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^uhllsDcTJ 62 t ficiencies. Few wnprofessional men charge you with quackery. The idea is abhorrent to them. FOWLER AND WELLS, It would break up the links of their associations; No. SOS Broadway, New Tork. KEVOLUTION, and their minds are trained to maintain their balance chiefly through their power of associa-

To Allopathic^Phtsicians : tion : so strong is this feeling, that it has main-

I (!1 0 n t c n t 0 Gentlemen. Mofal revolutions — never go back- ; tained your claim to be considered the medical ward. The wheel does not turn that way. Its ! faculty, with RsrolutioQ, an earnestness and force dispropor- is Dr Dixon on Hydropathy, . force such as to impel the People onward, and ; tionate altogether to the justness of it ; and it The S«^«Dee of Medicine, so they advance in linowledge and the will to do has taken great labor to break the spell, and Report of C&sei. that is right. Hemorrhage of the LuDgt. which You, gentlemen, stand in bring the pablic, to a limited extent, to admit J Medicine a Humbug, one department of knowledge, it confessedly, by ; that is possible for you to have pretensions to Life uid Death, general assent, at the gateways of human influ- knowledge not borne out by evidence. As far, Prospecu of Vegetarianiim, ;

FacU and Sugf^itioni, . ence. Before you, the People pass. To you therefore, as you cau be judged by proof render- I

The loBtinct of Appetite, . they make their compliments. Your word is ed, what do you know, gentlemen, about keeping

The DiscoBsion, , I Topici of the Month, law. Your frowns they dread. Not inferior in the people from being sick ? At this point I do Water-Care E«labli»hment«, the power you wield over Human destiny to the not inquire what you know about curing them. I MieeelUny, lawyer and the Priest, a shrewd writer years But what do you know of what Physicians call Good Boolci for All, agone, in allusion to the great influence these Hygiene 7 Not in extraordinary circumstances, Advertisement!, three professions wield, denominated them " not in cholera times, nor in Yellow fever, nor the ; in TRiNiTr, " and one not less shrewd great and Laving ! epidemics —but in common, every-day life, not before your fear his eyes, affirmed that these ; what do you know about the means of preserv- The Journal is Atton, Illinois.—J. A. W., three constituted the DeviFs Trinity. I ing the a good friend to the cause, writes : —" I have obtained do not 1 health of the masses of men, women and much wonder at the wicked about thirty names, as a renewal of my old club for the way. The satire is i children in this country ? Do you afBrm that Journals, but hope to add some more. a keen one, and has its modicum of truth, for * you know a good deal ? I inquire, who is aware " It Is Diy earnest wish that these Jocenals could be read in no country that has a history, has the record \ that you know it ? Where are your essays, your by every family yet, as is, ; wide your circulation compara- ever shown the Doctor, Lawyer, and the Priest, lectures, your printed thoughts on this subject tively few among us can be induced to wish to know more ; (I do not mean the Christian of the ' Laws of Life ' than to eat and drink and cultivate minister,) forget- of health ? In your neighborhood, who of your I the animal." ting in their love for the People, their profession- i parishioners knows from anything you have said, This Is the voice of others, but we are confident that a al status. or that he has dreamed you to have said, how to "change for the better" will come over the people ere In support of this statement, gentlemen, so ! preserve his or his family's health ? So far as his long, and that they will study to preserve life and health, far as the professions of the Law and the Priest- and to avoid disease, doctors, and premature graves. I knowledge derivable from your teachings to him hood are I concerned, have no disposition in this and others is concerned, is the idea, it \ not that

paper to prefjr proofs, but it is quite I is legitimate ; not necessary to 6e sicA-, the sheerest fiction? After Harvkst is always a good time to sell to my object in addressing you, to say that I your 1 am sure it is. Proclaim to a group of persona books in the country. The abundant crops of the present \ record is on ray year, side. At any point, the evi- I that it is the great activity In all branches of business, and \ needless !o be sick, that human beings the general prosperity, furnish the for cul- dence is means mental abundant : I need call attention to i one ; ought not to be sick, that it is a sin and a shame ture, as well as for physical comfort. To develop the department only, and that is, the deplorable ig- to be sick, will \\ they not laugh the idea and its mind and store it with knowledge. Books are essenlial, and norance of the people on the subject prcsirv- Is of : advocates to scorn? Certainly they will, for the now an excellent time to obtain them. Agents, Book- j ing their health. For this are sellers, and others will please make out and forward their you responsible, people—and by the people I mean all classes lists because in order to get a supply for the Fall and TVlntcr. C ata- to you they are educated to look. As, the intelligent as well as the ignorant—enter- logucs forwarded to all who desire. Please address, in matters connected with their knowledge of tain exactly the converse idea. They FowLiB think that and Wells, Book Publishers and Wholesale individual and public rights, they look to gentle- sickness is the rule and health the Dealers, 803 Broadway, N. T. exception to men of legal learning, in and matters of relig- 1 man. And it is not surprising that they think so; ion to men wearing the sacerdotal vestments, so, i for as far as facts go, they bear Pleasant that aspect. and ?RonT.A.BLE Employment.—To in matters of keeping themselves out of the Who of you knows a population of 500 souls sell our neat, cheap, and quick-selling books and our valua- j grave, '• they look to you. You are the regit- \ ble Scientific Journals. All who engage with where disease has not gained a residence ? Where us will be " secured from tars. To you no taiut adheres, on you nosus- a the possibility of loss. 1 rofito very liberal. | practitioner of your school does not have busi- ^\ddres3 Fowleb picion falls. and Wells, No. 803 Broadway, New i You date back to Hippocrates, i ness enough to give him, at moderato charges, a York. j you have age and that covers multitudes of dc- | good living? Men of your school are every- \ 74 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL [Oct.,

to the sick. Never- I results, but there are the results when produced, into one's where present, ministering medical creed, the statement that poi

get well, S the finds to individual in the case supposed ; son theless. the people are ignorant how Now, given to a man prostrate in energy and weak-

himself suffering from departure of the laws of \ ened and how to keep well. ! by disease, will innervate him, and make I willing that you should his organization. is the remedy ? re- alive, while Now. gentlemen, am \ What A given to another man strong in vital

consideration, ) energy, have of the public confidence and turn to them. If he is a thoughtful man, and and with all his powers in full blossom, that you can justly claim. I have no jealous- heeds the warnings which nature early sends out it will debilitate and perhaps all kill ? ! | him 0 were I aroused, no disappointments to remind him of his error, his sickness gets no it not for the ies whereby am \ sorrow that such fatuity awakens, criticisms are ground to an farther illness, readily its absurdity on whose surface my \ along than which yields would be so glaring to open eyes, as edge, no personal piques to awaken me to say \ to cessation of the causes producing it. If he has to create the loudest laugh— the wildest ridicule. training, by several things of you. By early been foolish and blind, his illness developes into But, as I have said, the statement is its own con- wherein your own futation thought within the sphere sickness severe and perhaps dangerous, and then ; if not, let facts decide.

by sympathy, c thought dwells, by association and the aid of men who are slulful in detecting the At Glen Haven this day, July 29, 1856, I have

are sympathetically at work for \ kill one hundred strong powers causes that are at work to him becomes need- ; patients. They are from all parts

me. And nothing would induce me ? of our Republic you within ful. But wherein lies their skill Evidently in \ and Canada. You can see here | to say a word to lessen your position in any one's bringing the laws of his being into authority the California miner and speculator, the j | planter

it that I entertain a deep and ^ from Western Texas, esteem, were not over him anew, for, inasmuch as he would not J the teacher from Maine, the

feeling that as representatives of the I merchant from New York, the earnest have been sick, had he not broken loose from | clergyman, the healing art, you are unworthy of the public re- them, so he cannot remain sick when again un- doctor, the lawyer, the working man, and all j | talents, classes from the different gard. As men I respect you for your der their sway. If he does not get well, it arises ; States and Canadas. | your private worth, and your generally good cither from his not being, or his not being able to They vary in age, in temperament, in sex, in characters. But as physicians, I dislike you, and be, brought into subjection to them. No matter habits, in professions, and punsuits. They have | bloody, barbarous prac- had operating for or abhor your cruel, and \ how sick he is, as soon as his body and the laws against them climatic influ- has death into tens ence, as social tice.— a practice that brought \ that should govern it are brought into their ap- impulses, religious excitements, thousands of families, where but for it he political successes or defeats they of propriate relations, his recovery begins. For ; have lived | would have found no entrance for a long time to the forces that keep alive and well a human be- fast, have eaten and drunk inordinately, have come. ing, are the only forces in the universe that can toiled excessively, and are broken down. They are To deal honestly and frankly, what do you as a ( restore to vigor and health a human creature marked by different degrees of culture, and

( show school know of what you call Hygiene ? What lacking health. This is a self-evident truth, and outwardly as great variety of aspects as it position and standing do you give her? What only wants looking at to commend it to your is possible for persons to show, who, inhabiting are her resources in your view ? I make bold to and the popular acceptance. Here I stand to- the same continent, have anything in com- say that she is an abstraction with you, she is day, with the full blush of health on my cheek. mon, and so are expected to assimilate some- | what. worth talking about—that is all. She takes no AVhat keeps me in health ? The life-forces oper- With very few exceptions, they have | rank in your classification of forces, by which ating normally on my organization, thus preserv- tried your skill, and the skill of the schools who disease is to be kept out, or driven out from the ing the balance of power between supply and think there is virtue in poisons. They have been as human domain. Could I get to the bedsides of s demand undisturbed. To morrow I am sick. abandoned hopeless. Some of them have patients this morning, I should find been sick for fifteen years, your them ) What has made me so? The intervention of and so all along down

shut up in pent rooms, with sweaty clothing, } some cause, which has produced a loss of bal- to the last six months. It is more romantic the backs, narration parched lips, blistered wounded arms, and < ance of power. What will cure me ? A restora- of their histories—than Jane Eyre or Clarissa purged bowels. Full of distress and agony, S tion of that balance. What are the appropriate Harlowe. many of them call, but in vain, for water to remedies? Only those which operate to keep What constitutes the pith of a novel— its fic- \

cool their tongues. You have stuffed them full f the balance undisturbed when in health, for the tion— is stern overbearing fact with them. To of poisonous drugs and medicines, in the vain art curative and the art preservative are one. hear their statements would make an old callous hope that, by some mysterious process, incom- And thus I am brought to issue with you, and surgeon shed tears. How utterly their lives

prehensible alike to you and to them, these poi- all who like you hold to the notion, that what have run to waste ! Years have come and gone, sons are to cure them. If, in spite of your drug- will make a well man sick, will make a sick man and on their taces the marks of agony, of suffer- j

ging, and under favor of a good constitution, i well. You hold to that theory, the other drug ing. of unintermitted endurance, of disappoint- \ ment where fruition was looked for, of they recover, they hear nothing from you of fhe schools follow you, the differences among you on \ hope

follies, the indulgences, the dissipations which in ) crowded out by despair, are easily seen. Poor minor points being of no material account. \ one form or another produced their lapse from And it is because you hold to this most astound- creatures; many of them women, when young, j \ health to sickness. You know you never in- absurdity, that I deem you unworthy of the beautiful, now—thin as a shadow, moving about, | ing struct a recovered patient how to live so as to confidence of the people, and makes me deter-* if not confined to their beds—like skeletons, by of illness. so, avoid recurrence To do enters mined on every proper occasion by open and f mistake left on earth, after their mission of life

not into your qualifications as physicians, nor ^ manful means to create as deep distrust of you \ had ceased. Others, men, young men, just ready obligations as citizens your moral and men. as pcssible. What ! shall I contend against the in years to commence life for themselves, yet ; | And yet to know how to prevent disease, to be the Tobacco merchant, the dispenser palsied in achievement, and bankrupt in expec- Rumseller, ;

able to keep in health a community of which one ' of narcotic beverages, and let the druggist and tation. Here, in my home, are fifty men to day, j

is a member, is a mission far superior to that of the Drug Doctor go unrebuked? AVhy should I ? i inside of thirty years. Put them in range with ar- setting up as particularly qualified to cure hu- You slay as many, in proportion to your whole \ the same aspects of countenance as on their |

man beings when sick. And for this reason, that number dealt with, as any class of men in the land ( rival, and they would lead one to suppose them { he who can keep well can get well. Suppose a dealing in articles contraband of health. Why to be tenants of the grave exhumed. Not so f well versed in the of should not the people be told of doings? much from the ravages which disease had made man knowledge the laws ! your | the ut- of his being. By some circumstance he is led in- I must do all I can to fasten the conviction in \ and stamped on their lineaments, as from \ to their violation, and is made ill. He knows the popular heart, that the worst thing possible ter and irretrievable hopelessness that had set- ; ; their that obedience to them, would have been a guar- / for the sick to do, is to allow a medicine-giver to tied on their faces. And their language on

antee against his illness, and a return to their au- i approach their bedsides and tamper with life, as examinations was correspondent to their looks. thority, will ensure his restoration. you do when you administer poisons. I cannot They talked as if they were doomed, as if noth-

To this there is no exception. Obedience to ) now argue with you at length, on the falsity of ing was wanting in their cases but their closure law life a time. brings along with it always ; violation your theory : simply to state it, is to insure its up of life, and this was only question of | of law brings death with it always. True, it condemnation. For what is more absurd than Scarcely a man comes to me free from this } take a longer is may or shorter time to bring about l gravely to aCDrm, and solemnly to incorporate gloom. It is not wonderful to me that he thus —"!

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per- afTccted, for he has consulted and tried the reme- of marvel. It is, we say, just what might have of false systems are not in good condition to expected. to dies of the best physicianshis community affords, been ceive truth, and so must change from wrong 2. gentleman of high as a profes- and not unfrequently the best by reputation his A standing right slowly. Some never will change, but the sional man, whose name, were I to mention it, State affords; yet, like the woman in the Bible, people will ; and every year that glides by, will many of you would recognize, was taken sud- he is nothing bettered, but rather made worse. make your present mode of treating the sick insane, some since. Now, how stands their cases after a month or denly eight to ten months more and more unpopular, and our mode more His friends sent him to one of the most celebrat- acceptable. us, in all two's residence at the Glen ? A great change and more Between as ed Asylums for the Insane in the United States, Revolutions, will will has come or is coming over them. No longer in be a cla<

hopeless ; and then he came my patients together—numbering then about 90 clared the case at last selves Water-Cure Doctors, but Water-Cure must stayed four months, and now persons. Of these, perhaps there were 20 who to Glen Haven, and win its victories and lay its permanence by no might. had come within a month, leaving about 70 who is well, and pleading law with all his And associations with your theories. Hydropathy through the whole range of disease. I could had been under treatment longer than a month. so and Allopathy are antagonisms ; one or the oth- open to the To these I stated that / was satisfied that they —were the columns of this Journal er must perish. They are at war, they are not attested, were it need- were all doing well, but I would like to know exposition-relate and have parts of a great restorative scheme, occupying ful, cases of diseases of females who have been their own opinions ; and if any of them felt, or different fields of labor, but having a common ailments peculiar to imagined, or thought he or she was not doing sick for years on years, with end. On the contrary, they have nothing in com- astonish you. I solemnly their sex, that would it well—was not better than on their arrival, mon ; and though is the lot of the former t o Water-Cure has restored I would be greatly obliged if they would inform declare that the Glen stniijjk to the light, to overcome opposing force, sound health more than 400 women who had me by rising. Not a single person arose ! ! to and to make progress slowly, yet I am sure that in council of physicians, But this is not quite all. Full one-half of been deliberately, and all that you can do with " tue middle men " to have never given a those who had been with me less than a pronounced incurable ; and I help you, will not be enough to keep this Revo- what is no less month, were willing to testify that they al- tittle of medicine. Let me add lution from bringing Truth into the ascendant. of females, rang- ready felt better. You may laugh at this, and true, that hundreds on hundreds As human beings come to understand the laws " ing the child to the woman of seventy, say, 0, you conjured up their feelings, or ex- from of life better, there will be less sickness : as sick- cited their imaginations, or made them believe have been cured without medicines—after medi- ness diminishes your influence diminishes, and failed. It makes no difference with that they were better, when they were not. cines had the influence of Truth rises ; and so will come to sort of disease man, woman, or child is Very well ; take your interpretation of it. Was what be seen the foolishness, the uselessness, and the will restore the person to the like ever known of your practice ? These smitten, Watcr-Cure wickedness of putting poisons into the body to gentlemen and ladies declare, that while they health, provided the disease is not incurable. expel disease. When this day shall come, your took your exhibitions, they felt worse instead of The most incredulous of you would yield your occupations will change, and you will have to do better. Now, under my treatment they feel bet- incredulity, if you would take pains to examine as I am doing, restore the sick to health by natu- ter instead of worse. You had these sick ones and look into its claims before you decide against ral means, or abandon your professions. long enough for you and them to become mutu- it. I do not believe it possible for the most big- The more I practice Water-Cure, the greater is ally tired, and, thus related, all along the period oted Old School Doctor to come to Glen Haven my faith in it. 1 do not believe there is in the of the intercourse, they positively declare they and stay one month, watch persons on their arri- world so powerful an agent as soft, " living grew vorse. They have been my guests only val and pass judgment on them, and then look water, in changing the conditions of the human long enough for us to become mutually interest- at them one month from their arrival, and not body, or producing results which surprise the ed; and I know and they feel that they are better. say thatsome mysterious power was at work, pro- neophyte. Properly applied, judiciously admi n-

Let me relate some cases : 1. A lady who was ducing great changes for the better. He would istered, it will work in harmony with the vital three months ago unable to walk. The best phy- not understand it, for he has not been educated forces, and cause such alterations in the particles sicians in Northern New York had tried their to understand the might and power of natural of matter of which the various tissues are made, skill in vain. There is no fiction in the case- law operating on the human organism, and as to awaken wonder. Gentlemen, Leonid show For 8 weeks she was carried by others where- though it is patent to his senses, he is not recon- you a sight such as was never given you to be- ever she went. Now she walks without help, up ciled to the admission of what he sees. hold in all your practice, were yon here to night. stairs and down stairs. When she came to us Gentlemen, it is the mission of truth to con- Over 60 of my patients are having eflective skin she was a skeleton. Now she has gained many quer, but it is also her destiny to be laughed at crises at this time ; and only three of the whole pounds of flesh. I'.y onlookers who know not in the midst of her victories. This she can abide, hundred are confined to their rooms. Now, if I how mighty Nature is in her ministrations, re- her and so can her representatives. 'I hcy are pa- know my spirit, I do not state these things for covery is deemed well-nigh miraculous. To us tient, if they are Christians, knowing full well my own glory. Why should I ? A little while, who witness the great results accruing daily from that error is not displaced suddenly, that preju- at farthest, and I shall cease to live. Years go return to natural conditions, the case wears no air dice is not easily overcome, that the defenders rapidly after middle life is reached, and, live as THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL [Oct.,

I shall come to the harvesting by fiuence; and it long as I may. would not be singular if the evi- ( that are harmful. They talk learnedly about while die. principles Mfrfr die; dent perturbation and by. But men he exhibits would lead many the operation of physic (a* though the physic and. knowing this, I am justified in claiming for to really inquire as to the merits of our system, could really operate), but utterly ignore the them all that their inherent worth will warrant. while the design is to frighten them by a detail fact that the system can do anything—especially If I boast, it is for JVater-Cure, not such as you of the dangers of bathing. It is hence described in the direction of development, by the use of conceive it to be, nor yet such as it is generally as fraught with ills of every kind, or, to use the its own proper materials and incentives. By represented to be, but such as it is inherently. Doctor's own graphic language, " who can meas- losing sight of some of the plainest physiological Not Water-Cure, mingled up with a dozen things ure the consequences of the shock to the inter- principles, such people indulge the greatest hor- intended by tf,eir use to throw k into dhusc, but nal organs — the lungs, intestines, and the great ror of the effect of blood driven in by contact internal Water-Cure as it is intrinsically, with the linings of the chest and abdomen? how ! with cold, and all the lamentable consequences many pleurisies attack strength of nature in it. You— perhaps with- the former? how many i that might follow, while a little reflection would out exception—have very imperfect ideas of slow inflammations the latter ? why is the throat show that it is the temperature relations of the | Water-Cure. I am sure you do, because you ad- raw, and what are these stitches and wandering body that causes the blood to Jlow out to its ut- vise your patients not to try it. This is your pains in the abdomen ? what but the feeble blood- most boundaries, or into local parts, in propor-

counsel to them, even after you own to inability vessels gorged with the thin and watery blood ^ tion as this incentive is employed. And in this to cure them. You imagine the processes to be driven suddenly from the whole surface of the way art can re-supply, in .-ome small measure, j ?" severe and unpleasant, using up vitality rapidly skin j the conditions that art denies in the ; ordinary you speak of it as though old and young, man habits of civilized society. Doubtless, now, the sallow-visaged votary of ; Nobody but an Al- and boy. woman and infant, were put to one lopath can mistake in this matter, the draught and pill, is sufficiently horrified at i and the prac- monotonous service, whereas tfie Routine prac- the sad case of those who eschew his delectable tical blunders to which allusion is made, flow

| tice belongs to you, and is not known to a true from the Allopathic side. prescriptions —but the Hydropath, he who truly i \Vater-Cure physician in these United States. and practically understands" the whole affair to To give weight to his arguments, the Doctor

