The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-05
MORNING EDITION----SATURDAY, MAY s. 1S49.

ally, when there is company sufficient from Phila-
delLhia to imporise that species of amusement.
The business OF farming is here actually pOetcal,
realizing all those delightful pictures of rural fell.
city and plenty, which the poets of the earlier and
best days-Vngil, and the poets of ''Merrie Eng
land, are SO fond of describing. The eye is on al!
sides refreshed by the sight OF highly cultivated
fields, and shady lanes and substantial granaries-
the whole picture being enlivened by hocks of cat
tie, and groups of agricultural labOrers pursuing
the various avocations of the thriving husbandman.
Most OF the farmers are quakers-some of the Illck-
site branch, and others of the old parent stock of
that respectable family Yet, can assure you, so
Tar as hear there is no great brothery love sub
sisnng between those different sections of the
"frlendly' persuasion. Then, what life Is given
to the road by the continual travel of the farmers
and their well filled wans, laden with the varied
products of this fertile region! Wagon after wa
gon, with It's Jocund driver and It's handsome team,
Philadelphia and Willow Grove, and Willow Grove
and Philadelphia, continually reminding you OF
those. delightful rural scenes whIca have been so
happily caught by the pencil OF Gainsborongh. and
others of that old English domestic school.
One OF the chief inducements for strangers to
visit this place, is to be found in the erection re-
Gently OF water cure establishment, on the plan
of those SO successful in Germany, under the sys-
tenn of the celebrated Vlncenz PrlessnlH. This
esta bllsh ment is about one mile from the village,
on the bank OF little rlvulet, and in the centre of
fine agricultural region, with some fine woods
around it. DR.. Charles Scheiferdecker has erected
this building at his own expense, and he has al
ready upwards OF a dozen OF patients. 1t is I'M
doubleday the most complete establishment in the
country, and Is conducted on scientific principles.
Dr. Schelferdecker, who 49, am told, a native of
Saxony, is quite an intelligent and accomplished
man. lie studied the whole system OF hydropathy
in Germany, under Priessnitz himself, and his
practice is marked by sound sense and discretion.
AS you are aware, this system of treating dis
eases by hydropahy has excited great deal OF
attention, not merely on the part of the non-pro-
tesslona public OF Europe, but on that OF the most
distinguished physicians. Fortunately, blessed
myself with excellent health being in the habit OF
rising early, and taking plenty of exercise in the
open fields to preserve 1t, do not take so much
personal interest in those water-cure establish
ments as an invalid might; but yet have been
good deal interested in studying the modes OF
treatment recommended, and the mechanical
means and appliances which the ingenious advo-
Gates of this new system have employed: The
other day looked over DIR. Shelferdecker's esta-
blishment, with its baths" cold fall baths,"-
douches''-" sitting baths"-and its "warm,
extracting and cold cataplasms,' and really could
not avoid the conclusion that the system appears
to be admirably adapted to the cure OF many chro-
mic disorders. Perhaps a great deal of the benefit
which results from this treatment, is to be attri-
buted to the saubrity of this reglon--to the pure
water-to the invigorating character OF the atmos-
phere-and to the ample exercise IN the open air;
But cannot 60 into any particular description OF
the establishment, or the mode of treatment, TIL
have seen more about them
Near this establishment is beautiful and album
dant spring OF the purest ana most denclOuS wafer
II is situated IN the midst of little wood, which
will soon be all covered with leaves, and the supply
of the limpid element, is sufficient for the whole
establishment. Here there are also elegant a!ks,
on which the patients take exercise at appropriate
hours All around a charming rural landscape
spreads itself, and at this delightful season pre-
sents every day new, and d, If possible more en-
in Just such region as this that those pastorals
were written, which are, after all, among the
finest things in the whole glorious world of English
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