Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-05-02

certancd, the late Emperor of Austria gave
him permission 10 have an establishment This
was in 1928 From that time, notwithstanding
it required well constituted and more than
ordinary mind to bear up against the annoy.
ances he was subject to, he went on, making
farther discoveries in the appliances of water,
until it may now truly be calleda science-by
which all diseases durable by any known means,
and many altogether beyond the medical art,
are cured. Where is the professional man that
can say with Priessnilz, that out of ten thou.
sand nvalds that have passed through his hands
he has only lost forty! That such is the fact
at Grnfenberg any person may ascertain, who
will take the trouble Of inquring at the neigh
boring Police Office, where every thing con.
nected with Grptenberg is especially register
ed. II must be noticed that patients who np
ply TO Priessnitz, do so as dernicr resort hav
ing tried all medical aid within their province
and generally the mineral springs Of Germany
and elsewhere in vain,- and it is asserted by
twenty English gentlemen, who signed cert.
/.
that the patients, with few exceptions, may be
divided into two classes, those whom medical
men have pronounced ncurablc. ana those
whose diseases are the results of medical treat
ment
Those diseases which carry off whole dis.
tricts such as cholera, infamma;ons. dyscn'ery
and fevers, are as chds play 10 Pricssni,z ;
and the same may be said of all complaints 20
which children are subject,-such as measels,
small-box, whooping cough, scarlatna, &c.
To sum up, we defy skept cs or others who
nave visited The Hygiene Temple. to state
single instance in which he ever lost case
where the attack was from any Of those dan
gerous maladies. 1t may be questioned Did
he ever treat cholera Yes when it ragged
some years ago in this district. it carried off
hundreds of victims; eighteen of Priessnitz's
patients, and many peasants in the neighbor
hood, were treated by him, all of whom reco
vered and without those dreadful ravages in
the constitution evinced in those who were
lucky enough to escape under the alopathc
practice.
Although Priessnitz has never tried the et.
feet of his system mpon yellow fever, yet he
feels assured it must be subdued by it con-
cluson that he has right to arrive NJ, since
hardly week elapses without his mid being
called in, in cases Of brain, ;ypus, gastric and
other fcvers, in the curing of which. az before
observed, he never was known TO fail. Chro-
nic diseases, and where the constitution is so
reduced as TO be unable TO assert lis power ovcr
the deleterlops matter peryading the system,
also succumb to that element which God has
placed within the reach Of all lis creatures
Hernia gout, rheumatism, dropsy. syphilis, dys.
pepsia, and n host OF minor ms which human
nature is heir 10, are succ" ssfully combatted by
this extraordinary man. And it SHOULD be I'M
derstood that n cure effected at GrUtenberg de.
serves that turn, il being radical and perma.
nent; all matters detrimental to that state term.
ed health are, by the liydropathical process,
brought to the surface and eliminated, or pass
of By the ordinary means of evacuation the
skin is fortified and strengthened, and all the
viscera of the body are made 10 perform their
proper functions.
1t is very doubtful, opposed as lIydropathy
is 10 powerful interests, il the present genera.
,ion will derive from il the immense advan.
,ages it offers. 1t is however, highly crafty.
ing TO lis supporters TO witness establishments
l., Al.
are at least fifty France, Switzerland, the
Tyrol, Hungary, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, all
have their institutions, and England counts at
least twenty besides private individuals who
are introducing it into their practice; and to
show its dissemination, il is only necessary to
state that at GrGtenberg, at this moment, there
are amongst the visitors some of the leading
mobiles OF England, Russia, Poland, Austria and
liuly. There are also about dozen visitors
from the United States of America others
from Greece, Turkey India, Mexico, so that
there is almost as great a confusion Of tongues
as at the Tower Of Babel
All that the advocates Of llydropathy ask is,
a fair field and no faror. Let those who doubt
wend their way TO that far-famed mountain
which gave birth to the man who, like a sec.
ond Columbus, discovered a new world, and
whose reputation will put into the shade that
of the great lights of acknowledgements,
Galen, Esculapius; and we have no fears of the
result Hundreds ofbooks from time immemo.
rial, have been written in favor of Water as
curative means, while not line is on record to
the contrary. Since was honored in being
the humble instrument of iniroducinu the know.