Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-12-06

| such as cholera, nf1amdtfons, dysentery and te-
vers, are as child's-play to Pressnitz and the
same may be said Of ail complaints to which
children are subject-such as measles, snal,
pox, whoopng cough, scarietinn, &c. TO sum
up, we defy skeptics, or others who have visited
the Hygiene Temple, to state n single instance
in which he ever lost case where the attack
was from any of those dangerous malades. il
may be questioned, did he ever treat cholera
Yes; when it ragged some years ago in this dis
trict il carried off hundreds of victims, eiCh.
teen of Priessnitz's patients, and many peasants
in the ncighborhood were treated by him, all of
whom recovered, and without these dreadful ra.
were lucky enough to escape under the silopa.
! thic practice.
Although pressnitz has never tried the effect
of his system upon yellow fever, yet he feels as
sured it must be subdued by il; a conclnsion
/ that he has right 10 arrive at, since hardly
week elspses without his aid being called in,
in canes of Drain, Typru., Gastric and other Fe-
vers, in the curing Of which, as before observed,
/ he never was known to fail. Chronic diseases,
except in isolated cases and where the conslitu-
ton is so reduced as to be unable to assert its
power ~ the dccterious matter pervading the
system, also succomb to that element which God
has placed within the reach of all his creatures.
| Hernis, Gout, Rheunnlsm, Dropsy, Syphilis.
! Dyspepsia mud host OF minor ills which human
nature is heir TO, are successfully combattcd by
this extraordinary man. And it should be I'm.
ders,ood that cure effected at Graefenberg de.
serves that turn it being radical and permanent;
all matters detrimental to that state termed
health are by the Hydropathica process brought
to the surface and eliminated, or pass of by the
ordinary means of evacuation--the skin is for.
tilted and strengthened, and all the viscera of
the body are made TO perform their proper func-
tions.
It is very doubtful, opposed as i1ydroputhy is
to powerful interest, if the present generation
will derive from it the immense advantages it
offers. 1t is, however, highly gratifying TO its
supporters to witness establishments rising up
in ali directions. In Germany there arc at least
fifty; France, Switzer land, the Tyrol, llunga-
ry, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, all have their in
sHtntions, and England counts at least twenty,
besides private individuals who are introducing
it into their practice and to show its dissem .
nation, it is only necessary TO state tha, nj
Graefenberg, at this moment, there are amongs,
the visitors some of the leading mobiles of Eng.
; land, Russia, Poland, Austria and Italy. There
ore also about a dozen visitors from The United
, States Of America 4; others from Greece, Tur
key, India, Mexico, SO that there is almost ns
great confusion Of tongues as at the Tower G.
4 Babel.
t All that the advocates Of Ilydropa,hy ask is
y a far field and no .fdror. Let ,huse who doub
, wcnd their way to thnt far Iamed hountair
i which gave birth to the man who, like sccon,
h. Columbus, discovered new world, and whos'
4 reputation will put into the shade that Of tn,
v great lights OF antiquity-llippocrates, Galen
q Esculapus-nnd We have no fears of the result
Hundreds of books, from time immeuorial, hav
!. been w. ltten in favor of Water as curatiy
|. means, while mol a line is on record to The cou
n trary. Since was honored in being the hum
= bic instrument of introducing the knowledge Z
d the Water Cure into England, numbers Of oi
!. medical men have visited GraeIenbcrg. Pre-
!. judiced pguins, il they were, the public uau
c rally expected that uhe, at least, woud hav
l. exposed the dangers of the system and the la
,f lacy ofexpecting So much from it; but not a boo
" sppcatcd but has admitted the m,st mportar
:. and essential statements made at the time.
1t As nearly all persons who undergo the ,rea'
l. aient change their habits OF life to those OF ten
l. perance and early rising, and learn TO eshe,
e poison in every shape, Lioous as wei! as drug
p. we cannut Doubt That, at sumn future pero,
!. the name of Priecsnitz will be TAR and wide r'
" vered a5 having essentially assisted in rcscuin
I'd the human race no less from vice than Ifoi
D. dispasc.
al Il is gratifying to learn that in America lheI
I'd arc those who appreciate the system, az | te
at convinced that once taken up with that enerG
" which 90 charactcrizes our friends On your sid
" of the Atlantic, no interested motives on II
~ part of the few will be permitted to repress tn
ly great boon to the many: and hope that eVel
is State in the Union will select suitable persC
ri; to spend some time at the fountain head in @
o- der to bring back accurate knowledge on III
r. interesting subject Your spsce will hot adm
ed of extending this letter, or should furnish E
a the perusal of your readers number Of extrac
IA. binary cases Of cure that have witnessed sin
ay my sojourn here for the last three months s