Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-02-07

happiness as perhaps can fall to the lot of man
bu, amongst all my most brilliant recollections
! can recall no periods of enjoyment at once
more hilarious and serene than the hours spent
on the lonely hills Of Msvern--none in which |
nature was SO thoroughly possessed and appre.
ciated. The rise from sleep sound as child. |
hoods--,he impatient rush into the open air.
while the sun was fresh, and the birds first sang
the sense OF an unwonted strength in every
limb and nerve, which made so light of the
steep ascent to the holy spring--the delicious
sparkle of that morning draught--the green ter.
race on the brow of the mountain, with the rich
landscape wide and far below--the breeze that
once would have been 80 keen and biting, now
but exhilaiatng the blood, and lifting the spirits
into religious JOY; and this keen sentiment Of
present pleasure rounded by hope sanctioned
by all felt in myself, and nearly oil that wit
messed in others-that very present was but the
step, the threshold, into an unknown and de.
lghtful region Of health and vigor "a disease
aud care dropping from the frame and the
hear, at every stride.
IL emerged at last from these operations in no
very por,ly condition. | was blanched and
emaciated- washed out like thrifty house
wies gown--but neither the bleaching nor the
loss of weight had in the least impaired my
| strength on the contrary, all the muscles had
grown as bard as iron, and was become capa-
Bile of great exercise without fatigue; my cure
was not effected, but was compelled to 90 into
Germany On my return homewards, was
seized with severe cold which rapidly passed
| into high fever. Fortunately was within
reach of Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydro.
pathlc establishment at Boppart; thther eau.
sed myself to be conveyed; and now had oc-
casion to experience the wonderful effect Of the
Water.Cure in acute cases; slow in chronic
disease lis beneficial operation in acute is i'm
mediate. In twenty,iour hours all fever hot
subsidized, and on the third day | resumed my
journey, relieved from every symptom that hat
before prognost Gated tedious and perhaps a
farming Illness.
at is as the frame RECEIVERS from the arita
tion i, undergoes, that it gathers round it pow
er utterly unknown to it beiore--as the plan
watered BY the rains of one season, betrays il
the next the effect of the grateful dews.
al had always suffered SO severely in winter
that the severity of our last one gave me appre
tensions, and resolved TO seek shelter from m
fears at my beloved Malvern. here passe
the most ncement period oithe winter, not or
ly perfectly free from the colds, rheums and CO
,arrhs, which had hitherto visited Inc with tn
SHOWS, but in the enjoyment of excellent healtl
and am persuaded that for those who are d
|, licate, and who suffer much during the winte
there is no place where the cold is so little fe
as at a Water-Cure establishment. am pc
suaded also, and in this ! am borne out BY Il
experience of most water doctors, that the cul
is most rapid and ef,ectua during the cold Sc
son--from autum through the winter ! a
thoroughly convinced that consumption in
earlier stages can be more easily cured, and Il
h predisposition more permanently eradlca;e1
'e a winter spent at Malvern, under the care
IL Doctor Wilson, than by the timorons flight
r. Pisa or Madeira 1t is by hardening ra,h
OF than defending the tissues that we best secu
~ them from disease.
CT 81 do not even now effect to boast of perft
II and complete deliverance from all my ailmoI
ny II cannot declare that constitution natura
es delicate has been rendered Herculean, or Il
thu w Wpara nd nf u,ho oia nh k,, h.
ms thoroughly repaired, What might have be
Or, the case had not taken the cure at ntervs
IN had remained at it steadily for six or eiG
'c' months without interruption, cannot do mi
H. than conjecture, bat SO strong is my belief t
Oh the result would have been completely s
'nr cessfu, that promise myself, whenever |
'n' spare the leisure, long renewal ofthe systt
's, These admissions made, what have gail
80 meanwhile to justify my eulosi les and my q
sa tiude AN immense accumulation of the c
no. iial of health. Formerly it was my favo
al and queruous question to those who saw mi
oes OF me, did you ever know me twelve he
ca without pain or ilness!' Now, instead of tn
Ter being my constant companions, they are
can occasional ylsteis.
n "ln the second place far from subsldins
Kill. seems to increase by time, so that | may
ex. sona5y hope that the latter part OF my
s. instead OF being more lntirm than the for
the will become-so far as freedom from suffer
S to and the calm enjoyment of external life are
Dws cerned--my real, my younger, youth, Al
lrk- is this profound conviction which has indc
| mo nnln ntoor fhaSn daiailS In he hnne n