Gentlemen, awake ! the people are awaking, you be a matter of chemistry and alludes to a case in which, according to his state- chemical physiol- ! " must also awake and take this counsel ' ment, a fatal pleurisy and ; from me ogy," is not controlled by such dogmatical, con- congestion of the in all kindness and respect, that if you ever feel tradictory, egotistical and shallow views of the lungs was at last produced, after a long use of ; desirous to know, by your own observations, what subject. And the public, on which the Doctor cold baths applied under Hydropathic advice." | happen to virtue there is in Water as a remedial agent, do deems it necessary to bring his batteries We be acquainted with the case to bear, < mentioned, which is as incorrect in its not do these or either of these things : 1. Do has, through a long experience with drugs, ac- statement not subject your patient to a treatment of particulars, as is the principle it is intended mixed quired some notions on this subject, enough to ' —that is, administrations of baths and drugs. guide them tolerably correct in their selection to illustrate, and is altogether a most unfortu- ; 2. Do not take the testimony of men who prac- of the source whence they expect to derive their nate one for the Doctor's purpose. None could ; tice after that mixed form. 3. Do not give too information and advice in these matters. be selected better to illustrate the disparity be-

tween the two practices ; and we only wish the much treatment ; the thing is often oDf;done. I Science, as well as common sense> establishes ; seldom give over 2 baths a day. 4. Do not use public could be made acquainted with enough the proposition, that while drugs of every spe- : more similar ones that never see the light, and hard water, but try water alone, try soft water^ cies have one common property of being inimical '; the drugging system of medicine make your treatment mild, and watch changes, to life, this same life can be sustained only by reg- would soon be j and you will find that there are things on earth consigned to the oblivion it is destined ultimately ular use of the agencies employed in hydropa- ; " " to reach. not dreamed of in your philosophy. thy. To be sure, these agencies may be, and / I am yours, and man's truly, doubtless are, oftentimes so indiscreetly employed The lady referred to was extremely delicate J. C. Jackson. as to produce serious and even disastrous effects, from childhood— troubled with frequent palpi- tations, faintings, &c. At the but the Doctor will not allow that when drugs ; time of her are " abused," that an argument is derived there- marriage, which was quite early, she was sup- J from against their judicious employment. In the posed to be quite gone in consumption. But go- DR. DIXON ON KLYDllOPATHY. ; way, ing to an extreme southern climate (Florida) same Hydropathy is in nowise responsible i for the bad practices that are carried on under with her husband, her health became improved j

" ! it, the new and more congenial life : The last number of Dr. Dixon's Scalpel," ) its name. by and but

' contain? an article by which it seems the doctor, > It is a notable fact, that those who attempt to the husband soon dying, she returned to the

weary of the unprofitaVjle and interminable task \ oppose the Hydropathic principles, whether pro- north ; when the old pulmonary difliculty re- ; of exposing tiic peccadilloes of his medical breth- fessional or not, are sure to betray the most lam- turned again, and,with all its death-telling symp- { | ren, has essayed a tilt with us—' poor, half-cd- entable ignorance of those principles, as threatened a speedy dissolution. At this ; well toms, , ucated men and women,"' yclept Hydropathists. as their application. They not only xuppose she resorted to the advice of a well- \ ] juncture must be some cause instigating the san- practitioner then in There ! that the use of water produces in the physiolo- Hydropathic the city, , known guinary thrust he has made, more than the fear gical system effects exactly contrary to what and thoroughly followed out, in a domestic way, ;

', that public health will be endangered by the in- ; are well known to be produced, and to what must the judicious course marked out for her for sev- creasing " insanity" on the subject of Water- be produced, according to certain laws upon eral months, when she found her health, to a |

Cure and this undoubtedly lies in the fact ev- ; degree, renewed. For twelve years thereaf- ; which the harmony of the economy is founded, \ good

erywhere so apparent, that the tide of popular ; but also enter the gi-atuitous assumption that its ter, though never quite strong, she enjoyed a is the fervor just now setting strongly against medi- ; advocates—those who know most of the prac- very tolerable state of health, suffering in

' cine, and consequently in favor of the more con- tice, are least competent to apply it. Hence the meantime very little with pulmonary difBculties.

fiistent practice of Hydropathy, to the serious ; special advice, contained in the article for the ben- During a portion of that time, the writer has " constitution, damage of the prospects of the old-pchool prac- / efit of those who will be hydropathists, to bathe known her as having a delicate that

titioners, in matters of honors and profits. When ; body with tepid water in four sections, end- was kept in tolerable health by her customary the j the most respectable and best-paying patrons of ing with the flesh and nail brush"—"all other hygienic habits. In the early part of the present ; medicine begin seriously to inquire after the ' kinds of baths are always precarious, and often, season, during a very hot spell, she went to visit ;

better way, it is time for those in its interests to J some friends on Long Island, and while there. very often, deadly to the delicate person." |

take the alarm. ! temperature of the atmosphere took a very The particular point overlooked, is the one so ; the It is only with those who have as yet ' and extreme change, for which she was received no palpable, except when professionally obscured, ; sudden

other light 5 clothing she \ on matters pertaining to medical utterly unprepared by adequate ; ^ namely, that any capacity exists on the part of ;

^ science, but such as flows from Allopathic sources, 5 the system respond to impressions, calculated was attacked with pleurisy and pulmonary con- to |

that Doctor's ' the declamations can have any in- to promote its development, as well as to those gestion, was treated by the old drugging plan. THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL,

and had no fn/dropathic advice, as tbe Doctor their comparative value. Dr. D., as you entered. ' lieve certain forms of dyspepsia by supplying for- avers—and in lour or Dve days, died. Very On what remedies, and on what combinations of the acid which nature prepares, but which is j tunate!}' for science and truth. « post-mortem ex- remedies, do you rely in your treatment of dis- wanting in this disease. In immoderate doses, amiuation was held, which showed a somewhat eases ? however, this same acid destroys the parts with rare but not unprecedented state of things : a por- Dr. D. I have very little faith in them at which it comes in contact. It unquestionably contracted } tion of one lung was cicatrized, and best. I rely mostly on those remedies which acts upon the system. Then again the system j useless, from the effect of prerious disease, but promote the secretions and allay undue excita- not unfroquently reacts against the remedies, as quite free of indications of any recent afiection. bility. A pail of water, a sponge, a sheet, an in the case of emetics. Uere the presence of an Otherwise the chest presented the usual appear- injecting instrument, an occasional dose of mor- active poison stimulates the stomach \ to reject the ances of subjects dying of acute inflammation. phine, of rum. antimony, or the iodide of potas- intruder, and vomiting ensues. As your ques- have in the sequel of this case a palpable, tion stands the We sium, together with a plentiful array of placebos, ! proper answer would be, both. flat contradiction of everything that Dr. Dixon of Dr. D. constitute about the whole my materia raedica. : Let us take the action of that class of labors to establish, and equally as plain and Dr. B. That's all very well; but v,-hat the medicines styled expectorant. ; A patient comes practical demonstration of the Wat^T-l'ure prin- devil do you stick out that pail of water, and to you with an incipient bronchitis, and you give ciples. What further need be said ? We could that sponge so prominently for ? Ilydropathy ; him an expectorant - tartar emetic, for example.

' give names and references of parties, but on ac- is not going to gain another convert, is it? The system recognizes it as a poison as soon as their it it count of standing in society would be Dr. D. Before I answer your question, Dr., enters the circulation, and strives to it. | reject improper to do so publicly. G. H. T. The skin carries off answer mine. On what remedies do you rely? , some of it in the shape of

! perspiration Dr. B. Calomel, opium, ipecac, antimony, ; the bowels carry off some of it, as blue pills, bread pills, and pills made of soap do also the kidneys; but, from the peculiar char- THE SCTENCE OF MEDICINE. and soda. I hese singly, or in combination, will acter of the medicine, and the peculiar charac- NO. n. do about all that can be done. I occasionally ter of the structure, by far the largest amount ; branch oil' into the tonics and cathartics, but not is carried off by the mucous membrane of the BT AN EX- ALLOPATH. '< often. bronchial tubes— the parts afl'ected—in the form Dr. A. You are right, both of you, gentle- of sputa. Now, if your patient swallow, instead Callixo upon my friend Dr. A. one day on men. Calomel, opium, ipecac, and antimony, of reject their sputa, they will accumulate in professional business, I found three or four other are invaluable. We are powerless without them. suflicicut quantities in his stomach to cause him M. D.'s collected together conversing on topics And I am of Dr. D.'s opinion as to the efiicacy to vomit— a conclusive proof, in my way of think- connected with our ancient and honorable call- of water, though I would not place it first on ing, that the system was offended by the pres- " ing. Of those present Dr. A. was full thirty the list. The fact is, it won't do to use it very ence of the intruder, and sought to hurry him out years the senior of all, a man of large experi- prominently. It is suggestive of blue noses and through the mucous membrane of the bronchiae. ence, great learning, and benevolent disposi- ; Dr. B. There's the chills, and the great mass of patients .are too force in your reasoning ; but tion, and the most unaffectedly religious I man sick or too indolent to work hard enough to I must take time for reflection. It's a knotty ever knew. Dr. B. was not far from thirty, a bring on a reaction. In fevers it is invaluable. point, that has never yet been unravelled. But radical progressive of the rough and ready cast, there's suppose you establish ^ Dr. B. There's my medicine case, and your theory that the sys- whose surplus vitality found frequent vent in ! my pill case. I fill them both not more than tem reacts against the remedies, what conclu- adjectives of the superlative degree, not usually twice a year. I use more ipecac and bread-pills sions are you going to draw from it? found in the dictionaries. He was an indus- or placebos than anything else. The fact, is we Dr. D. That it is unphilosophical to attempt trious student, well posted in all matters up must know more of pathology than we do now, the cure of disease by the internal administration pertaining to his profession, and also an inde- or medicine will degenerate into the purest em- of remedies. The system of a patient is already fatigable reader of the general literature of the piricism. oppressed by disease. It does not perform \,ts day. He hated quacks with an indescribable \ Dr. A. Is it not there already? There are a various functions, as in health, and pain is the lu.^ury, and rolled his anathemas of them as a result. few things in medicine we know positively ; the Now, to cure this disease, to relieve the sweet morsel under his mental tongue. Dr. C rest we must take for granted. In midwifery system of a present grief, you impose an addi- was a young man, twenty-five or six years of and surgery we have positive science : in general tional burden upon it. It must stagger under age, remarkable for nothing except the faculty medicine we have pure empirical knowledge, the weight of the disease and the remedy. of echoing the opinions of his preceptor. Dr. and even that is most likely to fail us when we Dr. B. Well, you've come to that conclusion, A. The writer of this article made up the fourth need it most. what are you going to do ? Where's your materia of the professional quartet, and for convenience Dr. D. I am glad we are coming to an un. medica with which to combat disease ? sake we will him Dr. D. In the dub course of derstanding on these subjects. It must be evi- Dr. D. I am compelled — our conversation sentiments in the same import, dent to all that the practice of medicine is more Dr. A., (interrupting.) Admitting your theory almost precisely the in and same language, were safe and harmless in the hands of those who to be correct, Dr., the question arises, Is it never uttered by us. I would here add, that had they know its utilities and its futilities, than iu the expedient to administer medicines with a view " known there was a chiel amang 'em taking hands of those who have unbounded faith in its of creating a minor disease for the purpose of notes," they would not have spoken so unre. general and special principles. And now, while curing a major? In curing constipation of the servedly, and conscience my smites me some- I think of it, gentlemen, let me ask you your bowels by cathartics we establish a diarrhoea what in thus violating their confidence ; but, opinions as to the modus operandi of medicines. which nature, in time, cures of htrself. Here is as I believe it is a rule in social ethics that a Do they act on the system, or does the system a case of positive medication producing not only man may unbosom himself freely to his friends, react against them? positive disease, but also a positively beneficial if his friends promise to keep his secrets invio- Dr. C. They act on the system, of course. result. late, and as I hold all the readers of the Water- Dr. B. That's a questibn more easily asked Dr. D. Would it not be more reasonable to Cure Journal to be my friends, though thousands than answered. I have thought on the subject cure the constipation by injections? never knew me, and probably never will, and as, a deal, good but cannot come to a conclusion. Dr. B. Undoubtedly ; but are you green furthermore, they are a discreet people, who Dr. A. I think your question, Dr., cannot be enough to suppose every body is going to eschew keep their knowledge to themselves for their answered as it stands. Make two questions of medicines and take to squirt guns because you own entertainment, I feel myself justified in it and we can more readily get at it. Medicines have an idea that medicines are not at all times making a clean breast of the council we held unquestionably act upon the system, stimulating beneficial, or that their action is unphilosophi- that day — always provided that you don't men- or repressing its functions, or even destroying cal? tion it. the integrity of its parts. Take the acids, for Dr. D. I am green enough to suppose, Dr., Dr. A. were We speaking of remedies, and example. Moderate doses of muriatic acid re- that if they had as much light on these subjects :

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as we have, they'd think as we do. When you had suffered a good deal at times in her general able to discern persons about the room, and saw are sick do you take much medicine ? health also. Three years since she was attacked her physician for the first time. In a little less lasted about two weeks. six Dr. B. No, by , I don't. You don't catch with measles, which her than months she returned home to see her me gaping over a spoon. I go to bed, stop eat- Before she had perfectly recovered, little tumors mother, whose countenance she had not beheld ing, drink what cold water nature seems to de- began to form upon the eye, which finally burst in two years. Five months have since elapsed, mand, and. if I suffer much pain, find comfort in and discharged, leaving the eye in an inflamed and her improvement has continued without in- condition. formed near the junc- morphine or opium ; and I'd treat other folks so These tumors terruption, as a short letter in her own hand- if they'd let me. The fact is. Dr., you must tion of the iris with the sclerotic coat. This state writing has recently announced to us. six dose them, or you must starve, and no mistake. of things continued for about months, when Will water cure ? Is there anything in hydro- it, the sight seriously affected Dr. A. Well, there's little certainty in at of the eye became ; pathy? Are hygienics a humbug? and will hu- best. We must do as well as we can, under the dimness and mistiness first affecting one eye, man nature forever hug the delusion that deadly circumstances, and trust to nature and hard then the other. A month or two later this loss drugs have some peculiar virtue in them, de- permanent, affecting both signed the study until we know more about it. If I was a \ of vision became more by Creator to befriend us in the day young man again, I think before I— well, no eyes, increasing until she could not distinguish of our calamity, when disease, as the ; result of matter what. Drive the horse 'round, James. I one person from another, while, at the same our transgressions, or from any other cause, has day, gentlemen. time, the light became more painful, and a dark laid its withering hand upon us? We fancy one Good ] for at case like the ; necessary above, Dr. S. Good day ; and while we're learning, room became her comfort all unto well authenticated, is this, and the Lord only knows how many more worth a thousand theories and discussions about generations, must fall victims to medical science. This condition of the patient had continued the abstract merits of the two modes. That we have not overstated this, either in regard to its That's the way the money comes I for nearly two years, when she came to us. hopelessness, or the Pop goes the patient I At the time of her entering the establishment remarkable success which at- we found great debility of the general health tended the treatment, the lady or her friends will testify. also, the patient being unable to walk but a be ready to C. RBPOBT OF CASKS. short distance at a time. There consider- was CASE II. able oedema of the feet and ankles, showing a BY W. T. VAIL, M.D. Heart Disease. Miss Emily Shipman, Sugar dropsical tendency, and much heat, and great Hill, N. H. There is a common impression that pain about the forehead and eyes continually. CASE I. heart diseases are incurable. Whether this be The patient had not only lost her sight, but she Blixdxess Restoked. MissK. Braley, Stough- true or not, many patients who have most for- was unable, through paralysis, to raise the eye- ton, Mass. " The days of miracles are passed,"' midable symptoms of this malady, are perfectly lids. Both the outer and the deep structures of said a lady relative to Kate, as she proposed to curable by water treatment. The above is the the eye seemed hopelessly involved in disease. lady sixteen years old. I was visit our Cure : " They can no more be per- case of a young I promised the patient nothing but an improve- formed at a Water-Cure than elsewhere." This first called to see her in mid-winter at her own ment in her general health (holding out to her lady had no very great faith in hydropathy. home. She was considered dangerously ill, and the idea that this would put her in condition to But it was somewhat otherwise with Kate, as she justly so. She had had frequent attacks for sev- recover the use of her eyes, if the thing was pos- sat, day in and day out, blindfolded, in her dark- eral years previous, each one apparently grow-

sible) ; nor would she or her friends have been ened apartment, with every contrivance sur- ing worse and more alarming than the former. at all disappointed if they had realized nothing rounding to keep out the light for, uot only I found her laboring under the following symp- ; more. was her vision completely obscured, but the toms : Palpitation, with irregular beating of the softest light was estrt raely painful to her eyes- Treatment : Shallow bath in the morning, and heart, difficulty of breathing, some cough, and sitz bath at 11 A. M., at 86 degrees. foot Kate was hopeful. She still fancied something A bath pain in the left side of the chest ; much pale- might be done for her good, and she was haunted at 98, followed by a cold dash upon the feet be- : ness, with loss of appetite, flesh, and strength. with the notion that that something was the fore retiring, as the feet were much inclined to She had been some time ill, and seemed evidently

be This first : Water-' ure. True, s-he had never heard of a cold. was followed for the two on the decline. As an experiment, I had been

weeks. Then the following : Shallow bath at called. I directed the following treatment case like hers having been restored ; but how

80°, the at 80 deg. ; sitz could she give up the idea of seeing again ? Just followed by a dash of cold shower on the Shallow bath in the morning and eyes in the morning sitz bath at 80'^, 15 minutes, and wet jacket at eighteen, the season when life has so many forehead ; bath at 11 at dripping also, three times a week, charms for the young, how could she think of 80^, 20 minutes, at 11 A. M., and sheet night ; a half pack, 80 sitting in darkness during the remainder of her at 4 P. M. at 3, with the foot bath, as before. and a plain vegetable diet, with water only as days, utterly dependent upon her friends for Cold wet cloths were kept to the forehead and drink. A very decided improvement was ap- everything she enjoyfd, and wholly unable to eyes continually, from the beginning. The im- : parent in a few weeks. The above treatment till spring, occupy any useful or desirable position in life? provement in the patient's strength, and in her was continued, with slight variations,

in i well enough to engage Friends, relatives, and physicians, felt it their ability to exercise, was very marked four when the young lady was

