Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-11-20
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the chest aud broncha otherwise at all ages, from
the infant to the octogenarian !, is equally aPpli-
cable, and in most acute cases, equally innocent.
Hydropathy being thus rapidly beneficial in
acute disorders, Il follows naturally that il will be
quickest as a cure in chronic complaints in proper
ton as acute symptoms arc mixed with them, and
slowest where such complaints are dull and lethar-
gc-it will be slowest also where the nervous ex-
hauston is the greatest With children, its effects
really aud genuinely cannot be exaggerated in
them, the nervous system not weakened BY toll
grief anxiety, and incompetence, lends itself to the
gracious element as young plant TO the rains
When see now some tender mother coddling,
physieing and preserving from every breath OF air
and swaddling in fannes her pallid little ones,
long to pounce upon the callow brood, and bear
them TO the hills Of Malvern and the diamond foun-
tain Of st. Anne's-with what rosy faces and ro-
bust limbs / will promise they shall re.urn-alas !
promise and preach in yain-the family apotheca-
ry is against me, and the progeny are doomed to
rhubarb, and the ricketts,.
The water-cure as yet has had this evident injus-
tice-the patients resortng TO it have mostly been
desperate cases. So strong a notion prevails that
it is a desperate remedy, that they only who have
foufd all else fail have dragged themselves to the
Bethesda Pools. That all thus not only abandoned
by hope and the College, but weakened and poi.
soned by the violent medicines absorbed into their
system for a score or of years--that all should
not recover is not surprising The wonder is that,
the number Of recoveres should be so great that
every now and then we should be surprised by the
man whose untimely grave we predicted when we
last saw him, meeting us in the streets rudy and
stalwart fresh from the springs Of Graafenberg
Boppart Petersham, or Malvern
The remedy is not desperate il is simpler, | do
not say than any dose, but than any course of med
icne-it is infinitely more agreeable--it admits no
remedies for the complaint which are inimical TO
the q he 80, H. H..
consequent on blue pill and mercury-on purgatiyes
and drastics-on iodine and aconite--on leeches
and the lancet II it cure your complaint it will
assuredy strengthen your whole frame If it fails
TO cure your complaint it can scarcely fail to i'm
prove your general system. As it acts, or ought.
scientifically treated 10 act, first, on the system,
lastly on the complaint placing nature herself in
the way to throw or the disease, so il constantly
happens that the patients at a hydropathic estab-
lishment will tell you that the disorder for which
they came is not removed but that in all other re-
spec.s their health is better than they ever remem
Der it to have been. Thus would not only rec
ommend it to those who are sufferers from some
grave disease, but to those who require merely the
FLIP, the alternative, the bracnp they often seek
IN vain in country air or waterng-place For
such, three weeks at Malvern will do more than
three months at Brighton or Bouogne: for at the
water-cure the whole life is one remedy the hours
the habits, the discipne-not incompatible with
gaity and cheerfulness he spirits Of Undergraduates
are astounding, and in high spirits all things are
amusemenD tend perforce TO train the body to the
highest state of health of which il is cnpabe =
Compare this life, . merchant, o trader, o man of
business, escaping 10 the seashore with that which
you there lead-with your shrimps and your she'll
hsh, and your wine and your brown stout-with all
which counteracs IN the evening, the good of your
morning dip and your MONDAY stroll What.
own, should envy most is the robust, healthy man,
only little knocked down by his city cares or his
town pleasures after his second week at DIR. Will |
sons establishment-yea, how | should envy the
exquisite pleasure which he would derive from that
robustness made clear and sensible to him The
pure taste, the iron muscles the exuberant spirits
the overlooking sense OF life. If even to the weak
and languid, the wnter-cure gives hours of physical
happiness which the pleasures of the grosser senses
can never bestow, what would il give 10 the strong
man, from whose eye ii has but to lii the light film
in whose mechanism, atuned to ioy it but brush
es away the grain OF dust or oils the solid Wheel
must bring my letter TO close | mean to
address 1t through you, Mr. Editor, chiefly to our
brethren-the overloaded sons of toll and letters
behind whom | see the warning shades Of departed
martyrs. But IT is applicable TO all who alto all
who would not only cure complaint but strength
en- system and proong life. To such, who viii
so attach value TO my authority, that they will ac-
knowledge, at least, am no interested witness
for have no institution TO estabsh-no profession
TO build up--l have no eye to fees, my calling is
but that Of an observer an observer only do |
speak, it may be with enthusiasm-but enthusiasm
built on experience and prompted by sympathy -
to such then as may listen 10 me, / give this rec
ommendation pause if you please-inqure if Won
will-but do not consult your doctor. | have no
doubt he 10 most honest excellent man-but you
cannot expect doctor of drugs to say other than
that doctors OF water are but quacks. Do not con-
suit your doctor whether you shall try hydropathy.
but find out some intelligent persons in whose
shrewdness you can conhde-who have been pa
tents themselves at hydropathic establishment--
Better still, go for a few .days-the cost is not
much-into some such institution YOURSELF look
round, talk to the PATIENTS examine with your own
eyes, hear with your own ears, before you adyen-
ture the experiment. Become witness before YOU
are patient But if you venture, venture with
good heart aud a stout faith Hope, but not with
presumption Do not fancy that the disorder
which has afflicted you for ten years ought to be
cured in ten days. Beware, above all, lest, alarm
ed by some phenomena which the searching Gle
ment produces, you have resource Immediately TO
drugs to dsperse them. The water-boils. for in
stance, which are sometimes, as have before said
but by no means frequently, critical symptom of
the cure are, IN all cases that have seen, easily
cured by water, but may become extremely DANGER.
Gus in the hands Of your apothecnry Most ofthe
lew solitary instances that have terminated fatally
to the prejudice of the water cure have been those
IN which the patient has gone from water to drugs
IL is the axiom of the system that water only cures
what water produces Do not leave hydropathc
establishment in the time of any crisis however
much you may be panic stricken. Hold the doc
tor responsible for getting you out Of what he gets
you INTO; and If your doctor be dscreetly chosen
take my word he will do IT,