Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-12-06
by Masser l. EiseIy.
Letter from Capt. Ciaridge.
GRAEFENnERG. Silesia. July, 1915.


GRAErENBERo, Silesia, July, 1915.
TO the Editor Of The ~ Y Tribune:
Sir OF all ancient or modern discoveries
in science--.and all must admit they have been
very great--none can bear any comparison in
point of merit or physical utility with the sci.
ence of hydropathy. What is to be compared
to Health when we look around US and see
to what an alarming extent disease prevails,
the inadequate means that are resored 10 to i'm
pede the forced and positive marches of the grim
Vrant death, and more especially, when we see
his approaches hastened by medical, assistance,
we must on reflection become converts 10 the
opinion that "there must be something rotten in
the State Of Denmark" 1t may be fairly ask.
ed, how can poison cure disease and as fairly
answered. they do not. Their office is com.
pleted if they subdue it for time ; and this IS
what is enormously called a cure--whereas
their effect has only been to repel the effort
that nature made to throw out from the system
that which impcded her operations. 7, is con.
tended that all drugs, however harmless in their
nature, are foreign to the human body, and AS
such they force, and thereby lower the system.
! Those who are in the habit of swallowing so
I largely OF those hoxiours substances-are they
healthier or happier than the rest, On the
contrary, when one sees n poor wretchcd object,
worn down by suffering. on being interrogaed
/ as to his condition and as to what has been done
tor his relief is not the usual answer, "Oh, but
/ | have taken great deal of medicine in my
/ time And what is the history of this vaun,ed
mode of healing mans infrmities No poison
ous herb has been left untred---so deleterous
mineral has escaped the paramacopia hundreds
Of thousands of men have spent their lives in
their appl catiou--mions of money have
been spent to acquire these drugs, and my.
rads of human beings hurried to a prema.
ture grave by experiments made 10 ascertain
their utility. The natural suppostlon would be
that their. administration noU was safe-their
effects true to demonstration; but no, does not
every days experience prove that the following
lines by Horace Smith are right!
"physc freak of times aud modes,
Which yearly old mistakes explodes
For new ones still absurder-
All say-their victims disappear,
And only leave this doctrine clear,
That killing is no murder.n
But thank Providence, the time has arrived
when the lalacies of the faculty are to he made
evident Here, on one of the mountains of 81.
lessn Austria, at hamlet called Graefenberg
stands the laurel crowned hero at whose fla,
, the long cherished, the extensively prac,icet
science of poisoning is 10 be scattered to tht
, winds AS early MS twelve years OF age, Vim
cent Priessniis cured his own finger ofa cut, h
wrist of a sprain, and, four years later, curet
hmselfo of broken ribs and wounds conscpuen
e on heing run over by wagon, all by the ugenc,
Of simple spting water. His fame extended t
, the surrounding neighborhood, throughout al
, Germenv, and, finally, to every part Of the ha
= bitable globc.-Seeingt enormous moral an,
physical advantages that might result to socet
, by first curing their ailments and by teaching
them the benefit that must resul, FROM ubutior
: temperance and exposing themselves to atmos
pheric changes, this extraordinary youth, al
though he saw breakers ahead determined O
{ pushing off his boat on the lro;bpt sea. Pc,
sccutiors from the faculty in his neighborhoo
v were seconded by the authorities of the cour
i try, and finally by the Priesthood, who denour
IS ced him in the church at Frewaldau, where h
" was in the habit of attending. Nothing daur
e ted, he pulled the willing oar until, the value
c his system being asceftained, the late Empcrc
d of Austria gave him permission 10 have All e
= tablishmcnt This was in lSlS. From tia
e time, notwithstanding It required we'll consti,,
:. led, and more than ordinary mind to bear up
!. gainst the annoyances he was subjected 10, b
c. went on, making further discoveries in the al
pances of water, until IL nly now ,ruIy be Gu
led a sc;eactA-by which all diseases durable
any known means, and many altogether beyor
the medical art are cured. Where is the pr
lessionai man thn, can say with Priessnltz, III
out of ten Thousand invu'ids that have pnsst
o. through his hands he hes only lost forty Til
q such is the fact al draefenberg any person mJ
ne ascertain who will take the trouble OF inquirir
o, at the neighborlng Police Office, where eve
g thing connected with Graefenberg is especial
C. registered 1t must be noticed that paten
so who apply to Prissnitz, do so as dernier rcso
no having tried all medical aid within their pr
We vince, and generally the mineral springs of Gs
u. many and elsewhere, in vsin-and it is assert
no by twenty English gentlemen, who signed
no certificate to that effect to the Times newsT
per, that the PATIENTS with few exceptions, m