', perfectly duty rather to aid her in becoming resigned to weeks, and her eyes had become much less pain- in teaching. Her health not being re- ful. After four weeks, packs were prescribed however, and having returning symp- her fate than to encourage her with any hope of \ covered,

i visited our Cure recovery. Physicians of every .school, a Water- once and twice a week. After two months, the toms of her old malady, she on Cure physician among the number, gave her patient could bear light enough in her room to the following spring. She recovered perfectly of the healthiest eyes to read, , months, and is now one over as incurable. Under these circumstances it enable a person with good and she in a few neighborhood. This was was that I permitted her to come to the "Granite fancied she could see a little herself, but nothing young women in her treatment, a little case of heart disease, as her State," to see if, perchance, in so unpromising a distinctly. The above with undoubtedly a temperature, and the substitution had been long troubled with a case, there might be a shadow of hope still re- modification of mother before her cold douche occasionally for one of the affection. Other methods had been tried maining. , of the similar other baths towards the last, constituted our with no avail, but the water treatment was tri- The history of the patient's case is as follows : She was of a highly nervous temperament, and course. umphant. CASE III. of a delicate organization, yet capable, under After two months the improvement in the pa- i Claremont, N. H. During favorable circumstances, of very considerable tient's eyes was unexpectedly rapid. Trees and ( C. A. Kenney, of ' hundreds endurance. From five to fifteen years of age buildings became discernible, and the light quite the past five years, out of the many ; she had been afflicted a good deal with tolerable to bear on a cloudy day. One window who have resorted to our Cure, it has occurred weakness ; three only, to re- and soreness of the eyes, supposed to be caused, in her apartment could be opened without op- to us in three instances, and in \ [ in part at least, by some hereditary taint. her. In four cord the death of our patient. Unfortunately, She : pressing months and a half she was 1856.] THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL. 79

the above is one of those three. For the sake yet there is danger of so ruining the physical Here, more faithfully than ever, I practiced of showing what we claim for hydropathy, and man as to make recovery very improbable, and, the regimen of nature. I am about to tell you

what we do not claim for it, we give the particu- under some circumstances, quite impossible. Let how I practiced it, and the results. I arrived lars in regard to the nature of this case, and the the young take heed how they sap the founda- here late in the autumn of last year. Early in treatment pursued by us. tion of life, or exhaust in any way the vital re- the winter I added a new item to my course. There is This patient had a fine mental organization, sources. a point beyond which they Every night, on going to bed, I changed my day fatal will may not go, or dangers thickly beset shirt for a clean one ; wet my chest with pure he ha 1 applied himself rigidly to books, was an

them. We feel assured, had the above patient cold water ; then wet the shirt completely, as excellent scholar ; had graduated at Dartmouth ordinary of vitality, the before he was 21 years of age (about a year possessed an amount much a5 covered my chest, and in this plight not able to attend college ex- affection of the bowels, which proved so rapidly went to bed slept upon a husk bed, upon my agot, but had been ; fatal, would have overcome with the ercises during the previous term on account of been back, and slept quietly and sweetly until morn- smallest difficulty. {Franklin, J\\ H. his health. His father died suddenly, a year ing. Soon after. I added another item. It must since, of heart disease, in middle life. His mother be remembered that the winter of 185o-'56 was went to an early grave some years ago. Inher- extremely severe. As soon as I arose in the iting a feeble physical organization, exhausting morning, I went out into the cold air and for IIEMOKRHAGK OF THK some minutes continued the process of inhaling It by study and a neglect of out-door exercises, LUNGS. and expiring, as directed by some of our writers. and still more by th^t secret error which tempts All this course, in addition to strict adherenc3to so many of our best young men to physical ruin> writer has his to state one fact, plain and temperate living, worked the most this patient came to us in a sad state of nervous The taken up pen which all the subtlety of opposition cannot gain- glorious deed for imaginable. prostration. Nevertheless we hoped for him, me Every winter say. It is a fact which is in itself a triumph of before I had been the subject of severe colds, and was willing to hazard something for his the " Water-Cure regimen " a fact which the upon throat and lungs. This time, with good, well knowing that neither ourselves nor — my a ' regulars " admit as a triumph. slight exception in the fore part of the winter, the Water-Cure will always gain laurels in the I I was always opposed to drugging, yet in sick- escaped colds. My lungs grew much stronger. treatment of such cases. I should have men- ness often got drugged a good deal. I remem- Long-established dyspnoea almost vanished. I tioned, also, that the patient had typhoid fever ber as being in very close connection the follow- could lecture for an hour, and my lungs be a year ago, from which he had only partially re- fever, ing horrible things — calomel, salivation, stronger for the effort. Early in the spring covered. The treatment we pursued was almost I cholera-morbus, jalap, nauseous pills, diarrhcea, commenced farming—and engaged with all entirely of a tonic character, consisting of drip- the pain-killers, continual aches, and continual ardor of improved health. The spring ing sheets, with thereafter my passed much hand-rubbing dosing, until health was partially restored. away, so pleasantly indeed, that of short I experienced and sitz baths duration, always moder- Pretty well I used to think myself, if I passed less sickness or pain than any previous spring of ate in temperature and amount. Under this the year with having only the cramp-colic once my life. I have worked, so far, this summer course the pulse, which at first was very low and every month, cholera-morbus once in the summer, without meat or stimulant of any kind. I have slow, improved headache, which been con- ; had constipated bowels half of the remaining time, been much better able to stand the heat of the tinuous and severe, diminished, and a catarrhal while I battled successfully with those grateful season, than those who had been always robust, afTection of long standing entirely disappeared. aperients, " Epsom salts " and " castor oil," and who used meat, tea, and coffee. In these respects there was a decided improve- spells of vomiting in which it was impossible to much for opposition ment and, although the bilious coating of the down food. I got pretty So my to drugging— so ; keep along well, I much for the triumph of the " tongue, and the dyspeptic symptoms still re- thought, at first. But. finally, even such a state Water-Cure regi- men." mained, there was reason to hope for an improve- of things did not suit me. Saw rosy health sit- former ment in these also in time. After the patient ting upon the cheeks of others, and was not at all My residence, Hartsville, Bartholomew county, Ind. had been about ten weeks under our care, he satisfied. I eventually and happily fell in with I now live at Hastings, Minnesota. was attacked with a dysenteric affection of the Priessnitz's experience of the "Water-Cure," I have many friends who will attest the truth of bowels. (Dysentery was at that time prevailing and went practically to work. With a small what I say. L. N. Cocxtetman. I bathed somewhat in the neighborhood ; but whether this wash-basin every other morning, some- had anything to do with the patient's case, I can- times every morning—wiping the skin always

dry and red with a linen towel ; not say.) This reduced him greatly, both in and though I MEDICIXK A HUMBUG. scarcely altered diet, flesh and strength, and was the first real inti- my I soon improved one mation of danger in his case. Under a free use hundred per cent, in health, and kept so. '• " " after, M.iGEXDiE says : Medicine is a great hum- of injections, and a strict diet, this affection gave Soon I commenced studying at one of bug doctors are mere empyrics, they our Western colleges. Striving to excel ; when are way. and there was reason to hope that, with no in the not charlatans, ignorant exercises pertaining to the school, I neglected as men can be who untoward circumstances, he might still be saved. knows physical exercise almost entirely. I read, anything in the world about medicine." days afterwards, difficulty Ten with the bowels " studied, and taught in close rooms almost inces- Again he says : Who can tell me how to cure again occurred, attended with signs of ulcer- santly, unheeding the warning voice of ap- the headache? or the gout? or disease of the ation. This left us no hope for our patient. proaching disease, until last year hemorrhage heart? Nobody. Oh ! you tell me doctors cure His strength was already exhausted, and we saw of the lungs ensued. I persevered faithfully in people. I grant you, people are cured. But plainly that the little vitality he had left would the application of water externally, and inter- how are they cured?" He says, '-Gentlemen, soon fail, and death would close the scene. He nally—pure cold water. Eschewed meat, tea, nature does a great deal, doctors do— devilish died in three days after the last attack. coffee— everything which I thought might stimu- little —when they do no harm." True, as any Though this case was a fatal one, it may not late. passage of Holy Writ. The doctor says, "I be less interesting to the readers of the Journal, divided my patients into To use a familiar term, I was not able to do a two classes ; with one, than the most triumphant cure. Hydropathy "stroke" of work. Still pallid and weak, I followed the dispensary, and gave them the will not cure everything, and no truth ought to though without pain or cough, I concluded to ; usual medicines without having the least idea why be better borne in mind. We may abuse these change climate, and what seemed strange to the or wherefore ; to the other I gave bread pills bodies in a thousand ways, and bring disease, and people generally, and the " regulars " especially and colored water, without, of course, letting pain, and suffering upon us ; we may poison our- —concluded to emigrate three miles it hundred them know anything about ; and occasionally,

selves with drugs for months, and even years, in ' north, '-way up into the region known as the gentlemen, I would create a third division, to

obedience to a false system of : medicaiion we Territory of Minnesota. Every one said I would whom I gave nothing whatever. J These last may, after all this, recover our health in a good die. Despite the entreaties of friends, I removed ; would fret a good deal, they would feel that they measure by the potent resources of hydropathy ; to Minnesota. ; were neglected, (sick peopls always do, unless so THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL, [Oct., ^

they are well drugged—the fools,) and they I 1 that I, about that time, adopted the expectant would irritate themselves until they got really LTFK AND DEATH. 0 plan—or rather, the ' | do-nothing plan of treat- sick but nature invariably came to the rescue, THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO ; ; ment. There's a large "EhOnLAR jar of soap and soda piUa, and all in this class got well. There was little PHT8ICIANS." A CONFESSION. \ which is emptied oftener, and with better satis- mortality among those received but bread who faction to myself | and my patients, than any other pills, and colored water, and (be mortality was T ONE OF { in the office." greatest among those who were carefully drug- \ " doctor, a word more, and I " Doctor !" said I, must be off. ged according to the dispensary." This should one day, to Dr. Blank, a L friend of mine, who enjoys the enviable ^^'^ P^'* ^'"^ ^ ^ ^'^^^ adminis- reputa- i be a good lesson to young allopaths, who tliinlc, , ^'^''^d drugs so diluted with Hydropathy, that the tion of being the first surgeon, and second to ! because there is an appearance of cure, and of , ^"^^ ^^"^ '''^'^^ ^ ^ter, ex- none as a physician, in a city of forty thousand \ good occasionally, that the system is not founded , " '^^^ "^""^ " inhabitants, in the Empire State, Doctor, how \ in error. It has been truly said, There is no : l*^"" ^'^^ ^^""^ ^'^ "''''^ "''"^'"^ ^ood day ;I, to go many have you killed in the course of your | error so crooked, but that it hath some lines of : Association Rooms, to read Kant and Schel- twelve years of practice?" 1 truth : nor is there any poison so deadly that it \ ^'"^^ """"^ between eighty and ninety "To toll you the truth I ; eerveth not some wholesome use." We should don't know, but one ; 5'^*'^°*^ ' '^"^•'"g day. As I was going along, thing I do know : I killed a be honest in medical matters, as much as in any man last week as | ^"'"^ '"^^ ^''''^^ ^'^''^ f""- Here was a ' dead as Julius Cxsar. and have had the horrors other. A kind of mysterious, solemn, deceptive | ''^ brilliant parts, fretting away his life in over it ever since. He was a large, lusty, \ appearance, when called to visit the sick, but pow- ; P'^'"*"'* ^^'^'i satisfied neither his intellect his erful man, in the prime of life, and had never * aggravates the symptoms ; but let us be cheer tad a day's sickness, to his knowledge, in his life. ful, open and frank on all occasions. Do good, | eer^lToV^^^^^^^ ' ^"^^'^^^ satisfaction in his labor, and dr:ven ^ast week, Monday, he was attacked with in- 5 This is the way to enjoy life, and to- i P'"'''" °^ business which left him neither flamraation of : ^ the lungs Tuesday I saw him : j "Make our lives sublime, '"=1'"^"°° f^'' his pulse ran high, breathing oppressed, roflcction, .so that his And, departing, leave behind us i and pain hours of rec.-eation were spent in dis.sipation and Foot-prints on the sands of time 'i exceedingly acute. I put him ; on narcotics and I '""'"'^ Foot-piints th.it, perhaps, another, '"'^^'"'^ "'^'"'^ ^'^^ ; antimonials, and saw him the again next day. \ f Sailing o"er life's solemn main, ^""^ responsibility. And let me assure the He was no \ \ better-if anything, worse and, ; as Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother Wator-Cure Journal, there he was so powerful, and his are strength so little ; beting, shall take heart again." I thousands of such in the land, and impaired, I bled could they or \ him, and, by , he was buried popular idea that for every ailment some- \ would they open their mouths, The last I\ronday they would reveal \ afternoon. Why I wan't put to the thing must be taken, is erroneous. Not long \ an experience as harrowing as that which cobbler's trade, I can't has \ tell.' since, I prescribed for a young lady who was wrung my own soul, and tortured from my " Well, that's a hard case, Dr., but you felt no quite sick. I was sent for again, when, as soon friend the wish that he had been a cobbler, any- worse in losing him than I did in losing a miser- as I had entered the room, her attendant says : thing, rather than one on whose shoulders tl* able old rummy, who came into the hospital " For God's sake, if you can do anything for her, responsibilities of life and death should rest. about three weeks after I entered, to walk the do it I" Seeing there was no real cause for But my mind was too full to read, so I lef t tho wards. He had congestion of the lungs, alarm, I took everything cool, and ordered a Association Rooms, and called round on Doctor and it did not seem to me that he could

sponging in cool water. The patient asked if I H , a young friend of mine, withacomfortable live the day out. I bundled him over to the give her something, as she felt handsome living was not going to ward, bled him to the of P'^*'^*'*^^' ^^'^ ^ aside from his extent about' twenty- I faint. replied, take the sponging as ^*^"'' '^'^^ conversation soon weak and I four ounces, and left him as turned to the comfortable, to all \ directed, first, and explained, as well as I could, ^^'^^^ subject-'' the profession," and I found, appearances, as I was myself. The next day I \ the nature of the complaint : that she would went over, and found him picking somewhat to my surprise, that the Doctor was the bed-clothes. | soon be better, and needed nothing to take. even more liberal''^'^'"'^^ than myself; that he used Hy- That night he was raving with the delirium tre- ; " " it is so; Well," said the attendant, perhaps dropathy extensively in his practice ; that he was mens ; and the day after I entered the ward and but it seems as though she ought to take some- a great stickler for a physiological diet, and ( found him boxed. He had died during the night,

thing." This is the force of habit. Now-a-days, ' that, rather than dose against his but whether it was from the bleeding, the opium convictions, he if a physician wishes to be thought much of, he would turn his patient over to another less scru- ; I had administered for the tremens, or from the must go through with his Latin phrases, and jaw- latter disease, I never could tell." pulous or less enliiihlened Philistine. "If the J " breakers, that his patient knows not the mean- •' Probably from all three," fools," said he, will have drugs when they only \ said Dr. Blank.

ing, either. illustrate : get them or himself To A "I lost three or four just that way, until I learned need diet, they may of some one else. I country physician called on a man afflicted with that congestion of the lungs in drunkards, I won't sell myself so cheap." ; re- apoplexy. Dr. Bolus gazed long and hard, felt quired brandy or ammonia, and not After leaving him, I called on Dr. B. W., a i depletion. his pulse and pockets, looked at his tongue, and about thirty years of age, who had recently ! Since then, I have not lost one in a dozen cases. man his wife-, and finally gave vent to the following located in the city. After a few preliminaries, I ; But the whole practice, at the best, is a superla- | " the sublime opinion : I think he is a gone feller." ; tive humbug. There is a thousand dollars cautiously introduced great subject, and to worth \ "No, no!" exclaimed the sorrowing wife, "do books on those shelves, and aside from my satisfaction found that he, too, was a medi- ; of theim- that while not say that." perfect physiology they contain, they are not cal heretic ; he attended the church- ; " Yes," returned Bolus, lifting up his hat and worth as many cents. When I get medical, he rejected the creed, and was his own ; puzzled, I \ eyes heavenward at the same time, '• yes, I do never think of going to them. I shut interpreter of the truth and error, as it is in the I myself disciples say 60 ; there arn't no hope, not the leaslest into a room with my common sense, and if I revelations of the of Hippocrates. Af-

mite, he's got an attact of the ni hil fit in his lost can't solve the problem, then I give it up." ter leaving Dr. W. I went home, and in stooping " frountis " Well, Doctor," said I, " I have found myself to pick up my little one, to caress, niy medicine "Where?" cried the startled wife. puzzled a hundred times, tell fell out of my pocket, and on opening it, I } to whether my case that the vial containing pulverized opium "In his lost frountis. and he can't be cured J last patient got well by virtue of my medicine, found the opium spilled. " Good !" without some trouble, and a great deal of pains. ( or in spite it. I have not seen more than three was broken, and " You see his whole planetory system is dcrai.ged or four cases in as many years, where there says I to myself, one temptation the less," and ; j was firstly, his popnli is his val- I went out on my afternoon rounds with a lighter vox pressing on ad J not more room for doubt than for faith on the orem heart. ; secondly, his catacharpial cutaneous has ; point." swelled I aware that in penning the above I render considerably, if not more; thirdly, and I "Too true! too true! I never stop to inquire, am

' to criticism, and not only my- I lastly, his solur ribs are in a concussed state, I rest satisfied with knowing that the patient re- myself amenable of the profession to ~ and he ain't got any money, and consequently he covered. I have had more than ordinary suc- self, but the great mass f j voice. is bound to die." the fact which I belong ; but the truth must have a 3^ 0. K. | cess for the past five or six years, from :

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gathering of its friends, at New York, in Sep- c ) especially when there are thousands of ears open have saved rae, however, is of little moment, , r) VP to receive, and thousands of minds prepared to when placed in comparifon with the idea of tember next, will be amore interesting occasion, () I digest the wholesome outspeakings thereof. Nor crijipling my.-ielf by self-indulgence. Could we as well as more auspicious to the cause, than any

is thi prore3?io;a of m;diciiie alone, open to the feel, as we o'ight, our responsibility to God for which has hitherto taken place in this country. I

charge of secret and open heresy and schism. our health, as well as our obligations to preserve I For one, at least, I hope so. W. A. A. Our churches throughout the land are filled, it, in order that we may the better serve Him .iuburn Dale, tut.

Sabbath after Sabbath, by infidels, impostors aud and our fcUow-man, it seems as though \vc could hypocrites, with here and there devout worship- not, knowingly, pluck the forbidden fruit, when pers of the Only Living and True. And the si-rae it consisted in nothing more inviting than flesh. FACTS AND SUGGKSTIONS.

infidelity is at work throughout the length and * ' * • * Wherein I have sinned, in this par- BT 0. E. KIMBALL, M.D. breadth of society. It has its foundation in a de- , ticular, in times past, I repent and forsake ; and

is part of the intellectual activ- life. sire for truth, a , am determined to lead a new If I cannot Since my last communication to the Journal ity of the age, and will eventuate not only in a be well, I will not make myself more ill by eat-

f I have lectured in several places of considerable true s -ience of medicine, but in a pure and holy ing flesh." importance religious system and faith, the regeneration aud in this State. I find everywhere a I have met, of late, with Trof. E. C. Laugdon, ; growing interest in the Water-Cure. People rejuvenation of society, and the onward and up- I ', an eminent and well-known teacher of gymnas- ; are discarding ward advance of humanity. the use of drugs and drugging, ; tics, in this region, who bears testimony to the \ and turning their AVhile there is room for doubt, let doubters attention to the Water-Cure

^ truth and importance of Vegetarianism, and I as a more sane, safe, live and labor. and efficient mode of treat- only regrets that his wandering mode of life ing disease. I prevents him from following out more perfectly I have not been in a single place yet but what PROSPKCTS OF VEGKTARI- what the convic- ; have been, for five or six years, I have found some persons investigating and ap- AXISM. I tions of his mind on this subject. While I was plying the Water-Cure treatment, and many j with him. however, (or rather, while I was at the i others who would like to know more about it Some there are, among us, who suppose, or same public house,) viz. : Jiansion House, at if they had an opportunity. As a general thing, seem to suppose, that Vegetarianism, because less I Boston, Mass., he appeared to carry out his vege- I find the majority of people ignorant of the noisy just now than foimerly. at least in the I ; tarian principles though I regret to say that he ; simplest facts in Anatomy and Physiology, and United States, is dead and buried. Such indi- I used some tea and coffee. Yet, I have seldom '• they seem to have no definite knowledge of the viduals may know, to the contrary - that it is not examined a person physiologically, who gave ; facts from which our health-rules have been de- dead, but only sleeps—by the notice, in this greater evidence of perfect health, especially in , ) duccd. Among the many things which the peo- paper, of an annual meeting of the American the muscular system, with a single exception, pie hereabouts require information upon. isAnat- Vegetarian Society, in September next, in this ; which he himself attributed to his occasional in- omy and Physiology, and following these the city. They might also know that it still breathes, i muscles, I dulgence in the use of narcotics. His i symptoms and effects of various diseases incident and more than breathes, has a large and liberal . repeat, were as firm almost as ivory. to this country, with the Water Cure or Hygienic growth, by the reports of the Vegetarian Mis- \ A Mr. Storrs, also, whom I had the pleasure of method of treating them. Many people are sionary in Great Britain. The Societies, of this ^ examining very lately, is thirty-five years of age, taught by the dodorf, to believe that it would be kind, in Accrington, Birmingham, Bolton, Boston, ; has been for some time of the Theo- ; a member impossible for them to obtain sufficient informa- Darwen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, logical Seminary at Andover, Mass., and has tion to treat ordinary diseases unless they went Loudon, Leeds. Malton, Manchester, and Salford, j been for fifteen years vegetarian. entered a He . through a full course of study and lectures. A and Rawtenstall, and Crawshawbooth, number upon the system in perfect health, and has ever ; little more lecturing will convince people that about 1.003 active members ; and the number is since remained healthy. I have seldom seen a the portion of this kind of knowledge j greater rapidly increasing. better specimen of humanity than Mr. Storrs. can be more readily acquired than is usually sup- But we have other evidence. The writer of ; : Besides keeping up with his class, he has for po.sed. The majority of persons waste more this article, in a letter received from Rev. ; John several ; years cultivated a few acres of land, near time and effort in learning u.teless things than ; A. Brooks, jlissionary in Africa, dated at Boom ; the village, on which, by his own labor, he raises ; would have been sufficient for these more import- Falls Station, M. M., Jlo. Tappan Ilouse, April produce enough, as I was credibly informed, not J : ant matters. 11, 1S5G, has the following intelligence : only to su.«tain himself ^he has family), but to I \ no The greatest difficulty hereto.''ore has been that " Close observation estubli hts me in the confi- enable him to lay up from one to two hundred I all our books and other means of instruction J dence I have before expressed, that an anti-car- dollars a year. At this moment he has, as he ; ; been adapted only for few consequent- have the ;

bonaceous diet is the only * proper one for this says, 20,000 trees ; and they are as fine ones as ; ly incomprehensible to the masses. This has country. * * * * i^te j[y experience, together i ever I saw. These trees, at the low rate at ; checked, on the part of the people, all efforts with my former convictions, have led me to adopt , which he has lately offered them to the Kansas < to learn, and with the aid of mercenary, illiberal, a vegetable diet and adhere to it as a religious Emigrant's Aid Society, are worth, at least, \ ! and anti progressive physicians, has given rise to duty. I am now using vegetables, with a little i $1,000. Indeed, they are richly worth much , tlie notion that these particular branches of goat's milk, and feel more free and happy." more ; but he has offered the whole, in a lump, and I knowledge were necessarily mt/stericvs dif- And yet a worthy physician and his wife, be- for that ( sum. His muscles are nearly as good fieult, and they have come to be looked upon by longing to the mission, both insist on his using i and firm as those of Prof. Langdon. the masses the same as magic was in ancient flesh, fish, and fowl, in a recent or fresh state, ; I have also seen very recently, a man fifty-two times. very freely, also J and wine ! Such is the strength years of age- a man of intelligence— by the Trail for writing, and Fowler ; Thanks to Dr. of prejudice, especially when it Downs, encounters the : name of in Bradford, Mass., who pro- ; and Wells for publishing- that truly great and dangers of fever in Western Africa. But Mr. fesses to been, ; have in theory, for many years a emprehmnvework,Xh

