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THE ART OF HEALING : erally, for the goodness of their intentions. They are really doing what they believe to be their All INQUIBY INTO THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL duty, according to the light they have. Day and SCIENCE UPON THE PUBLIC HEALTH. night, summer and winter, they drive round the city, visiting patients, writing prescriptions, and BT THOMAS L. NICHOLS, M.D. trying to cure the sick. They order medicines The Art of Healing, as taught and practiced without stint. No new remedy, no promising ex in this middle of the nineteenth century, professes periment, escapes them. Every few months they to be the result of the accumulated wisdom of bring ont some new preparation. Now it is qui three thousand years. During all this period, a nine, now morphine, now the hydriodate of po- privileged profession has been engaged in invest tassia, now cod-liver oil. They are indefatigable. igating the science of life, the conditions of health, Their dispensatories contain thousands of reme the causes of disease, and the means of cure. dies — and four hundred druggists, with their assist Many thousands of men, in many countries, and ants, are employed the year round, in preparing in all these ages, have made this the business of and dealing out these medicines. We pay two their lives ; and, in consideration of their devoted- millions of dollars a year in doctors' bills, and cer ness to this great work, they have been honored tainly not less than a million more for drugs. and rewarded ; they have been considered the Let us now turn for a moment to the result. benefactors of the race, and their calling is often Let us ask what might naturally be expected of connected with the attributes of divinity. Medi such a body of men — so learned, so wise, so be cine is said to be a noble profession, a divine art, nevolent, so well organized, and so powerful? a glorious science 1 Might we not expect to find the population of this I propose to briefly examine into the claims of city surrounded with all the conditions of health, this calling upon the gratitude of mankind, and fully instructed in hygienic principles, and never the high respect, often approaching to adoration, ignorantly violating the laws of life f Might we with which its professors have been treated in all not expect a pure and healthy atmosphere, free ages of the world. from all pestilential nuisances ; perfect ventila In pursuing this inquiry, I shall not examine tion in all our public edifices and private dwell the medical history or sanatary condition of other ings; markets carefully inspected and supplied countries and times. A wide and open field is with none but healthy food ; all diseasing adulter presented in our own city, and I shall need to ations in commerce suppressed ? Might we not go no further. No where is the medical profes expect to find a general state of health, in the sion more numerous or more respectable. We young and middle-aged, and death the result, with have over six hundred regular physicians, and rare exceptions, of a gradual wearing out of the some hundreds who are considered irregular. We vital forces : Such a state of things would be have two medical colleges, of high standing, con worthy of the medical profession, and such must nected with our two universities ; and a third is be the natural result of true medical science. just going into operation. We have an Academy It is time now to come to the facts. We have of medicine, intended to collect into one burning intimated what might and ought to be — let us focus all the medical learning and skill of the turn to the public records of the city — to the Re city. We have hospitals, cliniques, infirmaries, port of the City Inspector to ascertain what real ana dispensaries. In a word, there is nothing' ly it. In that report, I find that during the year wanting, by which medical science can produce 1849, there die 1 of various diseases in this city, its legitimate effects upon the public health. over twenty-two thousand persons, and that of Never had a profession greater advantages. all that number, only two hundred and twenty- No greater could be desired. Its members are four died a natural death — the only truly natural of the highest social rank; many of them are death of old age. I find that of that twenty-two looked up to and reverenced; they possess un thousand, twelve thousand, or more than one- bounded influence, both with individuals and leg half, were children, of whom far the greater num islative bodies. Whatever law they recommend ber died before they were five years old. Here is passed — whatever they advise is speedily ac begins the contrast between what is and what complished. There is, therefore, no lack of power ought to be — between our reasonable expecta to carry out the dictates of their wisdom. tions and the terrible reality. And these doctors mean well. They are not We may estimate the amount of sickness from wanting in zeal or benevolence. I cordially es the number of deaths. If we allow that one case teem the members of the medical profession gen- of sickness in ten is fatal, we have an aggregate VOL. X. NO. I. JULY. 2 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND of two hundred and twenty thousand cases of | by giving them confidence in the power of medi sickness in New York in a single year, case9 cines ; and after neglecting the public health, which it ought to be the business of medical sci they have increased the number and the mortali ence to prevent. All this sickness, pain, and dis ty of diseases, by the administration of poisons, tress, must be the result of causes, which it is the in a thousand deadly combinations. province of medical science to remove. But the On these high grounds, I arraign the science of causes remain, and here are the melancholv — the medicine, as taught in the schools, and the pro terrible consequences. We are surrounded by fession of medicine, as self-constituted regular, death-dealing nuisances ; there is almost univer as potent causes of the pervading disease and sal ignorance of the laws of health ; sickness is premature mortality that afflicts this community. in all our dwellings, and death cuts off half of all I charge upon the medical profession, as sanc that are born in the very flower of existence ; tioned by our legislatures and fostered by our while barely one in a hundred lives to the natural universities, the diseases which fill our city with age of man, and dies a natural death. And this tribulation, and this frightful array of premature is the result of our boasted medical science, our I mortality, which makes our dwellings resound noble profession, and the accumulated wisdom of | with lamentation and woe. Where all might be three thousand years ! joy, and comfort, and health, medicine, by its I shall go into no argument to prove that chil acts and its neglects, brings sorrow and desola dren are born — that they may grow up, become tion, and spreads the pall of mourning over the healthy, well-developed men and women, live to innocence of childhood, the loveliness of budding a good old age, and go down to the grave like a womanhood, and the strength and maturity of shock of corn fully ripe. This is the natural des man. tiny of man, and it is the object of medical sci The reform, so long needed, so loudly demand ence to enable him to accomplish that destiny. ed, has at last begun. We have at length a We see how medicine fulfills its objecta This is science of medicine, that is founded on hygiene, the way — of the children who died in this city in a science for the preservation of health, as well 1849, there were 4452 of one year old and under, as for the cure of disease. We have at length and nearly ten thousand under five years of age. the germ of a medical profession, which must do Bead this, professors of our two medical colleges ; its proper duty to mankind — which has already read this, ye six hundred regular physicians and begun, and is earnestly engaged in public en four hundred druggists ; ponder this, Academy lightenment. I need not say that I mean the of Medicine ! Look into the little graves of ten wateb-cube, and its teachers and practitioners. thousand innocents, in one single year the victims The regular profession of medicine, from its sins of your ignorance, your mal practice, or your of omission and of commission, its neglect of neglect. I charge upon you this terrible mortal duty, its intolerance, its baseless pretension, and ity. But for you, and the trust reposed in you, its utter hopelessness and worthlcssness, i9 every it would have been prevented. You have kept da}' sinking lower in the public estimation ; while the people in ignorance — you have taught them that system of nature which we term the water- to place a blind trust in your science and skill ; cure is rising every day higher and higher in the and here is the awful result. The time has come approbation of intelligent minds, and the just when you must answer for this at the bar of pub appreciation of a long-abused, but now awakened lic opinion. This is no idle declamation. Here public. are the facts and the figures, and there is no get 87 West lid street, New Yorl: ting away from their purport. Until the medical profession have done their whole duty in enlighten HYGIENE THE TRUE MORAL OF THE ing the people as to the causes of disease ; until CHOLERA.* they have exerted their whole influence in sur [Concluded from the June Number.] rounding people with the conditions of health, a BY ROLAND S. HOUGHTON, AJt , M I'. large portion of this sickness and premature mor Tbk conclusion of the article is equally able : — tality must be charged to their neglect ; and until " The true philosophy of the science of medi they learn how to treat disease more successfully, cine is the knowledge of the causes of disease. a large portion must also be attributed to their Or, if these causes be too subtle and refined for ignorance. our gross senses it is the knowledge of the several The medical profession, as now constituted, conditions, external or internal to the body, which and in its present position with regard to public give those causes power. In the future history health, resembles a band of wreckers distributed of medicine, we shall seo men returning to the along a reef-lined coast, where vessels are con principles promulgated by its earliest founders. tinually driving ashore. It is their duty to warn They will perceive that the treatment of the the mariners of their danger, and to show them fully-formed disease is at the same time the most how to steer to avoid it ; but this duty they neg difficult, and the least useful part of their noble lect, contenting themselves with rude efforts to profession. They will learn to arrest the evil rescue, and successful ones to plunder, such as at the fountain-head, and not to dam the current are washed ashore. Physicians have shrouded the simple science of physiology in mystery. swollen by a thousand tributaries. And if the Far from warning men of the danger of violating » A Lbcturb, delivered before the Mercantile Library the laws of life, they have hung out false lights, Aawciauon, in Clinton Hall, New York. HERALD OF REFORMS. 3

principles which we have analyzed in this article Is not this sensible hygienic advice, if it does be correct, it will not be the least triumph of come from a lay source ! And is it not equally this philosophy, that it has indicated the true adapted to the meridian of this city of New mode in which the great epidemic of our time York ! But again : can be most easily and .most effectually control A writer in the London Morning Chronicle, in led. It bars out the disease — not with quaran giving an account of a visit paid to a portion of tines and cordons sanitaires, but with a cleanly that city in which the cholera had been exceed people, and uncontaminated air. The evil which ingly destructive, gives the following account of springs from the bosom of Nature only needs for the manner in which the inhabitants were sup its removal an observance of the rules which Na plied with water : ture herself reveals." " In No. 1 of London street the cholera first Noble, thoughtful words 1 Would that they appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up could be heard, and their point apprehended, not ward with fearful violence ; but this year it ap only by every member of the healing fraternity, peared at the opposite extremity, and ran down but as well by every reflecting mind in the whole ward with like severity. As we passed along wide world 1 the reeking banks of the Bewer, the sun shone I have next to speak of the results of the ef upon a narrow slip of the water. In the bright forts that have so far been made in England it light it appeared the color of strong green tea, self, to advance the cause of Sanatary Improve and positively looked as solid as black marble ment. Numerous " Health of Towns Associa in the Bhadow — indeed, it was more like watery tions " are now in operation, and a great deal has mud than muddy water ; and yet we were as been done in the way of bettering the condition sured this was the only water that the wretched in of the poor. Free baths and wash-houses are in habitants had to drink." The water for that process of gradual establishment in the large part of London is supplied, it seems, by a Com cities, and in London itself the famous St Giles, pany, which, under the plea of not being able to the former " Five Points " of the metropolis of supply a sufficient quantity to other sections, England, has been renovated by the authorities — suddenly withdrew, during the cholera season, its streets widened, and its poor dispersed. But one half of the scanty supply usually doled out it is mainly to the late invasion of Cholera that to the squalid occupants of the city courts. we are to ascribe the present zeal of the London " From the poor gasping wretches," says the press in behalf of the cause. The articles on the Times, " thus consigned in cold blood to the hor subject of hygienic improvement which are now rors of a water famine, this company were, be it in course of publication in England, literally remembered, at the same time drawing a profit burn with indignant eloquence, and answer for of at least ten per cent per annum upon their themselves the stale objection that laymen can paid-up capital I " not understand the laws of life and health. The Times has accordingly denounced this Com " We cannot tell," says the London Times, pany for its action, and the city government for " why the foetid sewer, or the exhalations of the permitting it, in terms of fierce and unsparing in reeking grave-yard, should be the cause of chol vective. It pronounces the weekly charge of eight era one year more than another, and we cannot pence per house grossly extortionate, and claims . » form any conception of the reason why the epi that the city can be steadily supplied with " cool, demic should ever cease in the polluted districts fresh, lucid water, Bent, sparkling and pure, up of Lambeth or Shoreditch, during eight months every court and alley, and to the very garrets of any given year. Our conclusions are all yet en the meanest houses, at an average general rate tirely empirical. All we know is, that when the not exceeding two pence per week per house — cholera is present these are the spots in which it just about one fourth of the present charge." first declares itself — these the points from which This rate (it adds) would be more than saved by it mainly radiates into quarters of the town the diminished outlay in cleansing and drainage ; which are inhabited under more endurable sana by the lessening of fire assurance risks, and so tary conditions. The heavy pressure of the disease forth ; " by the popularization of health-and- in such localities offers the best suggestion for strength-giving baths, now the costly luxury of depriving it, for the future, of its main power. comparatively few ; and lastly, by the prevention If we would avoid a speedy recurrence of this of those tremendous epidemics, — cholera, typhus, visitation, it is in behalf of the proper purifica scarlatina, and all the other filth-mcrrains of cit tion, and the closing up of the centres of fecu ies, — whose victims are mourned with bitter lence, that we must mainly address ourselves to wailing and lamentation by many a ruined fam all who are compelled to live within the limits ily in many a devastated home." of the bills of mortality. A proper system of In still another article, in reply to an official sewerage has yet to be established ; a suitable announcement of Alderman Sidney that the city supply of water, both in quantity and quality, was safe from pestilential disease, the Times thus must bo poured into every alley and court of this sets forth an appalling array of facts illustrating huge town. We must seal up grave-yards ; ban the condition of the poor : ish noxious trades to the suburbs ; remove cattle- " We cannot proclaim to the country, as Al markets, slaughter-houses, and their attendant derman Sidney desires, that the city of London pollutions, and do, in short, by legislation, all is safe. There are at this moment in the me that legislation can effect." tropolis five hundred thousand powder-barrels, WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

