Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-11-04

will be kept up from to three days longer, us efforts
ma be made by the dsease 20 return. lie IS then
safe Light diet, and gradual very gradual return
exercise and open air, all IS sale Mr.. Eaitor'
would not venture this prediction I'LL iad ueo J. my
self Bot never expect 10 sec another case oil ny
Notwithstanding seen only in a thirty enc years
practice Bot believe TIN fact, | almost know H.
TRY the practice Let those who may see this, Try II,
and they will lose fewer cases, in my opinion, than
Ike common Doctors Do Of bilious fever for they lose
nearly from one quarter TO one haii "a'
great terror To mankind will cease. Am ! on en-,
thusast or en- ! mad Festus, think 1t was, that
thought Paul mad. Paul sayeih, "Most noble Festus
am not mad.
Mr.. Editor, have written this from recollection OF
the only case Of hydrophobla ] ever had 1t was the
case of l.ha,p negro boy, belonging to near neigh
Dor of NINE Mistress Mary Ford. lie had wife al
my house The dog bit him at his mistress. ad-
vised the amputaiicn of the part bIuen-l think
the thumb oreiager, but other counsels prevailed
called up, at ten or eleven clock at night 10
sec him in my kitchen, where he was. He had pc
culiar chllincss and agitation of the system. lie com
planned dreadfully OF oppression in the region OF the
heart told him | feared it hydrophoba. He
sad he was afraid 50 himself. watched the symptoms
and il became confirmed in my mind it was the dis
ease sent for his mistress she came and carried him
home. no, half mile. / continued to visit him.
Nothing would DO
Mr. Ei,:or if | have erred, let il be. I, is for the
good of n,inkind we live, ought to live. If err
then condemn me. | shall die, at least with good in
tentons IL is SAID, that the world has been in exist
ence six thousand years Who ever made the sugges
ton before If had not written, it might BE- six
thousand more years before another, any one else
could be found ortc IT, said, "Angels visits are
few and far between. for one believe IL. 1t BUNDLES
the to think II has pleased kind and glorious Prori
deace thus to signal me- IF il be rue 1t is enougt
10 hu mblc mDrtai fesh lfhs be not truc have othe
curious things 10 narrate to you, IN all due time
Townshend suggested ii in England, on one continent
your obliged very obliged and obedent servant sng
gested another. The wide Atlantic rolls between
Does II not appear that the Father of Merces intended
II to reach mankind in one way or another ON one
continent the other 1t there is nothing IN II, 'nha
IS u9 Is it not strange iac0ncetraOte mexpllcabie
There is something in H. A thirty one years practice
has taught me something think know disease IN
most of its forms, windings, and twis,ings-a although
broken down constitution has, for many years warn
ed ne 10 qnt t-und have retired, respectfully re-
tired, from It's storms much rs could.
MIR. Editor what then urge me to write, but &c
benefit mankind / did not make the idea. 1t must
have been suggestion IRON the IN that an.
am nothing.
This appears to be the state of things Townshend
made suggestion publicly before | dad. knew no
thing Of what he said. | made the suggestion, and
here is the practice. The learned Townshend had
failed IN carrying ont the suggestion he showed the
path, bu, did not tell you of the lighthouses on the
wayne left it DARK. show You the LIGHT. call
upon the intelligent practitioner 10 Try this practice as
soon as lie under whose care any case may come.
call on any sensible to do IL, whose family may be
inflicted nth this fatal maady
Do no. consider ne, Sir, going with Townshen nd
or not going with him in Mesmerism. have explain.
I'd my own theory in my own way-it may be Mesmer
ism, or it may not be.
Townshend and E!lioson have both failed in sug
costing friction in e,anus, far as understand you
say-that is, you have not enumerated it as one OIL
the diseases 10 be cured by they suggested Towns
bend suggested mesmerism IN hydrophob'a but do moi
think myself mesmerisn will cure hydrophohia So I. S
suggestion may altogether have a.led-nine has to b.
tried Now, how far has friction a Government wit!
stner,sm. A chronological touch, is different thing
that operates the faculties of the mind, they say
You have the books will you or some one else say
bow far Friction is concerned with .hesmerism VII
Mr.. French, or any of lis disciples, EXPLAIN They
will greatly oblige, respectfully, .
c. r. FONTAlNE.
~ VIM the papers medical journals, SC, &C., which have
which may hr, ohsing publish the other production
sease publish .hs.