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enormous bills of ex- instructive, an expensive apparatus must be had ! many valuable lives and embodiment of Xature's Remedial Agents, and

generally in this for illustrating i pense. I find that people them, which but few who lecture the only system which can promise a certain and their physicians as those who are are able to procure, except they are well sustain- genuine cure in all country consult ] the various manifestations of will skilful to prescribe medicines that kill dis- ed by the people. \ acute and chronic disease. Mrs. Kimball will ease. They expect the medicines to act on the Let all in favor of medical reform, of acquir- lecture to the ladies, and go prepared to treat j alkali to acid, or the various diseases incident disease the same as an an an ing a knowledge of their own organizations, : to females and antidote to a poison. They pay no sort of re- and the Water-Cure system of preventing and children. gard or attention to the condition and action of treating disease, take immediate steps for secur- Mrs Kimball has treated during the last year, in Iowa City, the various organs of the body, or to their dietetic ing, the coming lecture season, a course of sci- more than a hundred cases of female diseases of almost every or other voluntary habits. Many people seem to entific and practical lectures on the laws of life form and va- riety. Her success has think their physicians can take disease out of and health. not been excelled by any one in the Western country. t

\ peculiar to their sex. I have one thing to ask of fully chosen and applied, a health-giving potency, ers. Now, friends, all you have got to "do is to the friends of the cause, and that is this— I have which, of its own intrinsic virtue, directly and signify your desire for a course of lectures, and j found it very difiicult to procure the proper kind to the body. immuliately imparts health These I am confident you can have it gratified. I of food and lodgings at many of the Hotels exceedingly erroneous notions lead people to Since the establishment of the Hydropathic J ] where I have been compelled to stop. We pre- disbelieve that their own dietetic and other vol- College, many health-reform lecturers have been, for to be in a private family if we have to pay untary habits and actions have anything to do and are continually being sent out to supply the 1 the same as at the tavern. Will the friends in the with the preservation of health and the preven- demand, and I think it would not be a difBcult I > places we propose to visit secure us a situation tion of disease. When diseased, they expect matter to get some one or more of them to can- \ in some private family. Let us hear from you to be cured by the power of drugs alone. They vass particular localities, if suflicient induce- before we commence our Fall tour, the first of do not believe that any particular regimen can ments were held out. Let every place and com- September, so that we shall know where to go. ; of itself be of any great importance in promot- munity, then, have a course of lectures for the We shall make two tours during the lecturing I ing their restoration to health. Now, what is the benefit of the whole people. It will cost but a ! season. The first, South, commencing at Sigour- remedy for such an evil ? Simply the instruction little each, while the benefit resulting will be ney, passing through Oskaloosa, Pella, Knox- of the people themselves. incalculable. ville, Eddyville, Ottumwa, Fairfield, (Keasanqua If the fact was honestly stated to them by their I have devoted all of my time the past year to and Bentonsport if desired,) Mount Pleasant, medical advisers, that the Brugopathic Medical lecturing, in my feeble way, and I have met with (Salem, if desired,) Denmark, (Fort Madison, Art is remarkably uncertain and imperfect, and a good reception in every place where I have if desired.) Burlington, Wapello, Muscatine, and that the cure of disease can never be made sure, i lectured. The people everywhere are anxious Davenport. The second. North, or up the Rock or even probable, they would be more careful to •'to know more about the Water-Cure, and will River valley, in Illinois and Wisconsin. If the remain well, and would soon acquire that knowl- awply covipensate any man or woman who will J friends in Illinois and Wisconsin are desirous of

which would enable them to do so. The :' edge give them the desired information. I wish we having us make that tour, and will inform us, of knowledge requisite for this purpose amount ) could have a dozen competent, persevering and we will make our arrangements to do so. Let is not so great nor difBcult to acquire as many energetic lecturers in this State the coming lec- ; us hearfrom you at once? [7owo City, Iowa.

'J his is well known to Allopa- people suppose. ( turing season. If we could have them in this and is the chief reason why they thic Physicians, ; State only one year they would revolutionize the object to any popular instrttction on such matters i State, and place the Water-Cure far above all THli; INSTINCT OF APPETITE. all. Away then, I say, with blind faith and I furnished thus far at ; other systems. have between obedience, and let all be taught unperverted appetite is, no doubt, the unquestioning : five and six hundred volumes of Water-Cure The something useful about themselves, so that they works, between three and four hundred Journals, highest authority in matters of diet. In fact, its ] they should or should not do, may know what ! and one hundred and ninety self-acting syringes. decisions should be considered final, and without

and the reason for what others advise them. ' I intend during the coming Fall and Winter to the privilege of appeal. Nature makes no mis-

How can the enlightenment of the people on i accomplish double what I did last season. takes. Her laws are harmonious and perfect subjects on which their health those interesting ; I have ordered from Paris several Anatomical but we, as yet, understand so imperfectly the

? and happiness depends, be best accomplished ', models, which will more than double my present language in which they are written, that we make It is impossible for stU the people to go to medi- lecturing apparatus, and make my lectures more many blunders in our attempts to read and in- information. cal colleges to obtain the required ; instructive and interesting. In every place I interpret them. better From my own experience, I know of no ; have been in, I have found a strong desire on The plant selects from the soil which its roots way of accomplishing the matter than by popular the part of many females to consult an educated permeate, the chemical elements necessary to J public lectures for the masses, so simplified and female physician in regard to their ailments. sustain its life and promote its growth and per- j divested of technicalities as to be adapted to the To meet the above demand, I have made arrange- fect development, rejecting with unerring cer- I

comprehension of all. One man a.nAv)oman well '/ ments to have Mrs. Kimball accompany me this tainty every particle which would prove harm- with natural and acquired abilities for Winter. We shall spend a week in each ful or useless. The wild animal chooses, with qualified ; Fall and lecturing, with a good apparatus, can do more in place, and longer if our services are required. equal certainty, the various kinds of food adapted \ of its nature, never poisoning itself a single season to enlighten the people in regard J Will all the friends of the Water-Cure, who have to the wants to its to the laws of life and health than all of the old friends and acquaintances in diseased conditions, by eating or drinking anything inimical conservative monopolists of meAlcal knowlnlije and inform them of our intentions, and see that they life or health. And the wild animal is, as a learned doctors have done since the days of avail themselves of the opportunity presented general rule, never sick. The few exceptions out of geaeral Adam and Eve. of testing the efiicacy of the Water-Cure ? We believed to exist, doubtless grow against which no in- Such a reform is demanded. Will not every ask for only such as are given over by others of climatic disarrangements, I defence. intelligent man and woman in Iowa, especially the Medical Profession, or such as are satisfied that dividual instinct is a sufficient Our lost, in a greater or less faith, all their treatment heretofore received has not-, domestic animals have of the Water-Cure do in power j the and discriminating instinct. Their re- to secure a course of lectures on the above sub- will not cure Ihcm. A new, safe, and sure remedy degree, this I lations with Nature are less intimate, and the ject in every town and village in the State ? ! will be placed within their reach. Respecting perverted by man's intermeddling with To make such lectures the most interesting and j our system of practice, we claim that it is an appetite, 1 ; :

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reader to my own statements. I do not write so loosely iastincts the auimal, is no longer an abso- condition to receive and appropriate a small the of that you can leave out many words without injuring the it, lute authority. Still, where any freedom of choice quantity of nutriment, the appetite asks for sense. , _ I do not SCO that I assume anything to be proved. You for kind of nutriment. is left them, they s^eldom err very widely, and and generally a particular asked mo to dettiu- tlio words pui-on and remedy, a» I un- ritatid Uiem. I did so, and -liipged In lobelia" merely when they, by any means, become sick, instinct " A strange appetite," we sometimes say, such df for Illustration, and I think, wiili irreat propriety. is pretty sure to point out the means and method a one, who is recovering from sickness, has. I learned, when reading Tha. h. r s W. P. C. Barton's and later Allopathic works, that Id olla, as well as corrosive cat or a dog is ill, he either ab- Strange as it may seem to us, ten to one it is a of cure. When a sublimate, was "a deudtv poison." I knew no better till I wholly from food, and seeking so i;c quiet natural instinct, and consequently right. I would provefl that false, whon.'likt- the venerable TuUy. I did not stains '• hesitate to prefer uiy expericiic j to the guess-work of the place, lies down and trusts in Providence— Xhixt sooner trust it than the deductions of our profession," and to place lobelia, in my loplc as well as my medication, where it belongs, among "articles which invite is ill the vis medecatrix naturiB -the recuper- fragmentary and often erring science. The or excite the organs to phvsioiogical action, without in- ative powers of nature, or seeks some particular aliments which appetite calls for, in such cases, juring tM tisane or its faiiction.t-' (which latter clause you have improperlv omitted). But for this clause, the teaches it will the requires plant, which its instinct supply ; are generally just those which the system definition would be 'loose. Indeed, for It would cover small I gave the elements necessary to restore the equilibrium of Nature now holds the reins. By-and-bye, when i doses of poisons, as well as food and medicines. you may show that lobelia is not , , , .-a •„ i,„v,-f= articles as illustrations ; system or neutralize the hostile substances we have fully recovered, our artificial habits may deflnition, I the ; i/you can. But as you have given your | ^pj^ to wish, to drop for tlie present Oieillus- to ! will aciede your already in the stomach. ] again resume their sway. I shall not pretend * ' awhile In the abstract. W e apree that • trations, and reason 1. 1 J. is Man, alas! has wandered still further from say that there are no exceptions to the rule just corrosive sublimate is a poison : you deny that lobelia

: I Nature. Wholesome food— the natural diet of laid down. There doubtless are such ; but | the body so, they must both be Innocent, for that the race, is often distasteful to him, and he has think they are rare. wliich does n act can ilo no harm, for harm is the result of a wronji act. " inventions" to to false pander ; sought out many How often do instances occur, in which per- Now for i/our definition of the terms :— it.) This implies that tastes. The fat and blood of animals 1st "Poisons are," &c. (See and fatal — [ sons supposed to be past recovery, have by some " agents which are in any form or quantity convertible." nasty, disgusting beast, the qualifi- even of that greasy, means got access to the pantry, and have eaten , are not poisons, else tiie definition needs some ; &c ' cation, which it has not You know that carbon, oxygen, Aog:, are devoured with the greatest gusto. Plain largely of some food which medical science would hrdroaen and nitrogen are. In some form or quantity, con- dishes, made up of the fruits and farinacea, give have pronounced entirely inadmissible in any verted into manv of the structures of the human body oxyeen is eiiiploved in the function of changing venous uawholesomely-prepared meats, highly- that place to quantity ; or to the water pail and drank im- blood into arterial. *c "Will you deny that In the form of oxalic acid (20+3 0 + 110), prussic acid (IIC + 2N), mor- seasoned puddings, and greasy pastry. The nat- ; mense quantities of water, and immediately be- phia (35C +20U +N +60), strychnine (44C + 2'2H + 2N + 4(»). ural appetite seems almost wholly lost. We eat, ! gan to cover. I recall an instance lately related &c., these agencies are " deadlv poisons," or destructive to the %-ita!ity of the bodv? On the other hand, will you not to sustain life and promote the harmonious to me by a friend. converted | pretend that common salt (Xa. C!.), which is not development of the system, but to poison" the He was watching at the bedside of a into tissue nor used In the performance of function, is a \ young deadly poison? This definition is very loose. Doctor; of our being, and implant in our sick j very fountains man with a violent typhus fever. The physi- many articles of different characters will creep throush its j " meshes. Your next is some better : Poisons are chemi- blood the seeds of disease. cian had declared that there was no hope of his 5 j callv incompatible with the structures, and physiologically , , , i speaking needs correction. But the voice of Nature, through the recovery. Medical science had exhausted its ; with the funi-tlons," &c. (Seeit> This >s not Include all poisons, and states errors respecting insrtiuct of unperverted appetite, is seldom or resources in vain. The disease brooked no con both 5 poisons. It means or says) that all poisons are with tlie structures, and physiolo- entirely smothered by false habits, or trol An internal fire seemed to \ chemically incompatible never ] be consuming gicallv incompatible with tl:c functions. Many narcotics

the clamor of artificial tastes. It ; drowned by the patient, who was enduring terrible agony and sedatives, as opium and prussic acid, do not corrode the tissues, but all are physiologically incompntibie with makes itself heard at times, especially when an ; It was autumn, and in the country, and near ! ' •" > their functions. In this last clause, your definition agrees utter disregard of its teachings has subjected us ^ the house stood a cider press, from which, essentially with mine. But whether it Is, or is not, correct,

it will not include lobelia or catnip, which , propose to of pain and disease. It is well to the dominion ; through the open windows of the sick-room, prove '-^re absolutely poisons." it even Remedies," (See it.) This definition is good for us if we heed then. ! came the sound of the sweet apple juice Ac it does not include all remedies. It ! so far as it goes, but the point • This brings us to we were aiming at. , dripping into the vat. About midnight the " agencies," a animal ; ^TcUides some of the best liyglenic electricity, it, which supply oblivious be while in > magnetism, cheerfulness, However we may health— sick man, whose fever had showed no signs J losses and remove unfavorable conditions, unless yon admit or what we call health - of any higher law than i the organism, which wonld \ of abatement, begged for a glass of sweet ! my position, that they act on be" fatal to your argument. In my definition. I include all that of our artificial appetites, disease is sure to I cider. other drink No would satisfy him. His kinds of remedies and admit no poisons. I do not say open mir eiirx to an admonitury voice to which we there Ju>w ttiey cure, whether by exciting action, supply- \ appetite demanded that and nothing else. His ing conditions, or removing obstructions, &.c. ; that will be were before deaf. We du^rcgard it at our peril- request was refused at first, but his pleadings j done hereafter. I Food, Here, Doctor, I am sorrv to see that yon If we heed it there is yet hope. Its first word is, became at last almost frantic, and the wttcher, 8d. &c arc greatly in fault The elements of all the most deadly " abstaiii." " i generally, We have no appetite." believing that he must die, in any event, finally 1 mineral, "vegetable and animal poisons, as oxygen and I several of the bases of the aci.ls and alkalies, many of the This is equivalent to the most authoritative com- brought him from the press a tumbler full of the active vegetable alkaloid.*, and tlie vessicating Spanish fly, i elements are convertible into, and mand to eat nothing. If this prohibition con- cider. He called for another and another, till : are "substances whose do form, the constituent matter of the tissues." I shall tinue for or weeks, no matter. days It is still five or sis had been swallowed, in rapid suc- never dare to eat a vegetable or animal meal in your house, j substances, and others binding. If left to ourselves, we generally obey cession. He was soon covered with a profuse lest it be composed of the .above ; I whose elements I know are convertible,

something down against the most emphatic protest l What is wanting in her house than any- better llZn^A':T^.1^:^''.ny^^^^^^^^ TT 1 \ of our own feelings, and disarrange in a moment , , 1 having been abundantly sus- \ body else can tell her." Happy are they whose those respecting medicines tained In former numbers. 1 will then answer your present all the wise plans of nature for our recovery. ears are open to her voice in health, as well as in

'• '• I anything to do with the What we took into our stomachs a? nourish- disease. Remember that true undepraved ap- 1st You deny that food h.as quantity eaten." I once had the dyspepsia, and was ad- ment," failing to be digested and i appropriated, ! petite is the " asking of Nature. to '• Is, live on a very small quantity of for' 1 vised diet" that food. I did It till stomach was so much contracted ito ! mv (because the vital machinery in the digestive de- ] accommodate Itself, suppose, lo Its minute supply) that I 1

• partment has been stopped for repairs,) becomes It could not secrete the necessary fluid to digest the little I I drank but little, and my blood became so rank poison, and instead of feeding the system, THK DISCUSSION. that took. I full of efl'ete J thick, and mv surface so contracteil and mat- feeds disease, and retards DE. CURTIS TO DR. TEALL.—NO. III. ter, that the' latter could not escape through its natural our recovery indefi- { 1 channels, but was concentrated upon internal organs not nitely— in fact, often proves fatal. T/iis ; eating Dear Doctoe,—Your No. 2 has just arrived, and 1 designed for Its eliminati..n. I perceived this condition,

'•' a^py to find in It something for discussion. and resolved to eat and drink enough to distend the vascu- without an appetite is one of the most fatal of j regret that I could not shape my definitions In lar organs to their natural dimensions. The result was, common ei-rors. The stomach, through the in- J some way that would not beg the question." /regret that depurated and cured; and I have since I that f was soon

In quoting mv definitions of poisons, remedies and food, you I cured manv a miserable sufferer by simply requiring him stinct of appetite, will ask for food quite as soon - should have left out two-thirds of the first and one-half of to eat and "drink a suitable quanlity of his ordinary food, as it is needed. Never '• force down a little the secwid and third (which omission completely nullifies and so to conduct himself in other respects as to enable ; You may " deny " them', without making a reference to them, or even in- i the system to make the bcrf use of it food"—much less a great deal. food, but yon j serting an "iScc.", to show that this Is not all my definition that '"quantity" lias anvlliinj to do with at sa^l experience, like mine, that When, after a period ot abstinence,_ the system but I am glad that you have tried your own hand it and I will not convince men of a ' "'. ' " ' ^ as essential , ,, ' , we shall see whose definitions are the beet Please, here- I the quantity of food and drink is not almost has measurably recovered its tone, and is in a after, either to quote me fully and correct'.y, or refer the ' the quality. deny tliat food contains irritative ; as You .

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" matter vet voii make jour patients cat tlio bran of tlie does '•dilute thincsand carry them off:" and in these quaii- I also approve your second sober thought In flrinking, as "cracked wlnat, for no other reason, that 1 can fee, tlisn tie.-. it dit oi- iM ill el hor mod or medicines. Il is. there- ell •• •• w as m eating enough to distend noiilil irritate < < xi ito tlio I that the tine floor a one not r '>'" -' ' I, medium lor the lull use and the vascular organs to e's to a si:flicicm ac1i< n. "i on give thcni acid in, its. to -. their natural dimensions," low lou may drink water a'one, That is what I do, and what I fi tlic rcft-MHi. 'i " the same end. it not r fame on

1 whole this position. The articles ot food I car Ilio s;;ii o 1 My argument about the pMlofcphy of q^uontiiy

ot tissues in 1 od^ ili; i relation to the elements the the . ' - . -, i! , ..1 .1 was simply Ibis: Food is food, whether a person eat much do to the same elements out of the body. Of coursi . \ I 1 d or httle; f,v«M/ cticct and so I -n-ould argue that drink is drink, Introduced into the stomach, thcv to ilic s; uu' t whether U |r 1 1 1 It if chcniic.ll apenson takes little changes. Thev set on the stomach, but the Mtal id It in the porloiuiauoe ot its proper too or too much, or just enough. Its force opposes those changes, overcomes the cheiiiicnl nclion. licmal vliti.es tlio " I'aturei^ of "lluids reside not changed by use or abuse. [Don't mistake and uses what it wants of those articles for its own pur- ch tliose fluids hold in solution. iiuture for ftects again, 1 earnestly beg of you.] poses. Ihus the food acts on the stoni.-i( h, and tlio sl

: lor . ! ii aciiuv want food so much as a condition ti. i i, , t.il on the body.] says mcdieinos do act on the body ; 1 say tliey do not." >,'o and enioy It. If the nature oi the n iln' qi.eslion can be more simple and dlveet lliaii this. lot. in A w ord more about your elements, and then I leave the tissue, as do water, lobelia ; warm am; mck- the same arti.'lo. you wisli to know l,,.a- they aet-llio subject lor the present. You intimate that I confound nip tea, the irritated nerves, the (irv ^ ; < i i . rationale oi tlioir aotion ; you have, of course, given up the ch>„iual elevienis with will relieved action, an. 1 ii.. i,.:.-;. .n>- i- alimentary elements. &e.. be bv Its point lilac tliiy iio act somehow. Q. K D. 1 do not, I to in harn-.onv with tlic vit;ii i.m r, \ l i. ii ax s niJike "act ,\s I have shown both that they do act and how thov act. a clear distinction. Chemical elements, as oxyf^en, (>';, •! does these thlnas itseif 11 it can. It ilu ti i i. i.i::. I Mi; M)U v ill consider I'o~.' the discussion enned. unless b}diogen, nitrogen and carbon, may unite so as to form an astringent, or, if too lnn::i,iii. a i-un'inani «iii ari m loii , e..niiire i:p some now question to asU me. I must ahaniontary with the vital loice. «1ik1i. jh im;- i a ' s' "i .:.!. .: 11 -, .1 1 not ivilline: to do r/W ot am the work foods, are compounded ol these act on the body, wliy is it iliat .ine 1- Ida wui 1m a i. aMnc. proximate principles, and tia. Inn- and oeiiionstration. "i ou will please, therefore, in another an astringent, and a third I v a ~uuir:.uia_-. c- they are compouuded ol the by Toi.r iK.xr, to omit assertions, ceniais and quostion.s. and ultimate or chemical elements. feet? But I V, ill answer lamr qiu-Mi. la-i- eiilier answer my arguments, or give me some of your o-n-n. This Is the order of nature, and I do not propose in ti any The 1 1 \ 1 1 7 I and much obliKC your Iriond. A. t'lmxis. w ay to alter or improve it. i Yours truly, to •churn it, as VHiiv !, ; j r r.iii--a\>. juice, and The Chapacter of Evidence.- Dr. Trail makes so ili. i m-. The result coiiinound ul ; nd tli.- many declamatory flourishes, and presents to iny mind, by R. T. Teall.

