Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-27

Inc 1OllOWlng lelter, NHlcl we coIy iIOi'
the Lynn Pioneer, is from DR.. kittredge of
that place, who has gone on a visit TO Flu
rope in order to investigate the Hydropathic
system as p~ractised in that country.
Stanstead-bury House,
HEREFoRDsHlRE, Eng, Jan. If, DO
DEAR CLAPp Il write you again con-
corning the Stanstead bury House Water
Cure Establishment, to give you some idea
of what this water-cure is, and how 1t IS ap-
piled. 1t is not, as | have said before, and
what many suppose it to be, the mere drink
ing of vast quantities of water, and sousing
the body every now and then ;-on the con-
trary, as applied here by DR.. Johnson, { who
is a graduate from Graefenburg and one Of tn
best medical men in England it is one of
the most beautiful and complete systems you
can conceive of. lIydropathy, under such
administration, is no guess work, but a pro-
found science.
When a patient presents himself for treat
ment, the first thing is TO examine carefully
into the present state of his health, and the
causes which led to it, and there are as ma
| ny different modes of treatment as there are
subjects for it. For instance if he be too
plethoric, so as to need reducing, what is so
~ tiIAo SAA 90 hiAb Nat EdlhC
and vapor bath in conjunction with exercise
and a simple diet! The lGost full-blooded
corporation which John Bull ever got up by
the joint aid Of roast beef, plum-pudding and
beer, may be reduced in this way to a every
proper man," and his equity legs, which, be-
fore had been worse than useless, will ac-
complish ten miles a day with ease. On the
other hand, if the patients system has vast
ed away before the progress of disease aggra-
waited by improper treatment, how can you
devise a more ~eilectual plan for invIgoratIng
and Strengthening the system than is Afford
ed by this same blessed cold water! In such
a case the dripping sheet, the different kind
of cold baths, (the plunge especially the
douches, &C., with full diet and moderate
exercise, do the needful thing at once,-and
he who but now was a poor nervous invalid
who could but just drag his slow length a.
long, is a vigorous and robust man, walking
off as briskly as a young child running from
a dose Of physic. If a patient be afflicted
with acute disease, requiring active treatment,
the allopathists bleed, purge, and blister him,
and in thus laboring 10 remove the disorder,
at best, succeed only in changing its location;
but the hydropdthist has only to use the wet
sheet in some of its innuInerable forms, and,
presto, the pulse is lowered to any desirable
point, and The pain removed at once. Is a
patient remarkably eXcitable, so that the least
noise affects him painfully,-instead Of adj
minlstering opium, ~valerian, or any of the
host of narcotics, and anii-spasmodics which
soothe but to destroy, Zone dose making way
for another still larger, and so on, till death
closes the melancholy drama) you again have
a sure remedy in cold water for nothing has
been discovered from the days of Hypocra.
10, l,,,, O. tln .r,,nnt ttR,a aAntofnina- a.
hundredth part of The sedative powers Of
cold water. Comes there a patient with pal.
sled limbs which for months have refused al.
logiance TO their owner,-by means Of baths,
wet bandages, "dashes at life with a free
pump cold water injections, &C., his limbs
soon return TO their former habits of activity
and obedience, and like him of old, he is en-
abled to take up his bed and walk.
Again, if the applicant be afflicted with
that worst of chronic ills to which flesh is
heir,-constipatlon of the bowels-instead
of poisoning him with calomel, and jaleps
and ~aloetics, and colocynths, and %sennas, on
ly make him a subject of the %hydropathic
trinity, cold water, exercise, and plain diet,
and the unhappy invalid shall soon find his
whole system instinct with health and enjoy
ment. In short there are but few diseases in
the whole catalogue, but will find g:eat, and
generally immediate relief from cold water,
if it is ~skilfully applied. Some of the col
lateral parts of the hydropathic system, are
early rising, early retiring, and plain food
In all well regulated establishments these
things are insisted upon,-and have some
times thought are more %effectual than the
water itself. Strong tea and coffee, and all
Notwithstanding and chewing tobacco
drinking intoxicating liquors, and all such
habits, are strictly prohibited.