New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-06-14
The Water-Cure la GERMANY.
LETTER PROM II. c. WRIGHT At PREIssyITTs 5.
From The Liberator.
GRAzrFrxBEKo, s.lesiu. Austria. March l3,

Wdtcr-cufe Tl!e weeks. Durlng tnat whole Tune,
the weather has been extrenel, cold-so cold
that ice has formed around my bath, into which
| plunged twice day and ice, at this moment,
hangs around the Douches IN masses from ten to
fifteen feet in length. and larger than a mans
body. During the whole OF the nine weeks, we
have not had more than fifteen days OF fair
weather, put 1t all together. fempests that come
bowling down from the Bohemian mountains,
which lie to the South some 10 or ~ miles, sweep
over GraeflenbeIg with great fury-drying the
snow IN couts before them, TIL they are lost on
the plains OF Prussia, that are open before US al
the North. The people say the winter has been
uncommonly severe. 1t requires the constant
exercise of depcrate resolution to Garry on the
cure amid such SHOWS and ice With such
temperature, 10 have our bodies packed up, twice
a day, in sheet wrung out Of water, whose
temperature is down 10 lreezng-(last evening,
the sheet In which | was packed, three minutes
before saw spread out on the snow before my
window frozen stiff as ice)-to lie IN that wet
sheet I'LL get warm, and then go down into
bathroom, oft full OF SNOW and ice, and there
throw all off, and smoking, plunge into that
dreadful bath, and stay in it ono or two minutes
then to be rubbed dry, and have long wet
bandage tied around the whole body-then dress,
and go out and face these fierce, bowling tenn
pests, the all blowing into your eyes, ears,
hair neck, and bosom; and then to have to sit
down in cold water, and there sit ID minutes al
a tnc-surc. such fearful process must Kill or
cure. Strange TO say, not one here seems TO
have the least fear OF the former. 1t kills no
onc-it invigoratcs and strengthens all, and pro-
duccs pretty thorough Indignation IN each at
himself that he should ever have subjected h!s
body to the healing process generally pursued BY
the medical faculty. am certain tha. the pro-
cess though So fearful that | almost catch my
breath and shivcr al! over To think oil it-has
done me great good.
told Prcissnitz, at the outset, that my disease
was on my lungs-ihat my lungs were liberated
somc-and that | had thrown putrd matter from
lhem-and he at once subjected me 10 this pro-
cess. | was afraid, at FIRST how it would go;
but Preissnitz had confidence in his prescriptions,
aud so have |, nor. He has not yet put me un-
der the Douche, and will not till the weather Is
mlldcr. Sure | am. that all the morbid matter,
| secrc'cd in my system, has been put IN motion
not indeed yet routed out OF the system, but
routed from any particular location IN the sys
TEN and sure | am that, by the time have
gone through the ordeal enough, these morbid
secretions will be entirely expelled from the body
The settled cough that had seems 10 be broken
up entirely. |. do indcea, now and then, get a
lutte cold, do all the patien's, but the cold
don't seize upon my lungs as cold used to do
And, besides, one here seems 10 have tie
slightest fear OF cold, for the SIMPLE reason that
every one f. els tn 1t there IS here a certain and
Specdy remedy At hand. a few hours break II
al up, and scatter II 10 the wind. 81 OF lever
10 one here seems 10 have the least fear Of lever
because every one feels entire confidence IN
cold water as antit0te. From what l have
seen here | can never again coubt that The
ticrcest Of ievers arc harmless being ahsointsiy
under human contrib Recently, we have had
tpo cases OF most malignant fever. One was l
man, taken wth a nervous, raging fever. In
three DAYS the fever WAS entirely routed. and in
week the man appeared again ~ The Saloon,
eating like t; ravenous wolf whatever he liked;
and though he looked thin and was weak, yet
YOU might have seen him out breastng the
.torms-whch in his weakness, would near TIP
him over at times. Four days ago, woman
who had taken cold during the day, and was not
aware OF the enemy lurking IN her, was seized IN
The nigh with most violent lever saw her
IN the morning, and she looked exactly like
| person in scarlet fever. A wet sheet was al once
wrapped about her whole body, and changed and
wet again every thirty minutes. This was pur-
sued about twenty hours, and water was applied
in other ways. The next day, saw her up and
dressed, and looking as well and eating as hearty
us usual. Not Il particle of medicine was adj
mnstered. l do not believe that out of the 30O
Datents now here or out OF sevcTa! thousands that
| have been here there is one who has the least
fear of colds or feycr.. Each seems to feel that,
so far as feycrs and colds are concerned, certain
| remedy is always at hand. l do think 1t Is the
duty OF all who have young children, TO learn to
| apply this remedy How many diseases IN little
| children originate in colds
You would be amused 10 look into our saloon
at meal times, especially at our dinners. Re-
member this is ID Hospital for eli nations. Some
fifteen nations arc now represented II the saloon
come here to be cured OF diseases that have
generally been given over or nearly so, by the
medical faculty. To sec them at the table with
-avcnous appetites, eating food OF the coarsest
and plainest kind-iood that many OF them
would hardly have felt easy to have set before
their servants at home to see their countenan-
ces-to see them rubbing their hands to keep
them warm, (for but little artificial heat is allowed
to enter the saloon) 10 sec them racing up and
down the saloon between dishes, Cor al dinner
VIC generally have three dishcsl-you would not
dream that these people were on the sick list Of
mankind. Hope is the expression Of every lace
despair has no place in Graetfenberg. AS to
the erisis-evcry guest here longs for cTlsls'
No one fears it-no one pities you If you have
oDe-all would rather envy you, congratulate
Won on the success of your cure, and earnestly
coyct the same blessing for themselves! And
the more severe the crisis, the more certain and
eflcctual the cure. SHch is the feeling respecting
the crisis. 1t is considered the dying gasp or
proan of the disease. The disease is the enemy
in the system to be rouied-eOld 'eater is The
defender of the system; the disease the invading
enemy The enemy obtains Judgment IN the
ci,adtl-thc body. Cold water seeks to GIVE
linn out-pursues hun round and round the sys-
TEN. The enemy, now in the head how III The
chest, lungs, heart, stomach, legs feet, hands,
here and there, and every where, seeks refuge
from his terrible foe, cold water, till he can find
no more resi- TO the soe of has foot IN the body,
and then he darts out through the skin, smashing
right through wherever it may chance TO be, and
away he goes in crisis and the body is saved
.hyc and well 1t is really accounted blessing
60 baye q n,werfrl crisis hy all the cure guests.