The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-07-04
Correspondence Of the News
The Mineral Springs Of Adams
Co.. Ohio,

Mr.. EDITOR IA recent visit toI
this place has suggested the duty of
informing the public of the medicinal
advantages to be enjoyed here. For
several years attention has been die
rected to these 5priags, and neighbor-
ing physicians have been in the habit
Of advising their patients troubled with
chronic diseases to come and try the
virtue Of this water. Thus their no
tOriety has extended from year to year,
until "gOing to the Springs" has be-
come quite common in this region of
country, for those whose diseases battle
the ordinary modes of medical treat
ment. No one who has had any UU-
servation of its effects can doubt that
the water acts as a sure, speedy and
powerful remedial agent.
To insure more complete satisfac-
ton in regard to its virtues, it has been
submitted to analysis. DIR. Edward S.
Wayne, Of Cincinnati, a chemist of
high standing and acknowledged abil-
tiles, has, after careful analysis, pro-
nOunced the water of these Springs ga
valuable medicinal agent in diseases
Of the Liver and Ofa glandular nature" /"
The use of the water, according to
general observation, strengthens the
digestive organs, increases the appe-
tite and cleanses the system. It Is a
powerful diuretic, and in some cases
acts as a purgative. When the kid
neys are deranged and their functions
improperly performed, this water re-
stores them to the fuIfllment of their
proper functions. Thus it is a saIutary
medicine in cases of diabetes, strangury,
gravel, &c. When the stomach re.
fuses to retain food it acts as a tonic,
without producing any nauseating
feelings, or binding the patient to the
use of debilitating drugs. When the
bowels are deranged by long continued
diarrhea, it soothes and restores them
to healthful condition.
Physicians say that Indigestion is
the foundation of nearly all our dis
eases. 1t causes disease which de-
velopes into dyspepsia, or something
known by some other name. We eat
unwholesome food, we drink un-
Wholesome beverages, we are addicted
to unwholesome narcotics, we breathe
impure air, we yield to mental excite
ment, we neglect exercise, and in
ways innumerable break down the
physical forms given US. We lose our
relish for food and are in misery if we
take it. We become bilious, aguish
and feeble, until life is a burden and
health an unrealized dream.
Does Nature furnish no remedy for
these troubles? q? Certainly she does,
but unhappily we are unable to find
and apply them. Need it be consid-
cred a strange thing, if the element
which has been chosen to typify
higher cleansing power, should, under
some circumstances, contain qualities
adapted to relieve our bodily infrmi-
ties ?
The waters of Jordan restored health
to the leprous King, and Bethesda was
the resort of a great number of i'm
potent people. 1t is not new thing
to find in water that which restores
health to the sick. The effect this
water has produced on some who have
used it is sufficient to awaken hope in
the most infFm dyspeptic. Patients
have been conveyed here on their beds,
who had little hope of recovery, and
after using this water a few days they
have been able to walk over the hills
and regain health. 4
There are diseases which are no
doubt beyond the reach Of this medi-
cine. Yet cOnsumptives, if not too
far gone, will find relief in some re-
spects by using it. It's great virtue is
to stir up a torpid Liver. It opens
the pores and starts the bile. Erysipe-
las and cutaneous diseases will be cur
ed by a proper application Of it. a
gentleman who resided some twenty
miles from these Springs, was some
years ago given up by his physician
and advised to come here for an ex-
pertinent. He had erysipelas in its
most terrific form. His friends were
three days conveying him here, and
when they arrived, according to the
physicians advice, they buried their
patient in the mud below one of the
Springs. There he remained a short
time, when he was taken up, rubbed
with towels until dry, and placed in
bed, where he soon recovered. The
name of this gentleman is Charles
Matheny, and he still lives in the vi
cinity of these Springs. He first re-
ported the medicinal power of this
water, and now says ''it will cure any
thing" When you come as an invalid
to this place, if you lack faith in this
simple medicine, inquire for this aged
gentleman and listen to a recital Of his
experience and observation.
Heretofore those who visited these
Springs, (and they have focked here
by the hundred, } have found the place
almost destitute of accommodations
for shelter and repose. The public
will be glad to learn that this valuable
property is now in possession of enter
prising men, who are building and