The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-12-05
NUMBER 27,1

but no pork wheat bread, corn bread, grt
ham bread, rye bread, cracked wheat, oa
meal pudding, crackers, graham and but
C ter unleavened and graham biscuits. an
/ vegetables in their season, Butter, suga
and syrup are allowed to be used, bnt ricl
gravies and sauces are forbidden. Fruit
found daily upon the table, but pies ar
not. Plain cakes are sometimes introduced
as are corn-starch bread and earn inca
buildings, i'll the way of dessert Pickles
and cheese are almost ignored Tea anC
coffee are permitted under restrictions but
milk or wateI is recommended instead, to
all whose condition of health will allow the
use of cool beverages.
The character of patients who ''tske
treatment" as it is technically termed at
these institutions varies widely Usually
these persons may be described as ''half
sick"-too i'll for active pursuits, too healthy
to lie in their beds, but able to devour their
''rations" at the table three times a day ;
and yet there are victims of disease who
have been treated ALPHABETICALLY until little
remains Of the ''recuperative power" VINO
are sent to the Water Cure to die or recover,
as the remnants of their constitutions may
decide. The peculiar treatment provided
at these establishments not only proves BEN
eficial in most acute diseases, as before sta
ted, but cures chronic cases of general de-
billty, rheumatism, pulmonary affections
disorders of the lungs, liver, stomach and
bowels, beside those of the cutaneous and
nervous systems. Especially suited is it
to perfect restoration from physical de-
generation wrought by over-work, or over
excitement in business pursuits, and to the
removal of those diseases universally desig-
mated by the adjective female" There
seems, indeed, to be no limit to the list of
ailments in which the matter treatment is
eminently successful.
There are cases. however, in which cold |
and warm baths, no matter how carefully |
and thoroughly applied, require collateral
from medicine & experience taught
physicians whatever virtues there may be |
in calomel and other mereurial and mineral |
remedies, the use of most of them il totally |
with the water-cure, and
would be dangerous in multitude Of eom-
mon instances, With homeopathy,
however, the case is different; and although |
the unthinking or Ignorant may smile in
derision, homeopathic remedies are i'll good
demand, and in connection with the water
treatment, of marked utility. This state
ment may smack of prejudice; but q cloud
Of witnesses can be called TO sustain it. even
were it founded upon a biased opinion,
which it is not. Min years experience in
allopathic remedies have led the writer to
this belief Therefore homeopathy, in its
widest range, goes hand in hand with hy-
lropathy in all we'll regulated Water Cure
md resident physician usually dispenses
the elements of both systems with equal
and impartial skill.
Not the least valuable adjuncts of this
treatment are rest aud exercise, which, to
prove effacaious, must bs judiciously pre-
cribed and alteraated, as the state of the
PATIENTS health will allow The usual rule
$, moderate walking in the open air before
'reeakfast; "a season of rest Immediately
lfter eating temperate exercise before
PATHS then brief season of rest then
more exercise out of doors, taking care shat
10 violent exertiou be INDUCED in irnmedi-
cs, ten-pins, walking, riding or boat excur-
# exercise, while the mental regimen in- r
dudes reading, writing, conversation and
everal common parlor games.
DO uluCu, III DTlcI, LOT In6 COUIsa % tE0ab-
nent usually pursued in establishments like
hat visited by the writer, and he considers
t. in ali respects, one of the best in this
ountry, 80 far as it's remedial design ands
ractices are TO be considered.
Directors to the hydropathic msthod Of
ure have spared neither time, money, nor
ruth itself, to combat it, yet iA wonderful
daption to ali the ills that flesh ia burdened
Nth, does not fail to enlist for it the appro-
alton of sensible men 1t may kill, or it
hay cure, and SO will any system of ,nedi.
inc, according to the skill displayed i'll its
reparation and administration. An over !
ose of quiGine may cause u fatal congestion 8
old water, uuskilifulIy applied, may pro- !
uce similar disaster. But we are not !
dvocating hydropathy, to the exclusion of /;
ther remedial agents-only giving the :,
,ater. cure due credit for the good which it
fleets 1t thoroughly cleanses tue body, =,
9th externally and inwardly; and if there
anything in the saying that ':cleaniness
next to godlness," then is your hydro
athic patient indeed blessed, for he has no
pportunity for collecting or retaining phys
cal impurities. Living according to ma
ure, as he must at the Water Cure, he at
aims undoubtedly the purity and yigor de-
igned by the Almighty, for all his sentient
Features.