New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-02

n1ersed him in water to hia chin, and there hsld
him for an hour. At home he would sleep III hfs
| watery bed one, two, and even three, hours,
End ever experiencing ths greatest reireshmen,t;;
4 When his wife or family required him, they would
wake him up by taking out the ping and allow the
| water to escape, when he would pleasantly COM
plain of the Gloss of his bed cIothes.H Splesping
4 on one occasion In the trough without the water,
he was seized with extreme rigoF and chills, fol-
! lowed by fever and rheumatism. He lived, how
ever, some years longer, but drank to excess and
died Of apoplexy in the 6ath year Of his age.
A physician CDR Brock,1 before he joined the
Sons Of Temperance, drank sometimes excessively,
and resorted to the bath for the same purpose.
| He was once student of Sir Ashley Cooper. A
dog who annoyed the hospital WAS poisoned he
returned and was poisoned again The fact vas re-
ported to Sir Ashley. who became Interested IN his
case and had deadly poison committed to his
stomach, and had him carefully watched; The dog
Immediately entered q river In the neighborflood,
and submerged ali his body save his mouth and
nose and remained for some time, when he left his
bath, shook himself, pronounced himself cured, and
ran home. am not aware Of this fact having been
before published. II occurred toward the close or
Sin Astley's life.
Hydrophobia can be, and has been, cured by
water. New York druggist has repeatedly
cured this disease BY putting dogs under apump.
(See Water Cure Manual, by DR.. shaw. page 2l6.1
If one Is thirsty at sea and without fresh water,
he may be Immediately relieved by immersfng him
self in salt water. know not how to account for
this singular circumstance, unless it may be owing
to the fact that salt Is excluded during the process
Of transmission, otherwise It would create fever
in the blood, as in drinking salt water bnt the pa
pers Of the day affirm the result Of bathing III it,
and the past experience Of shipwrecked mariners
corroborates the affirmation.
Mr.. George Cunningham was i'll he took medi-
cine--it did him no good he was pronounced in
durable. His complaint was an obstructed rectum
five inches from its 0rifee. skifui physician as-
snred him Of bis life il be would follow his direc-
tons he mast eat nothing except what he gave
him. He agreed most religionsly to eat nothing
except from his hands. The doctor took SO pou1ds
of mutton bones, 800 pounds Of soft water, and 2
ounces of ealcined potash, boiled them IA hours,
and when properly tempered, Nh. Cunningham
went (nude) into the bath daily at II A. NJ, and
staid there one hour. Itwas made fresh every dxy
for fifteen weeks, and he absorbed enough at every
bath To supply the wants. He ate nothing for this
long period save few tea spoonfuls of tea twice
day, and one table spoonful of tonic syrup. He
gained ISL pounds, and was cured.
If the body through the skin ia made to absorb
poison locally, incidentally, casually, when placed
| there by others, it may and must necessarily and
constantly reabsorb those placed there by ITSELF
That which 10 true of its part Is true Of its WHOLE
\ Anything exhaled from, must be Injurious to- the
| body. If from the finger or arm pernicious matter
may be absorbed, it may be from all parts of the
4 body, Precipitation IL eliminated from all its parts:
therefore, from some parts of its surface the excre
| tions, cutaneously forced, may be readmftted to
the circulation, and whenever the blood visits IT, it
must carry disease; hence the entire system mnst
suffer- part Of it is independent Of this vital
fluid. Here Is the chief source Ok disease. Nature
keeps her side Of the interior clean and soft See
the eye, the mouth, the throat they all demand an
unobstructed exterior, and exude to the surface the
refuse matter for removal by bathing and eyapora-
ton. dry, light powder, mixed with sweat and
oil from the glands, and dust clay up the pores.
As all parts of the cutcle have pores as well as the
| face and arms, all the body should be bathed at
least one-third as many times as those are.