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case treated hydropathioally; but scripture says the My friends know in® well to attribute any but hu- I sin of Ignorance is winked at, and we shall have to man qualifications to me, but they admit the efficacy 5! pering. The careless decorator will say that time will r ) pass this to the same account. of the water-treatment, which is far better. ? set all right—that the small will go off—that airing (j E. F. I sometimes wish 1 was a poetess, that I could sing Ij the room well in the day, and burning some pungent t thing or other at night, in the meantime, will do very a worthy song for hydropathy ; but as I am not, I s ______in the meantime, will do very I well.vxxnll It11 will_ not do very well; for health and eve CASES FROM MY NOTE B00M0.1. must content myself by advocating its principles, and ' loving its precepts. J life may be lost in the interval. It is not wort w BY E. A. KITTREDGE, M.D. Tho Journal hailed with delight in our western to have one’s stomach impaired for life* one’s no?7 shattered for the sake of the cost and trouble of paper Acute Rheumatism cured in a week.—Last home, as a messenger of good will' to all mon, and is ing a room, or a whole house, if necessary. The sme month I was called to two cases of acute rheumatism, read with eagerness, while our hearts respond to its is not the grievance, but the token of the grievance* in which tho pain and swelling were so great, as to soul-stirring teachings. Mas. C. E. C. Sherman. The grievance is animal putridity, with which we are make it utterly impossible for them to move the affect­ Ingham Centre, Mich. shut up, when the smell is perceptible in our chambers. ed limbs in the least, end would cry out with alarm Down should come the paper; and tho wall behind if anybody touched or even offered to touch them. ; An Old Man’s Testimony.—For fifteen or twenty should be soraped clear of every particle of its last The pulse was quick and bounding, the tongue coated with fiery edges—and all the symptoms in fact, of what ■ years past, prior to tho two last, my wife has endured covering. It is astonishing that so lazy a practice ! all the evils usually attendant in cases called Hypo- as that of putting a new paper over an old one should is called rheumatic fever Wo ordered the wet oondria and Lopooondra, has been on the tip-top of the exist to the extent it does. Now and then an incident sheet-packing, half-packs, sitz-baths, wet bandages, mount, and down in the lowest hell of despair, has occurs which shows tho effect of such absurd careless­ and wash-downs, with entire abstinence from food, been doctored and drugged in the most scientific and and in one week they woro both up and about, and got ness. Not long ago a handsome house in Loudon be­ unscientific manner, has been twice at the Retreat for came intolerable to a succession of residents, who could right up. the insane at Hartford, but thunks to a kind Frovl- not endure a mysterious bud smell which pervaded it To one of these I made five visits, ho being handy; donoo, is now, simply by the use of Water, (O blessed when shut up from the outer air. Consultations were to the other, three only* Water 1) and vegetable diet, almost “ as good as now." held about drains, and all the particulars that could Now when we take into consideration, that In the 1 write this in hope it may reach tho eyes of others be thought of, and all in vain. At last, a clever young old-fashioned way it takes generally about three in the liko sad condition, and induce them to go and man, who examined the house from top to bottom, fixed months to get through an attack liko these, I think do likewise. his suspicions on a certain room, whore ho inserted a wo may safely affirm that the new dispensation is bet­ Now, Mr. Editor, if in my anxiety to benefit my fol­ small slip of glass in the wall. It was presently cov­ ter than tho old, as the results in those cases aro such lows, 1 write too much or too foolishly for n place in ered, and that repeatedly, with a sort of putrid dew. as we can confidently expect in all curable cases. “Such your Journal, then give it a place under tho table. The paper was torn down j and behind it was found a cases don’t pay much,” said a certain doctor. True, In the month of July, 1819,1 accidentally hoard of moss of old paper an inch thick—stuck together with but they do much for the truth, said I. Dr. Wilmarth, of Hopedale, Moss., now at the Water- their layers of size, and exhibiting a spectacle which Oar. establishment at New Graefenberg, and went with we will not sicken our readers by describing.—Dick' A Cask of Ohiwobiutk.