New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-08
REPORT
GETTYSBURG SPRING co.
PROGRESS OF TIE
GREAT MEDICAL EXPERIMENT
GETTYSBURG WATERS.
The Medical Writers and Medical
Journals on the Gettysburg
Water Cure.
A Previously Unknown Semi'Thera-
peutical and Chemical Power in
This Water Conceded.
| IT'S POWER OVER The SOURCES OF LIFE.
It's Developing and Restorative
Powers Over Childhood
and Cid Age
100000 Remarkable Cures Ci?'i-ied
10 Have Been Effected.
ITS POWER OVER The SOURCES OF LIFE,
300. 900 Remarkable Cures Cl?'.-ied
10 Have Been Effected.
TO THE PUBLIC:

TO THE PUBLIC:
We are glad ~ able 10 announce that we have com
pleted arrang with the highly respectable ana re-
sponsibe house of Whitney Brothers OF Philadelphia to
herea r supply the Gettysburg Kataysne Water upon
a seale commensurate with the demand. To them We
accordingly refer the trade and the medical and inVad
public.
It's now some four years since commenced TO bot
tie the waters Of the Gettysburg Spring, and 10 Oncr
them as sovereign remedy for the various chronic NAL
aides which afct our people. 1t was oDecteu py many
to our enterprise that the extraordinary curative VIZ
tues claimed for these waters had not been demonstrated
by sufficient number and variety OF practical expert
ments also that whatever virtues they might nave al
their source It had been proved that they possessed
the power OF sellpreservatiOn, which rendered pract
cable their transmission 10 distant nvads. IL was al
legged In support this latter objection, that the power
Of efpreservation claimed for these waters was wholly
unknown to aqueous medicinal fluids that the improved
modern method OF securing aud transporting these nds
In alright vessels had only been partially successful IN
capturnr the evanescent medical principle that II was
now as in the days OF the ancient Jews. Greeks and
Romans necessary to go TO their sources If VIC would
any great from the OF mineral waters
Since then the Issues thus made have been decided by
the only iniable arbtrameDt OF disputed questions
namely that OF practical experiment. The bottled
Gettysburg Waters have been carried to every part OF
the country and of the world, and tried upon nearly
every form of human ament. with results which we
prefer to allow praccing physicians, medical writers,
and medical Journalists to describe. For the brst ume
perhaps history of the medical profession has 1t
become duty OF Of it's members TO record cura
tive phenomena as strange and wonderful por-
rayed by the charatan medicine man OF any age. 10
will be seen by reference TO professional testimonials
that the bottled Gettysburg Waters have produced more
potent and varied therapeutic effects than have probably
ever before been ascrbed TO any other curative
agent One virtues which the fabulis has been
won't to locate In far-o inaccessible springs is that
Of
Modern science has made Intellectual attempt 10
locate this virtue in the rarely found and mysterious
alkali lha. But scarcely had the bubble, which for
time rveted the fascinated gaze OF the medical world,
exploded, before American physicians were compelled
to recognize the solution OF calculus OF the fro
ouent effects of the Of the Gettysburg Waters Their
testimony 10 this mOmentOus fact Is too voumnous for
quotation. We only submit extracts
IL will also be observed that 1t has dissolved calculus
not alone IA the urinary bladder, where 1t may be
reached by surgical instruments by Injections but in
the vital organs, portions OF the system where 1t
could not be thus reached and whence issue natural
ducts carry the partially disnteRrated stone,
and which could consequently only be dissolved by med
ca agents introduced through the medium Of the
ach exerting power mysterious creation IT.
self OF the forms OF calculus dissolved by this
Water those most frequently referred to- because they
| of rheumatism and govt. But there exists abundant
invariably indeed for much, very much yet to be
learned about the proper OF this Water thcra-
| pcutical and general agent.