• . .• of tin- stcMnaoli, aiiu ii- - I . II <•! action bis denials, questions and prohibitions, so many topics of ^. chyme. 11. siona.rii im . ...i a.:,- • ' diseu.sf ion. tliat It would require a blanket sheet to pay tive inertia tii actual i>hv.-.t. •r. i .i ••• .an be them all particular attention. AmouL' the strantre things '•an actii'E on the sti'inaen. an.l x et the . t..nia. h 1 e tlie are. Ins - rocardinL^ •• our own personal CMperienoe as to Popular Educ.\tion,— [The following notice is same all the tiiiio. |USt as well as there can l-e aelion on the sensible efteels of drugs that we may have swallowed, copied from the heart, brain, miiseies. Ac, by the vital liree. and yet ("Windsor) Yermont Journal of April 25th, the as ol very little consequence ui the discussion i note. p. these organs be the same all the tune. The ttoniaihwas 18o6. It was written by Et Rev. Carlton Chase, Bishop of liiS 'n hieh is to determine the character of those drucs I not made to wear out any taster than tlio oilier organs of All that is known to be true in re^jard to the cliaracter of New Hampshire, As the lecturing season is approaching, the body. All action on an ort;an does not necostailiy dc- food, medicine or poisons, their action on the body or its we give this high commendation of a worthy laborer in the com|iose it. action on them, determined bv the iiersonai ox- lecturing held, that lyceunis and other aescciaticns may.if As I never denied that tlio stomach acts on tlic fowi.you pcilcnco of soniobodv. and whose exporu noe can avo trust not trouble vourse.t to prove It. .And. as 1 pereeivo they chose, avail themselves of his services on tl.e theme of need bettor than our own 'i' If Dr. T, prefer the experience and that I know quite as well as you do w hat etleets it pro- oiiinions of otliors, he should still be an AUopathist, for education, or any other to which his taste and talent may I not trouble you with questions on tliat lioad: duces. shall that system has the highest authority in its sujiport. II ho direct him.] tell but I \vill ask questions when 1 do not know. IToase has followed his own in l ecoming the advocate of water, •• I had the pleasure, a few evenings since, of listening me how manv vital powers von sui)pose that you ol.servo he must not complain of my follo^ving mine in preferrmc to in man. it they are ? You a^k mo wiiat efleet lot^elia ioboiia as an .aiitis])asmodic. But he has asked me how my a lecture on the sul.joct oi common schools, which stood en I tol.l von it is „„t fooil. but a niedieine. lobelia works: and I have not answered him from Tliaelicr out far in advance of the best things I have heard. It was sh th. nor Trail, but from my own personal experience, w hich I delivered bv the Rev. J. B. "ft'illard, at present, as I am detir have the modesty to prefer to that oi all other men. purpose, for it is "a substance wh.isc intorincd. residing m \\ mdsor. [Now in_Still River, Mass.] convertible into, anil do lonn H.] are DR. TRALL TO DR. CURTIS. f-ucb pure, pithy, polished, and classic English, conveying ters of the tissues, ', but it is a iiiedie thoughts full of living and useful energies, constricted tissue, relieve puin, and Dear Doctok,—The above article Is the third of those and beautiful to • promoting the secretion — curing dis. omitted articles. The tourth is. fortunately for our read- all minds—such afilucnce in the variety of illustrations and

evidence that it is oliniinated. i duce ers, very short. It will appear, aceio.cnts excepted, in the felicity in the choice, constituted an intellectual treat, patlbie With the organs, or phvsioln^. next niimbor. when, if you have notliin!r to add to wuich It has not often been my privilege to enjoy, on that tion-s. I will forthwith cast it out ot ii more en ject Ihe lecturer had proceeded but little have showu tliat neuiier your dennu the meiitsof the main question between us i wblch. par- a w ay in

of tood con.ieiun- it : and as vet, y don me if I offend you in a' am assorting that you have not his work before it became evident to an attentive audience, includes ',h/ that he was a man of eyes, ears, understanding yet touched , I shall at once dispose of the controversy, as and —one been an and the-e all-ii I promised to In the first place, by demvnstrating my side who had acute judicious observer of the opera- lo al i« i>e true heiiond all contrortrnii tion of impulsive and controlling principles in the growth e.iiolne. v.lien- I have nothing to say to your present article, except by of the mind of the young. His suggestions in thisparticu- ever any "rf-a! and snd.lon r.- axalioii ol tiio tissue is el- lar struck me with great and novel force. fectcd. And yiuitmL' i^ an.itlier piivsi'dfj-icai act, per- way of correction. I do not accuse you of garbling and • fortiied bv tlie same force, wlieiie\er aiivthiiig very ollen- misrepresenting my positions and arguments, but I do not A mind so rich in beautiful and useful suggestions should sive to the stoiiiaeb is to be removed. U cM, then, vou often be called by an intelligent jiublic to the desk of tlie think you understand fully yet. Your mieapprehenitons will say. "lobelia must be very ofteusive. as the siomach lecturer. Here is an uncommon opportunity for giiing are intolerable. throws it out." ^ot so last. W hen you have iiscl lobelia the cause of popular education a good lift in tills quarter. as much and obseryoil as accurately its otieots as I have, In my concluding demonstrations I shall tell you so That its friends will not be remiss in calling to their aid you will have learned that the system receives it throii^-h the attractive address and the valuable suggestions of this plainly you cannot cither mistake or dodge vhat food is. its whole organism, and I'oes nm throw it back, but it pro- gentleman. I smceiely hope. C. C.

what iiiodieine is, and what poi.son is ; I duces Its specinc reia\in.'.', sooinmn-, suaonnc and aniiieorre hence need not effects, long after the foul matter of tlie stoinacli iias boon controvert you on those points further at this mark. ejected and the patient ha.s eeuscil to vomit, but has oaten You make me "deny that food has anything to do with Life and Dk.\tii.—We call attention to an ; and relished his food 1 Pardon me, Doctor, I bavo used too quantity," and then proceed to demolish what I never said, much lobelia to accept either your assertions or denials as article in the present number, with the above title. Vie

its qualities and uses. The severity of vomitiuir, cough- by your personal experience in the matter of quantity. ' to can vouch for the truth of the statements, as giving the is proof that they are not pliysioio- ing, sneezing, &c , no I can't imagine iiow yon couM inak.' sn. h a blunder, I words used by the parties. Our non-mdical readers will gical functions. They are as much nature's o.Torts t.i re- never sai'l anytliing whioli will h.'ar su. li :i eonstruction. move offeDSive matter, as are those of defeoadon, urinalion, judge how much reliance to lace in the knowledge and " 1 did .say, however, and nov.' r.'].. at, I'n ,i,,!iire of food parturition, &c. Your guessing that tliey are pailiolo- was skill, utility, practitioners. , and of drug-giving gical does not make them such. The lobelia leiaxos tlio not to be determined by the quanlity used. You have ) Clergy ei are said to e ii(Tii down o)ly good fellows^ stomach and passes int) its substance, and the stomiich re- , misunderstood to say or mean that tlie ejfectx me of food ' acts on the relaxation and throws up the morbific loarcriale. when together out of their robes, and relate their various nerf lias nothing to do with quantity, an absurdity I had rather I repeat, the lobelia is thrown out of the body, unless wordly i x eriences w ith a gusto. So it is with doctors. " ' i!:.' co much is given that it cannot all ' ill ' oiiiilin, not be charged with, if it will suit you just as well, And They do not hesitate to talk overmatters with each other, takes place— in which case, as i so you have been all through our 'wordy controver.sy, con- and to till the truth where they do not fear exposure. more should be into it, to put "Confessions" of this sort are becoming every day ; more and,not an enetn)j. I ma lo- tinually confounding the nature and the oow.ws and the ' common, and, as the people become enlightened in regard

i . . . . . it, belia acts on the stomach without , as actinriH and the effects of things, or what is practically the to tlie of Life and Health, the whole truth will finally : Laws you that the stomach acts on the loiielin, win n. as is often same, mistaking such one for any of the others, in spite of come out, Tue Watek Cure Jouenal will tell it. the case, the relaxing effects of lobelia arc produced with- out emesis. If you want any more proof that lobelia acts all I could say to keep tlieir proper distinctions clearly at on the stomach, and the stotiiach acts on lobelia, you will all limes before your eyes. do better to take it yourself and candidly watch its effects, I!ESti)E,\CK ('hanoed, Rtibscvlbers I sincerely sympai w lMi \-on in your s.ad experience FuBSCRiBEPs' — as I have done, than attempt to drive me by ridicule from in la i' .1 .... .lo in quantity. to this paper w! o have occasion to change their residence a scientific, because demonstrated, position. of a diet, dry q I am a corresponding change in the .. .. i i. desire to have direction D'ink.—You may define drink by merely nnmino a glad you were wi.'je . t.i h am a better way by ex- and of their papers, must not fail to accompany their requests perience, and 60 have lived to discii.s3 an important question with their previons I^ost-Office address, as it is often im- will, the end, work a still or things or actions, must const.st of their ementinl proper- which in greater conversion in possible to refer to them among the thousands 'whose names £ ties or capacities for uses. Whatever you may call It, drink your notions. are on our books. : ;;

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8. The Homoeopathic law of cure—" Similia New York, on the 10th ult. The occasion was an simitibus curaiiiur,'' and the Allopathic law interesting one to the friends of this cause, and gilt iUutlj. of cure -'• Con'ran'/ contiaris curontur," are added about a dozen more names to our band of essentially the same, and both misvndi rstood by earnest and radical dietetic reformers. EW YORK, OCTOBER, 1856. their advocates. Dr. Alcott, President of the Association, was 9. The true theory of the Healing Art consists in the Chair, and Joseph Metcalfe acted as Secre- TOPICS OF THK MONTH. always in supplying favorable conditions for the tary. successful remedial action of the vital powers of The forenoon was occupied in reading letters BT B. T. TRALL, M. D. < the living system, and never in inducing new of sympathy and encouragement from distant diseases by the administration of drug poisons. friends, and the admission of new members. One Thocsand Dolfjiks Rkward!—Some two ; 10. The whole philosophy of the popular sys- Letters were read from J. P. Brooks, now in years ago. the publishers of this Journal offered | tem is denounced as absurd by its own mo.-^t Africa ; Dr. A Bronson Alcott, Walpole, N. Y. to pay any duly-accredited allopathic phypician is declared to | eminent authors, and its practice Dr. Field, Athol, Mass. ; Joseph Wright, Phila- Fivf Hundred Hollars, if he would discuss, with | be uncertain, injurious, ixperimeutnl, fatal, and delphia ; and llev. William ^letcalfe. Correspond, some hydropath, whom they would select, the | ' murderous, by its own most experienced practi- : ing Secretary, at present sojourning in England. differences and merits of our respective sys- tioners. The Rev. Mr. Metcalfe stated that the cause was

terns, and have the same published for the benefit , making good progress in England. of the public. We are ready to prove each and all of the j Dr. Trail then gave a Lecture to the Society This was certainly liberality worthy of all ; above positions. And we are willing to have

' and the members of the Medical class, on " The praise, and evinced a sincere desire to elicit the them all reduced to a single proposition, or Relations of Chemistry to Vitality,"' in which truth, and the whole truth, which no man can placed in any other phraseology, provided their he explained the true scientific basis of Vegeta- gainsay. But no one re-ponded. intent and meaning is preserved. rianism, and refuted the fallacies of Liebig, and We now offer to pay any Professor of any : Our opponent, or opponents, shall agree to other chemists and physiologists, as well as the Allopathic Medical School in the world, who continue the discussion through, at least, twelve numerous errors of the Medical Schools on shall by the Professors either of the be endorsed of ^ consecutive numbers of the Water-Cure Journal, subject of diseases food and medicines. the Regular Medical Schools in New York as ; each article to occupy not less than one. nor more to justice to their side the con- In the afternoon, addresses were made by Dr. competent do of than two pages ; and as much longer as he

Jackson, of Glen Haven ; Dr. De Wolfe, of Phila- troversy, who will discuss this subject with us, : pleases. And it shall be our privilege, also, to delphia, and the President, Dr. Alcott. the sum of One Thocsand Dullahs. ; publish the discussion in as many newspapers as ' Dr. Jackson explained the superiority of Vege- 'ihe question or questions to be argued, shall are willing, and in any other way that will bring be so stated as to involve the truth or falsity of tarian diet in all its bearings as a Medical ques- it before the public. our respective theories, and the rationality and tion, and dwelt eloquently on the advantages of ; We will give security for the payment of the pure and simple success of our respective practices ; and as we ! a diet in elevating the charac- money when the controversy is concluded.

give the challenge, we are willing to have the ! ter, exalting the intellect, and improving the We name as among those who stand high in questions so stated, as to place us on the affirm- ' moral di.-position of the human being. His own the profession as authors and teachers, and to

ative. ; personal experience was related with good effect, whom we personally tender this offer, Martyn To place our proposition before the Medical and his remarks elicited much applause. Paine, JI. ])., LL. D., author of the "Institutes profession in a tangible shape, we will submit In the evening. Dr. De ^\ olfe gave a Lecture of Medicine," and Professor of Materia Medica the following formularies, as covering the whole on the Scriptural arguments, analyzing, criti- and Therapeutics in the New York University ground of argument. We afiBrm : cally, all the grounds usually alleged flesh- | by Medical School ; John W. Draper, M. D., LL. D., eaters, and proving that the it 1. A true and successful Healing art must be Profes.'^or of Chemistry and Physiology in the jsh, of which is said C hrist partook, founded on a knowledge of the nature of distase, same scliool, and author of a standard work on and which his followers and a knowledge of the a tion renifdies. caught, was an aquatic plant, instead of an ani- of ; Physiology ; John T. Metcalfe. M. D., Professor mal. We have no room for even a synopsis 2. The doctrines of the nature of disease, as of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the of " points,'' taught in all of the Allopathic Medical schools, : his but would commend his lectures to same school ; David M. Reese, M. D., LL. D., as the public as an unanswerable demonstration and generally recognized in the text-books, late Professor in All any Medical College, and that

the i the Bible authority is the and by practitioners of those schools, are editor of the New York Medical Gazette on side of Vegetarian- now ; essential'!/ falte. ism. j Robley Dunglison, Professor in Jefferson Medical 3. The doctrines of the action or modus '] College, Philadelphia, and author of several Remarks were also made by the President

operandi remedies, as taught in ; Dr. W. F. Reh. of Orleans Dr. W. T. «J all their works standard works on Medical subjects, or either of New ; Kays,

on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, are false. of Hamburg, N. J. ; and the veteran Vegetarian, \ the other Professors of either of the schools in 4. Nearly all their problems in Pathology and New York, Philadelphia, Boston, or elsewhere Dr. John Grimes, of Boonton, N. J. ; Therapeutics are based on the above The following preamble and resolutions were funda- \ provided the Professors of any one school will m( ntul falsehoods. discussed and adopted ; unite in certifying that he is an honest advocate

5. All the standard authors on Chemistry and ; of their s-ystem. and a capable expounder of it. ^ Wkrrras, Practical Vegetarians have proved to them- and all ' Physiology, also the authors of the We name the above persons specially, because selves (and can demonstrate to all intelligeipt investigaior>) standard works oa the thnl its expenditnrts are more econoniica', its effects upon ^ledical Sciences, have they are the authors of the standard Medical ' the physical man are more heallhriil ; and that through it mistaken the resistance of the living system to works which teach and expound the very doc- the phy.'ieal, intellectual, moral and spiritual naiures of the causes of disease, and the actions of the vital the truth of which we deny offer man are more Iramioniously and naturally developed trines, and ; powers ag ; their medicines, for the actions of to disprove. Moreover, they are experienced therefore, the causes of disease on the system, and the ac- writers, ready speakers, accustomed to teach, and nesolivd. That we, in confidence, present the dietclic re- tions of medicines oa the system - mistakes which ! form III the world ns the basis of all rei'orms, aiming, as it are, no doubt, familiar with all the lore of the does, to promote harmony, estiihlish render their whole system fallacious and its justice, and promul- Medical and collateral sciences which could be gate tquity and hrolherlioud on earth practice entirely empirical. available on their side. all i Rrsolred, That truly valuahle vegetarianism mast 6. The Hydropathic Medical School does teach Gentlemen, who of you wants a thousand have truth for its Iwsis ; that all vegetarian practice, to he the true theory disease, and the correct of modus successful, must be conducted in that dollars ? ; harmony wiih the all agents. operandi of remedial \ great truth which litsat the foundation; that without a 7. Hygienic agents are the only proper reme- Vegetabiax Coxvextion.—The Seventh An- strict ol servance of this r.jie, our vi-geiarian practice will \ he always fluctuating, and vegetarians them.Nclvcs under dial agents, except for surgical all nual meeting of the purposes, i American Vegetarian So- iheiiifliience of appetite anil interest, will be inconsi

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is laughed at, it is thereby ResBtvfd, Thai because an idea a single week, and have no expectation of ever debris of disintegrated tissue and other impuri- because it is applattded is it proved to be untrue ; nor meeting a case that will not yield to our system ties on their not \ way out of the living ; system. The Vegetarianism is entitled to no less be true ; and proved to is : in a very few days. But under Allopathic prac- urine a solution of dead inorganic ; materials, consideratien because Fuesh katkrs laugh at it or sneer at it. ' tice such cases are far from being extraordinary. and has no more to \ do with life and vitality Resoh-td, That vegetarian diet is superior to flesh diet in than They are apt to or years, and then a \ run months stone, or any and every aspect in which it can be viewed. Human \ a dose of Epsom salts, or a glass and clearer in intellect, beings are more free irom disease, leave the patient a miserable cripple for the re- ; of lager beer, or congress water has. When they show this statement to be that as far as facts go ) of dis- i " '' and mainder his days. There are scarcely any Gowanus will tell us uhat constituent of the true. / ; eases in which drug medicines, bleeding, drastic living system either of those acids combine with, Eesohytd, That the Corresponding Secretary be solicited to ! purgatives, and narcotics make more horrid work he will have made a point for to make earnest efforts to increase the membership of thfs ; us meet. But

into it numerous friends of the ; than the complaint known as acute rheumatism merely to Soci-'iy bv incorporating the ; ; suppose they combine with something,

scattered over the United States and Canada ; to ; cause and yet there is scarcely any severe disease that ; is very poor ratiocination, and very far from solicit at their hands pecuniary aid, that this Society be en- rapidly and can be named, whieh can be more ; being legitimate evidence. abled to place its principles before the minds of the people. I ! thoroughly relieved by our hygeopathic appli- ! Dr. Jackson, of Glen Haven, I'ollowed, with a speech occu- quarter ances than this. But doctors of the old school pying about an hour and a ; WATER-CUKE ESTABLISH- The following persons were elected officers for the ensu- can't be expected to believe much in the new ; ; MENTS. ing year : and so, like all unbelievers, must be condemned ; President—T)T. A. Alcott, JIass. The Clean and the Unclean. — [In giving to a vei-y lasting torment. rice-Presidents. | place to the names of some professed "Water-Cure Physi-

