHARLES SEARS, JECTING Instrument, with an Illustrated JOHV B. AVGELL, Mancal, by R. T. Trall, M.D., giving com- ^arming, MarketOai den and Pi ifil^Culture**; natural THOMAS GUESr, plete directions for the employment of water TO PERSONS OUT OF EMPLOYilENT. injections. The price of the New Pocket Syringe is only three dollars a nd a half, and FIRST PREillUM PIANOFORTES. BOOK AGENTS WANTED, TO SELL USEFUL may be sent by Express to any place desired. AND PICTOEIAL W0RK.S. Ail orders containing remittances should he prepaid, and directed to Fowler and Wells, STEIXAVAY dc SOIVS' Wanted, in every section of the 808 ilroadway. New York. I This instrument has been manuf.acturcd to PIAKOFORTE MANUFACTORY, United States, active and e^crprlslng men to order, to meet the wants of Hydropathic phy- sicians and patients. It is more convenient ST. Broadway), NEW -VORK enea(r» In the sale of '• SF.ARS' SRE.'VT 88 WAUvER (Nk»e WORK ON and portable than any apparatus of the kind RU?.SIA," just published, and some of the best books most respectfully inform the ' in use, occupying, with its case, but little more We ' tty. To men of good address, possess. space than a common pocket-book, while Its Public that we always keep on hand a large durable material will last a life-time. assortment of our splendid Semi-Grand The New Instrument may be sent to any tone, place desired, hy Express. Square Pianofortes, which for volume of tlclty of touch, beauty of flnlBh,—In ihorl, In e they .ra ai A Free Lecture and Debate is thing that renders ft Plauo perfect, passed. As a proof of the supei lorlty of onr PUBM, th. First PremlUB iglo tlaii, Bow<»ry, c we bes leave to stale that ' S:r<.-»rt. Seata free l.«»irnrd gentk-ni. n t both classes (semi-grand end two-»trlnged) spff tfuly invitid to delivor oa^ or r *" ^"^^^ B<>ok, (pric* of both «:{ io. <.i for nil Agilcviltulal to us at the great M.lropoU- siil'jirt they prefer. College^ unanimously awarded ) and obtain 1 00 or -iftij Bub»criber«, to b- d«livered >tale wlil at bo sold toRother or In parcels to at In prefer«»e» taifl time to be agreed tan Mechanics' Fair Washington,- on, aay in 30 or 40 d^y^ from cliRseiH. If divided, ft will be into about une roanol of signing. If yon cannot canvau your vicinity Pkeserving Eggs.—On the receipt aratei.arcelH,faIi ly disti lhuling be natural to DSDOS mad* by the most celebrated y^rtiraelf, yoo may obtain the aid of some active nnd in- yen and Improvt-nieniB, and offering great lorers of Boston, Now Torli, Philadelphia, and J ;ent person, who well I will forward by niAil to r.ny iiddrees, a la known to your citirens. 25 cents, lunta to Farmers, Maj ket Oardeners, Arii- folamet will ki7« perfect snd enUre aatinfartion to id also (with the central bulidlngs) as a Porohasers will (Ind It to their advantage to< all purcbaacra. Addreas as above. Augltbd Water-Cure, a boarding school, a summer and aiamlne for themselves. May Ct t ^ 1855] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 47 ) HIS OWS MILLER. EVERY MAN | mrEOVED RAXD MILL. We have the pleasure of announc- ing to our readers that we have taken the ftgency for the sale of the Improved Hand FRAZEE'S PATENT PORTABLE UPRIGHT SAWMILL. and shall be pleased to furnish the same Tms Mill, for cheapness, dura- posed to the logs, Instead of hauling thousands of charge will be made for extra length of segment. liort notice, logs, often from long distances, to the mill. Be- The two bed pieces spoken of should be timbers 48 sides, such a mill can transfeiTed from hand to \V ;iii it one CAD grind eooogb id five minates for their bility, simplicity and efficiency has no equal. be 12. by 14 Inches through, to which the hand, and is, consequently, ir.ore salable property. ! being but little work t It is constructed with eight pieces of timber, to : grinrttrs bein? cist eepurate, are made of hard get them when from five to eight feet long ; four pieces