—The hope of influencing a poor disconsolate woman to bis hospitable mansion. ens’s Household Words. some suffering sister to * go and do likewise,’ prompts He gave mo encouragement that if she could be in­ mo to acknowledge the perfect success with which I duced to begin and persevere in a course of Water- have employed hydropathic treatment in a ease of Cure practice, she might recover, but told us we must childbirth. not expect any permanent benefit in loss than a year. SIM1LIA SIMALIBU8, HYDROPATHIC AL. I followed a course of daily bathing and diet, during This looked like a long road and a distant country to the months of pregnancy, and at the time of delivery, set out to reach ; nevertheless, not being quit* Bo faith Simple the modus operands, I guess my pains were left in the tub of water, for less as Naaman of old, I concluded to try. No need henceforth that any man die they did not trouble me. After staying two weeks, the doctor gave me direc­ The long-sought youth-restoring fountain, I was delivered of a pair of twin boys with loss suf­ tions how to proceed, and I went home and set out in Is found al last upon the mountain. fering than I have experienced from toothache in one tho business in earnest; consulting the doctor by letter Tlxat lifts cures like, the principal hour. occasionally. How simple and how beautiful I I employed no doctor, and had no attendants except I can truly say we have succeeded better than mv For is your head oppressed with pain ? The cure is,—water on the brain. my husband and one female. I assumed the entire most sanguine hopes or expectations. Or do sharp pangs assail your breast? charge of my babes, after their first dressing, I have In a little more than a year, the woman began to The cure is,—water on the chesL had no sore nipples, broken-breasts, or puerperal fever, mend both in body and mind, and is now so well ae to that my friends prophesied for me, for my undue ex­ be able to do as much labor as any woman ought to Have you a cold from damp sheets caught ? posure, or presumption, as they termed my getting up do, and her mind is as tranquil as most people of her A dripping sheet is straightway brought. so soon. ago (GO,) and we jog along down the declivity of life Or cold from falling in the river ? Straight iu the plunge-bath you must shiver. J have not experienced any pain or lameness since about as pleasantly as other old folks. Or has n blow half broke your back I the second day after delivery. I was able to walk a By the way, I am almost as much benefited by the The douche must give another thwack.— use of the daily bath as my better-self; for I have been mile with perfect ease before my babes were one week It’s “ water, water,” everywhere, old, and have felt no inclination to lie down during troubled with inflammation in the eyes caused by ery­ And quarts to drink if you can bear. the day, since the third day. Neither my babes nor sipelas and nervous headache, so m to bo almost ’Tis well that we are made of day, myself have needed any slops, herb-teas, or physic useless for many years, bat am now almost entirely For common dust would wash away. to make us well, and we are in good health. cured of bolh these dreadful maladies. And then the pack, what words can show My bathing, previous to delivery, consisted of a ; In fine we are both of us, and our whole family, con­ The aspect of that mummy row, pail dash in the morning upon rising, with an occasion- ; verts to %1/ro^tAy. “d entirely. I want to say to the pubho, adopt Hydropathy," As down the ranks the attendant goes, al pack, and tho abdominal wrapper. At tho time of < To scare a fly or blow a nose? parturition I took a tepid sitz-bath, about an hour reject all intoxicating “d “ <^inks, No tar e’er lay so snug in bunk, before delivery, from which I found groat relief. I and all high-seasoned meats condiments, and tobacco, Nor in his narrow cell a monk, have continued the use of the sitz-baths twice or L co Lm. and bo live more better healthy, in future, moral, and intelligent, the generations God- As these folks pack the human trunk. three times a day since delivery, with the abdominal That great machine, the human mill, wrapper. My diet was mostly vegetable previous to honoring, than those who have gone before us, or who lumm O' .. of human action. Is henceforth turned by mountain rill. delivery, and has been exclusively so since. It oon- The main spring of the human clock, sista of Graham bread and milk, with an abundance feel a desire to go on, but as I dislike long stories, The spring that gushes from the rock. of good fruit, and no drink but „ . OTayers, and long faces, I am yoius^fo^Hydropathy, forever. Juuus Clark. Old Adam’s every son and daughter, Will now, forever, go by water. “ Pure and sparkling water.*♦ Then let the threatening Allopath My friends who have never aeon the [experiment Hints on Paper-hanoin®-—Many a fovor foaB Brandish in rage his sword of lath, tried before, have looked upon me as did the barba- caused by the horrible nuisance of corrupt size in We’ll duck him hi our coldest bath. rian« of old upon Paul; when the viper fastened upon his paper-hanging in bed-rooms. The nausea which the hand, “ they looked when he should have swollen, or Bleeper is awaro of in waking in the morning, in Lebanon Springs, N. Y.—This well known water- a case-should be a warning needing no repetition. fallen down dead suddenly; but after they had looked u cure place is now open for the reception of patients. a Stoat while, and saw no harm come to him, they Down should come the whole paper, at any cost or in­ It will bounder the medical directi- “ ’ e anged their minds, and said that he was a god.” convenience ; for it is an evil which allows of no tam- For particulars see advertisement. ilon <>f Dr. Shew.