Pr. R. D. Mussey, Cincmnati, Ohio. Texts for the Angels. — Clergymen are ; cians, in our Directory, and in the advertising department, Trail, York. wish it distinctly understood, that Dr. R. T. New " ministers to a mind diseased,'' and they should ! we we endorse only the Miss A. Ann Bishop, Jamestown, Chautauque Co., N. Y. real true Water-Cure Practitioners. Journal be ministering angels, not only to diseased minds, This is \ Dr. J. C. Jackson, Glen Haven, N. Y. not the advocate of drugs, nor of drug doctors. That man but to depraved bodies. The talented and influ- C. H. De Wolfe, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa. I who professes WATER-Curc, and at the same time gives his ential clergy of our country could a of Miss Harriet X. Austin, Glen Haven, N. Y. do world patients poisonous drugs, 6.iils under false colors, and has S E. Legate, Durham, Canada West. good, could renovate society in a single genera- no business on board the noble ship IlYDEOPATnY. Let j ; ;nry S. Clubb, Esq., Neoslia, Kansas, H tion, and christianize mankind more rapidly than him who deserves to, go where lie belongs—among the blis- [ ; ilrs. Oldrich, Providence, R. T. terers, bleeders, vomiters, into the filthy slops, most enthusiastic philanthropist has ever the bitter 1 the ; W. T. Kay», Esq., Hamburg, N. J. pills, greasy cod-liver whale oil, and other abominations; ' Mrs. Mary J. Whitaker, West I'luladelphia, Pa. dreamed of, if they would only preach purity of but we will keep to the crystal waters, the pure air, health- " Dr. W. F. Reh, New Orleans, La. holiness ! body as well as of heart," and connect ful food, exercise, and such other appliances as are found to Miss Huldnh Page, Augusta, Me. the example of "Christ and him crucified," with bo in harmony~a.y\A not at war—with the constitution Dr. John P. Grimes, Boonton, N. J. the example of personal conformity to all the OF MAK.—Eds W. C. J.] David Jackson, Esq., Bentinck, Canada West. j

laws of their own being ; laws which it is just as Treasurer— aAXKi Brooks, Esq., Aramingo, Phila. We have deferred publishing the following ' Secretary—'Rev. W. Metcalfe, Kensingtf n, ! unlawful to transgress, as though they were Corresponding DiKEOTOET, partly on account of its incompleteness, but

'', Phila. ! called moral or spiritual. Some one has sent us establishments will the list Frankford, Pa. other be added to when heard Recording Secretary—Jompa Mctcalfk, a couple of glorious texts, which would serve ad- '; I from. as the foundation of Thanksgiving ; Before adjourning, a resolution was passed ad- ; mirably and of the British Vegetarian New-Year's Sermons : Dr. Tkall's Watbr-Cure and School, 15 mitting the members j j of the American of civilization must depend upon the union ' Laight Street, New York, has accommodations for over Society as honorary members i The future of a WITH A SOUND BODY. one hundred persons, and is very central in relation to the ( SOUND MIND Vegetarian Society. j Nation, we Americans are in danger of ruin, from business parts of the city. P. H. Hayes, M.D., and Miss \ As a ; Annb Inman, M.D., are employed as associate physicians ; body. Rev. Samuel Osgood. Unle.*.ve.\ed Bread.— Alice G. Bradford, of neglect of the ; in the establishment, and teachers in the school depart- Twinsburg, 0., sends us the following, as the re- GowANUS ON Modus Operandi.— It is certainly fee, \ ment. Terms: Commutation or entrance $5 ; patients, sult of her experience : curious, and almost amusing, to see how $5 to per week boarders, $4 to $7 and upward ; stn- very ; $12 ; I dents, $75 for tuition winter term, and $50 summer term. As I perceive, by occasional inquiries in the Journal, ag men who consider themselves scholars, i easily unleavened bread, that quite a Students can board in the institution at reasonable rates. to the method of making logicians, and critics, are befogged with false number of your readers have failed of attaining to any ; 1 premises. Since our discussion with Dr. Curtis Dr. Taylor's Water-Cure and Kinesipathic satisfactory results in their experiments, I will give the commenced, we have had a flood of questions, Institution, for instruction and practice in the means of modus operandi by which I have succeeded in obtaining a ( restoring and preserving health, is situated at the corner of delicious article. doubts, perplexities, objections, &c., sent in upon Thirty-Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue, in the most ele- It should be mixed with warm water into as stiff dough as us, all of which we hope to dispose of in due \ vated and airy part of the city. The Crystal Palace and be, and well kneaded—ten or fifteen minutes will may following communication is a fair ( time. The Distributing Reservoir are in the immediate vicinity. In answer for a small quantity—then made into loaves of any specimen addition to the usnal hydropathic .appointments, Kinesipa- convenient size, but not more than an mch and a half in \ thy is extensively employed at this establishment, it being thickness, and baked in a very hot oven, for an hour and a Dr. Trall: Sir, —In the Water-Cure Jour.nal for A ugust, I the first to introduce this treatment in this country. This at least. I think ihe most of those who do not suc- " half, 't I see it stated as your opinion, that Drugs do not perform department is now under charge of Chas. H. Shepard, ceed, fail in the last particular. Unleavened bread requires any action or operation upon the living system " How, j M.D. Electro-chemistry is also employed. Address Geo. at much higher temperature for it, that " " is to be baked longer, and a than I then, do you account Benzoic Acid con H. Taylor, M.D., 650 Sixth Avenue, New York city. raised bread, or it will be solid and adhesive. verted in the urine into HIppuric Acid; for the fact we have — to " } the authority of Ure and Liebig lide appendix Liebig's Ladies in AVilliamsburg, EXTR.VORDINARY CaSE OF RHEUMATISM. — A Chemistry applied to Physiology." As the elements of Ben- The Water-Cure tor District of Brooklyn, is situated at No. 50 South correspondent has sent us the following " extra- zoic Acid and Hippuric Acid are very different, it is certain Eastern combined with some Eighth Street, and is near the ferries to New York, The ordinary " case, which he clipped from the that the Benzoic Acid has constituent rate, establishment being small, and the number of patients lim- j' of the living system ; or at any some constituent of Prairie Farmer, and asks us to comment on it physi < the blood, which I conceive is the same thing. I am no ad- ited, much more personal attention is given by the The Health of Dk. Kev.vicott.—It gives us pleasure to and . vocate of the Drug system, but at the same time I cannot cian than is usual at water-cures. Electro-chemical •late that the "Doctor's" health has so far improved that he conceive how the aclion of many medicines can be ex- baths arc applied in connection with the other treat- } vapor was able to go to Alton the last week to attend to the inter- ' plained, except by supposing they combine with some con- ment. Terms, from $7 to $10 per week. Amelia W. ests Agricultural Society. He is, however, living of the State i stituent of the system. Lines, physician. ; five months he has been confined respectfully quite feeble. For nearly \ Very yours, Hydropathic Pin-.si- at home—unable to use his limbs—even his hands—and "GoWANca." ; George F. Adams, M.D.,

I ' residence, most of the time suffering excruciating pain from acute €IAN, receives patients and boarders at his No. " if ! Gowanus" must not be offended we show between Henry and Clinton. rheumatism, with which he has been afflicted. He is still 141 Amity Street, Brooklyn,

) that he, in following Liebig, has blundered just one of the most desirable streets in unable to use his hands— requiring help to dress himself. The house is located in ' " from New York, being within three Nothing but his unquenchable zeal in behalf of the Agricul- asegregiouslyas Liebig did. He says, benzoic the city, easy of access minutes' walk of South Ferry, and the Greenwood cars from tural Society would have induced him to have left home in is converted into hippuric acid iti the urine." I pass within one block and a half of the door. his present state of health. Fulton Ferry Very well ; all right—let it be so. The urine is Terms: For board and treatment, $10; for board, from $5 We feel very sorry for the good doctor's great not living tissue, nor is it any part of the living fee, consultation, with prescription, to $10 ; consultation $1 ; afiSiction. We have cured scores of such cases in ' system. It is an effete substance. It is the $5 00. :

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HiGiii-Axn Water-Cure is located ( The Athoi. Watkr-Ccre, at Athol, Ma.ss. TiiK Mountain Glex Watkr-Cvre is situated ( The Home river, directly opposite accessible by railroad from all directions. From the South- In Plalnfleld, N. J., amid the most lovely scenery, with an at Fishklll Landing, on the Hudson | west Ha Springfield and Greenfield, Northwest ria Brat- abundance of pure water, and Is of easy access to New Newburg—two hours from New York, three from Albany, / Railroad. tleboro' or Kcene, North ri« Concord and Fitchburg. York city. One hour and three-quarters ride by Central and one from Chester on the New York and Erie J Northeast ria Lowell or Boston and Fitchburp, Southeast Kailroad. Pier No. 2, North Kiver. Address A. Utter, The prices for board and treatment vary from $7 to $12 per ^ ria Worcester and Fitchburg. Terms, per week, common M.D., Plalnficld, N. J. week, according to the amount of attendance or accommo- } ' patients, to boarders, to $4. circular, dations wanted. Address 0. W. Mat, Fishklll Landing, $6 $7 ; $3 A contain- SoiTii Oranoe WATER-CrBE is situated in the N. Y. ing full particulars of the esLnblisliment, sent gratis, npon addressing George Field, M.D, Athol, Mass, centre of the village of South Orange, Esse.\ Co., N. J., fourteen miles from New Torli, four from Newark city, The Mopei, Water-Cure is located at Dans- eightj-'five from Philadelphia. ville, Livingston Co., N. Y. The building Is ample and The Meriden Motorpathic Water-Cure is open twenty from Dover, and j the first consultation a foe of well (hrnished. Access may be had by various stages -by for the reception of Invalids at all Terms : $10 per week. For seasons of the year. For j from 13 to $5. Address all commonications to Dr. Wedeb, the Buffalo, Corning, and New York Railroad depot, at particnlars, address Des. Abcheb and Tait, Meriden, Ct. the Buffalo and New York City Railroad South Orange, N. J. "VS'ayland ; by

per week, accord- ! depot, at Bums. Terms : From $5 to $10 The New 5Ialverx Water-Cube is in AVest- LowENTHAr.'s Wateu Cvre, Bergen room occupied. Address Dr. J. ! Dr. E. J. Ing to the case and boro", Mass., 82 miles from Boston, 12 from Worcester, on Co., N. J., is situated on one of the finest Catlin, Dansville, Livingston Co., N. Y. i Heights, Hudson the railroad connecting those citlei. Terms, from $8 to spots on New York Bay, and can be reached from New and Hygifaic Institute, $ 0 per week, exclusive of washing. Address the Resident either the or Geneva Water-Cure York is less than half an hour, by Hobokcn Physician, Dr. J. H. Hero; Consulting Physician, Dr. Geo. located in the beautiful village of Geneva, on an eminence Jersey City ferries, from where stages mn by and near the Hott, No. 77 Bedford Street, Boston, Mass. overlooking nearly the whole village. It lies on the New ( house. Direct letters to E. J. Lowenthal, M.D., No. 4, York Central Railroad ^via Syracuse, Auburn, Canandai- \ Hanover st, N. Y. J The Philadelphia Model Water Cure is now gua, and Rochester). The building is one of the largest in | on the South-east comer of Spruce and Twentieth streets, Saratoga Spring."? Water-Ccre, by Drs. the Union, lighted with gas, and has spacious, well-venti- The ; j near the Rittenhouse Park. Electro-Chemical bathing In nearly lated rooms, enough to accommodate ;50 patients. Elec Bedobtha and Hamilton, is located on Broadway, | full tro-chemical baths, in conjunction with the electro-magnetic operation. Address S. M. Lasdes, M.D., Proprietor, opposite Congress Spring. Is prepared to accommodate machine, applied. Terms, from $6 to $9 per week. Address Philadelphia, Pa. 150 patients. The magnetic and electro-chemical baths Smith, M.D., Geneva, Ontario Co., N. Y. practice Dr. Bedortha, the proprietor, has A. B. are used in Dr. C. C. Scheferdecker has an Establishment the general charge of the medical department. Dr. R. Oneida Water-Cure, located near Eome, N. Y. at the corner of Pratt and Entaw streets, in Baltimore, Md- Hamilton devotes his attention particularly to females. Terms from $4 to $S per week. Address S. Curtis, M.D., Miss Maetba Fbencd. M. D., is now employed as an M.D., Proprietors, Lowell, N. Y. or H. E. Benham, The Pfttsburg Water-Cure Establishment is assistant Trains leave New York per Hudson Kiver Eail- the of the river, road, at 7 and 12 a. m., reaching Saratoga Springs in about on banks Ohio below the city, near the New Graefenberg Water-Cure is near Utica, station of sis hours. Terms. $7 to $12 per week. For circulars, ad- Haysville the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. dress the physicians, Drs. Bedoktha and Hamilton. N. Y. For full printed particulars, address E. Holland, Its conductors, Drs. H. and S. and Mrs. Celia P. Frease,

M.D., New Graefenberg, N. Y. M.D , are well known to the readers of the Watee-Ctee I Journal. The electro-chemical baths have been fitted op Remedtat- Institute, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. in this establishment. Terms, from $6 to $ 0 per week. —This Institute Is located on Circular Street, being the The Granite State W.ater-Cure, Dr. W. T. By addressing Drs. Frease, Box 1,804, Pittsburg, Pa., fur- building known as the Massachusetts House. Prices vary Vail, proprietor, situated in the village of Franklin, N. H., ther particulars can be obtained. from $7 to $12, depending on the room selected and atten- 92 miles by railroad from Boston, directly on the route !

tion required. Communications should be addressed, thence to the White Mountains. It is accessible from all !

Stlvesteb S. Stbong, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. directions by railroad. From Northern New York, Ver- i The Bethlehem Water-Cure Home is most de-

mont, and the Canadas, p.itients reach it, by northern ! lightfully .situated on the Mountain side, near the banks of the

The Glen-Haten W'ATER-CrnE is located in a routes, via White River Junction; from the West ria j Lehigh River, within a few minutes' walk of Bethlehem. Pa. quiet, secluded spot, where pure mountain air and soft Springfield, Nashua, Concord, &c. Terms, from $4 to $ 2 ! Mount Airy, just above the Cure, affords one of the most water are abundant. Accommodations ample for over per week. Address the proprietor. Franklin, N. H. i lovely views in the State, and many places of interest are 100 patients. Strict attention is paid to regularity in the within a short dist-moe. The cars pass just below the In- stitution from the Jersey Central Rail- administration of baths, and all the voluntary habits. Dr. Wesselhoft's Water-Cure is at Brattle- i New York by New road, and from Philadelphia by the Norristown Pennsylva- EocTE.—From East or West, come on New York Cen- boro', Vermont. \ tral Railroad to >yracuse, thence by Syracuse and Bing- nia Railroad, only a few hours" ride from either city. Terms hamton Railroad to Homer, then to the Glen by livery. The Worce-ster Hydropathic Institution is $7 to $9 per week. Address Dr. A. Smith, Bethlehem, Pa. Or, from East or VTest, on New York and Erie Railroad to situated on Arch and Fountain Streets, Worcester, Mass. Binghamton, thence on Syr-icuse and Binghamton Railroad location is healthy, and of easy access from all parts The The Ephrata Htdropatuic Institute, is locat- to Homer, and so on to the Glen by livery. Post-oflSce of the city. The Medical department is conducted by Dr. ed at Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Pa. address is Scott, Cortlandt Co., N. Y. Address to J. C. S. RoGEES. Every facility is supplied for the admlnis- D., Harbiet Austin, M.D. Jackson, M or N. ; tration of Electro-Chemical Baths, and a first-class gym- The ^Iercek Water-Cube is under the manage- ; nasium is under charge of an experienced teacher. The ment of Dr. N. H. Putnam and Lady. For particulars, proprietors will receive patients and boarders at greatly The Elmira Water-Cire is tinder charge of address Dr. N. II. Putnam, Mercer, Pa. reduced prices, until their new and more commodious the well-known Dr. and Mrs. S. O. Glzason, who who have institution is erected. The present accommodations f r been over ten years practically demonstrating the efiicacy winter treatment are unsurpassed. Address E. F. Eogkes, Dr. John Rittler's Water-Cure Establi.sh- of Hydropathy. The large patronage which this Institution superintendent, Worcester, Mass. MENT is one mile and a half East of Brownsville, a short has received, shows the value which is placed upon their distance from the National Road. Terms : $7 per week. skill. The Core is open at all times, and they treat all forms Dr. Munde's Water-Cure Establishment, at Address Dr. John Kittlee, Brownsville, Pa. of disease. For particulars, address S. 0. Gleason, M.D. Florence, Mass., three miles west from Northampton Rail- Elmira, N. Y. about 20 north from New York, south from Cleveland Water-Cure Establishment ; road depot, 50 The

' cast from Albany, and 70 west from Jamestown AVatek-Ci re, at Jamestown. Chau- Brattleboro', 60 Boston. has been In successfiil operation for the past eight years, The new, light, and well-ventilated buildings, with more and treated over three thousand patients from different tauque Co., N. Y. For particulars, address Drs. Pabeeb and Mixes. . than BOO feet piazza, large parlors, billiard-table, dining- parts of the Union. This establishment was the pioneer saloon, sixteen bath-rooms, and upward of lOJ lodglng- West. During the past year ; of the new treatment in the Binghamton Water-Cure, at Binghamton, ' rooms, together with the Doctor's farm cottage, are able to the establishment has been enlarged and improved, and

Broome CO., New York. For terms, 4c. apply to Dr. 0. V. receive upward of : 5 ) boarders. Prices, $ 0 for patients, the Electro-Chemical Baths have also been added. John

TUAVEE. ; and «7 for boarders. J. Sturgis, M.D., and Cordelia A. Green, M.D., assist- ants. Address T. T. Seelet, M. D., proprietor, Cleve- IIii.l Motorpathic Mount Prospect Water-Cure, Binghamton. \ The Round Water-Cube and land, Ohio. Broome Co., N. Y., Is situated midway between New York Institute, at Northampton, Mass., opposite the celebrated city and Dunkirk, upon the line of the New York and Erie Mts. Tom and Holyoke, is a large and well-furnished estab- Columbus Water-Cuke. For tie reception and Railroad. Binghamton is accessible by railroads from all lishment. Its sitnation is delightful, overlooking a rich trfatment of Inralid F

M. Ranney, M.D. ; from $9 to $16 per week. Children and nurses, seated at over three years in operation, and well patronized and suc-

< nurses' table, and not occupying extra room, $5. Northamp- cesisful. Terms : $7 per week, when no nurse Is needed, Dr. Franklin's Orientai, Hypropatiiic Insti- ' ton is accessible by railrcid from all parts: in four hours and $10 when the services of a nurse is required. No

1 now in operation. Terms, ft-om $5 to $8 per week. from Albany and Boston, and in five from New York. For patient received for a less time than six weeks. Boarders For circulars, address D. D. Franklin, M.D., Fredonia, references, circulars, &c., gratis, address H. Halsted, M.D., not received. Address W. Shepard, M.D., Water-Cure, Chantauque Co., N. Y. Northampton, Mass. Columbus, Ohio. , — ^^^^

