New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-25
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,,nv,y,s 70 the opinion thai there must be some
.,.,. ,x,,:, IN the State Of Denmark Ii may be
fsi,,v ssSs<; how can posons cure disease and as
s.i-Sy snswe.ed-.kes do not. Their Office is COM
-e6 If they sphdue i, toy time; aud tins Is what
= sr-oatcusy cslleG cure-whcreas their effect
ss cay been % -epsl the ehor, that nature made TO
th-,w o., from the system that which lmpeded her
,.,-aiS,as |: IS couicndcd that all drugs however
hsr-s il their nature, foreign 10 the human be-
aaG A. such they force and thereby lower the sys-
;s., Those who are in the habit OF swallowing so
lx-sv q those noxous substanccs-are they health
s-o-harpie- than the rest On the contrary one
sees v~>or wretched object, worn down by suffer
rs, ~ heas inIerru-aed As 10 his condition and as
q WHIST hss been done for his relief Is not the usual
snswe- = Oh but | have taken great deal OF med
icae IN NV iiule And what Is the history OF this
Wanted mode Of healing mans inirmities? No
poisonous herb has been left untried-no deleterious
mineral has escaped the Observation-Disclosures OF
thousands OF men have spent their lives III their APP
vlicaiio1-rilous OF money have been spent TO ac-
oure these drugs, and yriads OF human beings hur-
-lst. 20 premature grave by experiments made 10
ascertain their utility The natural supposltion
would be tina, their administration nor was safe
their effects true 10 demonstration; but no, does
cot every days experience prove that the following
lines By Horace Smith are right?
?hysic & freak Of times and modes.
Waich yearly old mistakes eXplodcs
Fo- new ores still aosurder-
Al slay-;heir victims disappear,
And only Leave this doctrine clear,
TIA. killing Is no murder.
Ba. thank Providence, the time has arrived when
tbe fallacies of the faculty 10 be made evident
Hare. on one of the mountains of Siesian Austria,
AIS hsr,le; called Graefenberg, stands the laurel
crowned hero a. whose fiat the long cherished the
extensively practiced science OF poisoning is 10 be
scattered 20 he winds. AS early as twelve years
Q: age Vincent Priessntz cured his own tinger.of
c7 his wrs.of sprain, and, four years later cured
himself O; broken ribs and wounds consequent on
tAirg run over by wagon, all by the agency OF
simple spring wafer. His fame extended 10 the sur
rounding neighborhood, throughout all Germany,
and, finally, 10 every part OF the habtab!e globe
Seeing the enormous moral and physics advantages
ina, might result society by first curing their all
raepts and BY teaching them the benefit that must
result from ablution temperance and exposing them
selves 10 atmospheric changes, this extraordinary
youth. although be saw breakers ahead, determined
on pushing off his boat on the troubled sea. Perse
cu.ions from the faculty in his neighborhood were
seconded bv the authorities of the country and finally
By The Priesthood who denounced him in the church
al rewadau, where he was in the habit OF attend
ing Nothing daunted he pulled the willing oar I'M
n the value of his system being ascertained, the
late Emperor OF Austria gave him permission to
have an establishment. This was IN 1898. From
that time Notwithstanding required well constl
;ued and more than ordinary mind TO bear up
against the yances he was subjected to, he went
on making farther discoveries In the appliances OF
!
by which all diseases durable by any known means,
and many altogether beyond the medical art are
cured Where is the professional man that can say
with PnessnitZ that out OF ten thousand lnvalids
iha, have passed throus h his hands he has only lost
forty? That such is the fact al Graetenberg any
person NAV ascertain who will take the trouble OF
inquirinc at the neighboring Police Office, where
every thing connected with Graeenberg is especial
Unregistered. 1t must be noticed that patients who
apply to Priessn,z do so as derner resort; having
tired all medical aid within their province, and gen
orally the mineral springs OF Germany and else
where in vain--and it is asserted by twenty Eng
lsh gentlemen. who signed certificate 10 that
eFec; 10 the Times newspaper, that the patients,
with few exceptions may be divided into two class
es-,hose whom medical men have pronounced in
durable and those whose diseases are The result Of
medical treatment.
Those diseases which carry off whole districts
such as cholera determinations, dysentery and levers
are as child 9 play 10 PriessnZ; and the same may
be said of all complaints to which children are sub
ject-such as measles, small pox, whooplnS cough,
scar!etna, &c. To sum up. we DEFY skeptlcs, or
others who have visited the Hygiene Temple, 10 state
asinge instance in which he ever lost q case where
the attack was from any of those dangerous mala-
dies. Ii may be questioned did he ever treat chole
raj Yes; when 1t ragged some years ago IN this dis
trict ii carried off hundreds of victims eighteen OF
Priessnitzs patients, and many peasants IN the
neighborhooG were treated by him, all of whom re-
covered, and without those dreadful ravages in the
constitution evinced in those who were lucky enough
10 escape under the allopathic practice.
Although Priessnitz has never tried the effect Of
his system upon yellow fever yet he feels assured
must be subdued by it; conclusion that he has
right 10 Arrive al, since hardly week eapses with
our his aid being called in in cases OF Brain, Typhus
Gastric and other Fevers in the curing of which, as
before observed, he never was known 10 fail. Chro
nc diseases. except in isolated and where the
constitution is so reduced as 10 be unable 10 assert
1.al.
system, also succumb TO that element which God has
placed " thin the reach of all his creatures. Her
MA Cont Rheumatism. Dropsy. Syphilis, Dyspep-
STA aud host of minor ills which human nature is
heir To- are successfully combatted by this extraor
binary man. And IL should be understood that
cure effected nj Graeienberg deserves that turn it
being radical and permanent; all matters detrimental
TO tina, state termed health are by the Hydropahcal
process brought 10 the surface and eliminated, or
pass of by the ordinary means oil evacuaoon-the
SKIN Is fortified and strengthened ana al me viscera
Of the body are made to perform their proper func-
tons
1t lis very doubtful, opposed as Hydropathy is TO
powerful interests il the present generation VIII oe-
I'VE from il The immense advantages II offers II
however highly gratifying 10 It's supporters 10 WIZ
ness Establishments rising up IN all dlrections Ia
germany there are at least fifty; France, Swltzer-
land. The Tyro Hungary, Russia, Ireland, Scot
snd all have their institutions, and England counts
a. least twenty besides private individuals VINO are
introducing into their practice and TO show lis dis
sennaon is oaly necessary 10 state that at Graei-
ehoerg al this moment there are amongst the visit
pes some CT the leading mobiles OF England, Russia,
roland. Austria and l,aly There are also about a
oozea visitors from the United States Of America
ytners from Greece Turkey, India Mexico, so that
mere almost great confusion oil tongues as at
me Tower Of Babel
Az that the advocates of Hydropathy ask is, atdtr
ye@ ana no tde0r. Let those who doubt wend their
ty 10 that famed mn which Uaye birth 10
.ac man who, like second Columbus, discovered
lew world, and whose reputation will put into the
.sae That OF the great lights of antquity-Hippoc-
,eaeS, Galen, Escuapius-and we have no fears of
ss result Hundreds of books, from time mmemo-
''a' nave been written in favor Of Water Us q cura-