of can sen his mill location. * When ally ,s they ( . rind can be rvm^v^d in a minute, without screw- '"e"^" would be plank, from four to six feet long, and about r or wn Dch, for griDdin^ different articles, or ,500 pounds of iron ; besides two long bed n dull. Still it it believed ifabt one pair will grind Itra. The mill alone will weigh s "I wooden fixtures, le k'ti for oce person for forty yeara. boiler and engine from 3,0) 3,500- necessary, of these mills » so simple in cooatructioo that it cannot get se except One 500 in all. It Is quite compac freight a shed to protect It liuni titorm^, and no niasun !y wit of order, and by keeping the friction-colliir ) ship to any part of the countr work Is reiiulred for the machinery. The common .r i. will (aim. si) ntr-Tt-r wear out. except the ghnderd, sawing slabs, lath, and other light work, can be up-and-down saw, or 7 feet Ionic, Is used, with- satisfaction ; pronounces It to be -i ts of which will be sold with the mill tor extra 6X and every one power at a email expense. out sash, gate or mulley, and will saw as Urge or the most economical mill, without any exception, If 1 ilred, portable 9111 as long timber as any other mill using the same Arill (rrind atl kinds of grain, by its^catiar con- slight 1 It can adjusted kind of saw. be so as to run fast or horse steam power. It has fiequently been timed Illy explai ed and numbered. slow In any part of the log. lu this way the saw Also coffee and s^ice. Price $5. by the watch, and has sawed Bfteen feet of Inch can be favored while f assing through knots, etc. vv This Mill, being very simple, and having but ;6W Foreign Patent Agency Com- bo wishes to know just what their brea^l is made of. | bearings, has, consequently, but little filctlon, and prcpaii to fu-nish mills at the low i weight of the mill complete is twelve pouDdi>. slue and amount of power . < price of t For mill, boiler, and six or -. oan be aent safely as freight er by express to any nderstanding eight They are also ^ asy 10 sell or State rlgh AdjresB orders to FOWLER AND WF.LLS. prepared town, county, clly are respectfully Invited sired Ices which win be very pro P' to call at 520 ] r, opposite the St. Xlcho as The mills and machinery Hotel, Heti the , Frescott House, and other less liable to get out of repair, and any mechan in New Yoik—terms for machinery, cash. Real es- great bote's, a can repair or build them. As steam will usuall}- 1 d other properly may be taken In exchange Its motive power. It can run at all times, whl or rlghl other mills have often to wait for water, or have l< Tlie company furnish the Iro t and wood work 1 much water, repairing dams, etc. One great point of superiority of this Mill ov« ng two long bed pieces and tlu Address, post-paid, AMERICAN AND FOREIGN any other now In use Is Its portability, the eai urnlsh 4S feel of segments for n PATENT AGENCY COMPANY, it can be moved from place to p'ace with which 520 Broadway, NewTork. eet long. If longer sawing Xnc York, June 1st. JACOB CHICKERING'S PIANOS. PRESERVATION OF FRUIT. Very Impoktant to Housekebp- iss. Pabuers. and Fnnrr GROWBRs. — Spratt's Patent Self-sealing Can. for preserring fruits ot«ll klndi, grem com, peas, tomatoes, 4c.,ln the fr«ih Hale, without the addltloo of inrar or any olbar preservative property. With theee cans, faml. WAREROOMS, 300 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON. Uetor hotel-keepers csn preserve fmlts and vegeta- Having recently invented manufacture of Piano fortes, and bias all machines which greatly facilitate the 1 or kinds, for table useorpastrj purposes, per- hollj fresh I and with the natural color and flavor, do the work in the most perfect manner, lie is ennbled to furnish tliese instruments at wholesale or for ) anr season of the year, and with tilfllng a ex- retail, and warrant them to be of the first class, and to give satisfaction. I paate. The cans may be