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Ciscixxati Water Cure is located five Spring P.idoe Watkr-Cure, Hinds Co., Missis- Diseased Liver.— " The j A. M. T. I am very much ' troubled with a sour milesfrom the lity, on the Cmcinnati, HamiltoD and Dayton sippi. H. J. Holmes, Sr., M.D., U. J. Holmes, Jr., M.D. stomach, and have been since my earliest recollection. I have used water in various ways Railroad, a few rods from the Carthage station. Terms, ! and it seems to relieve me for the time. I have severe from $7 to $1J per week. Address D. A. Pease, M.D., pain in shoulders, head, j The Bowmaxyili.b Water-Cure is situated my back and hips. I use sitz baths Carthage, Hamilton Co., Ohio. frequently, and wear the healing compress. about a mile from the flourishing little town of Bowman- When exposed to the air, I take cold very ea>ily. My diet is principally ville, in the township of Darlington, Canada West, about TuE Paixesvii-le Wateii-Cire is situated in the vegetable. Please tell me in the next Jouknal what to do. forty miles cast of Toronto, from which city several steam- Also, what is the reason that some persons eat and drink Painesville, Ohio, is thirty miles of village of which East everything the appetite craves, even .imoke boats call every day. In connection with the Cure are the and chew to- Cleveland, on the Lake Shore Kailroad. Address David bacco with impunity, and yet enjoy good health.wliile a poir electro-chemical baths, with the latest and best improve- dyspeptic, who drinks nothing but cold water and iUrruEWS, M.D. } eats only ments. For further particulars apply to James Beent, the coarsest and plainest food, has very poor health y" is Caxtox Water-Cure situated in Canton, " " | M.D., Bowmanville, Canada West. It is because one is a poor dyspeptic that he or she Is Fulton Co., 111., .2 miles north of Liverpool, on the Illinois { obliged to take heed to her ways or die, while the person river, 16 south of Elmwood, on the Peoria and Oquaka j [We shall be happy to complete this Dikectort by of good cons;itution may hold out and appear healthy for a Eailroad, and 24 south-east of Prairie City, the Northern ! on time, under a great amount of physiological adding all other Water-Cure Establishments now in opera- transgression. Cross Kailroad, connected with all by dally coaches. Terms ; If you would cure your liver, use the tepid sponge and sitz- moderate— $4 to $ U per week. Address James Bukbon, tion. Propkietoks will oblige by reporting to this office at j batlis as often as agreeable to the temperature, and eat plain M.D., Canton, Fultou Co., III. once. Announcements for the winter should be made \ dry as well as coarse food. The same pl.nn Is adapted to soon.] sore eyes, with the addition of a cool wet cloth when The Gkaxtille Waiek-Cube, for the treatment they are hot and painful. of Chronic Diseases, is three miles from the Union Station, \

on the Ohio Central Kailroad from Columbus to Newark, i and sis miles from Newark. Terms, from $6 to $10 per Vegetarianism.— S. D., North -East, Ma=s. j 80 Corrtspuhuts. " 1. Are there not and in this week. Address S. D. Jokes, M.D., Granville, Licking Co } men women land who have lived without fle.-h food from birth, and are healthy and Ohio. strong ? I The Lake View Water-Cure, situated near "2. Was not Howard, the philanthropist, a vegetarian j from his youth ? Chicago, III., is open for the reception of patients, summer j "3. Would bread and syrup be a srood diet for a person and winter. For particulars, address Dr. Jas. E. Geoss, i — — out of health, if good fruit could not Beds—Honey Spinat, Irrttatiox Fruits— i be obtained? "4. Chicago, 111. Walking.—C. E. C, Stover, Vt. " Will you please answer ^ If a person has too high a flow of spirits for his bodily a few questions through the Water-Ci-re Journal, if you frame, would nor a diet of bread and nii'k be best? Thk Kockfoud Watek-Ccue is corner of Peach ! consider them worth answering, and if not, just lay tliem "5. Our boy of eight years of age complains of being tired and West streets, Eockford, III. Miss E. M. Snow gives many times, and does not appear very strong. Ii it because j aside and say notliing about tlu-m. " special attention to Females. This Estabiishment was the 1. What kind of beds are the most healthy to use at all he grows tall so fast, or the effects of medicine he has taken ?" times ? in infancy first in introducing the Electro-Chemical Bath west of New "2. Is honey unhealthy to use as an article of diet? 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. No, the bread is better without the York. Terms, from $7 to $10 per week, for board and treat- "3. Will you tell me what kind of treatinent to pursue ' syrup than with it. 4. We do not believe a person can have ment. Address E. W. Gantt, M. D., Kockford, 111. for a slight spinal irritation, caused by ovcr-excrlion ? " " " "4. Are fruit* IVdin tidhiml clitiint.-s n^rl'n! in mir climatej too high a flow of spirits." Keep the spirits heal hy Tub Chicago Water-Cukk Retreat, 208 West- and the higher "the flow" the better. Such persons as you ••

' -i is hci I • • • rn.. i- w, 11 supplied and on allude to should exercise the muscular system more in pro- Lake street, is open for the reception of patients at all - with fresh air ! - , , / ; the benefit ' portion than the nervous and mental. 5. It may be growing seasons of the year. J. Webstek, M.D., Chicago, 111. of her health . fast, or drug medicines, or unphysiological habits, to which 1. Straw, hay, hair, corn-husks, cork, &c. 2. No. 3. Ex- The Galisburgh is addicted, or all together. WATfcR-CuuE axd Hygiexic i he ercise and rest of the right quantity each. 4. Yes, if gath-

Institcte.—This establishment is beautifully situated \ ered when fully ripe and eaten before decay commences. \

about half a mile from the business part of Galesburgh, 16S 1 ' 5. She does walk, according to your own .statement, " a Biijous Fever nuRiNr, Pregnancy.— J. W.. Koj miles from Chicago, 8J from Burlington, Iowa, 100 from good deal of the time," and probably sufficient for her West, Florida. Is bl'ious fever necessarily more danger-

Quincy, III., 40 from Peoria, 111. Terms, from to ^ ous when the subject is in a state of pregnancy f If so, do and $G health, as far as walking is concerned. you think that every such rase of necessity prove $1 per week, payable weekly. Address Dr. J. B. Gully. must fatal? The Allopathic physicians in this place lose every or T. Jennisgs, Galesburgh, III. case, wish to if all prove fatal Dietary for Dyspri'tks — .S. Villenova. : such and I know they under Hydropathic treatment?" N Y. • Mease answer through the W ater-Cure Joite- The JlisHAWAKEE Water-Curb. Address Dr. , all severe during : that fevers more pregnancy, NAL. ,-ind ohliL-e ( It is true arc Ind. ••]. iriiiii. Mishawakee, Co., 1 .1, !. John B. Gcllt, St Joseph's Uou (III the right quantity of food for but not necessarily dangerous. The danger is from the

a most voniri" . .1.,.. .1.. ; doctor's drugs, which, in such cases, produce more destruc- "2. Are r i-h ! >-....:,(ing? i Geo. C. Wood. M.D., has a Water Curc Estab- ; ..1 i, i:ii. ill. tive consequences tlian in almost any other. We have 'a. Istiiet id svstem preierable? < lishment located at Evansvilie, Ind. For terms, &c., address > '4. 1' kinds of food which are best for treated many such cases, and never lost one ; and this is \ him as above. one with morliul, cr appetite. j true of other hygeopathic practitioners. "O. Is a 200 I (lo! le Hunger-Cure good for such a ; JaXESVII.I.E HYnROPATHIC AXD ELECTROLYTIC class of emaciated d

Institctios is situated in the flourishing city of Janesville. 1. 'iou must ludge bv the sense of fulness or heaviness P.re.vkfast and PtTNioNs.— a. G.B.. Tw!n=luirfr. " I five, and commence a sedentary occupntiim Eock Co., Wis., 14 miles from Beloit, 45 from Madison, 7J in the stomach and head.when vou have over-eaten. 2. No. O. rise at at eight; would it be best to take out-door exercise t.efi.re from .Milwaukee, and is accessible by railroad from nearly 8 One IS as goou as me oiiier, if an iiie meals are proper or .ifter breakfast? Wlu n I take much before ea'inc. it all directions. Terms, from $G to $10 per week. Address in quality and quantity. 4. Apples, dry bread, parched seems to make me feel weak and tremulous. Is it injurious Drs. liEED and Hubbaed, Janesville, Wis. corn. 5. No. in such cases? " Is there any way to cnre bunions, or to remove the de- ' formity occasioned thereby?" The Kexo.sha Watek-Llre is vvithin two hours' HTDnonm-cofATiiY. k( Exercise before breakfast, but not so long nor violently ride of Chicago or Milwaukie, by the Lake Shore Eailroad. as to occasion much fatigue or trembling. Frequent foot- II. II Address A. T. SsELtY, M.D., Kenosha, Wis. affirm), 'that ./« /(//'/-vv^'C/"'-' I'lii M . . '.-[^ for and their conse- mcliriition in all '/..yjer.il. . .m ;iiimIi, n v. ilh baths are the best things bunions

' .' / . The Lake Sidb \Vater-Cure, near Madison, water, having no faith in vr./.'. n,' /, nt ii linu s I quences, which are admissible in home-treatment. consider this a mere tabi ication, li;ivin^ i,ot the le:vvt fmin.la- capital the of Wisconsin, is a new Establishment, having in truth, and for the .sake of truth and humanity I am tion ; been constructed without regard to e.xpense, for a model compelled to make this inquiry. ' W. A. B. Ginger Poui.ticfs and Toothache.— " 2. Our M. n.'s say it is not safe for one to use injections Hydropathic Institution. It is abundautly furnished and These are o'" no further benefit than they serve to keep only ill .Atr.-MH' ruses ; is it so? warmed throughout with steam heat. It is delightfully face warm. Cloths wet in cold water, and frequently ' 111 I. ill hicrm in using a little warm water when the located on the margin of a beautiful lake, and is in full changed, would be quite as useful, and less objectionable.

! , ' I Tor yellmc javnclice f view of the city of Madison, which is opposite, about a mile treatment \

' ."i \i . as they are generally made, a healthy distant. Terms: For board and treatment, $S to $12 per \ compound. .:- ' Kinesipathy is a Greek i B. W. n.— artu r r !iildren? i

' I week. Address E. A. Kittebidoe, Madison, Wis. r . .V. fresh 'from the vines,' 'good for meaning motion appUetl, or motion done unto you. It wa«

num. 1 II • itliout either 'vinegar, s.ilt or pepper'?" first reduced to a science by P. H. Ling, of Sweden. The Fr.AXKLiN Watkr-Cure, eisht miles west 1 II i-. /(cnrue that all professed hydropalhs give drugs.

of Winchester. Franklin Co., Tcnn., is situated on an ele- We know at least one who never does. But it is true that H. A. B.—Your question is not stated with vated spot, remote from ponds, marshes, and other places a majority of so-called Water-Cure physicians do use medi- for us to reply definitely. Wo would, extent, a few of to a l.irge extent. And sufficient clearness that generate noxious vapors, and where there is a free cir- cines to some them therefore, refer you to Dr. Shew'a Midwifery and Diseases it is true that some of them have no faith in the system culation of bracing and healthful air. Terms : treatment Price $1 25. attempt to practice indeed, they do not know wh.it of Women. and board, $6 per week, payable weekly. Full printed they ; mongrels and ignoramuses are the greatest ob- particulars sent free to all who address Dr. J. P.vkks, Win- it is. These 'V. B. We do not approve of Tooth Powders, chester, Franklin Co., Tenn. stacles we have to contend with. 2. No. 8. No. 4. A wo have seen. A soft brush and tooth soap daily, full bath. Tlie wet girdle, hip-baths, and a diet of at least any will will yonr teeth clean, if properly used. If you The Gkoroia Water r;uRE. at Hock Sprinp:, unleavened bread and fruit. 5. No. C. Yes. The young keep and other filth, rinsing your teeth in near Marietta, Ga., is leave off eating meats open Summer and Winter. Terras : man you speak of should bo ."cnt to a Water-Cure as his r rijouih. water will be all that Is neoessaiy. $4 ) p. 0. Cox, M.D., Proprietor. only salvation. clean /

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Signs of a Torpid Liver.—E. N.. Penn. "It Hygiene ys. Water Cure.— S. L. G. " I bare ! K.vlaroemf.nt of thf. Liver.—J. L. C, Blount \fOu\d groatlv ob'ijie numi/ of the readers of .voiir excellent been a reader of your Watek-Cdre JorusAL for a year and Washington, 0. The discise about which yonr doctors toll us wAnt are the a half, and have become thorough convinced of the truth Journal, it l')r. Trail wnuld pli-a*e 'y differ so much, and for which they have given yon a "horee- of a to'V t'/ lirer. Hi- mentions In the Em i/clopadi.i. in of most of the principles therein inculcated, bnt I have load " of different drugs, is an ordinary case of enlarged several places, (hat 'if tlio liver Is torpid," &c, the treat- thought ever since I first read your paper that it was not the ment l-i to be slightly different; and there are some who rightly named. The name Seems to indicate water and liver. Treat it according to the directions you find in not I of those water treatment in toto. it is hygienic principles that wonld not know whether It was or : mean when Ifydropat/iic Encijclv/Mtdia, Id the chtpteroD Indigestion. who d" not consult a phvsician. If I am not asking too are taught throngli its columns. I have often had to defend If you do this, you will have no further occasion to pay much. I would like to know all the predispofing causes Swallowing a Pebble.— M. L. C. "What It is most unfortunate that the name of this journal does skin; heavy, dull or sleepy-headcdnoss; head.ache, vertigo, will result from the swallowing, by a child two and a half its character. shall change its name as soon " nervous debility," high-colored urine, heaviness or sense not express We years of age, of a pebble about one-fourth of an inch in as can so familiarize the public mind with another, as diameter ? What sliould be done in the ca-'e ?" of fulness of the right side, inability to lie on the loft fide, we change of principles. nothing. The probability is that it will work its way, sour stomach, heartburn. ])a!pitation, with others too nu- not to be suspected of a { Do

( or rather through the alimentary canaL merous to mention. All the predisposing causes of torpid be worked, Itching after Bathing.—51. D.. of Baltiiuore, liver are summed up in the words, unphyeiological haliis. taking bath, also complains of an intolerable itching after a SPECtTLUMS.—M.R.H. The conical and bivalve a feeling of fulness of the abdomen, and wants to know the Ttch. D. T.. Hemlock Ridge. "Abnut a yoar speculums can be bad at most of the shops where surgical — causes. She says her habits are " correct throughout." or fifteen months ago. I unfortunately caught the itch, ' instruments are manufactured or kept. The price is tl to Now. as people differ with regard to what correct habits which spread all over my body. Being away from home, $1 50 each. and not being able to practice •' Water-Cure," I applied to are, she must tell us the particuhirs of her habits before an Allopath, who gave ine some Pmcder, which I supposed we can give an opinion. Wc remark, however, incidental- ! — to be Sulphur and Crenm Tart..&Tiia, bo.\ of ointment, Sprained Knee. &c S. S. Slitillsbtirfr, Wis. ly, that salted meats?, repelled eruptions, and drug medicines, which I used. They, however, failed to make it entirely There is a fair prospect that the Electro-Chemical Baths disappear, and it run, in my opinion, to what I should call very frequently occasion such symptoms. would benefit you. Tou would have to go to some Water- a chronic eruption of the skin. It has now not a single ; characteristic of the real itch, that I know of. It makes its ! Cure, where they are employed. appearance in any and every part of my body, not enough B.iTiiTNG Duni.NG ^fKX.sTRr.^Tiov.—T!. X. n.. to be v> ry :roubIesome, but still liable to be so. Sometimes Bruceville, Ala. " Can a female bathe in cold water during I almost despair of ever getting rid i)f it." the menstrual period, who has a delicate constitution with Cat.vrrh and Swelled Tonslls.—J. H. T., nervous debility, is in the h.tbit of bathing in cold It is very often a slow and difficult process to cure the and who Aurora, III. In your child's case, the main treatment is water from one' to three times per week ?" itch or any other eruption, after the doctors have fastened general. The diet is more important than all else. It should No. She should use at that time very mild or tepid it on the constitution by their poisonous drugs and oint- , be as strictly physiological as possible. water, SO" to 90", or else omit bathing entirely. ments. Bathe daily, as usual, and use only unfermeuted coarse bread, with fruits and vegetables. Avoid milk. Onions and CrcrMBERs.-C. D. " Were onions Discharge from the Ear. —.J. T. T., New Bed- ; • and cucumbers made for man to eat?" ford " What course would you pursue lor an occasional DiKTKTics.—W. 0., Clpveland, Tenn. "Do discharge from the ears, caused by scarlet fever several Cucumbers we think were. We are dnbions abont you really recommend the two-meal-a-day system for years ago? The patient is quite deaf. An Allopath M. D. onions. erertibodn, whatever their occupation ? And at what time advises a pill thrice daily, composed of Quinine Su'ph . Iron of day do you locate the meals ? Do you advise total ab- by Hydrogen, Ext. Gentienne, &c., which the patient is stinence from ni-eiitK, and if not, what are the most whole- not disponed to take, being a convert to the Water-Cure the best of cooking With- some kinds and methods them? doctrine." out meats and in the absence of garden vegetables, what diet would you recommend? For persons slightly dyspep- Attend well to the general health, avoid drugs, and the ear tic, are mofasses, milk (sweet or butter-milk) and butter will take care of itself. table-drink, is milk as good as water ? wholesome ? As a Books which are Books.—" We give a list of Is all limestone water hard ; is it healthy ; is there any " corrective for it ? Does any one of your books give spec ific DYSMENORr.iicE \. — A. ?>.. NpwEiiclnnd. I;i a some of the principal works on the great ques- directions for the preservation of health ? If so, which is case where it is found, by a speculnm examination, that the ?" tions of the nineteenth century— questions com- it and what is its price neck of the uterus is nearly closed by a membranous forma- All of your questions are answered and explained in the tion, would water treatment, or perhaps I should say. h ygeo- prehending all human interests— Humanity it- piithic treatment, a/one effect a cure / If not. what course Hi/dropathic Encyclopaedia, published by FowtEE and self. Books in which the Philo.'^ophy of Mind shotifd be pursued ? Is burning~ the part affected with a Price, pre-paid by mail, $3. ?" Wells. hot iron, a proper application is clearly elucidated, and the laws which govern Warm water, with the dilating tent, if necessary, are the life and health are plainly unfolded, and made proper appliances. West. P. K. J. H., Hadley, Mass., Home in toe — intelligible to every reader. who is dyspeptic, wants to know how a rcMdence in Iowa Sore Lips.— .1. A.. Highland. Wis. " Wi'l Dr. To know ourselves, is far more important to or Illinois will aft' ct her health, provided she obeys all the Trall tell us through the WATER-CtJRE Journal, what is us than the geography of the starry heavens, or laws of being. &c., to wliich we answer, it makes little dif- the cause of sore lips and their cure t I have had them ference where oae resides when all the laws of being are re- this summer, and I have seen several others with them, and of the fertile earth. But. when we come to look thoir k'alth was otherwise apparently good." garded. In some places, however, it is easier to do so than into and under-'^tand the workings of the JIind, The cause is impurities in the system, and the cure con- others. But good health may be had in either place. in shall all the sists in removing them by bathing, diet, &c. we be better prepared to comprehend She asks, also, the best course to pursue in regard to diet, and understand the laws which goven the Uni- on removing to the west. This question is already answer- verse. In these works we have all that is Eat sucli food as is according to the laws of being, as ! Palpitation. F. G. M.. Tenn. " I have been known ed. — ;

! for several years palpitati- of afflicted with the : explained in our books. n the heart ; on the subjects, presented by the leading philoso- ! also wilh a ringing noise in my head, for .hj last twelve

5 months very badly. Can you do anything tor me? I am phers and discoverers of the age. Works far

: getting very uneasy. Do you think washing and bathing richer, in treasures give ' which real happiness Bi.EEDINO DUP.TNG PREGNANCY.—B. S., Conn., daily in cold water will do me any good?"

s.iys that although a " Water-Cure woman," she yielded to ' It depends entirely hoto you wash and bathe. Tell us and content to the reader, than can be found in the advice of numerous friends and allowed the village diseases you have had, what medicines, if what any, you : any other study, in any language. We commend bleed her, about a month before confinement. She habits life, doctor to have taken, and what of occupation and domestic them to the old and the young - the rich and the

has had a hard getting up, is unable to nurse the child, and relations you have, and then we can answer your questions, i poor. To all who Think. They will prove ex- is afflicted in various ways, and now asks an opinion whether haustless fountains of light and life, and reconcile bleeding was in her case necessary ? It is necessary in no After p.\TNS.—J. M. A., Minaesota. "Will | case, bnt is always injurious. She will find the rules for you please inform me, through the WATF.R-CtTRE Journal, Man to Man. We regard the circulation of these ; why a female who has once been troubled with after-pains, - dieting physiologically, and also for the treatment prepara- works as among the highest and most sacred is almost certain during her next confinement to suffer still tory to (larturition, in Hydropathic Encyclopaedia and more from the same cause ?" callings in which any true benefactor of the Couh Book. same causes which existed in the first instance, ; \ The may race may possibly engage. Jlissionaries— at exist in ones. the subsequent The remedy consists in gentle , Globus Htstericus.—Julia, Albany. " I am \ home—here is a field for useful and profitable

manipulations, to induce equal and firm uterine contraction. , about twenty- four years of age, and with one exception enjoy labor. good health—and that is sometliing that I have been troubled ' girlhood, but not so much .«o as at present; it For the convenience of those with from Hypochondriasis.—W. P., Neshonoc, Wis. who want single- appears like something that starts from the stomach and ; copies immediateh/, and cannot wait for moves np into the throat, ciusing choking, swallowing and Yons disease is clearly Dyspepsia, attended with a very orders a distortion of the face for a few seconds. It is readi'y re- torpi l liver. Get the A'/iRyc/o/wcrfi'*/, and in the chapter on ( through Booksellers, we have given the price of lieved for the time by a swallow of cold water. What Is Indigestion you will find the proper directions. j at it will the disease, what is the cause, and what is the remedy? each work, which be sent, prepaid, by Would gestation make the spasms more frequent?" return of the first mail, to any Post Office in the /\ Seminal Losses. M. B., Boston. little The immediate cause is a spasmodic action of the respira- — C. A ; United States. VI'' tory muscles. Keep the bowels entirely free with proper work, " Home Treatment for Sexual Abuses," which you Agents in every neighborhood would do well food, and enemas if need be. Gestation will not make it can get of Fowler and Wells, for thirty eents, will direct i worse, but may prove remedial. you how to treat yourselt < to enjage in the sale of these useful, reformatory —