awaiting, open-mouthed, the sadden spark which, the press. They cannot, in the face of irrefraga whenever it may fall, will infallibly produce a ble evidence to the lamentable condition of the tremendous explosion. Those powder barrels are city poor, with which our columns daily teem, per the stagnant cesspools, the breeding coffins, and suade the community that the health of London the subterranean slaughter houses of the city. is satisfactory, and that the risk of cholera is at The spark whose kindling touch they await is an end." the invisible, floating cholera sporule, and the Let me not be told, gentlemen, that these Lon dreaded explosion is a fresh outburst of devas don horrors can find no parallel in this city of tating pestilence. Empty these powder barrels, New York. It is not so. If there are " 600,000 Mr. Alderman Sidney, and then- we will report powder-barrels" in the English metropolis, ripe the city safe. Cleanse, in Fox Court, the ' public for an explosion, there are at least 100,000 in our ordure-pit,' which has already destroyed four own community. Our Croton water is not always victims, and from whose yawning mouth fresh preferred to the noxious rills from the foetid poison is still steaming up. Let in the light of pump. We, too, suffer from the gross pollution day — let in pure air and unpolluted water to the of the cattle-market and the slaughter-house; fevered, scrofulous outcasts of that other court, we, too, have our " reeking grave-yards" and where the very pump yields an offensive stream, | " breeding coffins." It is only a few days since where half the entire population have perished the Grand Jury of the Court of Sessions presented of the plague, and where the miserable survivors, " Potter's Field," on Randall's Island, as a most helpless and hopeless, are awaiting their turn to horrible nuisance. They have also found in the die. Purify the city of these deadly plague-spots, northern part of the city, " cow-stables, distiller which shame humanity, and are the opprobria of ies, and establishments for cutting up and boiling civilization, before you boast of the health of the dead horses and other animals." In another city and expect the fugitives from its horrors to place, near the heart of the city, they have found return. We sympathize with those who, being a single enclosure containing 1200 cows. That rich, have lost business by the cholera panic ; but these are nuisances of the most loathsome de we sympathize still more with those who, being scription, as the Grand Jury admit, there cannot poor, have lost by it all that they had to lose — be any rational doubt ; " the putrid stench which their lives. We are not insensible to the anxi issues from them corrupts the atmosphere of the ety of wealthy tradesmen, ' paying hundreds a whole neighborhood, even at this advanced season year' for their premises, and only 6d. per diem, of the year. It seems incredible that human life by their trade ; but we sympathize still more can possibly be sustained within the pestilential with the poor outcast whom we saw on the 27th effluvia of such places as these ; and yet," as the of September, lying dead of cholera, in St. Bar Grand Jury inform us in their presentment, " all tholomew's Hospital, with the word ' unknown' these places were in full operation throughout written over against his bed ; we sympathize still the last season, while the cholera was raging !" more with the friendless pariah, who, on the 25th But time would fail me, gentlemen, were I of August, was found a shriveled corpse at No. even to attempt to complete an enumeration of 21 Fleur-de-lis Court, where, for two long days, she tie horrors in our midst. I would fain add some had heen left unvisited, probably in excruciating thing in regard to the 25,000 wretches who live agony ; her groans unheard, her malady untend- in cellars — knowing nothing of the luxuries of ed, her dying eyes unclosed, her corpse uncoffined ; air, light, cleanliness, and wholesome food f but we sympathize still more with the poor steel- I can only say of them (in the words of Professor Solisher, whom the city authorities suffered, last Dickson) : " the unutterable pollution, the squal londay week, to perish of cholera, at No. 7 Robin or, the anguish, there endured, must make angels Hood Court, St. Andrew's, by reason of want of weep, and touch with pity the arch-fiend himself, food. We say that, while in the heart of the whose dread abode contains no pang more intol city such occurrences as these, day after day, erable, except its eternity of despair." belie religion and insult humanity, we must ex One word, ere I close, of the remedy for these pect to incur, not in one only, but in a succession of evils. I conceive that this remedy is most easily plagues, the revenge of outraged Nature, and the to be found in the prompt action of our local gov retribution of offended God. We have said, and ernment, when properly enforced and demanded we repeat it, that the poor of the metropolis are by an enlightened and concentrated public opin worse off now than they were in 1832 ; that the ion. It is the manifest duty of the intelligent supplies of air, and light, and water, have not and the thoughtful to form that public opinion kept pace with the wants of a growing popula and bring it to bear upon the municipal author tion, crowded by the unchecked rapacity of ex ities. We, gentlemen, must do our part to bring tortionate house-owners into pestiferous dens, in the matter before the city government. On the which no merciful master would kennel his Common Council of the city of New York de hounds. The Common Council mny suppress volves the responsibility of the public health ; or mutilate the reports of its medical officer ; on us the duty of holding them to their task. Let they may contest the authority of the Board of us resolve, then, to hold meetings, ascertain facts, Health ; and they may shut their ears to the and present reports. As a starting-point, let us wailing of the decimated poor ; but they cannot call on the authorities to renovate "the Five tamper yith the bills of mortality, nor resist the Points," — to abate the nuisance of " the Old authority of public opinion, nor stifle the voice of Brewery." We have a noble example in the HERALD OF REFORMS. 5 earnest action of our English brethren. St.Giles DXCLs.Rs.TION S.HD RESOLUTIONS. .is no more 1 But let us not be content with mere Man U evidently responsible to certain physical, mental, imitation ; let us strive to excel them. So may and moral laws. Obedient to these, he will secure health and happiness, while disobedience evidently produces misery we hope to escape in future the dreaded recurrence and evil. Natural laws form a unique, harmonious system, of the loathsome plague, the stern revenge of" out and man partakes of this prevailing beauty in every law of raged nature," and the just retribution of " of his being. Constitutions may, indeed, differ, but there most be a universal law for the stomach as well as for the lungs; fended God v and the species of food, prescribed by the universal law for the human stomach, will be found to comport best with the physical abilities, health and exercise of the intellectual and moral powers. Vegetarianism unfolds the universal law of AMERICAN VEGETARIAN CONVENTION. man's being. Its observance is a stepping-stone to a higher stage of existence, and removes obstructions which hinder the BT T. L NICHOLS, M.D. fulfillment of man's highest aspirations, and it m the inlet to a new and holier life. The movements of the vegetarian societies in With these views impressed on our minds, we, who are here assembled in American Vegetarian Convention, have England, during the past year, having stirred up hereby — the friends of dietetic reform on this side of the Resolved, That comparative anatomy, human physiology, Atlantic, it was resolved that a convention should and chemical analyses of different animal and farinaceous substances, unitedly proclaim the position, that not only the be held in May, after the Religious Anniversa human race may, but should, subsist upon the productions of ries, for the purpose of forming an American the vegetable kingdom. Vegetarian Society. The chief agents in this Resolved, That the vegetarian principle of diet derives the work were the Rev. Wm. Metcalfe, of Philadel most ancient authority from the appointment of the Creator to man— when he lived in purity and peace, and was blessed phia, an active Foreign Corresponding Secretary with health and happiness — in paradise. of the British Vegetarian Society, and the cele Resolved, That though the use of animal food be claimed, brated Dr. Wm. A. Alcott, of Massachusetts, the under the sanction of succeeding times, it rests only on the per missions accorded to man in his degraded condition, and is a author of a hundred useful books, in almost every departure from the appointment of the Creator. department of education, reform, and progress. Resolved, That if man would return to paradise and purity, The convention met at Clinton Hall, on Wed to mental and physical enjoyment, he must return to the para disaical diet, and abstain from the killing and eating of an* nesday, May 15, at 10 a. if., and was infor imals. as foot). mally organized by electing Dr. Joel Shew Resolved, That there is found in the vegetable world every Chairman pro. tern. A committee then nomi element which enters into the animal organization ; and that combinations* of those elements in the vegetable kingdom are nated the following officers of the convention, best adapted to the most natural and healthy nourishment of who were duly chosen : man. President, Rev. Wm. Metcalfe, of Philadelphia. Resolved, That the approbation of man's unsophisticated and unbiassed powers of taste, sight, and smell, are involunta Vice-Presidents^ Rev. Wellington, of rily given to fruits, farinacea, and vegetable substances, in Boston, Blake, ofPepperill, Mass., preference to the mangled carcasses of butchered animals. Da. Joel Shew, of New York. Resolved, That dew-eating is the keystone to a wide-spread arch of superfluous wants, to meet which, life is filled with Secretaries, Joseph Metcalfe, of Philadelphia, stern and rugged encounters, while the adoption of a vegeta Joseph Weight, of New Jersey. rian diet is calculated to destroy the strife ot antagonism, and The Rev. Mr. Metcalfe, on taking his seat as to sustain life in serenity and strength. Resolved, That as there are intellectual feasts and a mental President of the Convention, stated that he had being into which the inebriate can never enter, and delights been a vegetarian for forty years. In this time which he can never enjoy — so there are mental feasts, and a he had reared a family, some of whom were moral being, which to the flesh-eater can never be revealed, and moral happiness In which he cannot fully participate. present, children and grandchildren, who had Resolved, That cruelty in any form, for the mere purpose never tasted animal food in their lives. All the of procuring unnecessary food, or to gratify depraved uppetitc, members of the church over which he presided is obnoxious to the pure human soul and repugnant to the no- bleat attributes of our being. were also Btrict vegetarians, as a matter of re Resolved, That the evidence of Linnaws, Sir Richard Phil ligious belief and duty. As a general thing, they lips, Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, John Wesley, Swedenborg, had enjoyed good health — better than their Howard, Jefferson, Rouneau, Akenside, Pope, Shelley, Sir John Sinclair, Ar both not, and a host of others, living as well neighbors. They had passed through two sea as ancient observers of nature, testify to the truth of vegeta sons of the yellow fever unharmed, while many rianism. were dying around them. They had also almost Revolved, That in the vegetarian cause, a new field of ex entirely escaped the ravages of the Cholera in its ercise is opened to the moral reformer, in which he is most ear nestly and cordially invited to become a co-worker with truth, several visitations. by adopting its teachings in the government of bis own life, Committees were now appointed to prepare aud by diffusing its principles in all his efforts for the elevation resolutions for the convention, and to report a of his fellow-man. Resolved, That we will personally interest ourselves in pro constitution and organization for the proposed moting the circulation of publications calculated to advance association, after which several members of the our cause — such as the London Vegetarian Advocate, the Wa convention related their experiences of the bene ter-Cure and Phrenological Journals of New York, and all pub lications having for their objects the promotion of a knowledge) fits of a pare diet. Dr. Bedortha, water-cure phy of the laws of our being. sician, of Troy, gave an interesting account of his Resolved, That we nail with great joy the progress of the experiments and observations, and one of the vegetarian cause in England, where large societies exist, which, in one or two instances, embrace nearly five hundred delegates from Philadelphia, a hale and hearty members. man of sixty-two, gave the pleasant result of forty Resolved, That it is advisable to organize State and local years' use of a fleshless diet. vegetarian societies, wherever practicable, with as little delay The following resolutions, mainly submitted as possible — lecturing and diffusing fact* and principles in the by the delegation from Philadelphia, were unani science of man. mously adopted:— The Committee on the Constitution reported 6 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND the following Preamble, as the basis of organi Science, experience, and the dictates of a re zation : — fined taste, all point to the vegetable world as PREAMBLE. affording the purest nutriment for man, and that The objects of this association are to induce habits of absti which is best adapted to all the wants of his nence from the flesh of animals, as food, by the dissemination □T information opon the subject, by means of verbal discus- physical constitution. With this observation, I slonB, tracts, essays, and lectures, exhibiting the many advan propose to continue the discussion of the matter tages of a physical, intellectual, and moral oharacter, resulting in future numbers of the Wateb Cure-Journal. from vejjaterian habits of diet, and thus to secure, through the association, example, and erfurts of its members, the adoption 87 West 22d street, New York. of a principle which will tend essentially to true civilization, to universal brotherhood, and the increase of human happiness ireaerally. ERRORS IN WATER-CURE. The officers provided by the constitution are I have felt disposed to excuse myself from • President, nine Vice-Presidents, a Recording writing for the Water-Cure Journal for some Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary and a time, because, though there is time for every Treasurer, constituting a board of directors. The thing, there is a limit to human accomplishment. active duties of the Association fall upon the My " much-serving," and your many writers, have Corresponding Secretary, who U to receive a per seemed very reasonable excuses for my non-ap centage of the receipts for his services. The in pearance in your columns. I have now a duty itiation fee is 25 cents; the annual dues one dol to perform, and therefore I am here. lar. Life membership twenty dollars. Meetings There are two classes of errors in water-cure, •rre to be held annually, in the month of Septem- | to which I would particularly call attention — ber — the next one to be in Philadelphia, where viz., the ambitious, and the reckless or careless. it is proposed to make a grand vegetarian ban The first class obtains with young and enthusiastic quet a portion of the order of exercises. practitioners, and such are often the product of The following officers were then elected for the much faith and little experience, though occa ensuing year : — sionally these errors may be found where we least look for them. The rage for experiment AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY. is very dangerous, where there is little skill and President, judgment. I have now in my mind a large Dr. Wu. A. Aloott, of Massachusetts. number of cases of mal-practice in hydropathy, (I will not say Water- Cure,) some of which I Vice-Presidents — 1st. Dr. R. D. Mussey, of shall give as warning examples : Ohio; 2d. SylveBter Graham, of Mass.; 3d. P. P. A young married woman recently came to me, Stewart, of Troy, N. Y.; 4th. H. H. Hite, of Va.; who bad been treated by a hydropathic practi 5th. Dr. Prince, of Missouri ; 6th. Joseph Wright, tioner in her first confinement. He was not with of New Jersey ; 7th. Dr. Joel Shew, of New her at the birth, and there was laceration of the York ; 8th. "Wm. 0. Chapin, of Rhode Island ; 9th. perineum. The accoucheur put on an abdominal Joseph Metcalfe, of Pennsylvania. bandage, but the hydropath told her it was not Recording Secretary — Dr. R. T. Trail, of New needed, and contrary to the advice and en York. treaty of the allopath, the lady took it off, Corresponding Secretary — Rev. Wm. Metcalfe, and the third day took a long walk — she Kensington, Philadelphia. has not been well since. Now, in our artifi cial state, we are not exempt from the evils of Treasurer— S. R Wells, of New York. that state — and the glory of boasting that such A public meeting of the newly-formed society a lady went out the second, or third day after was held in the evening. On taking the chair, her confinement, is poor compensation for broken Dr. Alcott made some interesting observations health. ■ on the anatomical and physiological arguments I have never had a case in obstetrics, where I in favor of the Vegetarian system. He was fol would be willing to trust my patient without a lowed by Sylvester Graham, in an address of cold, wet abdominal bandage for a month — and some length, but difficult to report with justice I never consent that a lady should take a long to the speaker. In the course of his remarks, walk after her confinement, under a full week, there sprung up an animated controversy between though all my patients are able to get up and go him and Dr. Wieting, the well known lecturer on into a bath the day after the birth. The invalu Anatomy and Physiology, which has been made able worth of the vagina syringe, (I mean the the subject of extensive newspaper comment. curved tube vagina syringe, which holds half a The address of Dr. Graham was all that those who pint,) cannot be too strongly urged upon water- best know him were prepared to expect, and we cure physicians. I have said before, and I say believe that none of these were disappointed. again, that it is a sovereign remedy for after- Whatever may be the success of the movement pains. I have never known these pains to exist thus set on foot, the immediate result has been where the patient had cold water thrown upon favorable to the cause of dietetic reform. The the uterus with the syringe, directly after full press, throughout the country, has noticed the delivery was accomplished, and the abdomen movement ; discussions havesprung up ; curiosity closely compressed with the cold wet bandage. has been awakened, and good, must of necessity And yet I know several hydropathic practition grow out of this process of enlightenment. I ers, (I shall not honor them with the name of HERALD OF REFORMS. 7

