Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-24
MORE OF THE WATER CURE.

sci US shiverng in the plunge BATH steamed half to death
IN the wet Sheet and in divers other ways given lively
experience of the watey matea medca Now he crushes
us under the aggravated shower-bah enormy of the doce
HrpRorAfnrc HOUSE,
BRArTLEpoROUGH, JUNE 20, lS47.
II would Dc an injurious suppose that any of the
more powerful modes OF treatment, the plunge douche
and running sz are applied the first instance or ab
upty On the contrary every of these is preluded by
careui preparation, consisting of graduated system of
bahs beginning at seventy eighty degrees descending
by one degree every one two three days. to the natural
temperature, most unnaturay cold lust as an apobecar
would slowly increase doses Of audanum roD bv on and
even when TOR any reason the treatment is for while sus
pended it often recommended in the same manner as a.
first, and finally is gradually terminated There i M
haste in letting down into the pool health for here the
waters always angel-stirred
Accordingly must be thought that the douche abopt
to be described is suddenly applied invalid ius ont
OF his flannel bedgown, and slippers Yet though never
administered roughly to endanger the health it nav in
analogy to cups and calome often hurt the feelings.
After from two weeks to two months of preparation the
patient whose needs it is promoted the douche and
is stepping off, with proud look his face and sheet
his bound for the douche houses half mile distant
the other side of the ravine He here begins with the
very mild river douche but without following him through
the transitions the hose douche to the middle douche and
from that to the grand extra potent heavy wet socdoager
douche, will sketch his first interview with the latter
On his way there he meets fellow sufferer who asks
"Where away fast, my friend p " Congratulate me- nv
good fellow, am going to the big one to take five
at the first Is il really very hard to take % go no.
have just from t-a bagatelebu here as YOU
going in for the first time, may well bid you good
bye for If any thing should happen is satisfaction you
know" " Good bye"
He goes dfi.ent house from any he has yet entered
and opening door, perceives he has made mistake and
closes quickly, but not before having full view of truly
strange spectacle. gentleman, whose only clothing in
actual pair Of panaoons down the calves dusty
boots, and nicely brushed hat is seated navel deep in
small square tub full Of water, and with folded arms looks
pensvely his watch He enduring the running sz-so
called because the water kept the lowest temperature by
means OF constant stream from spring by conducted
in at the bottom and by another carried from near
the top of the tub. 1t usually taken ten to twenty
minutes and is esteemed by many the comforting of all
the baths The water being warmed by the BODY it is
the thing making your in spring. and fully
up to the idea of 'cod comfort Verify this same
running sz is something worth mentioning in july Thomas
Carlyle would like doubt he would for he loves every
thing that is not sham, and this sham, by means,
but stern reality.
Our live subject enters the right door and commences to
prepare his body and compose his mind for the operation As
he undesses he up his resolution by calling to mind
the bold deeds Of ancient heroes and particularly those of our
Revolutionary ancestorshow Stony Point sormed, how
old Put entered the VOLTS den and how Samuel Patch Jump
ed off the falls but his mind continually to cacula-
ton in hydrosacs, to wit, if column of " SO big
and fifteen feet high down with such force what must
be the power of one twice large and twenty feet high
Meanwhile Mrs. Bemis, dame of orty-fve who does up
the part of nymph of the fountains has let the water and
and spashes in the inner dungeon like demon roar
ing for his victim. Our subject, thinking his time has COME
takes his bandages hand glance the watch time
HIMSELF presses his we daguereoypet his lips and opens
the door, but it not yet his tun-anoher is taking
and live subject aghast the sight of bopy Apollo
spawng his hands and knees the floor who with teeth
firmly set receiving the spout the small of the back
The effect OF the stream pouring into the to make
the air cold winters and though July outside, by
the time you undessed and stand expecant dread on
the threshold has become January The room high and
dark the steps by which you descend into hacked with
the axe, telling Of ice chopped away in mid-winer. The
Lo.o H.
and daylight till it lights the subjects shoulders
The sight before him takes away all friends resolution,
and nothing but the thought that he has thousand
miles expressly be subjected mercies of this water
Moloch and the thought that if thing short the ultimate
trumpet his torpid liver healthy thing
do it the fear of dcue and the hope of crisis keeps
up his nerves Now the bony Apollo dashes and our
friend left alone in that dismal den alone with that douche
and his conscience He filings down his bandages clasps
his hands, and raising them in suppcaon, his head
steps beneath the spout which he receives first his hands
thus casped this break the kind of shower
bath, which him all the He then receives
successfully all parts Of the body, but the head chest
stomach abdomen and calves OF the legs all other parts
feel the full force of this heavy wet in way that calls for
little effort to keep the breath of life in the lungs
Whatever calculations hydrostatics he may have made,
he realizes for the first the full force Of the theory
Talk of thousand Of brick 1t is of smile for the
way in which this water down upon him. Most re-
leness douche Persevering torrent Magnificent water
power the wheels of life in motion Who can feel
and doubt the potency OF water KILL and look
with contempt on the impotence OF phlas and p-boxes
Down, right down it comes, bearing its victim the floor,
cudgelng the shoulders laundering down the back knock
ing down against the short ribs grinding along the spine as
big rasp filing away the points Of the back bone bas-
tnadong the feet erung the hands, and making all parts
tnge if puddngstck of power renewing the
Corporal punishment of his schooboy days. The whole
face excited vigorous action organ aroused
and all the fluids of the system coursng like mad
through the caplaries into the of the
little The morbid humo beaten up in all their lurking
places rush hther and yon escape through the Eoe
burst forth like lava in volcanic boils.
After DRESSING there is walk to be taken usually the
longest of the day, expend the surplus strength derived
from this tonic of all oRics In cold weather you are i'm
PEELED put your legs to the very best speed In summer,
and especially in such weather have the sensation
you go out into the ovenke atmosphere really drol
The basks down upon you if it msook you for loaf
Of dough, and the hot steam from the earth up every
SIDE As you pass by the fields the aziy whets his
scyhe his from moving the laZy
chew their cuds in the shade, and the wild flowers drowsy
droop their heads and close their all things tell of heat
and extreme asitude, yet you yourself fresh, COOL with
pcrspration and vigorous The glstenng atmosphere
only luxurious hot air BATH and you stride along the
"four mile circuit, snuing the clover-beath brisky as
one who Of cool autumn morning
I" Brushes with hasy steps the dew away,
To meet the upon the upland lawn"
DEATH FROM AN EXPLOSION SPIRIT GAs.-0ne Of the
depoabe accidents which occurred this city took
place Thursday night, resulting in the death of highly
respectable esnable and beautiful young married woman,
Mrs JULIA WHITING, wife of Mr. j. L. hitting and daughter