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I't BE Water is of one the jrreat GLEN-HAVEN WATER-CURE. To Teachers. Literary Ixstitv essentials for preserving health. But water TiONS, and all engaged in Education. that flows through lead pipes for domestic use To THE Sick : Will you listen to me? It will cost you nothing to hear. IVISON A Plll.N.NtV, .No ill Brculwajr, New Doctor S. Z. the Dana, eminent I Ton can reserve to yourselves the right to judge of what I say, as you please. I am not York, publish

«> : " Cumnion nciiite would ICAil t< careful as to yonr or conclusions. I careful to be, if possible, in the Mill of Ivftd In uur wellH, aquerlucts, judgments am only THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL rJm KDlublesalls of all Ihrse n«flal> right, and to speak fearltssly what is true. SERIES, Einc, And K'»d,\ aie pol»on«." Th« I ycAis him eidAblUhed tbe fact thai You are sick. Ton would rejoice to be in health, for under its mildest forms, sickness is unple!«ant. Life's higher conjunctions are with health. These go together. Sickness and Gdtta PcacHA. death naturally group. Kow I know from very wide observation, made under the most rtp«f of Outtn Tercha, for pnmpa, aqnedncta. h' favorable auspices, that greater number of the so for draullc lainn, Ac, will b« forwaidrd lo an.v pan by far the sick, who have been weaiy th« world on r.celpt of oidera. Clicolai* with m years, can be restori'd to good, comfortable, bodily and mental conditions; so restored as

parllcttlara, will ba sent by mall, on application I to make life a perpetual feast; so restored, that whereas it is now a burden, which many Ot the paal ; Iht^ir piartiral itdAplAtinn to the strer- CHARLB'i STODDKR, - long to lay down it shall be a burden which most shall delight to carry. Do you ask ine laiD^^d wanis of erholar and toucher ; Iht-ir inp4>rior me- Sept.—It. Kilby itreel, Boston. li cbaniral ezertition, as regards d'stinrt type, whiU p«- now I know it? I reply, I know it to be so, because I see it done daily. For instance : in Glen-Haven to-day there are sixty men and forty women and children, from the child of p^r. |tl*'nttinfr and approptiatv nngjAx nz9, and laatafol ar^d diinihle b'ndinj;: and tTitlly. as a rv^flutt of all, the years, the septuagenarian, taking treatment for Arthur's CisLEBRATfeD Patent two taking treatment for dysentery, to rompaiHliTe *a«e and pl«'a«ore with which ihey mx9 paralysis. There are persons of all professions, pursuits, and positions in society, who have taogbt and learned. The tetit-g tnrlude SELF-SEALrXG Feuit Cass asd Jars. come from the extremes of Canada to the orange-groves of Florida, from the e.xtremes of Ba. At., TWO .MEDALS AND FITE DIPLOMAS, ALREADY our Eastern border to our farthest West, and with almost every disease known as of XD Af AWARDED. chronic type. Besides, they have, with scarcely an exception, given themselves up formerly KuTom Uwd last year by tb •uBinds offimitiea, hotel ard to physicians—the most distinguished they have known, and have only come to the Glen after worse l>oardia9-bouse keapen, with the most complete sue- their doctors had been confessedly bafiSed, or they had grown decidedly under their treatment Now they are getting well. Then know they are. I know they are, and cess. All kiDls of ripe Fruit, Tomatoes, &e., may be outihlera who have had an opportunity to be familiar with them from their arrival till this kept to them with their fresh fl,i»pr uoimpilred. By time, are. is true ot' these women, has been true of [2,0U0] two know they What men and nlaiDioi? opiD'ona vf their oae, every housekeeper may secure for the winter thousand who have preceded them in the last six years. Tet of all who have ever con- sulted me, or have been my patients, not one has ever been given a doite of medicine. No aa Strmwberri?s, Raspberries, Aprieote. Plum), Cherries, poison has passed their lips. On the other hand, much has been eliminated from their Paaches, Blackberries, Ac, lo a condition so far supe- bodies by simple and entirely unexceptionable methods. What has been done for those, and is doing for these now under treatment, can be done for yon. Unless you are in- rior to ordinary preserves, that no one who hits used ITISON & PHIN2?ET, car.^ble, you can be cured by n'ti<«i; -Treatment, safer, and more speedily than by any other them for a single season will ever ro back lo the old. " " " more trnublesom) aud m'>re ros'ly method. method. It does not matter what your disease," your disorder," your derangement"' is, Full directions for putting up Wj/tfr-Treatment will cure you. And by irit^^z-Treatment I do not mean medicated Three New Mrsic Books for The op, baths, nor mineral baths, nor electro-chemical baths, nor do I mean homeopathic dosing, irjiy I Hole, and the r,;su] the nor mesmeric manipulations, nor psychological manifestations, but I mean what I sav— Choirs, Glee - Clubs, Families, Institutes, liuos mean the treatment of your cases by bathing in water, and with good living, soft, wnmineral Schools, 1. and the ja's of finely.^lazed &c. fire.proof yelly id nest eou^lv for s^ippiOK. water, of temperature and quality, and frequency, adapted to each case. The auxiliaries Broadway, will pabrah ED -v. P. TORRE Y, used are good air, simple food, appropriate dress, limited exercise, abundant sleep, mental AO Pl»lt street, 6 .Vew York, quietude, cheerful intercourse, and purpose, will, and faith to do what I require. By Wholesale agent for the Manufacturers. Heaven's blessing I have balked death many times, of prey that he thought was secure,— and THE CELESTINA; For sal< also by S. W. Smith, No 50 Maiden lane ; I trust in I shall live to it for years to blind Abraras God do many come. The have been made to Ob, Taylor's Nbw Sacked Minstkbl. i Johnaoo. 443 Urondway ; H™ry A. K-rr, 7J6 Br<->ndway; Augustus see, the deaf have been made to hear, the laineTiave been made to leap like the hart, the Book for the Beason of I8S&-'7. By V. C. Whetmore, Jr , Br>adwiy- Tbe Xew J W Sulhvan, No. 74 Sixth avenue, cor. of Waveriv bowed-down have been straightened, the feeble have been made strong, the bed-ridden to Tayior, Bulbnr of "Tbe Golden Lyre/* " Choral An-

plare ; C. S. Benson, It: Ac. Price 15 rents. Bleecker street; and the lead- take up their beds and walk, the crazy made whole ; and while I arrogate no merit to myself, thema," log Furnishlag and fiurdware stores in this city aud readily emphatically that the result is entirely due to the faithful Brooklyn. but and most admit appli- cation of forces which, though natural, are none less Divine, I do claim that the statement THE MrSICAL BOUQUET AND INSTI- is literally and strictly true. And I affirm that ninety -five per cent, of all who come here TUTE CHOIR. B. Buai bukv »mi Chablsb Cos- KEDZER-S EAIN-WATEE FILTEES. either get perfectly well while at the Glen, or are so much benefited that they recover after Bv William C vekVb. a uexv h)ph.-r elate Muatc B<>, k. t. r a<-adeinifB leaving the Glen. I further afiirm that at least one-third of my patients to And come mo ai d eocial aiog'Dg in famiHea, societies, Ac. Price 68 without correspondence or consultation. Now, if I tell the truth, xchat is the need of yonr j. b. chznet a co., bocnester, n. t. being sick f True, it costs something to come to Glen-Haven and stay three, si.x, nine, These Celebrated Fil- eighteen months. So it does to stay at home. But when it is taken into account that at BRADBUETS Neit SABBATH SCHOOL hoTTie you remain sick, while at the Glen recover, the balance is transferred ters have been fully tested you to my side MUSIC AND IITMX BOOK. of the Ledger. It is now «> years since I came into pr.tctice as a TP;?*" c-Cure physician. for many years in almost eve- I have stoutly resisted all temptations to be anything else. I have tacked on nothing to the ry State in the Union, and the original idea. I have been more radical than any other physician in the United States. demand is constantly Increasing. Have spoken against, and do still speak against all medical "practice, all social habits, all st.ttutory enactments, all individual conduct, which exist by or through violation of physi- cla«3tf3 if jippruved. f Q receipt ot 60 rente, 40 cal law. I started out with the determination that between God and my soul there should be truth, and that no fear of not having patients should make me t'nsincere, I have re- IVISON & PniNXET, deemed my vow, and can to-day respect myself. I have refused splendid business offers— oflPers of capital to any extent—so I would consent to spend my strength in m.anaging a fashionable hotel, dubbed a Water-Care, but I would not do it I love the idea that lies at To Teachers, School Com.mittf.i:s, the bottom of this great revolution too well. It h.is begotten in me a new life; it has made Clerctmen, aso other Friends of Edcca- me instrumental in awaking thousands to consciousness of the poverty of their aims, and has TIO.V. leave to call your attention to enabled me to redeem them from sickness, not only, but from inanity and folly. I begun We beg two boolis on Physiology, from the pen of Profes- with but faith in an idea. I have lived to see it crop out all nothing sublime around me, in » Ho..ker,ur Yale pure water. College noble redemptions of men and women from the heart-aching ailments of years. Book In Ph>«lol.,tv." Is deilcncd They are portable, dnr ble aud cheap, ai and 11 |>i(seiils the simple atid Bot excelled by anv other In the treatment of female diseases I stoutly maintain that my success has been unpar- lunda- alleled. saying this, do wish to convey "the impression that In a clear and attiactlve manner, J. E. CllENET r Co., Rochester, In I not other practitioners have N.Y. le which ate not so eahlly upderetcod being re- not also witnessed cures under their administration. But then their practice and mine has ed for elucidation In the larger wot k. The -Hu- differed widely. They have used poisons. I have used none. have catmtics. They used I PhyaloIe 4th, $ no r,.r tb« 5th lis for the «th, t»i fight will soon be over, leps than sixty days in abundance. hearts for the afflicted, (or the 7tl $10 lor the 8d all who wish thrtr chttdreo to lean omelhiotf of nibs. Five copies for Route.-Prom Kast or West come on New Tork Central Railroad to Svracuse. thence six months, ; $1 for tbe e.iber realities of life, conaider wbel by Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad to from Homer, then to the Glen by llverv. Or, tbe time to aobsrribe ft r it, that i| n East or West, on New Tork and Erie Railroad to Binshamton, then on 'Syracuse and Bing- lablfs when ihoao political fquabblea are over, and the • hamton Railroad to Homer, and so on to the Glen by livery. lonff, calm evenior'- of aut . >. The current olume.or more ihan^S(iO^>a(feB, neatly . MUNN &' Co!',''' Post-office address is. Glen Haven, Cayuga Co., N. T. printed and done up in moi ^ e» XI ''•"''<«' "">•'. New York. minced Price, from to Vrr'yeai, accc'rdiop to \ / Messrs. MUKN * Co. are extensively engaged in proriT Oct. It I am, respectfully, yet truthfully, yours, ng patents for new inventions, and will advise inventors, wilhoot charge, m regard lo the novelty of NASn & PARISH, their imprcvementa. Oct It JAMES C. JACKSON. : BeekiUHO Street THE 94 WATER-CURE JOURNALa [Oct.,

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since its introduction, is convincing proof of the high atrimoitj. •Stimation In which it is held by the public. We also have a fall aeeDtimeut of other styles. CONE tl FURNACE. The Louis XIV. style, carved legs and pearl loUid nameboard. Two styles of 6-octave in Pi«no cnsts The 5 and 6- .ctave Double Reeds, with two and four stops The &-octave, Pl^no style, and the four-and-a-half and S-octave, Bcri-ll legs, pr-rteble styles— all of wh ch are made of the best materials, and in the best and most No. 245. —I am twenty-one years durable manner. nil, culled good looking liitulllgent, of an The exertions and experience of years are concen- ; trated in the Instrument that we now offer for public Gardner Ciiii.son has lust completed sxm\ Patented in America, England and France, his new invention—THE "CONE" lUKNACE—and asks the special attention of QUALITY OF TONE those about erecting or remodelling buildings, as well as dealers in Hot Air, Steam, or Hot Water Furnaics, nnd of all interested in Steam Power, to carefully examine this invention, which entirely i-luiniift the principle and character of Hot Air Furnaces, developi7i-g another II III II- iih\ and in hii 'i and obviating all former ofcuections to theiruse. The practical operation of a iiiiinh. T of tlii/Me Furnaces erected during the past winter, points out a new discovery In science, hy whicli the most wonderful economy in fuel has been attained, and clearly demon- 246.—A vegetarian lady, tol- V o I c I N a strates that the waste heat lost from chimneys is enough to warm every dwelling in the city. ood looking and of good family, aged 80, By this invention the heat formerly lost is made to warm the house. ke to correspoufl with a gentleman of high which Mr. Carhart has bad, he be^ngthe originator of The Cut above represents this invention as a Furnavif, for Warming all classes of Buildings the science of Vf.icing Reeds many years since, and by with Hot Air, but the same principle is being adopted with remarkable success for Steam and Ime, gentlemen. Hot Water also, for Steam Power and all other useful puiposes for gene- :lde not to write, the Improvements which be baa since made in the art, Heating Apparatus; rating heat. answered first. we are eDabled to produce a quality of tone unequaled— This discovery—simple in itself—is the daily wonder of those who witness its results, and it answering quickly to the tojch, and at once powerful becomes a matter of surprise that a plan at once so simple and practical in its operation and pore. should thus far have entirely escaped the notice of scientific men. We believe that no one who investigates this principle will be liable to use a furnace constructed on any other. 247.^ I nineteen years of By our extensive manufacturing facilities, we are en No. — am age, medium height, with daik hair and eyea, and abled to supply Dealers on the most CHII.SON, GOULD & CO., favorable terms. poasese accompllahmenta ncceaaaiy for a diawlng- Letter* addrtas^-d to os will be promptly answered, August—3t 99 and 101 Blackstone Street, Boston. room, yet am fully capable of auperlntending do- mestic affairs. I wieli to correspond with an «dn. Pbicb Li«t and Cib(u>.abb incloeed, If icquested. and Intelllgeut gentleman, of refined lastea Travellers ! Tourists ! ! Rail- A. S. Stimson, 39 and 41 Franklin catcd and mannera, of good moi al character, good-look-

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those of the all abdomen, unite in the effort for tlw expul- SwiMMi.N-G.— It is certainly most absurd to li _ sion of the grain of snuff. Let us consider what occurs in I j all the day's of one's life j at the mercy of any one of the this i instantaneous operation. The lung becomes fully in- elements whatever, more especially water ; and, in most flated, the abdominal organs nre pressed I downwards, and instances, people J wCo are drowned deserve death. In the veil listen Uncle , of the palate dro^'down to form a barrier to the Something for Bots. —Boys, to i much of the interior of Africa, and in the central deserts of Tohy, while he talks to you of the evils resulting from the ' escape of air through the month, and now all the muscles - Arabia, swimming is of no use, owing to the general aridity which have relaxed for the purpose, use of tobacco, and resolve that you will never touch this contract simultaneously, soil, : of the and want of atmospheric moisture. But people poisonous weed. ' and force the compressed air from the lungs in a torrent , like us, who are rarely out of sight or sound of stream, out through the nasal passages, with the benevolent deter- A KisD WoKD TO Lads on Tobacco.^—A boy named ; lake, and 6e.i, ought to be amphibious. In angling, no

: mination to sweep away the particle of snuff which has living in Swansey, picked up a bit of cigar, and. put- man is called a master who is not a West, ^ swimmer. There is been causing irritation thereon. Such, then, is the com- ting it into a pipe, smoked it. As a consequence, he was not a bridge at every turn of a river—ferry boats are rare—

, plicated action of a sneeze ; and if the first effort does not taken suddenly ill, and died in a few hours. and fords are deep. Over with you, ; therefore, like a saga- succeed, then follows a second, a third, and a fourth ; and clous Tobacco has spoiled TuorsANDS of fine boys, (inducing , Newfoundland dog, back and forward from shady and not until victory is achieved, do the army of defenders dis- ) sunny bank, according a dangerous precocity, developing the passions, softening to the flow of flood, and giving solve their compact, and settle down to the enjoyment of ' yourself a shake, the fly the bones, and injuring the spinal marrow and whole nerv- drop lightly above the snout of ; peace and quietude.—

ship from ; " and horror 1 Death will come at length. ( sume the the face of the sea and the strong swimmer in his agony" that shall little eobert beed. Now they gather closer knows he never behold the setting sun. But, to say that Doctors friends, most learned men in shipwreck have I'll never use tobacco; no — not a better chance of their lives if able to swim, is about Ah, it is a " poser," It is a filthy weed as rational as to say that men, in balloon wrecks, the fever would not I'll never put it in my month. Why burned. have a better chance of their life If able to fly. Said little Robert Reed. Oh, what horrors seize me. Life is sinking fast Why, there was idle Jesse Jones, Hints to Workmen on Health. —1. Abstain Friends would fain appease me,

. As dirty as a pig- from all spirits and dram drinking. Spirits relax the Hoping to the last. He smoked when only ten years old, muscles, diminish the strength of the body, and render Still no arm doth save me, And thought it made him big. men susceptible of disease. 2. Let your food be coarse and I am left to die plain. Concentrated and highly-seasoned fooj is, if possi- He spend his time and money, too, All the good they gave me. ble, as injurious as liquors. 3. Where (well filtered) water And made his mother sad Fades—for death is nigh. ; does not disagree, value the privilege and continue it. She feared a worthless man woald come Ha I what form now enters ? Pure water is a far better beverage for the sedentary, and Of such a worthless lad. Blissful is those who take but little exercise, for those la- his smile ; and whose Hope within him centres, bor or exhausted strength do not require stimulants. 4. O, no ! I'll never smoke or chew, I revive awhile. The quantity (of most things) is always more hurtful than 'Tis very wrong indeed Now his cool, moist fingers, the quality. 5. Take your meals at regular hours always. It hurts the health, it makes bad breath. Feel my pulse and brow The human frame is capable of being changed from sick- Said little Robert Reed. How that sweet smile lingers ness to perfect health, by a well-regulated system of diet. I am half-well now. 6. Avoid everything, however agreeable to the palate, that The Philosopht of Sneezing. —A sneeze al- from experience you find to disagree with you. 7. Make He no noxious doses ways indicates that there is something wrong. It does not daily ablution the first thing on rising: you will feel Gives. But cooling draughts; health unless some foreign agent irritates the stronger and more refreshed from it during the day. I occur in Water pure— that gushes membranes of the nasal passages, upon which the nervous fancy I hear you say that you have not the time to do so. To my parched lips, wafts. filAments are distributed. In case of cold, or what is My answer to you is, rise ten minutes earlier, dip a coarse Oh, how bright and sp.arkling termed influenza, these are unduly excitable, and hence towel in cold water, ring it out, and rub the whole body ^Vho would e'er deny it? the repeated sneezing which then occurs. The nose re- over. "Cleanliness is next to godliness." 8. Never quack Who but mind so darkling, ceives three sets of nerves, the nerves of smell, those of or tamper with your constitution by taking patent medi- Could refuse to try it ? oft'ered for disease, for feeling, and those of motion. The former communicate to cines ; they are every kind of many the brain the odorous properties of substances with which But why detain you longer, of which they arc decidedly prejudicial, producing very they come into contact, in a diffused or concentrated state Reading o'er my rhyme? often fatal results. If slightly indisposed {and if it is possi- I stronger. all and ab- the second communicates the impressions of touch ; the Daily grew ble to do so), remain quiet, avoid excitement, third move the muscles of the nose - but the power of these Water all the time. stain from all meats and fermented liquors for the day. ; muscles are very limited. When a sneeze occurs, all these Blessings on pure water, In headache, and slight fever, this plan mostly effects a Blessings cure. Never use purgatives. 9. Take exercise if you faculties are excited in a high degree. grain of snuff ex- on the cure ; A ; cites the olfactory nerves, which despatch t^ the brain the Try it sure we ought to, value your health, but proportion it to your strength. 10. in all its intelligence that attacked the nostrils 1" Nought can be more sure. Never learn to smoke ; siiun tobacco forms. It "Snuff has The ; at too early an age It is brain instantly sends a mandate through the motor nerves stunts the growth, when taken j a j !" it to the muscles, saying, " Cast it out and the result is un- great promoter of indolence and laziness ; causes nervous mistakable. So offensive is the enemy besieging the nos- Re.st. —Rest is a very fine medicine. Let your trembling of the hands, and nervous debility; it has noth. tril held to be, that the nose is not left to its own defence. stomachs rest, yo dyspeptics. Let your brain rest, ye ing nourishing or stimulating in it, butts merely a narcotic, It were too feeble to accomplisli this. An allied army of wearied and worried men of business. Rest your limbs, of which the moral and physical effects upon those who use muscles join in it are of a very dubious chm&clcr.— Correspondence of the the rescue ; nearly one-half of the body ye children of toil. Tou can't ? Cast off all Buperfluitica

arouse against the intruder ; from the muscles of the lip to of appetite and fashion, and see if you can't. Builder.