New-York daily tribune., 1844-11-30

Draper says:
q Tell Mr.-th that say he can. without any
doubt, regain his health by coming mere and DONG
as aci doing Liver complaints are quite as Ger
taialy cured here as any other. Tell him my TAI
if possible, grorrs stronger. "rt is suohg aho h
means OF doing much good You see there are sign
e,s from almos, all the nations OF Europe and those
occupyine some of the most responsible stations.
think this document so respectable, cannot fail TO
arrest the attention OF the public" The document
has more than one hundred signatures, whch we
think just as strong az though il hsd more, Tor we
could have had almost any number II We mad taken
pains 10 swell the number"
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Letter dated October 20, ls43 atl
C;ree;enberg, Sil-sia. Ausiria>
GRAEyESBERe Austrian silesia. july 3, 1874.
| To The Editor Of tic -Stlc- York Trteane:
SfR: The undersigned, natives OF the United
States and other countries, desi,ous of al!eviat-
ing human suffering and to promote the health
and comfort of human beings, wish to call the
attention of the American People 10 the Water
Cure as administered in this place by Vincent
Paessnitz, and they would esteem it a favor if
you would allow them to offer through the me-
dunn of your columns the following statement:
Vincent Priessntz, the founder of this new
system Of curiag disease, Is now in the 45th year
of his age In his l6sh year he met with an ac-
c;dcnt by which two of his ribs were broken, and
he was otherwise seriously Injured. The Sur
geon who wes called in pronounced an unfavor
able opinion, whereupon PTiessnitz dismissed
him, and, having previously tested the efficacy
OF waller in the treatment Of cattle, he resolved
to undertake his own cure. His first care was
to replace his ribs, which he effected, as related
in "Captain Claridge's Hydropathy," by forcibly
pressing his abdomen against table, at the same
time resolutely holding his breath, SO as to swell
out his chest. This painful operation being sue
cessful, he next applied wet bandages, and by
their aid, the use Of cold water as beverage,
strict attention 10 diet and repose, he finally ef-
| fected perfect cure. The reputation which he
thence acquired amongst his neighbors induced
many Of them to seek his aid, other cures were
effected by him, and by degrees his fame and re-
putation SO spread, that the number of patients
who fiocked to him from far and near so increased
as to excite the isalousies and apprehensioDs Of
the reighboring Physicians, who instituted pro
ceedings against him before the local authorities
charging him, amongst other things, with using
medicated baths and bandages, and claiming the
intervention of the tribunal to prohibit him from
unlawfuly healing the sick and afflicted. In
consequence of this he was condemned to impri.
sonment, and forbidden to resume his practice,
but from this decision he appealed to tho Auc
Council, who sent Committee to investigate the
matter on the spot and the result was, that, his
enemies not being able 10 substan,iate any Of
their charges against him, the sentence was re.
versed, and the whole proceedings and the facts
which were thereby elected, contributed still
more 10 extend his fame and to increase the num-
| Der of his friends, amongst whom are compre-
hended many of the highest rank in the Empire.
The number OF patients from the 1st of JAN
uary 1929 to the first of January 1914 has been
1878; and there are here at present about 1854
persons of both sexes and all ages from fifteen
different nations.
The number OF patients last year was 1850,
amongst whom were One Hundred Noblemen,
including Princes; ll2 Military and Naval
Officers, including one Field Marshal and
Generals; many C!ergymen and Professors and
Fellows of Colleges about 80 Lawyers, includ-
ing several Judges; and 40 Physicians and Sur
geons, and Apothecaries; and many others, by
far the greater portion of whom are from amongst
the educated and influential members of society
in their respective places of abode. Amongst
this large number of 1850, although if We may
Judge by the patients who are here at present, the
greater number of them came here suffering
under old chronic complaints, for which med-
cine had exhausted its remedies in vain, there
were but four deaths, with the particulars of two
of which we have become acquainted and it ap-
pears that from the first Priessnitz pronounced
both cases to be perfectly hopeless.
Not particle of medicine-no tonic-no st-
mulsnt-no emetic-no purgative-no vegetable
or mineral po;son-is ever administered in any
form or quantity here. No bleeding, blistering
or leeching is employed. Water variously ap.
Piled externally and internally, pure fresh air
out door exercise-plain diet-early hours, and
reilrementfrom the dlstractisg cares and pleasures
of the world, constitute the sole and only remedy.
II is rot pretended that the Water. Cure is an
universal specific for all diseases. Priessntz
sometimes refuses patients because he regaids
them as incurable, and there are diseases which,
when arrived at certain point, no remedy can
arrest; but there sufficient facts TO prove, that
ali diseases cu,able and many incurable by any
other means, can be healed by the proper app-
cation of the Water-C Cure. 1t often occurs in
medical practice that medicine proves far more
tficult OF expulsion from the system, and far
greater source OF suffering to the patient, than
the disease which it has ben employed to cure
but water purifes and Ienovates without leaving
sting behind 1t should be remarked, that
while the action of Water is to strengthen the
system as to enable it to throw off disease,
medicines so lower it that in proportion,as the
patient has taken them, does his restoration to
health become more tedious and difficult and
the superiority OF Water is apparent in the fact
that symptoms, which years before had been sup.
pressed by medicine, reappear under the Water
treatment, to be, together with their cause en-.
rirely and radically removed.
| Il were much to be desired that there should
spring up in all lands Water.Cure establish.
nents presided over by persons properly qualified
by study and observation. SO that system which
has been made blessing to thousands might be
made blessing to millions, but it is 10 be appre