Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-07-11
From the Water. Cure Journal.

or the great deies of medical aspirations, advo- \
Gated the use Of cold water and friction to cure !
numerous complaints and ward off their ap.
pro,ch, which gives rise to the question, how
is it that the most simple, the most useful of
their suggestions were consigned to oblivion ?
The answer is but too obvious. Musn, OF the
period when obutions were the fashion at
Rome, cured Horace ofa fever. by water. Hum
dreds Of books have been written in which that
element has been extolled ms a curative agent,
and these have also been disregarded, which is
the more astonishing, since no writer was ever
found to enter the lists ms disputant. Two
centuries n. o DR.. Wander Ileyden, of Ghen', in
the Netherlands, wrote a work adv ising the dis.
continuance of drugs and the use of water. de.
claring that during a successful practice of up.
wards Of fifty years he was indebted to its ngrn.
cy for the best cures he ever effected A cen.
tury ago DR.. Sir John Floyer, in his work en-.
titled 'Frebrifugem Magnum,' insisted on water
being all powerful in fevers. Half n dozen
pens in vain 10 persuade people That he was
right, and hardly fifty summers have passed
since DR. Cnrrie, of Liverpool, prncticeG the use
Of water with success in that city, and publish.
ed a book on the subject, full of information,
anecdotes and facts. At last comes Pressnz
Natures DOCTOR and as such administers her
cure. You, who doubt water being par excel
lence-Nature's great restorer and preservcr-
read Pallma's travels in Dordofan. There, in
the very depths OF Africa, he found fevers sub.
dued and other ailments nlleviated by an appeal
10 the lmpd stream. Wound stag in the
forest, and witness his fight 10 ripping brooks
for relief: or go amongst the North American
savages, and there again you may become en-.
lphtened.
With the mass Of evidence brought forward
in support Of this theory, some earnest friends
TO Hydropa,hy think the time not distant when
il shall supersede Allorathy. or the present prac.
tice of medcinc.-Though not less en,husas.
tic than them, confess. when rejecting upon
the opposition offered TO other valuable disco.
veries, the reluctance evinced in embracing
useful reforms, am not so sanguine. When
we look at the amount OF prejndice 10 overcome,
and the bydrn.h headed interests arrayed against
the changes llydropa,hy would effect. we may
) fairly predict, that from it the present genera
ton will derive but comparatively little bene
it Brought up in strict adherence TO Hydro
pa,lic rules, our children would always be
healthy themselves, and produce q race OF mer
] tina; Tor health and agility might equal the s,ur
dy Spartnns. who always subjected their new
born infants to n cold immersion.
Whilst this system renders us Independent
Of luXuries, so cnervatng to the present gener
ution, it lessons the dep:iva,ions of those of lin
c tied circumstances good plain, wholcsom
food and draught from the crystal fountain, i
!, all that ia required; this raises the vital cner
o gies, aids digestion, and the oxygen water cor
l. tains renders the introduction of carbon neces
> cary, or in other words, increases the appetite
y whilst acohol., of whatever nature or kint
have an opposite tendency.
=. MANY labor under most erroneous notion
a. that to have strength they must swallow stron
thinpss that wine, beer, and spirits assist |
sc keeping up the stamina. What delusion
Every chemist knows that such things do M
W assimilate, that they are an,ido,cs to digestion
=. =. in proof OF which put raw meat into waite
9. it dissoves at once, whilct another piece, sui
= jected 10 the action OF spirits, is preserved, {
=. -. may be witnessed in every museum of naiur
II. history. To be strong md robust, that is to eI
nd 10y that amount of health intended by an al
'A wise and beneficent providence, we mast reso
nv TO daily cold a5lu,ions. and adopt an exciusi,
ne water beverage. Let those whoadvocate war
he rooms, warm clothing. warm ailments, and wi
''' fancy man cannot exist wiihou, stimulan:s al
physic, all enemies under false colors, come
The Supates. and see how men, ~omenl al
children brave the elements at this season
r. the year, with The thermometer at IA or ID de
of Fsht. Numbers who came encaset in ha
:, mel are Sufieting the weather, even before I
bet break Of day, without hats, stocks or any 9th
covering than they were In the habit OF WEI
'ne in the summer.
,ss. Go INFO the great saloon OF the estabshm'
en-. on a festive occasion, see between three hun
oc' red and four hundred invalids, ~hu under
No pbysic system, are declared incurabes, and y
lore will not hear such thing as cough, or B
ave one laboring under catarth or cold. Ifa
."a uu be caught, il is an affair of few hours.
not enjoy life, we must accustom ourselves to I
the rumforts these In rden the fran.e and ptep