New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-01-07
Brocchieri Water, BineIii Water, Crotoh
Wnter-Their Curative Powers.
Nrw.Yonx Jan. 4, ls45-5l5 Broadway.

To Tie Editor Of Tic Tribune;
reading the account of the wonderful efiec's Oh
the Brocchieri Water. described by the Editor Oh
Tho Courier Des Eats Uns and republshed by
vou II occurred TO me that l had seen something
like il before. On investigation. soon came across
tho enclosed article in the New Remedies of
professor Dunglison OF Philadelphia published in
7s9e wherein the reader will perceive that dis
covery precisely similar was announced with like
flourish Of trumpets half a century ago.
With reference 10 the cures of hemorrhage and
other diseases by the new water, they are suscept
bic Of easy explanation. To DR.. Dickson of London
is due the credi, Of the discovery that all disease
springs from disturbance of the equilibrium of the
natural temperature of the body and that all that is
required in order 10 recover health is to restore If
possible this equilibrium. One of the most eiectual
means of accomplishing this is las he tells US in his
Chrome Thermal System of Medicinel during The
hot or excited stage 10 apply cold. Let me give
YOU his words That you may cure the dispose
lion TO rupturcd blOod.vessel, or hcmorrhage IN
other parts OF the body well as in the brain, by
cold ausion could give you au intinity OF proofs
What il the old womans practice IN bleeding from
the nose To put cold key down your back, and
thus By the suddenness Of the shock, change In
moment the whole corporeal temperature. The
principle is the same in both cases, and the good
gested to medical practitioners better practice IN
apoplexv aud other hemorrhages than is al present
the fashion with fashionable doctors Cold water
has many virtues but u good deal depends on the
mode OF It's application The suddenness OF the
dash is the chief thing be attended TO in cases Of
this So much for the proper treatment OF the
patient. English and he might have added French
aud American practitioners almost TO man bleed
and purge you. La diseases termed lnttammatory,
what measure so ready or so eiicacious as TO dash
a few pitchers OF cold water over the patlent-co!d
ahusion as il is called When | served in the
army cut short IN this manner hundreds OF iniiam-
matory fevers-fevers that IN the higher ranks OF
society, and under the bleeding and starving sys-
tens, would have kept An apothecary and physician
to say nothing OF cuppers-vlsltlng the patient
twice or thrice day for month, II he happened 10
live long. With the cold dash you also may easily,
While Others meanly take whole months to STAY,
Produce IN hall Summers day W
This, then take it, is the explanation of the
cures described by NJ Gaillardet. The patients
were spared both bleeding and purging, and cold
water was applied That this boasted new med
cine possesses no intrinsic force OF its own is mani
fest enough from the following admission Of The
French editor -
Nj Gaillardet says that he drank bottle of this va
ter each day fifteen days without detecting any
tringent taste feeling any Inconvenience. He says
tha, if it did him good certainly did him no harm
Homeopathic
could produce dozen witnesses of my having
repeatedly checked bleeding at the lungs in an in
slaut by applying Croion water, iced 10 the chest;
but as il was done here in New. York and by a New
Yorker hence is wanting in the Partisan stamp
a prophet is not without honor save III his own
country, and as, besides, | may be pronounced ir
regular and disrespeclful TO the profession, in ex
planning 10 the public how they may easily be cured
of apparently formidable diseases with the least
possible expenditure Of time, money and suffering,
forbeer WIN. TURNER, NJ. D.
Chrome Thermal Practitioner