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

Having given place in columns to that marlborough
mans accounts of the stages in the process of
ing we 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 is consong
Number three lets into the mystery mystery be
Called with mercury at 90-of SWEATING
BRATTLEBoRo, JuSE 81, ls47.
You have already received description of the process of
wet-shee packnghow subject is 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 is usually in from to two hours be then taken
and tumbed into the plunge TO cool WE'LL this packing
is thing and the sweating process another thing quite
another thing in its effect although in fact only the
thing the other, with appendix and supplementthe
appendix being the hot stage that Immediately ensues and
the supplement the abundant flow of pepiraon that follows
that. a-H
After sleeping delightful sleep in the packedup and laid
state decided change the spirit of his Dream
and his fancies become not little hord he wakes up any
where else than Abrahams bosom, and supposes himself
just where he always expected co. where his friends feared
he would go, and where his enemies had often wished him
upon him with all alive sensation
the whole surface if his skin all nerve, and
of oppression, if the feather bed mountain shead
bushe every joint cramped and uneasy, his inwads
pached with thirst and intense burning his
outwads. The heat is upon him. The doctor has told him
expect this and advised him of the of alternating the
unpleasant symptoms He is sensible man, and with orji-
nary judgment and resolution but for the me be fogets
all his resolutions and loses all his Judgment and great
fact flashes his mind that the water-cure humbug
and himself not only deceived, but injured it is
dent he is outrageously oppressed.
He calls for his bath attendant. Now, it happens that
Henry being blessed with ubiquiy and having only the
ordinary allowance of hands, present busy in rubbing
down patient whose prescription allows him hard rubbing
for ten minutes " the other bath busy with their
respective charges. Henry knows what is wanted, but
only answer 'Me now-wait five minutes. Five
minutes little eternity to the burning but Henry has
known such before, and easy, know become
used to the sucrings of others The subject still shouts
Henry, Henry, Henry ee And every shout increases
his distress Soon No. % joins his the chorus
the whole wing rings with the shouting Henry phegmati-
cay rubs legs and arms and back and back and and
legs consong himself with the thought that he fulfilling
his Duty and that the subject won't die The subject doesn't
agree with him the last dea but is convinced that he ,c
die and that right soon, without the melancholy satisfaction
OF kicking IN his last agones He repents him of having de-
spscd caome and alap Then be forges proprety, and
forthwith mathematics Henry The sympathzers join the
anathemas, and the bath is eby cursed with every
breath of Nos IS, 90, and %.
At last Henry but astonished to the roll OF
bedcohes and the bed, which indicates that "here lies
man, performing strange movements lifting and falling
end wrigglng both twisting and jerking, chry
sails had taken notion that it "woud be butterfly, and
struggling burst the vile folds that held him earth
These convuons release the and the upper part
OF crazness and help prepare for scu when,
with his partial release the subject becomes tranquil falls
back the pillow, and excams, All right it only
if could get out of this if wanted satisfied
pack again. Henry does SO, and proceeds apply the
paiaves-opens the window, and puts wet cloth the
forehead, with effect magical that the subject well
realize why ca certain rich man. once, in like situation
expected much relief from similar application of cold
The peIspiaion bursts FORTH his exquisite and
entire relief he becomes quiet lamb and sweats like
bull and now it will do to drink little.
He takes from time TO time few mouthuls of water which
greatly promote the operation, and third stage on
wherein his sensations if he didn't any where but
foated in mid ap like Mahomets coffin if the clouds
his bed and cheubs down his pillow his body and legs
arms and trunk, with their manifold sensations and alic
TONS nothing to him. and time and space and
forgotten circumstances If he could command entire
scousness he would beg Doctor Wessehoes pardon
ing lately thought hard things of the establishment
Is not however, entirely unpleasant to be aroused prepare
for the plunge How sweet its icy waters, they lave
his sissinghot body refreshing fifty ice all al
once Even when out and standing the brink be
rubbed, he feels that little cooling would be bad
so slips through Henrys fingers and 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 his substance with mmea-
surabe quantities of hommny and milk, white bread and yell
low butter.
After the first trial the process cay and although the hot
stage can never be made entirely pleasant, it becomes
quite endurable.