used year after y.ar, and •aally opeued and closed wllb a tlmple scraw The above cut represents his new stvle of Pianos. Jan lit tr d Gentine Ex- K. B The icenalne Self-seallnc Tans hare cast It Henkt R. Costar's talleis on the cap, "Spralfs Patent," "Wells Jl Compant's The New Hat Mole- TBRjaNATOB, for the total annihilation of skin Hats, »3 only—equal to any «4 Hats in Rats, Mice, Cockroaches, Aula, Ground Mice, Moles, the city. Splendid DRAB BE.WERS.M. certain Annibilator of Bed Bugs, can b« I WELLS k PROVOST, Sole Proprietors. Ac, &c., and a Address MI Piarl St.. nsar Franklin square. New York. Country ^lerchaots and Dealers will do well to bad, wholesale and retail, at Costae's Depot, No. call. July If 31 D July tr 1 A5eni.t.eat«d wltU on llbar.l terms. June It Broadway, Xww York, " ! ! ! THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. [August, 1855.] 48 ) " PEKET'S GEEAT WOEK yja AMERICANS TO THE RESCUE PIANOFORTE M A N U F A C T U R KR S. S T A I K-B U I L Dl X G." V DR. BEECBER'S GREAT BOOK. Just Pubmiod. ^ CONSPIRACY EXPOSED, Embracing the very latest improvements, such THE PAPAL as will benefit every Carpenter who may wtah AND PROTESTANTISM DEFENDED: to acquire a knowledge of the art. It contaiiu twenty-eight lithographic plates, and LIGtrr OF REASON, HISTOEY AND upward DJ THE of seventy figures—illustrating every SCEinrKE. part at* glance ; some of its advantages are as follows: Bv El wiED Beichke, D. D. All rail timber, for any kind of twists, is cat square through from the face of the plank and Finely Illustrated with Engravings. With an just the width of the rail. Appendix, containing a reply to the speech All spiral rail pieces are worked from the segment of a large circle, and are found with of Joseph R. Chandler, in Congress, in sup- only eight lines. port of Romanism. One vol. large 12mo. All elliptical raoles are found by making hot one line, and that is the inside of the raU, Price i\ 25, on the receipt of which amouut it which is done in two minutes' time. will be sent to any Post ofiBce address, post- It positively saves one-half the work In age paid. making twists, and at least one-third of th« timber. The price of the book is only t&m. All things considered, it is the OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. cheapest book ever published, and if it don't sell well, do [From the Daily Bee, Boston ] other will. 1000 practical Carpenters " We My to every Prottitant in the laod. * Get, arj wanted to seU th rvighly frtd ihie hook.' It is s tolnme of truth nud the work, to whom a liberal discount will be light. The country is indebted to the distinguished hii given. thor, who is a true Christian, a Patriot and a Man, for N. B.—Copies sent by mail, postpaid, to ao; the linaely pablicatiOD. Ltt it be spread and read every- part of the United States or Canadas, upon BENNETT & CO., receipt of price. Address A. RANNEY, Publisher of Maps and WAREROOMS, 361 BROADWAY, Books, No. 195 Broadway, New York. thorouErb expo&ure of tl hierarchy, .tnd stiowini AT VERY LOW PRICES to SUIT the TIMES,-No. 300 Broadway—BENNETT & CO., Manu Church 111 ita relaiioos SUPERB MUSICAL WORKS. facturers of the latest styles of PIANOS: also the much-admired Hall's "CELESTIAL' the Christian [From Philadelphia Obserrer ] The undersigned has recently is- ** It is a wock that should be read and pondered by PIANO-FORTE, acknowledged by amateurs to be superior to all others in sweetness, beauty, and brilliancy of tone. ORGAN MEL0DE0N8, MUSIC, and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. sued the following Operas : [Frcni the Boston Daily Journal.] " We hu%'e in this volume one of tbe most searching NORMA. - - - - Eng. ac Ual Words %i nod thorough expositions of Romanicm which haa ever LA SOVINAMIiULA. been publis'ied." By DoNizBiTi- PATEiXT ELASTIC WATER-PROOF ROOF COATLXG AXD PAINT. LUCREZU UORGIA. - (From the Philadelphia Dailv Vews ] I.UCIA Dl HMMERMIOR. *'Ttis, beyond all c/.mparison, the ablest Aoti-Popery work ever published in America." A now discovery, cheap and Indestructible, Impervious to Water, Incom- n^ Solo.) I [From the Reflector, Boston.] M Watchman and bustible, Elastic, and possessing almost Imperishable qualities. the following*, "Sophistry rancot successfully assail pcsilions which There is no ASPHALTUM, or PITCH in this CO-MPOSITION, and il will not affect qunlily are so deep laid in fact and cogent reasoning, tW TAR the ol wurplrtnh, \ [Prom the Hingham Jounl^l.] i WARRANTED not to CRACK or SCALE ; posBcssinff, by " The Friendly eOLsiderati 'ns he presents to American " Proteetan's and f.-eeroeu, will receive due attention from EXTlt'Ei\l'Es'of°helt a^'d'cold^'ln" i'y cli'imU A coating of this ariicle can be iippli^d or, CANVAS, formin re durnbl,' than TIN, and at one hall [From tbe Boston Olive Branch.] t,f „.,, Ii..,l on old and RUSr-EATE>J " It is written with great power." METAL ROOfZ aiidV" cder tl'e'm perfjclly impe^vi'rua"! wat. uiubk t.s NEW TIN or metal ROOFS, one coat beiug equal to SIX COATS of ordinary pBlnt. [From the New York Observer ] MILLER, OETON & MULLIGAJJ'8 *' This maaterly work is tnilv opportune. It is a work LASTIC WATER-PROOF PAINT. for th^ limes, and should b< widely cir.-iilated and slu- NEW BOOKS! diifd by all who deem our political and religious liberties THIS PAINT poseess?e all the qualities of worth preserving." for all painting exposed to the elements, a MISTAL, WOOD, CANVAS, iic. facility to any Paint in use, at much leas cost Ricliard Emretics Great Work I (From the New York Daily Tim^s.] It can be varied in all tbe dark shades ot << "Those who wish to see the Btoutest arguments against painting, such aa SHIPS USE, IRON VESS ARCIIY MOORE : Popery arrayed by a master hand, and so put that the ROOFS, SHIPS' BOrTOMS, or other w„ik most unlearned may appreciate them, will prize it Either of the above arliclea will be appli highly." or be obtained, ilir Manufacturers ; can with MEJrOIRS OF A FrOITIYE [From the Independent ] ble size, li'or further Particuli^re, Sninjilea c "The Book ought to be circulated by hundreds of WITH NEW HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIOH, thousands of copies, and be read by milliona of M. D. MOOEE & CO., Manufactukeks, Office No, 9 Montague Ilall, Brooklyn. Written for this the distinguished E. L. GILBEKT, Pbincipal Agent, 100 Water Street, New York. author, and unfolding the origin, history, [From the United Slates Jonrnal.] characteristics of this kemarkable worl une " This is an able, learned and Sfarchiog exposition of vol. I2mo, 4:50 pp., 8 Illustrations. Price •!.». the system of Popery, its History, ita doctrines, and ita hn Sexton, Architect, 1! Nassau st., N. Y. ; Robert and Sandford, fool < N.Y. political cbaTacter." , Read the following from Ltdia Maria Chiu): E. Whiting & Co , 87 Broadway, N. Y.; S, . Townsend, i-l Nassau St., N. Y. ; H. T. Lo the ; Taltersall'a, cor. 61h B ; Archt Moobe? If [From New York Evangelist.] N. V. demon's Aven and 39tb st. Morrell ,ji Vaoderbeck, I Steubei Have you yourself Read it 'For popular information we can hsrdly refer I Jersey City ; Hon. George Hall, Mayor, Brooklyn ; R. L. Bclkoap, Fire Marshall, Biooklyn; David Pann, you have, why don't you bestow upon " to 'n a single volume, more compre Architect. Montague Hall, Brooklyn ; J. T. Batly, Real Estate Agent, Brooklyn ; E. G. Waters, No. I Montague heartv, fervent, overwhelming praise? Why, St., Brooklyn, and others. many my dear friend, it is awonderful book ! People of the dullest minds and wildest sympathies. PIANOFORTE MANUFACTORY. of the sound, consistent principles of Ireednm which beam on every page, there is a remarka- REMOVAL. ble degree of intellectual vigor and dramatic the facu presented in this book talent exhibited in the power of language, the of circumstances, the combination of (From the New York Express." choice GEO. HEWS, Manufacturer of the Patent American Action PIANO- events, and the shading of character. Every " IK ext«nsive circulation would greatly advance tl knowledge of the pivsent stru,;gle of American principles." FORTE, respectfully informs the public that he has removed to the building. No. 379 sentence shows intimate local peculiarities of the south, both in 10 0 10 ' AGENTS WANTED Washington Street, recently occupied by Messrs. Chickering and Sons. spectc'' nature and society. To .