water-cure physicians,) who, at this late day, do " The more of a good thing the better," is an not use the vagina syringe in prolapsus, or ac old maxim, which may be very mischievous in couchement. We ought to have a college for some applications. Cold water is a good thing, a these at once, for their sins of omission or com blessed thing, but people may die of it, without mission are by no means limited to the disuse of being drowned in it. The public have to learn this important means of cure. Another of their that there are no two water-cure physicians who sins is a careless neglect of patients. If a per are certain to take the same view of a case, and son come to a water cure house for treatment, he that there may be fools in our profession, as well has a right to the most constant supervision. To as in other modes of practice. What is most de see a patient with serious disease, perhaps of sirable is, that the people should leam to reason cor the lungs, once a week, and leave him or her to rectly, and come to right conclusions themselves. the comparatively ignorant care of an attendant The grave of quackery is dug as deep and as sure all the intermediate time, and that, too, in your as the people are enlightened. own house, is either great inhumanity, or a most Hobbies are always to be distrusted. If a man unpardonable carelessness. I have instanced tells me that all his patients take foot-baths, or a disease of the lungs ; because, in such cases, un douche, or short, wet sheet packs, I consider that remitting attention should be paid to the tempe man anything but a water-cure physician. If he rature of the patient. A chill is a fatality to denounces sweating on all possible occasions, and Buch a patient — that is, a heavy chill, caused by declares that the douche should no longer be used neglect, or too much cold, or other improper in water-cure — if he is determined on a general treatment ; and yet, what are we to think of a application of the " hunger cure" to everybody, practitioner who will leave such a patient for why I may as well write him down a fool, as I weeks to an attendant in his own house, chilling think him, as to go about hunting for words to ex every day ? If no one is guilty of such neglect, press the same thing more delicately. I shall do no harm by uttering my warning Different cases require different treatment — against the inhumanity, not to say quackery, of sweating in blankets is a most admirable treat such practice. ment for 6ome patients, whilst for others it would Another grave error in hydropathic practice, is be dangerous and worthless. I have cured a pa using too much and too cold treatment for deli tient who bad been well nigh killed with excess cate and cold patients. Such are sometimes ive cold treatment, which had induced horrible ordered to take long cold foot baths — a most in ulcers, in good part by the sweating blankets. sane practice. The indiscriminate use of foot Be sure, I alternated the sweating with other baths is about equal in folly to the large and treatment, but I found a sweat as good as a day's indiscriminate water-drinking prescribed by some work mowing, and yet the doctor who does such doctors. Both are useful at times, but both are mischief generally denounces its cure as " unsci very extensively made grievous abuses. The entific " and " very harsh." action of the skin is impeded by too cold baths, Water-Cure physicians should be governed by too long continued, and terrible ulcers are often principles — not rules. They should reverence the consequence, or congestion and morbid condi themselves more that they are able to cure dis tions of the internal viscera are induced, which, ease, than because they have seen Priessnitz, or in many cases, prove fatal There is no doubt have M.D. attached to their names. that Dr. Ruggles died of this ill-judged and un The readers of the Journal may be assured that skillful practice. Excessive water drinking they will lfear from me again when I feel obliged brings great evils upon the system, overtaxing to write, as now, for their good. and breaking down the vital powers, and indu May the good God prosper Water-Cure, and cing numerous ills which I cannot now particu make the mistakes and errors of its practitioners larize. a means of educating the people. The warm treatment, adopted by some practi Mast S. Govi Nichols. tioners who have become frightened by the fatal 87 Wett 224 street, New York. effects of the cold treatment, is scarcely less fool ish than the last It weakens the whole organ CONFESSIONS AND EXPERIENCE OP AN ALLO ism —and, though not fatal in the same way, is a PATHIC DOCTOR— No. 7. folly not to be tolerated in Water-Cure. 1 have CcIsoa and his Maxim — Galen's Birth and Education— Com had a patient of very slight reactive power, who the Emperor's Sons— Writes Eight Hundred Volumes- had been at a " Hydropathic Establishment" for Teachings of Galen— Illustration of Homoralism — Magen- weeks, and all his baths had been warm. Mean dic's Diseases— Little Norelty in Medicine— Life and Prac while he was chilled constantly, and grew daily tice of Asclepiadei — True Church of Physicians — Surgery weaker. He begged for a cola bath, but it was in Advance of Medicine — Sir Everard Home's Croonian not allowed. He left, and came to our house. He Lecture— Miraculous Cure of Tobit— Dr. Russell's Travels grew warm at once, under proper cold baths, and in the East— Home's Experienoe with Gall — Censier's Imi gained strength rapidly. tation of' Tobit— Explanation of Tobit's Core— Origin of Water-Cure is not necessarily confined to cold the Barber's Pole. or warm water, but the physician should have skill to administer both properly, or he carries the Celsos and his Maxim. — Aurelius Cornelius black flag ou the ocean of water-cure, and should Celsus flourished in the time of the Roman Em be treated, accordingly. peror Caligula. His eight books, " De Medicina," 8 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND have procured him celebrity among men in our 1 be in the hands of his friends were collected, own times. He followed the plan laid down by 1 and have been published in five folio volumes. Hippocrates, whom he looked up to with the \ He died at the age of seventy. greatest reverence, and the knowledge of whose : Teachings of Galen. — Galen taught that al octrines he did much to disseminate. He tells * terations of the blood produced all the phenom us, " that severe diseases require severe reme ena of disease, and that fluid once purified, dies." Some of his books were devoted to Sur- I health would be restored. That his views even gery, many of the operations of which he de at the present day retain their ascendency in the scribes as they are still performed. profession t^well as among the people, can be Galen's Birth and Education. — Claudius Ga shown, notjjnly by the ordinary language of len was the next light of medicine, and as for ! physicians, Jut also by the advertising columns many centuries he was regarded as an oracle, of the newspapers, which are filled with notices deserves particular attention. He was born at testifying the great success of innumerable rem Pergamoe, in Asia Minor, in A. D. 131. His j edies, " in purifying the blood." " If I rightly father, Nicon, was a learned man, and early in understand humoralism," says Dr. Caldwell, structed him in all the knowledge of his time. I " their creed"embraces a belief in the contamina At the age of 17 he devoted himself to the sci tion of the bfjod in the production of certain dis ence of healing, and traveled much to extend, eases, and in tjie medication of that fluid in their by every means, his information. He remained cure." " YeaJ" replies his reviewer, " this is then- some time at Alexandria, then the centre of gen creed ; and we are the more firmly persuaded of eral, as well as medical, science. Determined its correctneswrsince we see it so feebly assailed by not to abide by the opinions of others, without | one who has"Jong fought in the front rank against himself verifying the truth of their views, he its doctrines."- Andral, in our own times, lays it soon began selecting from all, and forming a down as a universal principle, that the blood is not system for himself. After eleven years' study, merely a vehicle to carry to the solids the dele he commenced practice in his native place, with terious substances; but that its actual appear such Buccess, that at the end of four years, he ance leaves no doubt of its being altered in its removed to Rome, which, however, he was soon nature." "That the blood is first vitiated by forced to leave on account of the opposition he the commixture of deleterious substances, and met with from bis brother physicians, who stig that it is the vitiated blood which ultimately matized him as a dealer in magic and a mere affects the solids." theorist Illustration ok Humoralism. — A good illus Cubes the Emperor's Sons — While in Rome, tration of what humoralism is, and the means of however, he had gained the esteem of many cure in accordance with the system, is afforded learned men, whose influence was so great that by an anecdote related in " Fascination." " Da on the Emperor's being sick, he was sent for to ring the prevalence of a certain deadly pesti attend them. Marcus Aurelius lived, but Lucius lence in the West Indies, the blood of those af Verus died. The former, during his German fected was dark, and almost black. A physi expedition, left his two sons — Commodus and cian who had been bleeding a patient, discovered Sextus — in his care, and they being seized with that the dark blood, as soon as it was received the plague, was instrumental in their recovery, into a bowl, became of a bright, healthy-looking notwithstanding the unfavorable predictions of I red color ; and, upon examining the matter, found his colleagues. These events placed him far the florid appearance was owing to some table above all opposition, and he ruled the medical salt which had been accidentally left in the bowl ; world with much contempt and haughtiness. his sapient brain instantly conceived the idea Writes Eight Hundred Volumes. — He is said that it was owing to the loss of muriate of soda to have written nearly eight hundred volumes on | (common salt) in the blood that the fever was various subjects connected with medicine, which caused. This fancied discovery changed the being deposited in the temple of Peace, were whole plan of his treatment, and for a long time, destroyed when the Goths burned it on taking his after practice consisted in injecting solutions Rome. He professed to act the part of a com of table salt into the veins, and giving it by mentator on Hippocrates, whose true meaning 1 the stomach As soon as the matter was pub he did not consider generally understood. He lished, his fellow-physicians followed his exam gives the Father of Medicine credit for an ex ple. The uniformly fatal termination of all ca tensive knowledge of anatomy and the circula ses treated in this manner at length obliged the tion of the blood. He is said to have been con doctors to relinquish the practice ; but not until vinced of the existence of a God by dissection. the hypothesis, like the bodies of ancient he He, in reality, distorted, instead of explaining, roes, was accompanied to the grave by thousands the views of Hippocrates, and " was in medicine of victims slaughtered to its honor." what Descartes was in philosophy," a thorough Maqendie's Diseases. — Of course, according to materialist. Contrary to his own theory, he these extenders of Galen's views, if certain sub bled profusely in plague, and with such success stances are exhibited to the patient that will that the spectators once exclaimed, " 0 man, chemically combine with the blood, and thus de thou hast cut the throat of the fever." The prive it of some compounds and modify others, scattered sheets of his works that happened to | diseases of any description may be induced at HERALD OF REFORMS 9

the will of the physician, a fact which Magendie . True CncaoH of Physicians. — Though a true honestly avows. * For my part," says he, " I church of physicians, small in number, followed declare boldly that I look upon these ideas the teaching of Hippocrates, and continued in about life and the rest of it as nothing more the faithful observance of nature, yet the great than a cloak for ignorance and laziness. All the majority of practitioners were in ignorance of physician can do is, to order certain remedies, the true principles of medicine. Capable of ap- which, if necessary, the nurse could prescribe ,preciatiug only what was rendered palpable to equally well. You saw me give rise at my j the senses, the causes of disease were referred to pleasure to pneumonia, scurvy, yellow fever, j the agency of the gods, and the means of cute typhoid fever, etc,' etc., not to mention a number mainly consisted in invocations to them. The de of other affections which I called into being be ities of heathen mythology were replaced by the fore you." Had Samuel Thomson read enough saints of Christendom, and the charming of pain to have been aware of these opinions, it was resorted to even in surgical cases. is likely enough they would have confirmed > Sorcery in Advance of Medicine — Surgery him in his views of the worthlessness of medi- was in advance of its sister branch, and much of cine. its practice was really valuable ; bo much so, Little Novelty in Medicine. — It may be 1 that remedies used thousands of years ago, have observed, that in these articles we endeavor to j been employed with advantage in the nine be as practical as possible, and carry up the old teenth century. As an instance, we will mention theories to their supporters and believers in the the supposed miraculous cure of Tobit present day, thus not only avoiding unnecessary Sra Evebard Home's Ceoonian Lecture. — repetition, but also showing that there is much ' Sir Everard Home, in his Croonian Lecture, 1797, less of originality iu the matter than is generally ] observes that it is an extremely curious circum supposed. stance, and probably the most so that can be met Like and Practice of Abclkpiades. — Ascle- with in the history of medicine, that a local ap piades is said to have been the first of the Greek plication should have been discovered to be of physicians who practiced at Rome. He flourished service in a particular disease 2500 years ago, about the time of Pompey. He at first taught that the same application, or those of a similar rhetoric, but not finding employment, studied kind, should have been in use ever since, and in medicine, and soon became famous from the all that time, no rational principle on which such novelty of his theory and practice. He suppo medicines produced their beneficial effects should sed disease to arise from thelnotion of the par have been ascertained. This appears from the ticles of the blood and other fluids, being ob following account to have been the case with re structed by the straitness of the vessels ; pain spect to stimulating applications to the cornea and fever thence ensuing. He considered emet- in a diseased state, and can only be accounted ics and cathartics too violent in their operation, for by a want of knowledge of the structure of and would only prescribe injections to obviate the parts, which is an argument of uncommon costiveness. In fevers, he chiefly relied on a weight in favor of the study of anatomy. complete abstinence from food for three or more days, until the system was well reduced, and Miraculous Cobe of Tobit. — In the Apocry would then give meats and wines cautiously to pha we find, in the book of Tobit, a very circum restore strength. Pleurisies, and similar com- stantial account of an opacity of the cornea suc E hunts, where the pain was intense and the fever cessfully treated by stimulating applications : igh, he treated by bleeding ; but also cases of a " When Tobias went down to wash himself in the chronic character were attempted to be relieved river Tigris, a fish leaped out of the river, and by dieting, frictions, baths, and exercise. He is would have devoured him. The angel of the Lord said to have pledged his reputation on the pres told him to take out the gull and put it up in ervation of his own health, which he retained safety. Tobias asked the angel what was the to a great age, and at length died from the ef use of the gall. As for the gall, said the angel, fects of a severe fall. Few physicians of the it is good to anoint a man who has whiteness in present time would accept the same tenure, for his eyes, and he shall be healed. Tobias took their reputations, as it has now passed into a hold of his father, and strake of the gall into proverb, " That doctors are like guide-posts ; they his father's eyes, saying, Be of good cheer, my point the road to health, without traveling it father. And when his eyes began to smart, he themselves." Had his successors pursued his rubbed them. And the whiteness peeled away mild practice, it is probable they would not have from the corners of his eyes, and when he saw bis suffered the disgrace which afterward befell son he fell upon his neck." them, for the Romans at length banished from De. Russell's Travels in the East. — Dr. Rus their city the Greek physicians, who bad signali sell, in his travels in the East, gives the follow zed themselves in peopling the regions of the ing account of the manner in which the Arabians grave, in relation to which Cato made the fol treat inflammations and opacities of the cornea. lowing reflection : " The Greeks, jealous of the i " An oculist is a distinct profession, and the se glory of the Romans, and being unable to cou- i cret of their applications extends hereditarily from quer them in the open field, have sent their ex father to son. In Aleppo the gall of a fish was ecutioners, who kill us in our beds." in particular request. What often struck me in 10 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

their practice was the successful application of steady it when bleeding, and allow the muscles sharp or acid remedies, at a time I should have to contract so as to increase the flow of blood, been induced to make use of the mildest emolli which last is emblemized by the color of the ent applications." From this account there can red spiral, while the white portion represents be no doubt of gall having continued in use as an the bandage put on the arm after the operation application to the ere among the Eastern nations is performed. from the time of Tobit to the present day. Home's Experience; with Gam. — Sir Everard THE BETTER WAT. gives an account of his own experience with gall, bt s. ROGERS. ■ which, in many cases, was highly successful. He also cites an account from a Paris newspaper, As it has been my lot within a few months to whjch gave a statement of an extraordinary cure mingle in various circles, both hydro and anti- effected by the gall of a barbel, in substance as hydropathic, I am prompted to say something follows : — through the Journal of " matters and things" pertaining to Water-Cure in general. Now no Ckmsier's Imitation of Tobit. — A journeyman real lover of our blessed mode of healing the sick watchmaker, named Oensier, having heard that can any more avoid constantly making inquiries the gall of a barbel was the remedy which Tobit of its progress, and speaking of its superior mer employed to cure his father's blindness, resolved its, than the drug poisoner can help deriding and to try its effects on the widow Qermain, his moth cursing the system which is so fast unfolding the er-in-law, whose eyes had for six months been " mysteries" of his profession. I say this in all afflicted with ulcers and covered with a film, deference to the wiser part of the profession, for which rendered them totally blind. Censier hav the spirit of honest inquiry is cultivated by ing obtained the gall of that fish, squeezed the many. liquor out of it into a vial, and in the evening he Professing a love for the science I advocate rubbed it with the end of a feather, into his and practice, it has been peculiarly interesting mother's eyes. It gave her ^reat pain for about and pleasing to me during the past year to con half an hour, which abated by degrees, and her verse with people in different localities upon the eyes watered very much. Next morning she subject of Hydropathy. Everywhere may be could not open them, the water, as it were, glu found willing audiences, — in every town, num ing her eyes up ; the son bathed them with pure bers who are eager for that knowledge which water, and she began to six with the eye that had will convince them' that drugs are useless. The the most liquor. He used the gall again in the public is awakening to the sober fact that poison, evening ; the inflammation dispersed, the white j when taken into the human system, is an evil of her eyes became red, the color returned by thing, — hence we can easily understand why so degrees, and her sight became strong. He re many are searching for a " better way." But peated it a third time, with all the desired suc prejudices founded in ignorance will long exist, cess. In short, she recovered her sight without for that blessed era has not yet dawned when any other remedy. The widow Germain was in her " all who run do read." Many honestly suppose BSd year. See had been pronounced blind by the that we hydropaths are possessed of but " one surgeons of the Hotel Dieu. Her blindness and idea," that water, and water alone, is our remedy. her cure have been attested by order of the Others, again, shudder as they mention the " Cold- Lieutenant-General of the police. She sees clearer Water-Cure ;" as if, forsooth, we had entered into and stronger now than before the accident. a league with icicles and the demon of starvation Explanation or Tobit's Cure. — The Hippocra- for the special torment of our patients. tic physician could easily account for the effect of Prejudices like these aro too common, and stimulating applications,' by supposing such reme notwithstanding water as a prophylactic and dies to acton the excitability of the part in such a therapeutic agent has been successfully employed manner as to efface the original diseased im for ages, there are people at this mid-day of the pression, and produce an inflammation which the nineteenth century who start with astonishment ▼is medicatrix could remove. So easy is it to when told that upon the proper employment of blunder even in the simplest matters when great water, air, and food, and the rational exercise of laws are lost sight of, and explanations demanded mind and body, hang all the laws of health and of vital actions, en physical principles. longevity. So potent is the morbid love of ease, begotten Origin of the Baebee's Pole. — The barbers by excessive indulgences and undue excitements, were at one time the principal practitioners of that man, in his present stage, is prone to listen surgery, and at one time formed a distinct rank attentively to the siren whisper which tells in the Esculapian army, under the name of Bar of happiness without exertion, while a deaf ear ber Surgeons. Even now bleeding and tooth- is turned to the voice of reason, that tells him drawing is regularly performed at many of their real happiness, cither physical, mental, or moral, shops. It is worthy of remark, that one trace is gained only by labor and watchfulness. Too of their former office i9 retained in their poles. many have yet to learn that physical happiness, The pole itself signifies the stick held in the like its twin sister, the moral, is only to be real hand of the outstretched arm of the patient to ized and retained by virtue of the vigilance with HERALD OB' REFORMS. 11 which it is sought and nourished. The illustrious influences will cause defect, excess, or perversion Franklin's good advice in money matters holds of different secretions. equally true when applied to matters of health. Excessive grief is not accompanied by tears : Avoid little transgressions and the big ones will excessive fear stops the salivary secretion, and take care of themselves. increases and perverts that of the bowels — jeal It is pretty well established in the mind of ousy and melancholy indulged, are supposed to that portly personage, the public, that Hydropa vitiate the bile ; Dr. Watson mentions a case of thy does well enough for chronic diseases, but a young friend of his, who brought on himself that these diseases, in most cases, originate in " intense jaundice " from needless anxiety about the maltreatment of acute affections, has yet an approaching examination in the College of scarcely entered the philosophy of her reason Physicians, and adds, scores of such cases are on ings. And her half-enquiring eyes of amazement record. The proof is very striking in the per are still wider opened when the honest hydropa- version of the mammary secretion — thus says thist vindicates the doctrine, both by precept and Sir Astley Cooper: A fretful temper lessens the practice, that all acute diseases are not only more quantity of milk, renders it thin and serous, dis curable under the potent influences of " nature's turbing the child's bowels, producing intestinal remedy," but curable at less expenditure of vital fever and griping — this secretion may in this energy, time and money. The two latter, I am manner be so altered, as to cause death ; the sorry to say, are, by many, in these days of com following instances are of high authority. A mercial strife, steam-engines and lightening tele carpenter fell into a quarrel with a soldier in his graphs, considered more valuable than the for own house : the latter drew his sword upon him ; mer. the carpenter's wife first trembled from fear and A word to the " professional brethren," and terror, then sprang furiously at the soldier, this rambling epistle shall be closed. wrested away the sword, and broke it in pieces ; It has been said by our opposers, that cases re after the quarrel was ended, and in a state of ported through the Journal are not sufficiently strong excitement, she took up her child from explicit in relation to symptoms ; and that we are the cradle, where it lay playing, and in the most more ready to name any given disease than to perfect health, never having had a moment's ill fully describe it. ness : she gave it the breast — in a few minutes Now as it is particularly desirable for the well- the infant left off nursing, became restless, being of humanity that these doubting Thomas panted, and sank dead upon its mother's bosom. es of the " old school " should become convinced An English surgeon (Mr. Wardrop) mentions of their evil ways, I would suggest the removal that having removed a small tumor from behind of every little hook whereon their doubts can the ear of a mother, all went well, until she fell possibly hang. I can think of no better way than into a violent passion : the child nursing soon to faithfully report from our " bed-side notes," after, died in convulsions. From these and simi without comment or name of the disease. I lar illustrations, the inference seems justified, that presume this will be satisfactory ; if not, please mental influences act as causes of disease, by inform us what will. inducipg molecular changes in some of the ele Woeoe8teb, Mass., 5th mo., 30th, 1850. ments of the body. Further illustration and proof of the general AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE NATURE materiality of the causes of disease may be found Or DISEASE, AND A RATIONAL MODE OF CUBE. in the fact that several classes of disease are con fessedly produced by morbid matter, somehow BY P. H. BAYES, K.D. introduced into the body. A large number of These arc good grounds for believing that the types of fever are everywhere attributed to mi great mass of human diseases (except the strictly asms. The cutaneous diseases known as the surgical), in all their types and phases, are caused exanthemata, among which are measles, 6carlet by morbid matter — matter alien to the healthy fever,and small-pox,are demonstrated by the com tissues of our organisms, which has either in mon experience of mankind to depend upon an truded itself through the skin, the air-passages or aura or virus, or substantive something communi the alimentary tract, or has been formed in the cable from person to person. In all epidemic body itself by pathological changes, or physiolo and endemic diseases, the most rational induc gical decay. Reason alone would seem to afford tion has produced a general conviction that in a support to this belief. Disease must own a ma subtle or gross material something, lay the spe terial as immaterial cause ; that our brains, blood cific cause. Isolated forms of disease are confi or nerves are ever directly disturbed in their dently believed by good pathologists to fall into functions by spiritual causes, we have not the this category. Dr. Watson mentions a kind of least proof. True, passions and mental emotions asthma which he ascribes to some kind of ema may cause disease, through the inscrutable nation from certain of the "grasses that are in agency of the nervous system, but in all such in flower about the time of hay-making. Scrofula stances there is good reason to believe that some and the matter of tubercle depend upon a mal- material change is effected in some of the ele assimilation of the fibrinous elements of the ments of the body, which change is the final blood. It is further an undoubted fact that a cause of the perverted function. large number of morbid conditions of the body To illustrate. It is well known that mental may arise from retention of the common excre- 12 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

