The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-04-05
HOT WATER.
It's Value as a Medioine-Gives
Tone to the Stomach and
Aids Nutrition.

New York Sun
A young man who was compelled tt
resign his position in one of the pu bliC
schools of this city, because he was
breaking down with consumption, and
who has ever since been battling fol-
life, although with little apparent pros
pect of recovery, was encountered sew
eral days ago in Broadway restau-
rant.
81 see," he said, "that you seem sur
prised at my improved appearance.
No doubt you wonder what could have
caused such change. Well, it was a
very simple remedy-nothing but hot
water''
"Hot waterr'
"That's all. You remember my tell
ing you that / had tried all of the usual
remedies. i consulted some of the
leading specialists liz affections of the
lungs in this city, and paid them large
fees. lhey went through the usual
course of experimentation with me un-
der ali sorts of medicines. l went to
the Adirondack In the summer and to
Florida in the winter; but none of these
things did me any substantial good. /
lost gound steadily, grew TO almost a
skeleton, and had all the worst symp-
toms OF consumptive, whose end is
near at hand. AC that juncture a
friend told me that he had heard OF
cures being effected by drinking hot
wtaer.
81 consulted a physician who had
paid special attentio, to this hot-water
cure, and was using it with many pa
tients. He said: There is nothing
you know that Is more difficult than
to introduce new remedy into medi-
cal practice, particularly ii it isa very
simple one, and strikes ct the root OF
erroneous views and pTejudices that
have long been entertained. The old
school practitioners have tried for years
to cure consumption, but they are as
tar from doing it as ever. "
Snow, the only rational explanation |
of consumption is that 1t results from
defective nutrition. 1t is always ac-
cOmpsnied by mal-assimilation of food. |
In nearly every case she stomach is !
the seat of q fermentation that necessa-
rily prevents proper digestion. The |
first thing to do is to remove that fer
mentation and put the stomach into a |
condition to receive food and dispose of |
it properly. This is effected by taking |
water into the stomach as hot as it can
he borne, an hour before each meal.
This leaves the stomach clean and
pure like boiler that has been washed
put. Then put into the stomach food
that is in the highest degree nLtri-
tiods and least disposed to tofermentation
No iood answers this description bet
ter than tender beef. A little stale
bread may be eaten with it. Drink
aothIng but pure water, and as little OF
that at meals as possible. Vegetables,
pastry, sweets, tea, coffee, and alcohol
u liquor should be avoided. Put ten
Ter beef alone in a clean and pure
three times day, and the sys-
.Um will be fortified and built up un-
ii the wasting, that is chief feature OF
ceases, and recuperation
,ets in."
"This reasoning impressed me. be-
gan by taking one cup OF hot water an
lour before each meal, and gradually
increased the dose CU three cups. AT
irst 1t was unpleasant to take, but
now l drink il with a relish that |
never experienced in drinking the
choicest wine. began to pick up
after the new treatment,
and gained fourteen pounds within two
L have gained ground steadi-
y in the trying climate OF New York
and tell you, sir, fell on sure way
10 recovery"
Here an old gentleman who had been
near, and evidently listening
10 the conversation, turned to the
teacher and said: This remedy of hot
water drinking has attracted my atten-
lion tor some time. 1t has been OF i'm
mense service in relieving me of
errible dyspepsia that teImented me
or many years. 1 tried numerous
/. bic physicians. and there is proOably
no medicine that is prescribed for such
tn aiiment which was not given me;
but none OF their gave me any perma-
lent benefit. But the simple remedy
DI drinking hot water, accompanied by
! rational regulation OF my diet, has
entirely cured me, advanced though |
am in lite. Ii was not the dieting alone
that did it. l had tried that before. 1t
was the use ct hot water that cured me,
TOT that made it possible to derive bene-
tit f. ON judicious diet. ] have also
found this treatment great benefit in
kidney diseases, which are largely |.
owing to mal-assimilation OF food"
The teacher listened very attentively
10 the old gentleman's remarks,
" L am glad to learn that your eX-
perieLce," he said, "agrees so fully
with mine. have become acquainted
with various cases in which this simple
method OF treatment has effected per-
lnanent cures after all the efforts OF the |
ply siclans had iailed. am convinced, |
simply from what have seen, that
almost any disturbance of the human !
sy stem that results from disorders OF |
the stomach can be alleviated, and in
most instances cured in the same way
rhe very simplicity OF the thing may
cause some To hesitate about attaching
much importance TO it; but, like the
proper ventilation OF your dwellings, it
may prevent disease and effect cures
where all the drugs of the pharmacO-