Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-08-19
corsspsadenec Of The heW Karen Herald.
Water Cure---IIydropathic House,
BRATTLEDoRo, June %, lS47


trary. every one Of these is preluded by careful
preparation, consisting Of graduated system Of
baths beginning at seventy-hve or eighty degrees,
descending by one degree, every one, two or three
days, TO the natural Temperature, most unnaturaly
cold Just as apothecay would slowly increase
doses OF laudanum, drop by drop; and even when
for any reason the treatment is for while suspend.
ed II is often recommended in the same manner as
at first, and finally is as gradually terminated
There is no haste in letting down nto the pool
Of health, for here the waters always angestir
red.
Accordingly il must not be thought that the
doucbe about 10 be described is suddenly applied
10 a weak invalid, jus, oul of bis flannel bed-gown,
and slippers. Yet though never administered so
roughly endanger the health, it may, in anal
ogy to cups and caome, often hurt the feelings
After from two weeks TO two months of prepare
ton, the patient whose case needs il is promoted
TO the douche, and is seen stepping of, with a
proud look on his face aud sheet on bis arm,
bound for the douche houses, half mile distant
on the other side Of the rayine. He here begins
with the very mild river douche but without fol-
lowing him through the transitions TO the hose
douche to the middle douche, and from that TO the
grand, extra potent, heavy wet, socdoager douche,
We will sketch his FIRST interview with the latter.
On his way there he meets fellow sufferer, who
asks, Where away so fast, my friend y Con-
graduate me, my good fellow, going TO the
big one, TO take it five minutes at the first start Is
it really very hard TO taker ooh, no, have just
come from tia mere bagatele--but here, as you
going in for the first time, may well bid you
good bye. for if any thing should happen it is a sat-
isfacion, you know" GOOD bye"
lie goes TO different house from any he has yet
entered, and, opening door, perceives he has made
mistake, and closes it quickly, but not before hav
ing full view truly strange spectacle. gen.
tleman, whose only clothing in actual wear is pair
of pantaoons; down at the calves, dusty boots, aud
nicely brushed hat is seated navel deep in small
tub, full Of water, and with folded arms looks pen
sivey at his watch He is enduring the running
stzso called because the water is kept at the low
est temperature by means of a constant stream from
spring near by, conducted in at the bottom, and
by another stream carried of from near the top of
the tub 1t is usually taken from ten to twenty
minutes aud is esteemed by many the most COM
forting Of all the baths The water never being
warmed By the body, it is the same thing as making
your seat in spring, and fully comes up TO the
idea Of ." cold comfort" Verify this same running
stz is something worth mentioning in July. Thorn
as Carlyle would like 1t: no doubt he would, for
he loves every thing that is not sham, and this is
no sham, by nc 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 undresses he screws
up his resolution by calling TO mind the bold deeds
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nevoiunonaty ancestofs-how stony foiht was
s'olnleu, now ,o.u rut snte'ed me VOL aeh' anu
NOW pam ra'c1 jumped on Inc ians' oui MS mihd
eoh'ihuaiy 'everis 10 cacuiation IN nydros.aucs'
10 wiz, u column oil wafer so org ana hiteen
ieel h'gn comes down win sncn iorce' what must
be the power Of one twice large and twenty feet
hight
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subject, thinking his time has come. takes his ban
daoes in hand. casts glance al the watch 10 time
himself presses his wifes daguerreotype TO his Inns
and opens the door, but it is not vet his turn--an.
other man is taking it," and our live subject is
aghast at the sight of bony Apollo sprawlinp on
his hands aud knees on the floor, who with teeth
nrmy set lseceising the spout on the small OF The
Dack.
The effect of the steam pouring into the room is
to make the air as cold rs winter: and though il
was July outside BY the time YOU are undressed and
stand in expectan, dread on the threshold il has be-
come January. The room is bigh and dark :. the
steps by which YOU descend into il are hacked with
the axe, telling Of ice chopped away in mid winter
The stream has come fresh from the cold bowels
of mother earth and sees no daylight ill il lights
on the subjects shoulders. The SIGHT before him
takes away all our friends resolution and nothing
but the thought that he has come thousand miss
expressly 10 be subjected to the mercies Of This IVA,
Ter Mooch, and the thought tia, if any thing short
of the Ultimate trumpet can arouse his torpid liver
10 healthy action this thing must do il. the fear of
ridcule and the hope Of crisis, keeps up his
nerves. Now the bony Apollo dashes out and our
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