tions of the body in the blood from disorder of so readily conceded to the successful soldier, and their separating glands. Drs. Watson and Wil to the daring adventurer into unknown regions. liams speak of gout and rheumatism as depend- " In these respects, the Life of Dr. Andrew ent upon some morbid matter retained in the I Combe commends itself to our favorable notice. blood, and Dr. Prout seems to consider this as the It exhibits a man whose childhood was passed lactic and lithic acids generated by imperfect as in a state neither favorable to health nor to the similation. Bile and urea (secretions of the liver best culture of the affections, and whose manhood and kidneys,) are positive poisons, and when was ushered in by alarming disease, which, al their elimination from the system is entirely sup though often remitting in its violence, was ever pressed they cause "typhoid symptoms," ex his companion until the day of his death. Yet, treme depression and coma, which speedily end in notwithstanding these adverse circumstances, his death ; and in these cases, and those of gradual mind was gradually developed into a state of suppression ending in death, these same excre- maturity and even vigor, which enabled him, un- mentitious matters.which ought to have passed off i der the impelling power of a resolute will and by the liver and kidneys, can be detected in the high conscientiousness, to be a teacher and a solids and fluids of the body. See further on this guide to his fellow-creatures, in the means of subject Williams' Pathology, first American edi preserving their health and cultivating their in tion, page 97. tellect, conjointly with the better and kindlier • (To I* cmtintd.) sentiments of their nature. " The Life and Correspondence of Dr. Combe, as written and arranged by his brother, Mr. The Life and Correspondence of Andeew George Combe, constituting the present volume, abounds in a great variety of topics. It treats of Combe, M.D. By Geoege Combe. 12mo. the effects of different climates on the invalid pp. 428. Muslin, price $1,26. New York. who is threatened witl or actually laboring un Fowlers 4 Wells. der pulmonary cousumption ; and gives minute Than Andrew Combe, very few men, living or directions for his conduct both at home and abroad. Advice and precepts are, also, offered dead, have done more toward popularizing the on the ever important points of education — na subjects of Physiology and Health. His works, tional, collegiate, and private — with reference to which are numerous, are published in many lan- I actual wants and adaptations. Great questions guages, and scattered over the civilized world. of morals and ethics, and the minor but still use ful ones of personal deportment and thrift, are Who has not heard of Combe's Physiology t or brought before the reader in the letters to friends, Combe on Infancy ! or Combe on the Physiology and occasionally in the more formal replies to of Digestion ? No one who makes any preten the interrogations proposed to Dr. Combe. Not sions to an acquaintance with the " Laws of less pertinent and instructive are his remark-* and precautions on Public Hygiene, and on the Life," are without these workB. internal economy and government of Lunati c In the book before us, we have the " Mind of Asylums. the man" mirrored forth in a style truly capti " In the selection and arrangement of his mate vating. The correspondence is also deeply inter rials, the biographer has combined what was due to fraternal affection with the requirements of esting. In the preface to the American edition, philosophic impartiality ; and he has thus ac the writer observes — quitted himself with Buccess of a task, the deli " Seldom is the biography of a man of letters or cacy and ditficulty of which was increased by of science distinguished by many personal adven the very nearness of his relation to the subject of tures and stirring incidents. These, while they this biography." captivate the attention of the crowd, do not fur In closing this brief review, we would most nish materials for abiding instruction, nor the best models for imitation. What it most con earnestly recommend " every lover of his race" cerns us to know is the home life, the daily la to read this book, and thereby avail himself of bors, and the character of him who has devoted the experience of one who has labored long and himself to the improvement of his fellow-men, as : zealously in promoting the best interests of hu a teacher with his pen and tongue, and, if happi- I ly it may be also as an exemplar, in his own per- j manity. son, of the truth of the precepts which he incul- I oates. Watee-Cure Establishments — We find the "The lesson is made more instructive, if there be revealed to us the struggles which the sub following paragraph in one of our Albany ex ject of the biography had to make against the changes, of recent date : — depressing influence of poverty or of disease. " These establishments are springing up, one Successful progress in the high-road of general after another, over the country. We look upon or of professional literature is, under such cir all enterprises of this sort as signs of promise — cumstances, true heroism, and entitles him to ad- i that at least the spirit of inquiry and experiment miration and respect in a higher degree than are ' is abroad among the people. Without reproach HERALD OF REFORMS. 13 to any venerable or superannuated theories, we ments of this description, there has been a con must take leave to think, that the scientific ap sequent feeling of responsibility in this matter, in plication of water affords by far the surest rem regard to all or any who may have been, or are edy for the devastations which may have been likely to be, influenced by opinions so expressed. inflicted on the human constitution, by drugs, pa During the intervening periods, I have enjoyed tent medicines, tobacco, or any other violation of great opportunities by reading, inquiry and ex the laws of health and life." perience, to test still farther this mode of medical treatment ; and as it is possible that the results Medical Education. — The report of the Com thus obtained may be made of Bervice to the mittee of the National Medical Convention, at public health, it is with this hope that the fol Cincinnati, asserts that the medical schools in our lowing article has been prepared. country are too many, the students too numer The following are the general principles which ous, the professors too few and incapable, the \ it is believed experience has established in regard quantity of instruction too limited, the quality too i to the use of cold water as a remedial agent : superficial, and the preparatory training insuffi I First, That for the preservation of health the cient. But the committee have no means of rem use of cold water in general ablutions is impera edy to suggest, as no control can be exercised tive, and as a general rule is safe for all, though over the schools, beyond the influence of the pro there are exceptions even to this rule. But the fession. They think our best medical college far cure of disease demands a peculiar and scientific below the European standard, and this one has J use of water, study, skill and experience, the same been several times on the brink of dissolution as is needful in the use of drug medicines, bo that They, however, recommend all physicians to with medical men who have not read and experiment hold their patronage from all druggists who deal ed in this branch of medical treatment, are not in patent nostrums. They regard all these medi qualified to judge of its merits, or to adopt any cines as highly pernicious to the character, and of its methods in their practice, till they have at no regular member of the profession should, di i least read the standard works on this subject. rectly or indirectly, countenance them. And not unfrequently it happens that the ordinary mode of employing water as a remedial agent, is Watee-Clhe. — By an advertisement in this contrary to the rules of experience obtained in day's paper it will be seen that Mr. H. H. Kel Hydropathic treatment, and seriously hurtful. logg is to open a Water-Cure Establishment in The use of the shower bath, now eo common, this village. Dr. N. Stebbins, who has become a needs to be regulated by rules which are not thorough convert to the water-cure system, by generally understood, and for this reason it is baving tested its efficacy in his own case, is to be frequently a cause of mischief, especially for the physician. — Clinton (N. Y.) Signal. nervous persons and to the young. Second: The success of the Hydropathic treat Health among the Shakers. — The beneficial ment demands a physician who is not only scien results of industry, simple food and regular ha tific and experienced, so as to be able to detect bits, are seen in the fact that the Society of Unit the true nature of the disease, but one who is ed Brethren, (Shakers) at Enfield, Conn., num careful and attentive in observing the effects of bers 2f>9, and not a death has occurred among his prescriptions. The writer believes that in them for .fourteen months. large establishments, unless regulated with ex press reference to this point, the patients are O^" " We must be unanimous," said Hancock very likely to suffer from neglect, bo that if they on the occasion of signing the Declaration of In are not injured, their recovery is greatly retarded dependence, " there must be no pulling different or entirely prevented. ways." Third: Another scarcely less important requi " Yes," observed Franklin, " we must all hang sition is intelligent nursing. If a physician is together, or most assuredly we shall all hang : ever bo well qualified to prescribe, all his skill separately!' . may fail if the nursing department is delegated entirely to ignorant and heedless persons. The MBS BEECHEH ON WATER-CURE. writer has known such frequent and such serious Miss Catharine E. Ueecheb, recently communi suffering and wrong from neglect in this particu lar, that no language can be too strong in warn cated to the Tribune the results of her experience ing the sick to inquire and observe in regard to and reflections in relation to the Hydropathic this matter, before commencing a course of Hy system, which are worth placing on record. They dropathic treatment. The carrying out of the physician's prescriptions should always be super will be found to agree essentially with the ex intended by the physician himself, or by some perience of all hydropaths in this country, if intelligent, well-educated person, who has a know not in all countries. ledge, either by reading or observation, of the Some three years since I wrote several arti various indications that occur in the treatment, cles, setting forth the value of the Cold Water- and which ought to be made known to the phy Cure, which, at the time, were extensively cir sician ns soon as they occur. It is believed that culated. As it afterward appeared that many i the failure of very many to obtain relief from persons were thus induced to resort to establish i disease, has been owing to neglect in this depart 14 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND meat. An intelligent superintendent of the A clean man respects himself, and educates nursing department is needed in every large es his eyes and nose to the observance of decency tablishment, not only to observe and report the He is not afraid of going anywhere, or ashamed results of the nursing, but to secure faithfulness of being in the company of any one. The dirty in those who perform the details of the drudgery. man cares for nobody, and yet slinks away from It should also be the duty of this person to se the sight of respectable people. cure a faithful obedience to all the laws of health, Cleanliness is next to Godliness. — An habit in regard to ventilation, clothing, diet, exercise ually dirty man can hardly be religious. He is and sleep. Inasmuch as a part of the success of breaking one of the first of nature's laws. Clean the water-cure depends on obedience to these liness in person prepares for purity of heart, and rules, care and faithfulness in this respect is of for a reception of the life-giving principles of the great value. Gospel. Fresh Aie, Puke Water and Good Fourth: It is believed that the purity of the Soap forever 1 water has far more influence than has been sup posed, both in the rapidity and the certainly of a Prussic Acid in Cholera. — In the London Med cure, especially in those diseases in which un- ical Times (Allopathic) of Nov. 12, 18-19, Dr. healthful humors and abnormal secretions are to Downing mentions his having used Prussic Acid be discharged from the system. The writer has " in extreme collapse, with manifest advantage." seen results in an establishment where the water Mr. Shea, at Dr. D.'s suggestion, " tried it in more was peculiarly pure, which altogether exceeded than one hundred cases of Cholera, and stated his anything she ever observed or heard of in insti conviction that it was superior to anything that tutions which could not command this important he had ever before employed. He had given it item. to children as young as nine months old with ex Fifth : It is important that the public should cellent effect, and he had never in any case found understand that there are two schools in the Hy prejudicial effects follow its use." Both of these dropathic world, one of them following what is gentlemen are of the Allopathic, or regular prac called the heroic treatment, of which Pbiessnitz tice. is the exemplar; the other adopts a more mode [This last clause sufficiently accounts for the rate method, and the German author, Franke, is wonderful virtues ascribed to this deadly poison. probably the fairest exponent of this school. The writer is fully satisfied, both from her own obser As a general rule, the worse the poison the better vation and from the testimony of others, that in the remedy with allopathies. — Ed.] this country the more moderate system is not only the safest, but the most efficacious. The AMERICAN HYDROPATHIC CONVENTION. heroic treatment originated among the hardy, phlegmatic German race, and both the system, According to appointment, this body, com and the German physicians who administer it, prised of Water-Cure Physicians, met at the are not appropriate to the more delicate, ner Hope Chapel, New Tork, on Wednesday, June vous, and highly excitable temperament of our 19, and organized by the choice of Dr. Joel countrymen, and especially of our countrywomen. Shew, President ; Drs. B Wilmarth and Hub- A Sebmon on Cleanliness. — Don't take those babd Fosteb, Vice Presidents, and Drs. T. L. dirty drinks ; cool yourself with the fresh, clear Nichol- and L. Reuben, Secretaries. water that you can now have straight from the Letters approving of the objects of the Con distant hills in your very home. Whitewash vention were read from Drs. S. Rogers, Wor your cottage, and open your windows. Don't grudge either time or money, that is spent in cester, Mass.; T. T. Seelye, Cleveland, O. ; cleanliness ; and try to live where your neigh Charles Munde, Northampton, Mass. ; and P. H. bors are clean also, lest you should be poisoned Hates, Cuba, N. Y. with their dirt. For Dibt is poison ! It gets A Committee of three, consisting of Drs. Hough into the body through the pores of the skin ; and ton, of New York, Bedobtha, of New Lebanon, the dirty gases enter with the air into the lungs. It mixes with the blood, and makes it corrupt ; and Hamilton, of Saratoga, were appointed to and often fevers, Cholera, consumption, and other draft the Constitution of a National Hydropathic fatal diseases are the result. All slops, middens Society We have space only for the more im and undrained places help to poison the air ; and we should wash them away as fast as ever we portant articles of this can. There ought to be a drain and water closet constitution. in every street ; and, above all, a plentiful sup Preamble. — We, the undersigned, Physicians ply of water to flush the dirt away. The places and Surgeons, believing in the doctrine of the where many of the poor reside are only fit for Vis Medicatrix Natures, or the inherent tendency drunkards; they are too bad for beasts. If of the human constitution to free itself from dis workingmen spent part of their drinking-money ease ; — and, furthermore, that of all the reme in house rent, such places would be deserted, and dial agents which the experience of ages has soon pulled down. shown to be requisite to assist Nature in her HERALD OF REFORMS. 15 operations, Water is by far the best, the 6afe9t, cept upon the adoption of the second article of and most universal in its application ; do hereby the Constitution ; for while a majority of the agree to the following Constitution : 1. This Association shall be styled "The Ame Convention insisted that all future members rican Hygienic and Hydropathic Association of should have received the degree of M. D., or a Physicians and Surgeons :" and its objects shall legal license, several members were for placing be the diffusion of those physiological principles the test of membership upon qualifications alone. which are usually comprised under the term Hygiene, and the development of the thera It was urged upon one side, that a conformity to peutic virtues of water to their fullest extent, on medical usages would give the society the stamp a strictly rational and scientific basis, and with of respectability — on the other, it was urged that especial reference to the laws of the human sys a Hydropathic Society, composed of those who tem, both in health and disease ; a proper regard being always paid to the various modifications profess to be the vanguard of medical reformers, which may, from time to time, result from the ought not to stand upon the musty precedents of progressive advancement of medical science. the past, or practice the exclusiveism of older 2. Any Physician, residing in the United States schools, by the adoption of a rule which would of America, having received the degree of Doctor I of Medicine, or a licente to practice the healing I exclude from the society the Founder of Hydrop art, and who shall exhibit satisfactory proofs of athy, and many of his most eminent disciples; his competency to practica Hydropathy, may be much less that a body of water-cure physicians elected a member of this Association by the should make the diplomas of Allopathic facul votes of a majority of those present at an annual meeting. ties, or the licenses of Allopathic boards of exam Sections 8, 4, 6, 6, 1, provide for the election of iners, the test of membership. The speakers on officers, the holding of annual meetings, and re one side contended that the old conservative visions of the constitution. ground was the highest, or at all events the most 8. This Association shall not legislate respect ing the practice of its members ; nor shall any expedient — those on the other, that the more lib rules be made respecting the ethics of medical eral course of the society being its own judge of practice. the qualifications of its members, was the moBt 9. Provides for a public oration at each annual noble, self reliant, and truly respectable. The meeting. 10. Committees on Hygiene and Hydropathy, section was finally adopted as above ; but pre with annual reports. vious to adjournment, Dr. B. Wilmarth, one of 11. Committee on credentials and qualifica the Vice Presidents of the Convention, gave no tions for membership. tice that at the next annual meeting he should 12. Annual paying of two dollars, with special assessments. move such an amendment of section second, as 18. Honorary members. to make qualifications alone the test of member Under the above Constitution, the following ship. board of officers was elected for the ensuing year : [In performing my duty as Secretary of the President— Dr. Lowry Barney, Jefferson Co., New Convention, and of the Society, in reporting the York. above proceedings, I take the opportunity of Vice Presidents — Dr. Charles Monde. Northampton, Masa. Dr. T. T. Seelye, Cleveland, Ohio. personally entering my earnest protest against Secretary— Dr. T. L Nicholj. New York City. the principle embodied in the second section. I Treasurer— Dr. R. T. Trail, New York City. view it as far behind the spirit of the age, truck RTANDINQ COMMITTEES. ling to the low forms of the schools of medicine On Hygiene— Dn. R. S. Houghton, New York, E. A- Kittredge, Norton, Ifahbard Fouler, Lowell, Mast. we are exterminating, and utterly opposed to the On Hydropathy— Tyn. S. O. (ileason, Cortlandt Co., New liberal and enlightened public sentiment upon York, B. Wilmarth, Mm., T C. Coyle, Georgia. On Credentials and Qualifications— Urn Joel Shew, New which all the success of our system of practice York, W-n. A. Hamilton, Saratoga, N. Bedortha, Lebanon, depends.] New York. In the evening, the Society held its first public A special committee, consisting of Doctors Nichols, Houghton and Shew, was appointed to meeting, at which addresses were delivered by prepare and publish the address of the Conven Dr. R. S. Houghton and Dr. T. L. Nichols. After tion. the transaction of some final business the Society Orator for the next annual meeting, S. O. Glka- adjourned sine die. The time and place of the bok, M. D., of Glen Haven ; substitute, T. L; Nichols, M.D, of New York. next meeting will be fixed by the Executive The proceedings of the Convention were char Committee, and due notice given. acterized by great harmony and unanimity, ex T. L. Nichols, M.D., Secretary. 16 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

