Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-10
THE WATER-CURE, AGAIN.

Having given place columns that Brauleboroueh
mans of the stages the process of water-cur-
ing, suppose it is bounden duty go through the
whole series Though the state Of the weather about these
days exactly favorable for calling attention the heat
ing stages of the affair." there occasional gmpses Of cold
punges in icy water the very thought of which consong
Number three lets into the mysery-f mystery can be
called, with mercury at 90-of SWEATING
BRATTLEBoRo, JUNE 81, ls47
You have already received description of the process Of
wet-sheet packnghow subject folded up very tight first
in Sheet then with three four thick blankets and
covered all with feather bed guard against catching
cold, and how he lies in this condition till he gets warm
which usually from 10 two hours to be then taken
out and tumbed into the plunge COOL WE'LL this packing
is thing and the sweating process is another thing quite
another thing in It's effect, although, in fact only the
thing the other, with appendix and suppement-the
appendix being the hot stage that Immediately ensues and
the supplement the abundant flow OF perspraon that follows
that.
After sleeping delightful sleep in the packed-up and laid
state decided change the spirit of his dream,
and his ances become not little horrd he wakes UP any
where else than IN Abrahams BOSOM and upposes hmsel
Just where he always expected CO. where his friends feared
he would CO. and where his enemies had often wished him;
consciousness upon him with aave sensation over
the whole surface, as If his skin all and
Of OPPRESSION If the feather bed mountain His head
bushe every Joint cramped and uneasy his nwards
parched with thirst and intense burning his
ouwards The heat is upon him. The doctor has told him
unpleasant symptoms. He sensible man. and with ord-
nary Judgment and resolution but for the time he foCets
all his resolutions, and loses all his Judgment and great
fact flashes his mind that the is humbus
and himself not only deceived but injured it is EVIL
dent he is outrageously oppressed.
He calls for his bath attendant Now, happens that
Henry being blessed with ubquy, and having only the
ordinary allowance OF hands, al present busy in rubbing
down patient whose prescription allows hma "had rubbing
for ten minutes " the other bath busywh their own
respective charges Henry knows what is wanted but can
only answer, Me now-wat five minutes" Five
minutes little eternity to the burning but Henry has
known such before and II easy know, become
used the suerings of others The subject still shouts
" Henry Henry Henry.te" And every shout increases
his distress Soon No % joins his voice the chorus and
the whole wing rings with the shouting. Henry phlegma
cay ubs legs and arms and back and back and arms and
legs, consoing himself with the thought that he fulfilling
his Duty and that the subject won't die. The subject doesn't
agree with him in the last dea hut convinced that he H
die and that right soon without the melancholy satisfaction
of kicking his las; agones He repens him Of having de-
spised caoel and aap Then he forgets proprety and
forthwith mathematics Henry The sympathzers join in the
anatheras and the bath is ebly cursed with every
breath of Nos. lS, 20, and %.
At last Henry comes, but is astonshed to the roll
bedclo;hes and the bed, which indicates that here lies
man., performing strange movements, lifting and falling
end, wrgghng al both twisting and Jerking if chry
sails had taken notion that il "would be butterfly" and
struggling burst the vile folds that held him earth.
These commissions release the and the upper part
Of the body Henry in doubt whether to consider case
crazness Tor hsucuf
with his partial release the subject becomes tranquil falls
back the pillow and excams, All right only 10
see il could get Of this if wanted to satisfied
pack again. Henry does so, and proceeds apply the
paliatiVeopens the window, and puts wet cloth on the
forehead, with effect magical that the subject well
realize why certain rich man. once, in like situation
expected much relief from similar application of cold wa
ter The perspraon bursts FORTH to his exquisite and
entire eef he becomes quiet lamb and sweas like
bull and now il will do TO drink little.
He takes from time 10 time few mouhfu of water which
greatly promote the operation and third stage comes on
wherein his sensations he didn't any where but
oaed in mid air ike Mahomes coffin the clouds were
his bed and chebs down his pillows his body and legs
arms, and trunk, with their manifold sensations and aic-
tons, nothing him. and time and space and care were
forgotten circumstances II he could command entire con-
seriousness he would beg Doctor Wessehoe pardon for hav-
ing lately thought hard things Of the establishment II
is not however, entirely unpleasant to be aroused to prepare
for the plunge How its icy waters as they lave
his sssng-hot body refreshing fifty ice all
once Even when out and standing on the brink be
rubbed be feels that little more cooling would not bad
so slips through Henry fingers and souses in again This
process wastes the system Of Of its substance but after
walk, IN which the joints with remarkable ease he
turns to supply any deficiency in his substance with mmea-
surabe quantities Of hommny and milk, white bread and yell
low butter.
Alter the first trial the process and although the hot
stage can never be made entirely pleasant becomes
quite endurabe