The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-01-25

while permitting the water to flow freely over
him. Even under these circumstances, the
cures performed excited the wonder of all |
But with the advent OF a polished and wealthy
class of visitors came the more convenient |
modes, and the luxurious accommodations of
magnificent lighthouses, where the bather uses
marble tubs aud the adjuncts of colored at
PENDANTS with toilet auxiliaries. The baths
are generally taken in the morning, usually
between 10 and IL, although some prefer them
before breakfast, and the duration is fixed by
the consulting physician, but ranges from to
70 minutes the time being measured by a little
three-minute sand glass, which is part of the
fixtures Of each bathroom. Upon coming out
of the bath, the patient is thoroughly rubbed
with crash towel by the colored attendant,
for whose services you are expected to pay
from 81 to So per week then, after dressing
he retires to the reading room or parlor until
the normal temperature ofthe body is regained,
this being to avoid taking cold. The manner
of bathing, however, differs with the nature
ofthe disease, and is according to the directions
of the physicians in charge of the case. Some
are advised to take vapor, others the douche.
the mud, the shower or plunge, as the peculiar
nature of the disease may require. In all cases
the most perfect seclusion of the sexes is pro-
vided for, and each has the same accommoda-
tions. The peculiar
SENSATIONS OF THE BATH.
may be chacarterized as electrical and exhilar-
ating Upon immersion the patient becomes
conscious of, the electrical influence in the
water by very slight shocks. producing most
pleasant sensation; following this is nervous
stimulating effect, especially noticeable by
those whose vital energies have been relaxed
or exhausted. The aged experience sensa-
ton of complete rejuvenation, while those
who have been debilitated by wasting disease
feel a returning energy, like the feelings of
vigorous health. Thousands of cases, incur
able by all other remedies and modes of treat
ment, have been cured IN a few weeks here,
and thousands more quickly relieved. Patients
rarely come here until they have exhausted all
as hopeless everywhere else; and it is a matter
of record that, of all the thousands who have
come during the past 10 years, SCOUT of every
100 have been radically cured, while few
have found more temporary benefit, and still
smaller number have not improved at all. This
is no romance, but fact. The list of diseases
that are durable, or may be aleviated by the
use of the waters, is nearly as long as the cata-
logue of human ills. Among the number are
rheumatism, including sciatica, one of the
most obstinate diseases with which physicians
have to contend, govt, neuralgia, catarrh, no
matter how long standing, dyspepsia, and all
varieties of liver complaints, scrofula, in all
its phases, chorea, asthma, chronic sore throat,
gravel, all diseases of the kidneys and bladder,
paralysis in all its appalling shapes, hysteria,
chronic ulcers, internal and external, however
old or virulent; ring-worm, letter and the le-
gion of skin diseases that have 80 long Knocked
at medical skill-all these and many others of
similar nature haYe been successfully treated
and, in most instances, cured Thousands
have come to the springs upon cots or rolling
chairs who have not used their limbs for years,
to leap with joy at their complete restoration
to health and the recovered use of paralyzed
limbs in few weeks. The very air of the val
ley seems filled with the prisons and blessings
of those who had searched for years in the
laboratory of therape utics, unable to find the
seed OF hygiene, who, coming here, have reaped
the harvest of priceless health. 1t is remark
fbof hofb i,,f 10
stroy all desire which may have been acquired
for distilled spirits or opium. 1t not only de-
stroys the taste, but it is equally efficac1ous in
purging the system of these poisons and re-
storing it to original health.
THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SPRINGS.
ranges from 1869 Fair, the highest, to about
80, the lowest. while the greater number
throw out their water at a temperature of120o
The change of seasons in no wise affects the
the temperature OF any Of the springs, their
waters remaining the same at the discharge in
winter as 1t is in midsummer. The mean To-
cation of the springs is 700 feet above sea-
level. Imagination can conceive no stranger
sight than this mountain side on frosty
morning, pouring forth its three score and ten
kissing, bubblng streams of wonder working
water, the huge masses of volcanic rocks
coated with green and yellow deposits of arse
mic and sulphur. the deep scar-like assures
the crags, fountains, rivulets and whole creek
and valley seething and steaming like mighty
witches cauldron. Pardonable is the mistake
OF the old Dutch emigrant, who, so years or
more ago, stuck his head down in the big alum
or magnesia spring to drink and jerked it out
again, half scalded, exclaiming: Shon! Shon!
trive on; hell is not more ash half mile from
here" Where all the heat comes from is zone
of the things that no fellow can find out"
Some learned authorities maintain that it
arises from the water at great depths coming
in contact with subterranean or volcanic fires.
Others, no lees profoundly versed in scientific
lore, hold that it is due to chemical combina-
tons; and others still aver, that powerful cur
rents of electricity produce it. But whether
any, all or none of these conjectures are right
or wrong, or whether or not the parboiled
Dutchman was correct in his startling sur
mise, the facts remain-the mystic fountains
flow on forever, exhaustless and scalding
TheBa and Worthless
are never infatuated or counteTsited This is
especially true OF family medicine, and it is
positive proof that the remedy initiated is of the
highest value. AS soon as it had been tested
and proved by the whole world that Hop Bit
tiers was the purest, best and most valuable
family medicine on earth, many limitations
sprung up and began to steal the notices in
which the press and people of the country had