NEW-YORK, JULY, 1850. then, are so many diseases so prevalent 1 No answer can be given save that the people are ignorant. And All Communications relating to thii Jonrnal ihoold, in who is there to teach them 1 Our twenty or thirty all casks, be directed to the Publishers, Fowlers b medical colleges turn out a few thousands of young Wells, New York. doctors annually to go forth among the suffering in habitants, and teach — what 1 The laws of being 1 TnE Present Number is sent to t)io§e whose subscrip The philosophy of health 1 The way of preventing tions expired with the lost. June No. As our terms are pay. diseases 1 The manner of returning to nature when able in advance, we shall send do more, until directed to do diseases have been incurred by transgression 1 No, so by those who may wish to renew their subscriptions. no, nothing of the sort. Do you ask why not 1 Be- It will be our aim to adapt the Journal to the wants oause they do not know, themselves. These things • ' or the People" rvertwhere. It is not, as some have are not taught in medical schools. Are you sur supposed, designed for medical men only, but for all men prised at this assertion 1 There is no greater delu and ALL WOMEN. sion than the general supposition that medical schcols Present Subscribers are our main reliance. Those are the repositories of physiological science. No. who know the utility of the Jonrnal will work for it, and Medical schools teach tho art of doctoring, secun- recommend it to their friends and neighbors, that they, too, may dtm arttm, to be sure, but no better for the Latin. participate in its familiar teachings. Thus shall we be en They teach you how to mix, mingle, mangle, munglt abled through our friends and co-workers to "DO good" ointments, plasters, poultices, lotions, liniments, cerates, and salves innumerable, how to pound, com- To our Contributors. — We beg to acknowledge our pound, decompound, and re-compound as many poi obligations for the valuable scientific and literary contribu sons as there were ever frogs in Egypt, and thoy teach tions with which the Water-Cure Jonrnal hns been filled. you in what intervals and proportions to take them ; Of the merits of these contributions our readers will judge, and thoy teach you how to leave it all to the doctor, yet we may with propriety state that amongst all the vaiions and how to know nothing yourself, and how to mo conflicting theories in medical practice, not an individual has been known to express a doubt in regard to the profound dify, complicate and variate tho doses till your pains ability of the writers whose articles appear from mooth to aro smothered or your bodies buried, as tho case may month in this publication. bo ; and they leave you pretty thoroughly impressed with the idea that the more you are doctored the JULY MATTERS. more you must be. Any other course of conduct on BY B. T. TRALL, M.D their part would bo suicidal. What, medical col Matters and Things in General.— Imagine, if leges and college-made doctors teach people how to you can, an earthly millennium where wast ing con take care of their own health 1 Why, there is not a sumptions, enervating dyspepsias, prostrating palsies, medical college in the world that could be sustained stiffening rheumatisms, deforming gouts, distorting ten years, nor a graduate who could find a market for spasms, agonizing neuralgies, blighting fevers, ery his apothecary stuff the ensuing five years, if such sipelas blotches, scrofulous sores, cancerous ulcers, school taught and such graduate practiced according inflamed viscera, and mildewed skins abound ; in a to nature. The popular science of medicine will have word, where disease is the general condition and no existence after the popular mind is a little more health the exoeption. You cannot do it. Your enlightened. And if our favorite branch of the heal whole nature instinctively revolts against such a con ing art, called hydropathy, which not only cures the clusion. Common sense asserts and experience proves sick, but teaches the world how to avoid disease, finds that happiness cannot be divorced from health ; that its necessary professors few and far between, we shall man's highest moral and intellectual state implies his not lament the part we have acted in destroying our best physiological condition ; and what is true of a own business. man individually is true of mankind collectively. "A Matters and Thinos in Particular. — Fleet- sound mind in a sound body," is the only proper footed time again furnishes tho fitting opportunity basis of all the reforms of which philanthropists have for an interview, specially familiar and constructive ever dreamed. Health reform, then, is the veritable ly personal, between the makers and takers of the corner-stone upon which the Christian, the social, Water-Curo Journal. Bear in mind, indulgent the political, as well as the medical reformer must reader, that in all these semi-annual interchanges of predicate all rational faith in a millennial state of the " mind and matter," we, the party of the first part, human family on this earth. It has been said very are to do tho talking, while your part of the conver truly, *' make people good and they will be happy." sation is to " read, reflect, and inwardly digest.'' That sentiment may be so transposed as to utter Premising thus briofly , we proceed to say that the pre another and equally significant truth — make people sent number commonces the tenth volume of this work. happy and they will be good. We have in times past and gone told you— pardon It is certainly more convenient, more economical, our presumption if we say taught you, many things. more agreeable, and less laborious for the mass of the There are many other truths not yet writton in any people of these United States — in fact, of all coun water-cure periodical which we desire to communi tries—to preserve health than to be sick. Why, cate to the world. Our friond Noggs, whose ccceu HERALD OF REFORMS. 17

tlicities will cause many to bless Cochituate waters, gienic science but what the unprofessional people can, sonetimes says, when lecturing to very large and and should understand ; and there are no " fallacies highly intelligent audiences, " it won't hurt any of of the faculty," but what should be exposed and ex you to know a little more." ploded. And, as this herald is determined to storm However conversant you, the reader of our past the very citadel of orthodox error, the inspiration of voluues, may have become with hydropathic lore, we, a large company would do much to animate and en the firtt party aforosaid, are " interiorly impressed" courage the stecl-pon swords which fight through its that you may continue to joumey along with us in columns, as well as to hold its contributors to a more the same relation as heretofore, to the mutual ad rigid responsibility. Give us, then, a world-wide vantage of both parties, and the benefit of our fellow- field, all the people for spectators, and the human creatures. In behalf of the publishers, who are con race for a jury, and our forces will march onward in stantly toiling and expending, to improve the form tho assurance that truth itself is a coat of mail, im and matter of this journal ; in behalf of the contrib pervious and invinoible. , utors, who endeavor to present such facts, argu Regular Medical Education. — At the late Na ments, statistics, illustrations, and practical direc tional Medical Convention, held at Cincinnati, a tions as shall be worthy of consideration ; and espe committee on education reported — cially in behalf of universal humanity, which must " That tho medical schools in our country are too many, the students too numerous, the professors too be relieved of its accumulated masses of disease be few and incapable, the quantity of instruction too fore it can work out its proper destiny, we appeal to limited, the quality too superficial, and the prepara all friends of all reform, for a wide circulation. If tory training insufficient. But the committee have those who profit by its contents, and believe in its no means ofremedy to suggest, as no control can be exercised over tho schools, beyond the influence of general teachings, will use their reasonable influence the profession." to extend its list of readers, all parties will be satis We have never charged anything against the pro fied and grateful. fession worse, or more defective, than this report al A General Mattek and Particular Thing. leges. But what is deplorably curious is, that es~ no — Whether the last volume was an improvement on remedy can bo suggested, because all the influence is Its predecessors we submit to the public ; that the exercised by the profession. ensuing shall bo an improvement on the last, our Beef against Potatoes. — The Mirror thus re " law of progress" may be a satisfactory assurance plies to a vegetarian who believes it is good not to eat That the influence of this monthly visitant is exten animal food : — sively felt, its rapidly increasing list of subscribers " The children of tho English nobility are the attests ; that it ranks number one, as a practical children of the most inordinate flesh-eaters in Chris tendom ; there is but little difference, we are told, health journal, we have the almost unanimous testi between the diet of tho young princes and young mony of the public press ; to all which wo may add, peasants in England, but, oh ! the difference when that it has already much the largest circulation of they grow up! I ho grown-up peasant lives all his any medical periodical we have any knowledgo of. life almost entirely on vegetable diet, while the noble man eats flesh, ' and they acquire a stamina which Wo are authorized to state, in the name of all makes them so fine a race.' All the American trav who arc in any way concerned in its management, elers in England have commented on the palpable that they are ready, willing, and anxious to dis physical superiority of the upper classes of England cuss all questions of life and health, disease and to the porridgo-eating peasant. The matter could not be put in a stronger light than contrasting a remedies, in fact all matters of difference on these beef-eating English landlord with a potato-eating subjects, and all principles relating to them, before Irish peasant." the whole people. With one hand they will stead The above is a fair sample of the most unfair me ily point to those pernicious fallacies of the pres thod of reasoning with which this subject is usually ent day, and those crude philosophies of darker ages treated. The writer tells us to compare a beef-eating they are striving to demolish ; and with the other to nobleman, who lives in a large, commodious house, those simple and sublime truths which they are labor surrounded by parks and fountains, and having at ing to disseminate. They ask, invite, challenge, command all the means of healthful exercise and rigid investigation and free discussion. In fact, they healthful rest, andlhealthful recreation, and healthful Intend to " carry the war into Africa." Those food in the matters of healthful fruits and vegetables, whose doctrines and practices we oppose as erroneous, with a beggarly peasant who lives in a mud-shanty, will not — we cannot coax, drive, or bribe them to has not wherewithal to wear clean clothes, who has moet us — controvert the propositions respecting which no knowledge of hygienic agencies, yet who eats we differ, before the public. They will sneer, scoff, whatever of animal or vegetable food he can lay denounce, and misrepresent, most valiantly, in the se hands on, which from mere po\*erty is mainly limited curity of their own technical darkness ; but as to let to porridge and potatoes, and not half enough of ting their *' light shine" before the public, they them. The only proper standard of comparison is seem to be afraid it will not be duly appreciated, or beef-eating English nobleman, with potato-eating to regard such a procedure as " casting pearls before English nobleman ; and beef-eating Irish peasant swine." Whatever may be the reason, we aver that with potato-eating Irish peasant. Then a very dif there arc no truths in medical, physiological, or hy ferent result would be obtained. • 18 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

