The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-02-06
WRITTEN ron TIKI ArDDLEBuRr GALAXY.
A HINT TO SPEPTICS.

Mr. EDIToR.-Permit me, through your
invaluable Journal, te offer a few sugges-
lions to those who are suffering from that
wretched complaint, termed dyspeps ia
disease which has not been improperly pro-
nounced diving DEATH The word is Of
Greek origin. and means bad digestion or in
digestion. The digestion Of food is perform
ed, in The siomach,bv means ola fluid called
The gastric Juice. When The stomach be-
comes impaired IN its functions, so that il
does no, afford a sufficient quantity Of the
gastric fluid, or when this fluid become de-
Perforated in quality, then indigestion super
venes, bringing in lis train all those evils
which have been not inapproprialely called
Blue DEVILS" Suffering much from this
complaint formerly, and having ransacked
creation for relief, calling 10 our aid at one
time trip upon The salt wafer; at another
a visit 10 the famed mineral walters of Sara
toga at another the thousand and one pat
eni nostrums Of the day and olieniimes the
counsel and care of the regular physician !;
and fuding only temporary relief. we began
TO despair of cure. Al this period, n work
on the water-cure treatment fell under our
notice. We read il, and began 10 follow lis
simple directions, and from what we have
experienced we are led 10 exclaim:
"Most blessed wafer neither tongue can tell
The blessedness thereof, nor heart can think,
Save only those to whom it has been given
To taste of that divinest elf. of Heaven.
stopped and drank of that divinest well.
Fresh from the rock of ages, where it RAM
1t had a heavenly quality to qucll
All pain. ! rose renovated man;
For worlds the needful suffering have foregone
Strange 10 say, while we were searching
.he ends Of the earth for a remedy, il lay at
our own doors-tn the sky above us-in the
brooks aud Iiyulets at our feet. Pure soft
wafer, as il falls ON The heavens, is of great
err value as remedial agent 10 the dyspep-
lie, than all the drugs in chrisIendom. In
deed. lis value will surprise many, who have
lived thus far under the impression that wa
ter is merely useful for navigation and other
mechanical purposes.
HydrupaIhisls assert, that water is not on
ly the best known medical agent. but The on
~ one-thai al diseases that can be cured at
all, can be cured by The pure element, with
many that cannot be cured in any other
way.
large portion of AllopaIhic physicians
have contributed, also, 10 swell the praises OF
This sparkling element. IF there exists any
thing in the world" said Hoffman, a celehra-
ted German physician. ''that Can be called
panacea, "a universal rcmedy.) it is pure
water. first, because'il will disagree with no
one, second because it is the best preserva-
tive against disease third, because it will
cure agues and chronic complaints fourth.
because it responds to all Indications ''ln.
Decd says DR.. S. Graham, iii there be any
one thing in nature, of which it may moe
truly be said Than of any other. Il is uni
versaI caIholicon, it is pure cold water"
A Few simple rules beng observed-judi-
cious daily abIuiions-cold wafer The only
drink-plain unsrimulatng food, in proper
quaniiiy-an avoidance Of over-heated and
nnventilaled roOms-a suitable amount Of
daily, appropriate, open-air exercise-regu-
lariiy and moderation in all the habits Of life.
would speedily prove 10 the suffering dys-
pep:ic Of more value than cargo of drugs.
or the most over-weening attention oil nurses
and friends. That bathing has been consid-
cred, from the earliest periods Of the world,