New-York daily tribune., 1844-10-09
water Cure-Wonderful Cases.

A very int;iligcn. Individual of the Society of
Shakers q: New Lebanon Columbia Co. OF his
State, has Just given me the following cases
which / am permitted, at nv request, to make
Dsbl;c. The first is Of the narrator himself
He had been very scroinlous from infancy, ard
was considered incur4b!e by different physicians
of note. The scfo;ulous ulcers had been ex-
t,eneiy bad. particularly ct the NECK. The d.s
ease lsitorlg vas called scrofuloYs chrome cp-
tar-h Ht had taken much medicine from
different regular physicians, regular courses of
mercury, &c The disease had by thus doctor.
ing been driven 10 Tie chest and stomach, End
from thence to The head, where it had remained
ia years constantly growing worse. He thinks
ihe Graham SYSTEM vas al that kept him alive.
This man has practiced medicine lat;ery in
the Society. He commenced Water Cure upon
himself abou! TIC 1T of .gns last. Hc used the
cold wet slec:, arranged IN become quickly
warm By the heat Of the body,) with head band.
ages abou. enc week. Tac sheets se remained
in all night and took tao or three baths daily,
and draf:k from - u Is tunib!efs Of water per
lec;ly so!D also daily. i;e had by this Iimc a
Crisis in the !orm .! {. icTc.s!: excitement Of the
whole SYSTEM. he then moderated the treat
ment sonio1ha, aud IN about Que month had
another CRISIS in the ;orm OF very large toil On
the ihiz h, and also a large swelling in the groin,
which 4 Dlyscan tod hjm would To"er get
we an, rcuid Ge likely n Kill hiu. lie bang
7vf tqGe:ni.i! ,vli1 inG s;stcm, determined IL
peis .lIc a,i!,uii, y lie opposition was great
an.Ung his ifi;nt:s. r. auuhe; month he had
; tt..,f-
number, IN Inc right eg. One was as large as
the fist, ard which, n every dressing on turning
upon ,hs SIDE emitted three sircalns of pprulent
mater at once, Di;tsier.t PHYSICIANS declared
he void certainly i.iil himself The result is,
that now the boils, all bit ONE, are healed; he
has gained in flesh and strength, and is much
better tnan he hss before been for 90 years The
pains from which he tad saiisred So much in
ihe heaI, arc al gone lie takes no cold, wncrc.
as, bctoFc, he d:d 10, ge.@ q single week "Ith-
out,
Another case lie gave Of boy now in their
Secetv. Of IA years OF age, with the most
loathsome constitutional hereditary taint in the
system. They had treated t!s boy allopathi-
ca!ly for l2 months, and had despaifed OF saving
him. He commenced with vet sheet s@cating
two months ago. lie gave him tmo wet shceis
daily and onc I'll ri ght to sweat moderately. He
used ,cpd baths at first. The boy was so Grip
pied that lie could nut just hohblc. The oGoT
from the body was 50 0tieDsiTc that !: was almost
impossible to stay ID TIE room. Eo had :. very
severe c:is:s IN the :oFm of the imcst lOaih-
sore ulcers imaginable, oHo Of which, in the
thieh, burrowed in the flesh several inches. The
boy is now apparently we'll. Hundreds of SIM.
lar cases have been cured by wata..
TIE gentleman while treating the boy tore
from bis own finger hang nail, causing small
sore He accidentally got some OF the poison
from the boys crisis bandagcs upon il, which
caused sevare singing like mat Of bee. The
finger seen became purple, with much swelling
all along up the am and in the ann pit lie never
suffered so much III Is hours as then. His
friends were so iHyortune:e that re should poul-
tcc the finger th.t he tried II, winch only made
il worse. lie then !ook 10 the water bendaging
and got relief He had nearly made Up his mlad
at first to amputate the finger, so much did he
loa.he the viruent poison. simultaneously with
the finger and arm getting better, the last and
most severe crisis above mentioned came on
DR.. Whitlaw, the celebrated botanist, was with
them. He said water was good thing, 5ut it
would no: cure that-he must take his yapor
baths and purifying salts 10 cleanse the blood
fes ii there was any thing better than o. as good
as pure, clean water for such purpose.) The
pain and swelling wc'e of in one week. He
kept The finger perfectly wet, night and day, fo7
three weeks. The treatment in these cases re-
ouired courage, perseverance and knowledge,
possessed by few.
This gentleman has treated parallel cases of child
rem with canksr in he throat and stomach, part
with water, ard the others with drugs. He accom-
plished the same with water in Is hours as with
drugs in two weeks.
This very worthy individual, of as worthy q
Society, doubtless believes IS do many others,
that the systems Of poisonous dfugging are des
tined yet to becoae reckonsd only as being
among "the immense variety of things that are
not, and cannot be. but tba. have been imagined
and believed" JOEL SHEw, NJ. D.
New York Water Cure Establishment.