Summer Diseases. — Ab new fruits and vegetables Although, individually, I have diligently studied begin to fill our markets, bowel complaints, especial ; allopathic nonsenso, and prescribed, in those dayt of ly among children, increase. As this has always been j ignorance which may God wink at, some of its drag- the case, the doctors have traced and the public has gery, it is among those peculiar favors for which I es- believed there is a necessary connection between new ! pecially thank Heaven, that I never swallowed much fruits and vegetables and bowel complaints; and the of either. In the same article, page 181, for therapice, doctors have generally contented themselves with doc read thcrapia ; and for " revelations of tho medical toring the bowels and condemning the fruits and profession to the public," read relations, &c. vegetables, without enlightening the public under standing in the matter at all. Now there is a con siderable class of our community who, children and PRACTICE IN WATER-CURE. adults, use fruits and vegetables freely at all seasons, BY T. L. NICHOLS, M.D. and never have any bowel complaints at all worth [Continued.] mentioning. How are these things to be accounted Strong, naked, honest facts ore what the publla for 1 In this way : The latter class are always care want to satisfy them of the virtues of the water-cure. ful to select good, well-grown and well-ripened ar | It is not enough to enunciate principles — we most ticles. The former look at the effects of half-grown j give their practical operation. We must not only and unripo articles, and summarily condemn the show how diseases ought to be cured, but how they whole vegetable kingdom. Mistaking the abuse for ■ are cured. The time has come to tear off the veil of the nature of vegetation, they recommend more con ] mystery with which the healing art has so long been centrated, and moro animal, and more farinaceous shrouded ; and it has been left to the practitioners of food at the very season when nature and instinct both J the water-cure to teach the people the philosophy of point us to the exact contrary conduct. We hold a I j health, the causes of disease, and the means of cure. free use of good fruits and vegetables absolutely essen 1 Whatever may be the ultimate destiny of Hydropa- tial to the best sanatary condition of the body in hot j thy, its present mission is to enlighten the world weather. We defy tho whole " flesh, fish, and fowl" | upon these most important subjects, to popularize raco of medical gentlemen, and tho whole superfine medical science, and to spread everywhere a know- flour, anti-apple, anti-squash, and anti-potato class j ledge of tho laws of fife. It is a glorious mission — of people to prove to us one singlo case of serious bowel " let us labor earnestly for its full accomplishment. complaint in persons whose whole food consisted of That I may " contribute my mito" to the good good fruits and vegetables and unconcentrated fari work, in what may bo for many the most effectual naceous food, provided their general habits wero way, I proceed with the record of my cases. healtbul in other respects. CASE IV. — INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. City Inspector's Retort. — Tho recent able re For tho lost year this has been a very prevalent port of A. W. White, on tho amount and causes of and fatal disease ; the less fatal the more prevalent* mortality in this city, presents some frightful items for the annual report of the City Inspector informs us for consideration. Ho tells us that this city abounds that in tho year 1849, no less than 926 deaths wers with pestilence-creating nuisances, which arc con from this disease ; if we allow a mortality of ten per stantly spreading disease and death around ; and yet cent, we have over nine thousand cases in a single wo question whether the facts presented will elicit year, and our doctors would not be willing to admit tho least action on tho part of our city authorities. that there was a larger proportional mortality. The nuisances particularly designated are " bone and The case I am about to record was that of a fine, flesh boiling establishments, ran mire heaps, slaughter florid boy, eight years old, whose parents, having houses, and burial-grounds and vaults." Many both been greatly benefited by the water-cure, are others might have been pointed out with at least its zealous advocates. In the early period of the at>- equal propriety. Among them are distilleries, cow- tack, the mother applied judicious treatment, but stables, hog-pens, and underground tenements. The she was not prepared to cope with the violence of the following extract is in itself an awful commentary on disease ; and the father, returning from business, thoso habits of civilized society which are filling tho and finding his boy so ill, came for me. world with premature deaths and needless woes. I found the little patient with a pulse of 130, a " The diseases of infancy and accidents of child birth, annually carry off a very large number. Dur hurried respiration, hard, and almost croupy breath ing the last year this amounted to the enormous sum ing, a constant cough, and great fever. I gave him of 12,023, an excess over last year of 3129. Over 6000 a chill rubbing bath of nearly ten minutes, which are returned as from cholera infantum, convulsions, cooled the surface, and somewhat relieved the dis dropsy of head, marasmus, and diseases affecting early childhood, whilo 1320 wero still-born, or pre tress. As the fever rose again I met it with a wet mature births. The number of these still-born and sheet pack, and left him for tho night, well bandaged premature births is steadily on the increase." about the chest. Errata. — Tho June number of tho Journal made At 9 a. M. the next day, I found him with a con me say, on page 180: — "The writet has swallowed tinual cough, sonorous breathing, his eyes glassy, such nonsenso long enough, and the accompanying his pulse very freqnont, and every appearance of a poisons rather too long." For writer, read world. seated disease ; which, upon a careful examination, HERALD OF REFORMS. 19

I fotnd to be complicated with an enlargement of the doubtful one of the hot fomentations, had been agree bean, and in consequence, it seemed, a greater ten able and efficacious. His pain and oppression had been dency to febrile action. I first rubbed his chest with relieved, and while the fever continued ho was hardly my hands dipped in cold water, and then gave him a conscious of being sick. I consider the oase, with its fall wet sheet pack of an hour and a half, and left complications, one of the worst I ever was acquaint him, much relieved. ed with, and its successful issue a triumph of tho The same afternoon I found him again in a high water-cure. fever, pulse 130, breathing oppressed, and all the CASE V.— FEVEK AND AOITE. symptoms unfavorable. I gave him a thorough rub I have long wished to write upon the hydropathic bing in a tepid bath, one of the best of all remedies treatment of this disease, the bane and scourge of so hi a congestive fever. I brought the pulse down to many beautiful portions of our country. I know it 120 ; but the inflammatory action persisted against is an ugly disease — I have an instinctive dread of un these active remedies, and the diseased action of the dertaking its cure ; yet I have never known the woter- longs would not admit of the same cooling processes, curo to fail, nor a case to last over three weeks, when Med to the same extent as in ordinary fevers. It not complicated with pregnancy, and casos are often ■eemod necessary that a certain amount of this action cured in a week. should go on, and it was a delicate point to steer be The severest case I have had was that of a Presby tween the excess of action and the prostration of the terian clergyman, a stout, florid gentleman of forty, who had been a chaplain in the navy, had had the At II o'clock the same night, I found the fever at African coast fever, two attacks of the cholera, and Its height. Tho heart was beating away at the rato now after a tour of missionary service in a miasmatic grain of calo maturely of some othor form of disease. mel or antimony, nor been skinned with a blister. What o blessing it would be to this country if the From first to last every application, except the very application of the water-cure to this single disease 20 WATER-CURE JOURNAL,* AND

could bo universally known ! Dickson considers fe CASES IN FREGNANOY AND CHILDBIRTH. ver and ague as the original type of all disease. I am BY JOEL SHEW, M.D. confident that no form of disease is better adapted to CASE 1 — SPASMS OF THE STOMACH, VOMITING, WITH the hydropathic treatment. HIGH GENERAL FEVER. CASE VI. — RHEUMATISM. Late in the month of January, of the present year Having occasion to get some furniture repaired (1860), I was called early in the morning to visit a about the first of May, I employed a woithy Irish young married lady, in Fourth Avenue, who was said cabinet-maker, who complained that his partner was to be in great suffering from spasms and vomiting- laid up with the rheumatism. At his request I went She bad not slept during the night, and it was neces to visit him. Going into a thickly-settled neighbor sary for her husband to remain up with her the whole hood, where a whole block of front and rear build time. I found her with very high general fever, and ings had a family on every floor, if not in every room, oft-recurring spasms, attended with bilious vomiting. I did not immediately find my patient ; and while The fact of her being in an advanced stage of preg making inquiries, at every place where I asked I nancy, with this complication of untoward symptom; found that some one was sick. At last 1 found my man upon her, designated the case too clearly to a prac in a basement ; he slept in one basement and worked ticed observer, as being one of both delicacy and hi another. By night he had been poisoned with bad danger. The parties in the case had no knowledge air, and by day with tobacco ; but this was not the whatevor of the Water-Cure, or of my particular worst : he had had considerable sickness in Ireland, methods of treatment, and had called me, being the and had been drenched with medicines. He looked nearest physician, and, as they supposed, of the old like it. Even the wounds made by accident on his school. No medicines had as yet been administered*, body were badly healed. The rheumatism invaded but the patient, as is common on such occasions, hod first one joint and then another, and worst of all he been deluged with a great variety of articles, in the had a bad cough : altogether he looked miserably ; way of liquid food and drinks, with the hope of but I was not discouraged, for I had seen how such " settling the stomach," a process which can seldom persons come up, when once under the influence of succeed, and, as often practiced, is quite sufficient of the water-cure. itself to make even a well person sick. In such a case the first step is a thorough cleansing, The patient and her husband both thought, as a and this is no make-believe. You want warm water matter of course, that " some physic must be given." and a plenty — soap and a plenty — rubbing and a plen I told them we would first give a tepid bath, at 70° ty. My patient had all these, and the odor that rose F. This I assured them would give great relief, and from his cleansed skin and opened pores showed that knowing well, too, the great prejudice among Eng the good work had been begun. I bandaged the rheu lish people (for they were English) against bathing matic joints with towels wrung out of cold water, and in pregnanoy, I aided the husband, with my own directed him to put them also around his chest on go hands, in administering it, thus to be certain of its ing to bed. The three succeeding days, I packed being well and faithfully done. This they both him in the wet sheet, and the quantity of foul matter thought at the time a rather harsh method of treat thrown off by his skin is post belief. The bandages ment; but they had employed the doctor, and he to the limbs and chost were continued, and the cough being resolute and determined, and gentle withal, and rheumatism gave way. On the fourth day I they could not refuse. The bath gave great relief, gave him the douche, which seemed to put new life and then, all shivering and cold, a very large wet into him. The cough still continuing, I directed girdle was put upon the patient, after which she was him to have a cotton jacket made without sleeves, wrapped warmly in bed, with moderately warm to be wrung out of cold water and worn next the skin, bricks to the feet. night and day, with the necessary changes for clean After having allowed the patient to rest awhile, a liness. All the time I had directed a pure, careful, large injection was administered, and with the best and nutritious diet. I discharged him on the fifth effoct. Occasionally, too, retching still occurred day, and he has been at his work ever since. (for symptoms of this kind never cease suddenly, and, This worthy fellow was cured of his disease and of indeed, should not), at which times tepid water was using tobacco at the same time, and taught enough given freely to drink, for the purpose of aiding vomit to enable him to keep well for the rest of his life. The ing. whole charge was five dollars, which he will save in a Thus the treatment was pursued : as the symptoms short time in the filthy weed he has abandoned. appeared to demand, the tepid half-bath, with a good This was pretty cheap treatment; but when a man deal of friction, the wot girdle, constantly or nearly works hard for a baro living, it is hard to pay any so, the injections and the water-drinking were kept thing for the misfortune of being sick. Often such a up. From the first moment onward, the patient man pays for advice that does him no good, and med recovered as rapidly as could be desired. She slept icines that make him worse. Then the case is hard a good deal during the day, and also well at night. indeed, but it is the caso of thousands. The next morning she was quite well, although New York, 87 Wat Tuxnty-ucmd ttrttt. weak. She then commenced taking nourishment HERALD OF REFORMS. 21 gradually. No further serious troubles wcro expe At labor, as well as during pregnancy, she was at rienced during the period of pregnancy. tended by one of the best physicians of London. It CASE II. — CHILDBIRTH. was three weeks before she could leave her bed ; in The 4th of April, 1850, the above-mentioned lady, four weeks she left her room for the first, and did not at about the end of eight months of pregnancy, as I go out of the house until six weeks had elapsed. She was supposed, was delivered. There was more or teas then no ttronger than in two days after confine- leas of pain during thirty-six hours previous to the | mcnt, tinder water-treatment. birth. The pains were rather severe during the Here, then, was a great difference in tho result of most of twenty-four hours, proving that good hoalth, the two methods — a difference so great that it cannot with abundant exercise and bathing, are not ne- possibly be appreciated, except by those who have oessarily of themselves capable of causing short and actually experienced them in their own persons. easy labor. One fact more should be mentioned in this case ; The child was born at about five o'clock in the the lady had been exceedingly depressed in mind afternoon. Soon a thorough ablution was performed through the whole, or most of the period, she, with in the sitting bath. No patient ever had a better her husband, having left the old world for the new. understanding of what was necessary in the case, and A combination of circumstances most perplexing none certainly could be more free from all sensations and depressing had worked upon her mind, and she of false modesty or delicaoy. Nor could any one was haunted perpetually with tho idea that she pursue the treatment with greater confidence than must die a stranger in a strange country. Thus she did. There was no time when she could not | things went on till about nine weeks before she easily sit up or stand, if necessary, and with the good was confined, or the time before mentioned, of her nursing of her husband, she improved most rapidly. acute illness. Then it was, that suddenly, unexpect She wore the wet girdlo most of the time, alternat edly, providentially, a great world of light burst upon ing, however, now and then, with simple fomenta her ; and right faithful was she in tho performance tions. She bathed four times during the first twenty- J ofeveryduty. No sooner were the lawsoflife, health, four hoars after the birth, washing the whole body and disease unfolded to her ever-active and intelli thoroughly at each time, the water being moderated gent mind, than she at once sot resolutely and cheer to from 60° to 70° Fahrenheit. She sat up during fully to tho performing of every task. No item in this time about six hours in all, and walked by the ways of bathing, exercise, diet, &o., was ever spells a little in her room. She suffered somewhat omitted. Tho story of her case tells whether or not with after-pains, but the means before mentioned, to she was rewarded for her faithfulness. gether with injections to the bowels, generally brought relief. All along her appetite and sleep I CASE III. — BTUOUS VOMITINO, CRAMP OF THE STOM were good. ACH, IIIOH GENERAL FEVER, WITH SLEEPLESS The second day the patient sat up most of the NESS. time, and walked to other parts of the house, and for Early in the morning of the 22d of May, 1850, 1 an hour and a half visited a friend. She could have was called to visit a lady of this city, about thirty gone abroad in the open air, had it been necessary for years of age, far advanced in her sixth pregnancy. for her so to do. She had, during this period, as before, been muoh in The third morning, that is, when her infant was the habit of taking alcoholic stimulants, principally two and a half days old, the patient walked with her in the form of brandy, judging, from her feelings, husband a distance of about three fourths of a mile, she needed the stimulus. But its only effect was to visiting a friend. She was fatigued somewhat, but render her, at all times, much more liable to take on on the whole, benefited by the undertaking. inflammatory disease. After this, she walked abroad in the open air daily, Four days before I was called, this lady was taken always having to go down from the third story of the with very severe bilious vomiting, and cramp of the house in which she lived. In one week she went stomach. Two physicians were consulted, and a va about the city teaching her scholars in French, Ger riety of medicines used. Still the patient continued, man, music, &c., as she had done up to the very day day by day, to grow worse, and could get neither re of labor. lief nor sleep. Being told that she was in danger of And now to exhibit things in their true light, let convulsions, she and her husband ooncludod they this lady's case, as it occurred under water-treatment, would change their physician and try the water- be contrasted with the drug treatment employed on treatment. a previous like occasion. I found tho patient then retching and vomiting Between two and three years before, she was preg almost inoessantly, the stomach cramping, the bow nant with her first child. Then, as during the lost els constipated, with high general fever and flush of time, she was attacked with cramps, vomiting, and countenance, the pulse being at 130 per minute, or fever She was laid by a fire in an almost insensible about double its normal beat, and the patient had state, and had mustard draughts placed over a large not slept for three days. part of the surface. She was also dosed a good deal Treatment. — This was very simple The wholo internally, and salivated with calomel. body was well washed in water at about 80° Fahron ■ 22 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND hcit ; a full clyster was administered, and wet, cool with after-pains before, but nothing worth mention ing fomentations, were put freely over the chost and ing this time. Injections were used from time tt> abdomen. Almost immediately the patient expe time, and the wet towels over the abdomen. Tlfe rienced a short but refreshing sleep. The cloths second day the patient was up in her room. Tire were changed often, the surface was sponged as it be third morning, as I went to her door, I heard some came too hot or uncomfortable. The general washing one singing, and on entering, found it was the patient in the wash-tub was practiced once in four hours from herself, alone, sitting up with her infant in her arms. the first, which always brought sleep. When retch The fourth morning the lady was so well, that ing and nausea came on, tepid water was taken freely there was no excuse for a doctor any more. She said to help the vomiting. This gave great relief. No she had to keep her room, and mostly her bed, for other drink than water was taken, and no fodd four weeks always before. Now in three days she was until the vomiting had ceased. After this wcll- perfectly well, bathing herself repeatedly every dayv boiled Indian-meal gruel was given, beginning with whereas always before she had never dared wash her- a single tea-spoonful at first, and then increasing the Belf, short of a whole month, and then only with quantity as could be borne, at tho next regular meal whisky! She was now convinced that the only sofa time. After the first day tho patient was bathed way to prevent taking cold, was to bathe. three to four times in the twenty-four hours. Tho This, then, may be put down as a remarkabki clysters and fomentations were continued as circum- case. Eleven days before labor the patient was very Btances required. No very cold water was used in dangerously sick. The birth was exceedingly easy any form. and short, and although such labors are not on tho In three days' time tho patient was up and about, whole as safe as those which are moro difficult and and in all respects quite well, though somewhat protracted, she yet recovered her usual health in a weak. remarkably short period of time, and without any CASE TV.— CHILDBIRTH. mishap or pain. She bathod but very little, compa Eleven days after commencing the treatment in ratively, although that little told well. No applica the above case, namely, on Sunday morning, tho 2nd tion whatever of cold water was made. of Juno, 1850, tho patient was taken very suddenly in When I commenced writing, I intended giving ad labor. Within half an hour after the very first sen ditional cases to the above, but as room will not per sation of any pain, and before her husband could mit, I must reserve them for another time. These I call me, her child was born, a sixth son. She suf havo given will illustrate the aveiage turrrsi of fered but little, and was delivered while in the stand water treatment, when skillfully and judiciously prac ing posture, but the after-birth remained unborn. I ticed, in the important matters of pregnancy and found her weeping for fear that she would bo sub childbirth. jected to some horriblo water-applications, of Let all who love the truth, as it exists in the ever which she had read. I told her that my mode of beautiful and yet wonderful operations of nature, as practice was altogether different from that which she witnessed in the laws of the living economy, profit by so much feared, and that at any rate, no honest phy the examples I have given if they will. sician would ever subject a patient to any process Corner Twelfth Street and University Place, N. T. which she could not heartily concur in. I told her, moreover, that I would much prefer that she should havo her old physician if she chose, and that she THE WATEE-OURE. oonld not possibly offend me, if she would but frankly take her own choice Her husband then desired that BY E. A. KITTBEDGE, M.D. she would pursue that course which she herself pre The forthcoming number of the Journal, you say, ferred. With the explanation I had given, she con commences a new volume, and many thousand extrk cluded at once to go on with the matter as I might numbers will be issued, and, of course, very many see fit to advise : " Well," said I to myself, " we novices will read them, who never before heard aught will seo how a mixed treatment will answer — a little of the Wator-Cure. I will, therefore, presuming on of the old, and a little of the now." my experience, take the liberty to address them par The patient was perfectly willing to bo bathed in ticularly, and all others generally. tepid water, which I also advised. But sho wanted The Water-Cure has been before the world as a the old-fashioned obstetrical bandage or binder, as distinctive system several years, not much known, sho had used it before. 1 explained to her all about its however, in this country till about seven years ago, nature and effects, and consented that she might use but long enough, even here, to have its merits well it if she would take it off at each time of bathing, tested. and at all times when she found it causing too great Let us rapidly, but candidly, take a review of the heat. Her husband bathed her four times the first two great systems— the drug and the water-cure day in bed ; the women would not help at all. systems — and then " let us reason together." She was able to sit up in bed, and the second day and The drug system has been before the public hun onward, she bathed herself, tho old nurse always dreds of years, which by many of its supporters is making herself absent at tho time. She had suffered considered argumeut onough in favor of its ortho HERALD OF REFORMS. 27