-II the ah-ive work. LIBERAL TEEMS WTLL BE GITBN. letter than Curs I tbe illustrious Pianist, lo Mr. Prevention From M. Goi , Hews' Agent at New York: M. W. Dodd, Publisher, New York. New YoKK, Dec. 6, 1863. THE YOUNG WOMAN'S of performing upon George Hews' American Patent \ Pianos at your A BOOK FULL OF STARTLING DISCLOSURES! BOOK OF HEALTH! William A. Alcott, author of "The s per By Dr. Housekeeper," Now Ready. Very respectfully, M. GOTTSwHALK. House I live in," "Young .Mo'her/^ Manufactory, No 379 Washington St., Boston. "Teacher of Health," "Youug BT WomwiJ FKMALE I.IFK N. P. B. Curtis, +41 Broadway, New York, AgenH. Aug It "Young Man's Guide," "Young Guide," "Gift Book to Young Men," Oin etc. AMONG THE Book to Young Ladies," etc , , _ MORMONS. One volume, 311 pages, 13mo. Price W 78. A Narrative of many years' pers-.-nul Experience. A GIANT IN THE FIELD MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Publisheri, BY THE WIFE OF A 25 Park Row, N. Y., or 107 Genesee St, MORMON ELDER Aug It b Auburn. Eecently from Utah, One terga ISmo volom), with a view of Salt Lake City. HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD. Price One Dollar. ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, and the men of his kidney, met in open field and driven and There is no subject of the Summer Arrangemekt.—On day that back, not with the we apons of blackguardism and abuse, but by the more potent and pondera- Is attracting more attention than tbe rapid ble bh of the logician and the man of science. after Monday, June 25th, 1855, the Train* wUl and Train, rising power of the Mormons in PRESIDENT MAHAN, of Ohio, run as follows ;— For AIL'any and Troy. Kipresa Westsni Trrilfc one of the giant intellects of this age, has been preparing with great research and care, a 6 a M., connecting with Northern and work fuchas has never yet been offered to the world, in Through Way Train, H M i which he meets and explains scien- Mail Train, 9 a.m. ; tifically and completely, all the well-attested facts of the Spiritualists. The learned men of 1 P.M. For press Train, 6 P.M. ; Accommodation Train, tbe East and West, who have been so much perplexed with facta which they have been Habila Poughltcepsie:-Way, Freight, and Passenger Tr^ and ?;oslom« of that winderfol people unable to explain, are satisfied that Dr. Mahan has untied the Gordiwn knot. The title of be obacrved by the COTle»t«,the 5:50 P.M. Fot X Book is a full disclosure the work ia at 1 P.M. For Peekskill :— 3:20 and of the eipenence and sufferings endured in by Fomal.a 4-30 8:31) p.m. Ths IWiy the Mormon SingSing:— 10:16 A.M ; and A Country and the reader i, carried along by MODEIiN MYSTERIES EXPLAINED Ill e narrative, with abKirblng interest nnd Poughkeepsie Trains, stop •! ( -j from the beginning stir town, Peekskill, the end. This great work which will the waters to a foam, both here and in Europe, will be pub- al tiie Way Slalions, Passengers taken \ '''^ lished by us on MONDAY. August 0th. Price $1. ^ m Na^^sr '^t"N Canal, Christopher, and Thirly-Brsl streets. SUfDAl (q k Early orders from the trade solicited. And for sals by all BookJ^MTrs' Md'tJ^w" Az'nts Copies seot by mail, JOHN P. JEWETT CO., Publishers, Boston. I postpaid, on receipt of price. & Jk SuperintandsBt. Aug U JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINOTON, Cleveland, Ohio. hi. L. SYKES. ,