New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-08-23

AND pdtrlOsS 10 lAeir MONIES fetIIe
And sheath the giit'ering brand
VIGOROUSLY our Eagles fly
When wars commotions ccesc;
They shall wave Ger the brave
In the silling beams of Peace.
GILL; Mass. Aug. 10. 1871.
Water Cure.
HENRY C. WRIGHT, in letter to the Edit
of the Liberator, dated Graefenberg, Silesii
May %, says:
have been here now over four months, takug
the water cure; and, SO far as nhtmmatiof
and disease on my lungs and speaking organs al.
concerned, am certainly conscious of great
change for the better. All danger of permanen'
disease seems entirely removed. have passt i
through tedious process bere-a weary. thong 4,
not very painful one. 1t is infinitely better
than taking medicine. There are abou. 400
guests here now, come to take the cure, fror:
fifteen different nations. We are singular CO.
lection. Prcssnitz is certainly wonderful m I'll.
about 40 years oId-a little over perhaps
peasant, who probably never in all his life read
book on medical science. He has little OF no
book learning; but he has studied in that book
which is written by the finger of God. H.
knows the economy Of animal life, especially o.
human life He rejects at once all the common
ways Of finding on; diseases, and how to apply
remedies. He never feels the pulse, or looks az
the tongue-never bleeds, never vomits, never
purges-unlcss cold water and cold air produce.
these results. He judges by the appearance O.
the skin, and applies the remedy accordingly
He uses but one egent-i. C. WATER, variousy
applied internally and externally, 70 produce al
the results at which he aims; then constan, liv-
,Du ha
fresh, and exposing the surface OF the body e.
much to the action of the cold air as decency
and comfort will allow. Every day here is VII
ness to the entire Of the most dreadful dis
eases of the skin and of chronic diseases. A
to fevers, colds scdrletina, measles, whDoplng
cough, Group, dyspepsia, and like complaints.
nothing is thought of them herc-fIr all feel that
a sure and certain remedy is at hand. On
must be very unreasonable indeed not 10 have
confidence in a remedy which he sees daily T..
be 80 eficaclous. There is no mystery in it.
There can be no mystery in It. All is above
board Each patient sees and watches the pro-
gress and effects OF the cure IN each and ever,
other. Men Of all professions, ard of lhe high
est order Of intellect, are here and in the saloon
where about 300 guests meet three times Il
day, at meals, and in the walks. The symptoms
of each are nude known and tal.,ca over by the
others, and the various modes of applying cold
water are canvassed thoroughly and the effects
of each application thoroughly gone into. Press
nitz sits at the head of the table, at each meal
and there is consulted by the saloon guests Our
diet is simple, but abundant.
Priessnitz does not pretend that water is a uni
versal speci6c-that it will cure all Diseases
Since have been here, several poor, miserable
looking objects, all eaten up with disease and
mercury have been sent away as incapable OF
being reached by cold water, or any thing else ;
and It was like pronouncing their doom-ior,
after trying every thing else, and completely cx-
hausting the powers of life by taking polsonS,
and rendering them incapable of rallying again,
they come here as a last resort Priessnitz acts
on the principle that health is the lao of life,
and disease the exception; and that when any
morbid matter gets into the system, The only way
is to assist the vital energies 20 throw 1t off, and
that by means which shall not leave in the sys-
tenn an enemy 10 life more deadly than that
which is cast out. He says mineral poisons, .;
every kind, are worse for the system, and far more
difficult to get GU: of 1t, than any morbid mat.
tor that is expelled by them but that the ap2li.
cation of cold water, in various ways, TO the
face of the whole body and Its internal appllca.
ton by drinking, aud the free circulation OF pu'e
cold air around the body, and the out. door exc.
else absolutely necessary us part of the cure
strengthens the whole system. and throws on,
the disease, and leaves no enemy behind and
believe he is right.
You would be amused to see people come here
half dead with dyspepsia and indigestion, and
find themselves, after few days, freed
from all trouble, and amazed at themselves that
it is SO; but then they must stay here long
time, often a year or more, to get the tone and
energies OF the stomach perfectly restored
If had family of small children, would
certainly get the means in my house to use tht
simpiest forms OF the water care. In Ordinary
cases, any father, or mother, OF nurse, mish
easily learn to apply the cold bath, the lcet
bondoge and the sitting bath, Colds, evsrS
Group, humors OF various kinds-all the diseases
that arise from colds-are perfectly easy To man.
age. No person need be afflicted long by a te
yer of any kind, If he get al cold water,
and the means to apply 1t. But would eau
ton any man to beware how nc applies cold wa
ter In some ways, without knowledge. This
water cure may be overdonei then wo to the
oyerdoer. He had better be cruc.6ed BIZ mcr
curry.
The doctors procured the arrest and trial OF
Preissnitz by the Government OF Austria. He
was acquitted. Then they procured the appoint
mont of Committee by Government, to come
and examine into his system. That Committee
also acquitted him. The charge of the doctors
was that he used other means beside water
ssedieines OF some kind; bu; the Government
honorab'y scqu.,ted hin ofthe charge. and seve
raj members of the Goyernment have been here
with their families To be cured, and ,hey have
been cured
only wish somebody that understood tho sys.
tsm-that had studied here fer years under
Pnessnitz-could set up a water cure establish.
mens among the White Hills Of New-Hampshirc,