cies in tho most celebrated work by the- masters of come tho advocates of quackery and imposture, by the water-cure. They exhibit a limpid and trans recommending secret medicines and preparations publicly in the newspapers, and more frequently pri parent purity of style, which takes its qualities from vately to their parishioners, thus using their exten their favorite clement. Having no special abstract sive influence against the true interests of science and theories to sustain, they deal in plain every-day facts the advancement of the medical sciences more parti and incidents that come home to the " business and cularly, it becomes the duty of physicians to discrim inate betweon those who are the frionds of quackery : bosoms'' of the people. Hence, they seldom fail to It is therefore be read with interest, even by those who enjoy that Resolved, That the mombersef the South Carolina palmy state of health which makes them unconscious Medical Association will continue to offer their ser of stomachs or lungs. The " Water-Cure Journal," vices gratuitously to all clergymen and their fami lies, when tho clergyman is known to be a friend of as it is one of the oldest, is also one of the most val tho medical profession. uable productions of the hydropathic school in this Resolved t That no clergyman shall receive our ser country. It is an admirable specimen of tho kind of vices gratuitously who advocates and recommends medical literature to which we have just alluded, the use of secret and patented medicines, either pub licly in the newspapers or privately to his own parish and, indeed, has excited no small influence in its for ioners. mation. No family, whether troubled with " symp Resolved, That negroes belonging to clergymen are toms" or not, should be without it. There is no bet not to be considered in any case as entitled to the ter manual either for tho preservation of health or for benefit of the first resolution, but for attendance on the cure of disease. We rejoice to learn that in the them, our usual rates may, in all cases, bo charged." hands of its liberal and energetic publishers, Messrs. In the Oration, we find many exceedingly interest Fowlers & Wells — a house to which the American ing and eloquent passages, going to prove tho " Unity public is so largely indebted for many of tho most of the Race," a theory in regard to which there truly instructive and popular productions of the day are two opinions. The whole tenor of this discourse — it is gaining an extensive circulation, and follow is pre-eminently Southern. ing in the wake of their common-sense physiological publications, which are scattered so profusely among MISCELLANY: the " bone and muscles" of our land from Maine to Society of Public Health. — Thoro.has been Minnesota. — Hunt't Merchant*' Magazine. recently formed in this city an association, under the above designat ion, which already includes among its MlNl.TES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH CA members many of our most enlightened citizens, ROLINA Medical Association, at its Annual and which promises to be the means of great and per Meetings, Feb. 1&19 and 50, together with tho Trans manent utility. It has been organized chiefly by the actions of the Board of Counselors, and tho Anni exertions of Dr. Nichols, whose writings on the versary Oration. By J. P. Barratt, Charleston, Health Reform have done much in awaking public 8. C. Walker and James, printers. attention ; and his services have been secured for the The document is complete. A very elaborate Re responsible office of general agent and permanent port of the cogitations of a very learned body of secretary of the society. Its objects and operation? Allopathic Physicians. . may be best gathered from the following It appears that tho Treasury Department at Wash DECLARATION. ington appointed a drug inspector, at tho port of " Belioving that disease and premature death are, in most casts, the results of ignorant violations of Charleston, S. C, who was totally ignorant of the the laws of health, by individuals and commuuities; quality of drugs, and tho large importing houses of and that the amount of such sickness, and the extent the Northern cities, learning this fact, at once or of such mortality, demand of the intelligent and phi dered their correspondents in Europe to ship through lanthropic some preventive action ; we, whose names are hereunto annexed, form ourselves into an associa Gharlestown, thus continuing to flood tho land with tion, to bo knowu as tho Society of Public an adulterated article. Quite a trick. Wo havo not Health, and give our influence and aid. been advised in regard to tho result of this discov " To arouse the attention of the publio to the ne cessity of a Health Reform, by public meetings, ad ery. dresses, lectures, tracts, books, and other suitable The following Resolutions go to show how hard it publications ; is to keep the good people " in the traces." Tho " To enlighten tho people by these and all proper cause of this want of confidence in the " Regular means, in the knowledge of a sound physiology, as connected with tho preservation of health, the cure of System," and tho desire to try new modes, is quito disease, und the prolongation of human life ; evident, viz., tho repeated failures of tho "old " To influenco a wise legislation, which shall abol school " to effect cures, yet the Doctors are deter ish all destructive nuisances, and secure to our en mined to prevent the Clergy from trying any thing tire population, cleanliness, pure air, proper food, and as far as possible, by municipal regulations, surround except what they prescribe. us with conditions of health ; " Whereas, it has been the custom of physicians to '< To elevate the standard of medical education extend to clergymen the courtesy of tneir services and practice, so that the highest duty of the physi gratuitously, in consideration of the respect justly cian shall bo tho preservation of public health, and due their sacred office, but, in consequence of the his greatest care the prevention rather than tho cure deplorable fact that numerous clergymen have be- of diseases." 28 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

CONSTITUTION. learned and clever gentleman ; a member of the " Any person, signing, or causing his or her name ' learned and skillful faculty,' quack nostrums had to bo appended to the above declaration, and contrib no place here, and yet it took five weeks to break up uting to the funds of the society, becomes, thereby, a member. The amount of the subscription is to be tho disease, and restore the patient. determined by each member according to his ability, 11 My son had nothing but a few cold water injec his view of the importance of the object, and his tions, a sitz bath or two, and the wet girdle, drink sense of duty." ing freely of cold soft water, and in three days' time We neod not say how heartily we approve of the he was as well as ever. objects of this society ; and our readers may be sure 11 From my reading and experience, thus far, I am that we shall not lose sight of its operations. In the fully satisfied that every diseaso that can (not) bo mean time, all, far and near, who desire to aid ; cured by drugs, can be cured by water, judiciosuly in a good work, should join ihis movement, by employed. May the time soon come whon Allopathy, sending their names and subscriptions, either direct I Homoeopathy, Eclecticpathy, Thomsonianpathy, ly, or through us, to the secretary, T L. Nichols, Tobaccopothy, and all tho other pathies, except Hy M.D., 87 West 22d street, New York. We predict dropathy, shall be looked upon with antipathy, and for this society a high rank among the agents of re numbered among the things that were, (of no use to form, and the pioneers of progress. anybody.") The clause we have quoted from the Constitution, allowing each member to determine the amount of Doctor-Craft. — G. G. Foster, Esq.. one of the his subscription, is most equitable, for of two equally clever editors of the sprightly little Merchant's Day good and earnest men, one may be as well able to give Book, in one of his Washington letters, makes the fifty dollars as the olher is fifty'cents. The largest following remarks on doctor-craft, and t he articles of and the smallest donations will be aliko acceptable. ' our contributors. " Pray give my thanks, on behalf of myself and HYDROPATHY VS. AlLOI-ATHY, IN TYPHOID Fe- the whole doctor-ridden world, to my old friend Doc ver — A Contrast. — A Friend writes us as fol tor Nichols, for the clear, strong, and fcharp-pointed lows, from Maysville, Kentucky : " You now send crystal arrows, fashioned from truth itself, which he nearly one hundred copies of the Water-Cure Jour is shooting into that corrupt and poisonous heart of nal to this Hydropathic town. doctor-craft. A more fatal pestilence, a bitterer '* You will disoov'er that wo are getting subscrib curse, than kingcraft or priost-craft, is this deadly and ers from every section of the country. The good remorsolcss doctor-craft, which, century after centu cause is rapidly gaining favor throughout this part of ry, whilo all other arts, sciences, und philosophies, the world ; and we look forward to the day, as not from government to cookery, have expanded and being far distant, when we shall have Hydropathic struggled into some degree of light and knowl- instead of Allopathic practitioners. I have been j edge, still gropes and growls in barbarian darkness, dosed alternately, by the Allopathic, Eclectic, and feeding upon the bodies of its own victims, and mak Thomsonian doctors for the last ten years, for dys ing the earth a sepulchre with its loathsome and pepsia. Tho drain upon my pocket has been very deadly exhalations. God bless — and he will ! — all largo ; my sufferings indescribablo ; and, like the old honest, frank, true-hearted men, like Dr. Nichols, lady, who had the ' Balvanic Gattery applied to her who havo the heart, tho courage, and the strength sore eyes, didn't do no good immediately.' Since I to strike a blow at this giant monster of the world !" have been a reader of tho Watcr-Cure Journal I have learned how to live : 1 have become a Vegetarian, A Veoetarian Journal. — It has been proposed by I bathe every morning, wear the wet girdle, occasion the friends of this system of Dietetics, to publish a ally take the sitz bath, — and my improvement has "Monthly Journal," dovoted to the advocacy of a been such, that my friends very often say, I look bet vegetarian diet : and the only question to be settled ter than they ever saw me before. 1 used the cold before undertaking such a work, is simply this, water injections for some time, but now have no use " Will it pay 1 are thero a sufficient number of per for them. My eldest son, a boy between fourteen sons interested in this reform to support such a pub and fifteen years of age, was attacked, last winter, lication 1" Should this proposal be responded to, with typhoid fever : at the sanio time, a friend of thero aro a number of able writers who will pledge mine, an Allopathic physician , had a son of the same themselves to furnish articles for its pages. There age, attacked with the same disease ; he was treated are now five monthly periodicals devoted to vege by his father, allopathically of course, and cured in tarianism published in England, and it is believed the incredibly short time of five weeks ;* my son was that such a work would be liberally patronized in the Confined to his bed, lingering under this terrible dis United States. In order to ascertain tho " voice of ease, almost throe days. How cau we account for the people," we have concluded to receive the names this difference 1 The first case was treated by a very of all who would become subscribers to "A Veoe tarian Journal," should it bo determined upon, at • I have known of no case* in this neighborhood cured as $1,00 a year. Communications may be addressed to quickly at Urn one wuj by allopathic physicians. the publishers of the Watcr-Curo Journal. HERALD OF REFORMS. 29

INTRODUCTION OF VACCINE MaTTSK INTO JaPAN. Most of those houses arc pleasantly situated, and — The gniall pox has, for many years past, at inter provided with all tho healthful luxuries of life. For vals, committed great ravages among the children of those who wish an excursion, a trip up the Lakes the empire of Japan Repeated attempts have been will be found invigorating and pleasant. As a gene made, for thirty years past, to introduce the vaccine ral thing, invalids are improved by traveling. Those matter, but without success, the matter being found who reside on, or near the Lakes, would enjoy a visit to be imperative. We learn from the Singapore on tho sea shore. There are many beautiful places Free Press, of April 5, however, that the evil will on Long Island, where a day, week, or month, may now be put an end to. By the last Dutch ship dis be passed pleasantly. patched there, a quantity of carefully collected Taceine matter was again sent, put up in different New Water-Cuke Establishments — At Clifton manners ; amongst the collection were some pustules, Springs, on the line of the Railroad, ten miles east of which the chief of the medical service had collected Canandaigua, Henrv Foster, M. D., is erecting a from one of his children, on which the vaccine had showed itself in a peculiarly favorablo manner. To model house, capable of accommodating seventy pa this fortunate circumstance is owing, that at last the tients. It will bo opened on the first of September. end so long wished for was attained ; for it happened Oswego Watek-Cuiie. — This establishment, that on one of the Japanese children, vaccinated with which we noticed as being in process of preparation, these pustules, a beautiful vaccine pock was obtained, some weeks since, is now ready for tho reception of while the other lymph sent to Japan proved itself, as patients. It is really delightfully located for a resi on former occasions, inoperative. About nine hun dence, and every thing about it is in neat and fine dred children were immediately vaccinated at Nan- order. gasaki, with good results, and children were brought Mr. Griffin, the resident proprietor, will spare no to spread the matter in more distant parts of the exertions or expense, to please and benefit patients, country. The Japanese doctors also came to learn and the invalid will find in his family all the care and the mode of operation. — Boston Journal. sympathy of home, with all tho accommodations de sirable for improvement and 'enjoyment. The at A Case of Home Treatment in Water-Cure. tending Physician, Dr. Potter, is no experimental —A correspondent gives the following account of the practitioner, but hos a reason lor every proscription. successful treatment of a caso of fever. He observos : He is deserving the confidence of invalids from abroad, " Apretty severo attack of fever was cured in our as ho has enjoyed it in a high degree from those in town, a short timo since, by — not calomel, but — cold the community where ho has resided. A number .of water and pure air. 1 do not learn all the particu patients have already presented themselves for treat lars, but it was something as follows : — A young ment.— Oiwei t'l.kulium. married woman was taken in fever, and the neighbors were for sending for Dr. li. or Dr. S. But Premature Education. — That the education of 1 No,' said her husband, ' with my wife's consent, childron should not be forced, like lettuces in hot I will cure her myself.' He had just been attending houses, is becoming a popular idea. The more haste Mr. L. N. Fowler's lectures, and had obtained of in such businoss, the worse speed. We find tho fol him some works on Water-Cure. So ho went to lowing opinions of learned authorities on this impor work, and ' packed' hor according to rule ; giving, tant subject : all along, what cold water she desired to drink, keep Of ten infants destined for different vocations, I ing a circulation of pure air through tho room, and the room and bed-room most scrupulously clean. In should prefer that tho one who is to study through a tew days tho patient was up, and is now well and I 1 life, should bo the least learned at the age of twelve, hearty. ' Every man his own doctor,' as the quacks j —Tissot. say." ! Intellectual effort in the first years of life is very It would be well for many pcoplo if they would do injurious. All labor of mind which is required of resolutely as did the husband in the above caso. i children before tho seventh year, is in opposition to the laws of nature, and will prove injudicious to the Summer Retreats. — It is a custom with thousands organization, and prevent its proper development. — of our citizens to leave the noise and excitement of Hufeland. a city life, during the hot season, and seek a quiet and pleasant place in the country. This is as it i Periodical Fits Cured by. Water.— A clergy- should be. While in the country we would recom- | j man of Ohio writes : mend a little good old-fashioned physical labor, such " The Wator-Curo is gaining tho confidence of our as our fanners can very readily provide, no matter if community. Last year it was the means of breaking it is " laying stone wall." It will do you good to" up periodical fits of a man whom medicine and disease work at it if in health. Tho numerous Hydropathic had reduced to extreme weakness. I earnestly wish establishments all over the country furnish the vory , some one would come hero competent to practice best places to resort, even for recreation and rest. Uu that modo of troating disease." 30 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND

Medical Reform. — The subject of medical re NOTICES. form is engaging the attention of the English Me tropolitan press. The Lord Advocate has introduced A Question to Subscribers. — Shall we increase the a bill into Parliament on the subject, and the Lon size and price of the Water-Care Journal, after the expiration don Colloge of Surgeons, not relishing its provisions, of the present volume? We know the answer that a few have applied for a new charter, their object being to will give, for we have been urged to double onr aize and stave off the reforms contemplated by the bill. They prce. Yet wk are not in favor of so doing. It is our aim ID have, however, only placed themselves in a still place the Water-Care Journal into the hands of every family, worse fix, for they have opened up the propriety of which we hope ultimately to do. We si mil be glad to bear giving them a new charter to general discussion, and what our friends have to say on this snbject. In the meanr time, no efforts shall be spared to extend its circulation at its the press is applying the scalpel to the whole matter. present extremely low price. See prospectus for terms to ciaht on last page. " Hydropathy is healthfully progressing in this latitude, Maysville, Ky. You can say to its Joseph Keene, Jr., & Brother, in Chicago, M. P. Morsb, friends that we now have a Water-Cure at Escula- in Pittsburg, and J. C. Morgan, New Orleans, will supply pia, seventeen miles from this place, where they can all our publications at New York prices. be treated philosophically (hydropathically), by C. B. Thomas, M. D., late of Boston, Mass. ; and what Dr. W. Pratt, formerly of Winstead, Ct, Any informa is strange, the proprietor, (Dr. Curtis, of Cincin tion relating to the whereabouts of this man, will much nati) is a Thomsonian physician of long and exten oblige the publishers of this Journal. sive practice. S. S. M." Where is J. E. Rislet 1 May we not hear from To Cure Chilblains.— Wash the feet with water him 1 From his long silence, we are left to infer that he is saturated with alum, and draw on a sock made of dead. soft, fine, old linen. — Agriculturist. Wash the feet in rain water twice or thrice each All communications and advertisements, designed for day, and keep o wet cloth on them at night, for three publication ia the Water-Cure Journal, should reach the pub nights in succession, and wear a loose boot or shoe lishers by the 10th of the preceding month. during the day, and you will be free from chilblains. William Clark, our friend and co-worker, has sent m over two hundred subscribers. Wbat greater compli Public Bathino-Houses. — We shall be glad to ment could be bestowed on him than this simple Hate- publish in the Water-Cure Journal a complete list ment 7 of all the public bathing-houses in the United States, for the benefit of travelers in particular, ond citizens " Water-Cure Journal and Herald or Reforms." in general. Every village should at least afford one — We would if we could induce everybody to take this exeat* of these conveniences ; and wo hope the time will lent Journal. It is doing a work that no other monthly can come when it will be necessary for every hotel to be do. — Cleveland True Democrat. provided with bathing- rooms. Will our friends, in the various parts of -the coun Anatomy for Students, with illustrations, will be con try, inform us in regard to these establishments * tinued in our next. The Water-Cure Journal presents its readers NOTICES TO OORBESPON DENTS. with ably written articles from a largo number of the best and most common sense physicians in the country. Miss S. Milon, Ind. — In the young man's case, the pack The publishers and editors of this Journal have might be need every other day, with half or sitz baths daily. our most hearty God-speed in the noble work they Use the cold sheet if he feels warm. He should only remaii packed till he seems sufficiently warm to the attendants, are doing to regenerate the raco with knowledge, whatever may be his own sensations. In the young lady'i truth, and common sense. — Reformer, R. I. case, use a daily dripping wet sheet pack twice or thrice a week, and give one sitz and one foot bath daily. The food In Canandaigua, Dr. H. Foster is about io erect must be particularly attended to— plain and coarse. The beat a Watcr-Cure Establishment. Dr. F. has had much books for the person you mention are the Water-Cure Manual* experience in the Water-Cure practice Ilia success Hydropathy for the People, Graham's Science of Homaa will be certain. Life, and Alcott on Vegetable Diet. Our New Cover. — We are happy to present our Chronic Catarrh.— J. B. O., Protidence, R. I. Tt* readers with the Journal in a new dress, symbolical wet cloths mentioned in January number, are to be covered of its objects. We are indebted to Mr. Field for the with a light dry one passed around the head to keep them ia very appropriate design, and to Mr. Wm. Howland place. Probably a few daily packings, to open and detenv for the engraving. the pores, would be of essential service. The skin and liver Is it not invigorating, at this season of the year, to must always be particularly attended to in all catarrhal look upon a picture so coolino and refreshing; 1 affections. HERALD OF REFORMS. 31

Insipid Diabetes. — J. G. This complaint ia always VARIETIES. lingering, and requires the full appliances of water-cure, with a very rigid diet. Pack sheet daily, two or three sitz baths, the wet bandage, keeping as much as ponible in the open Employment in New York City.— The following ad air, constitute the outlines of the management. Unleavened vice, which we find in the New York Sun, is important and wheat meal bread, dry, mealy potatoes, a moderate quantity nseful : — " There are hundreds and thousands of young men at of mild fruit, are the best dietetic articles. Avoid all animal this moment seeking, and in a majority of cases vainly seek ing, employment in this city. They have come here from food, even milk. every section of the country, allured by the false idea that it is only necessary to enter a large city to command place and Chronic Mucous Dyspepsia.— J M., Londonderry, O. fortune. Many of them arc intelligent and enterprising; Tour case doubtless requires a pretty plain, dry diet, water- amply fitted to fill posts of high duty and trust, while drinking frequently, but in email quantities; the wet girdle many have little or no capacity for battling with the exigen to the abdomen about half the limp, — say wear it three days, cies of a city life ; without distinct profession or trade, simple then omit three, with a general ablution -or rubbing wet adventurers, drawn into the wont of spheres by the false idea sheet every morning, and one or more sitz baths ten to fifteen of which we have spoken. These young men are to be sym minutes daily. pathized with and pitied in their struggle, for it is not a slight suffering he endures who, full of hope and anticipation, finds A Torpid Liver — C. S. T. , for a " torpid liver with weak the oasis of his vision but a desert, and his hopes all barbed stomach and incidental catarrh," ihould employ one or two with disappointment. packs a week, a daily ablution, one half bath daily, rubbing What advice ought to be given these waiting, wandering, the abdomen thoroughly at the same time, and have the wet aud in many cases despairing applicants for labor? They girdle very frequently changed. Use mostly unbolted farina have found the city the anlipode of their country dream. One ceous food, with plenty of good fruits ; avoid grease, vinegar, left the plough, another the schoolmaster's desk, another the and spices. village store, and all of them left homes and friends, and chances at least of comfortable and honorable livelihood. In Liver Complaint and Prolapsus.— Frequent sitz baths, an hour of infatuation they rushed into a maelstrom — the the wet abdominal bandage, one daily ablution, and the pack great city seduced them to abandon a certainty, and too proud occasionally, are the appropriate processes in the case of our or too ambitious to turn back, but too many of them cling to correspondent. Avoid all hot drinks. The diet should be the false step they have taken, and in the end consent to pur mostly solid and dry. suits which can only debase and possibly ruin them. We would be kind in our advice, yet we must be plain. Measles — This disease is managed hydropathically on the We have repeatedly urged young men of the country bent on same principles as are all continuous fevers. The wet sheet trying their chances in the city, to be sure before they aban Is the grand remedy to bring the eruption to the surface don the comfort, certainty, and independence of home, for promptly. Regulate the general bathing, as well as local, some honorable and profitable employment in the city. It is exactly according to the temperature of the body. worse than folly, it is madness, for any young man in the country to come hither, buoyed simply by the pictures of his B. L. A. — A Water-Cure Establishment in Xenia, Ohio, fancy. The city is always an overthronged place. Every properly conducted, would be sore to succeed. Go on with avenue to employment is crowded, and for every vacant pos* it. The demand for Water Cure Physiciam, all over the a hundred ready applicants are in waiting. One might, with, land, continues unabated, and we regret that there is no hope out friends and special commendation, search weeks and of our being able to send one to your place. months, nor find the labor that would furnish him bread. To disappointed aud vainly-struggling young men of this class, R. T. H. — This question of postage has been settled by the we would say, go back to the country, to your homes, or to Postmaster General, and the statement which Dr. J. made, any place rather than remain here in suspense, suffering, and in regard to " covers," is unfounded, and without influence. agony. There is labor enough for yon all somewhere, but Of The postage according to law on the Water-Cure Journal, all places, your chances are least in a great city. Where one American Phrenological Journal, and Student, is precisely of you succeeds in finding employment here, a hundred wil' what they respectively represent it to be. fail; but none of you need fail, if you will only exercise common sense, and seek a field less crowded, and better fitted W. II. W., M.D.—Your communication relating to " that for your capacities." fatal case of consumption " is received, and will probably Many Young Men find it a source of great profit to en appear in our neit. gage in selling good books, such, for example, as relate to Hydropathy and education, and thus obtain agencies for such H\ M.D. — We will return your former communica publications as the Water-Cure and Pure mo logical tion if it is not mislaid, but fear we shall not bo able to Journals, or the Student, all of which are published find it. monthly, and may be introduced into every neighborhood throughout our Union. This, young men, would be vastly Vegetarianism, by J. H. H., is received. Our report of better for you and the world, than any situation you could the Vegetarian Convention, in the present number, prevents obtain in any of our crowded cities. ai from giving it a place. W. A. H. — All right. You are entitled to a " premium," The measured distance from the Battery, New York, to and if you doable your list, a Water-Cure Doctor in the bar- 154th street, in the northeastern part of the same city, u nine gain. miles. 32 WATER-CURE JOURNAL, AND Law vs. Justice. — Every day new and additional illus- Lady Jane. — The following beautiful verses, on a favorite t rations offer, how far the forms of law and justice defeat the horse, were written by the late Mrs. Frances S. Osgood : great ends for which they are made, as the following case LAST JAKE. will show : There are some cases where law, if it is law, should be Oh 1 saw ye e'er creature so queenly, so fine, no law at all. One which, in our opinion, partakes of this As this dainty, aerial darling of mine 1 character, has recently occurred in Orange County in this With a toss of her mane, that is glossy as jet. State. With a dance and a prance, and a frolic enrvet, " About twenty yean ago a man named Ebenezer Seeley She is off I She is stepping superbly away ! married a Miss B racier, at Goshen, N. Y. They moved to Her dark, speaking eye fnl) of pride and of play. Klmira, N. Y., soon afterward, and he became an intemper Oh I she spurns the doll earth with a graceful disdain, ate and worthier fellow. They separated, and he returned My fearlem, my peerless, my loved Lady Jane! to Orange connty. Some seven years ago she sued for and Her silken ears lifted when danger is nigh, obtained a divorce in the sixth Judicial court of this State, on How kindles the night in her resolute eye I the ground that he had committed adultery. She then mar How stately she paces, as if to the sound ried a man named Eluha O. Crosby, who went to Califor Of a proud, martial melody playing around, nia, and is said to be a member of the convention which Now pauses at unco, 'mid a light caracole, framed the Constitution of that State, now before Congress. To torn her mild glance on me beaming with soul ; He is said also to be a member, at present, of the California Now fleet as a fairy, she speeds o'er the plain, Senate. It is more than probable, therefore, that he is an en My darling, my treasure, my own Lady Jane l terprising, worthy man, endeavoring to make, iu that new land, a fortune for the family which he has left behind. The Give her rein ! let her go I Like a shaft from the bow , old husband, Mr. Seeley, however, has lately sued the new Like a bird on the wing, she is speeding, I trow — husband, Mr. Crosby, for connection with his wife, on the Light of heart, lithe of limb, with a spirit all fire, ground that the divorce granted by the Sixth Circuit is a uul- Yetsway'd and subdued by my idlest desire — lity, because the Vice-Chancellor who granted it had no juris Though daring, yet docile, and sportive bat true, diction over a citizen of Orange connty. The jury gave Her nature's the noblest that ever I knew. Seeley a verdict of $1000. Thus has the drunken husband, How she flings back her head, in her dainty disdain ! through the turnings of the law, triumphed over the wife My beauty I my graceful, my gay Lady Jane ! whom he abased and deserted, to whose application for di vorce he made no defence, but suffered the case to go against Hedges.— The best hedges in the United States, says the him by default, thereby acknowledging his guilt. Genesee Farmer for May, extends about a mile along the " Such, in some instances, is the injustice of Justice. highway on a plantation of about 3,000 acres, near Augusta, " In this case, the law is less to blame, however, than the Georgia. It is the Cherokee Rose, which is now in foil bloom, jury, who, if compelled to find a verdict for plaintiff, ought presenting a magnificent floral spectacle, and filling the aV to have given six cents as nominal damages. mosphere with delicious perfnme. No animal without wings " Our code of Justice requires to be re-written, simplified, can get over or through it. Having stood forty or fifty yearn, and rendered more efficient." — Cist'a Advertiser. it still promises a good fence for a century to come. The owner and occupant of this splendid estate, Mr. JVLaigle, was a St. Domtngo planter at the time of the insurrection and Premature Burial.— The Boston Transcript says the dreadful massacre by the blacks, and was so fortunate as to writer of this is acquainted with a gentleman who once nar escape to the United States. rowly escaped a fate which is past the mind of man to con Who would not have a beautiful hedge, which, in point of ceive one more horrible. He was then in New Orleans, at a real utility and durability, far surpasses every other kind of time when the yellow fever was raging, and among others he fence 7 Consider, for a moment, and look through your im was stricken down with that terrible disorder. After several agination upon a nice little farm, all enclosed with a beau days' HlneiB, in which the disease utterly baffled the skill of the tiful hedge in full blossom. Who would not enjoy it? attending physicians, his case was declared a hopeless one. And yet those who own farms may thus beautify them at At last, life became apparently extinct, and he was announced a small expense. dead. Preparations were matte for the funeral, friends were notified, the coffin was procured, the body placed in it, and a Corners have always been popular. The chimney-corner, military company, of which ho was a member, was drawn np 1 for instance, is endeared to the heart from the earliest to the in front of the door, prepared to perform the last honors. ; latest hour of existence. The corner cupboard ! what store of Just at the moment when the lid of the coffin was about j sweet things has it contained for us in youth — with what being closed, the body exhibited signs of life— the trance was luxuries its shelves have groaned in manhood ! A snog corner over — and the house of mourning became the house of rejoic in a will I Who ever objected to such a thing ? A corner in ing. The military company, instead of marching off to the ' a woman's heart ! Once get there, and you may soon com mnsio of a melancholy dirge, were exhilarated with the I mand the entire domain. A corner in the Temple of Fame I melody of "Yankee Doodle." It was never known, for a Arrive at that and you become immortal. — The Dollar certainty, what became of the cartridges furnished for the Times. volley over the grave, but it is probable they were put to some All very fine, but nothing to compare with a corner in a better use. " bath tub,'* full of cold water, in a hot summer's morning. The gentleman above alluded to is now conductor on one of the railroads running from this city, and he is at present, and Reform l reform! — We need a reform in onr common bas been ever since his recovery from the fever, as bale and laws almost as much as in the "old school" regular drag hearty as most men of the present generation. system of medicine.