Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-07-11
tsns, and burries the human family 10 untimc.


triflng compared to the havoc occasioned by the
pharmacopia. During period of two thousand
ye1is millions of men have devoted their lives
TO the study and practice Of physic, and what
has resulted from so much labor, SO much learn.
ing! Can any practitioner tell us how it is,
that dose os salts acts upon the bowels Have
medical men made such advances in what they I
are pleased TO call science, us to place reli.
snce upon their proceedings! Consult the dli.
ferent works emunating from members of their !
own body, and see how they condemn the proc
ticc OF medicine. One recommends mercury
as nfallible, another insists upon its being des.
tructive a third is n copious beeder, which
fourth declares to be the road to the tomb
What can justify those in charge of the public
health showing such reluctance TO chnnge .
such resistance even TO inquiry Why. their
own members declare in the practice of rhysic
there is no uniform principle. Dr. Abercrom.
bic says il is like dealing ou, blows in the dark
In medical science, who does not know that
nges have wrought no improvement, but rather
by the multiplicity OF drugs, an increase of con.
fusion Have not men of the highest intellect
been pursuing phantom It puts one in mind
Of the monks of the middle ages. who we're for
half a century engaged in attempting 10 dscov-
or how many devils could dance on the poin, Of
a needle, or the man with a wooden leg after
hare, the farther he ran the farther he was of
The result proves most :ncontestibly that all
/ b,,
are inimcal TO The health Of both man and beast.
This does not apply to surgery, the practice of
which it must be admitted is very much ame.
| liorntcd. and a, the same time it is not less
fact that the knife is too often rcsortcd to.
II may be asked, Il I]ydropnthy panacea
: Mo- death is the result of life, and the grim
/ tyrant will perform his office but his visit, if
men wero wise enough not TO poison them.
selves or let others do it for them, would in the
majority of cases, be deferred until the individ.
ual Ind performed the Offices for which his Gre.
a,or intended him. Ii may be fairly assumed
that old age would be the lot of all, provided
the stock from which they came was equally
strong, and all other circumstances in unison
Dot how can simple water be made to effect
so many ohiecis We answer. il is no, hy
drinking only that i,s sn'utary powers are dcvcl.
oped; as brought Ia bear on the humen frame
by the immortal Pressnz, it appears to be the
smmmum bonnm o:all thot is required in the
art of healing. ls'. II ncceeraies the change
Of tissues 81. Abstracts and rcproduces heat
bv reaction. 81. Restores tone to the skin.
4ih. Acts as n derivative. 9th. Determines
morbiic matter 10 thc surface. 9Th. Stimulates
the stomach and nervous system. 9TH. Equa
lizcs the circulation by contracting the capla
ary vessels 9Th In conges,on it contract,
the capillaries and restores circulation. which
is the great sccre, In cnring disease. 'All or
ganc or animal strength says Dr. Johnson
E. depends upon the power of the different part,
Of the body TO contract 9th. Taken internsll!
/, water has direct action upon. the stomach
/, bowels, and kidneys.
The Water.Cure not only effects all thcs
J., saiuiary advantages in the human economy, bu
, it also protects lis Sonries ffum the lamcntnbl
n consequences tho, sooner or later result fror
! "'e'"'"s, No""''e' on" s"FP'"S' ee'c "'Je''
i sought to he obtained BY the agency OF these dis
; bolical means are attained BY the most simp
,, means.
}. Whose shedde,h man. blood, by man cha
g his blood be she'd
Il Blood is the li'e,' 10 deprive man OF whir
!. is a practice continued from barbarous and 81
!. wage age which, thanks to Providence, is qu
,, eily passing away. II has received It's comp d
Q grace from the unassuming peasant OF Silesi;
n the immortal Priessni,z.
10 by the system Of this extraordinary man, III
ID necessity Of ampu,a,ing mems limbs, is. in
to grea, majority of cases, dispensed with, un
i'd %hea absolutely indispensable. Is assuaees
of subdues pain, keeps down all imiiammatory a
q. ,ion, and supports the strength of the suiier'
n. In a way that, to the unprejudced mind, show
he the utter insuhiciency of all the means a, pr
or sent in use. Hydropathy puts hors de comb
IT. the hieroelyphics used to conceal poisonu
prescriptions since the latter itself is valuele'
mt What fend first put the notion into mems hes
ID that poisons would cure diseascl What !,
he them to believe, that once introduced into |,
ou human body, either through the pores Of d
nd skin or by the stomach, they were resolved
Did to nothing OF elected thefef6fin Let tho
To who advocate the inoffensivenese come to
lis. Hygiene Temple, at GrGfenbefg here th
are minds will be disabnsed Of 80 erroneous CO