The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-26
Hot Water as a Medicine.

he was breaking down with consump,
tion, and who had eysr since been
battling for life, although with little
apparent prospect of recovery, was
encountered several days ago in a
| Broadway restaurant.
81 see," he said, "that you seem
surprised at my improved appear
ance. No doubt you wonder what
could have caused such change.
Well, it was very simple remedy
nothing but hot water"
Hot water?"
That's all You remember my
telling you that / had tried all the
usual remedies? l consulted some
of the leading specialists in affec-
tions of the lungs in this city, and
paid them large fees. They went
through the usual course of expert
mentation with me under all sorts
of medicines | went to the Adiron-
dacks in the summer and to Florida
in the winter, but none of these
things did me any substantial good.
l lost ground steadily, grew to be
almost skeleton, and had all the
worst symptoms of consumptive
whose end is near at hand. At that
juncture friend told me that he
had heard of cures being effected
by drinking hot water.
81 consulted a physician who had
paid special attention to this hot
water cure and was using it with
many patients. He said
"There is nothing, you know, more
difficult than to introduce a new
remedy into medical practice, par
ticularly if it is very simple one
and strikes at the root of erroneous
views and prejudices that have long
been entertained. The old-school
practitioners have tried for years to
cure consumption, but they are as
far from doing it as ever.
Now, the only rational explana-
tion of consumption is that it results
from defective nutrition, 1t is al
ways accompanied by mal-assimila-
tion of food.
In nearly every case the stomach is
the seat of a fermentation that nec-
essarily prevents proper digestion.
The first thing to do is to remove
that fermentation, and put the stom-
ach into condition to receive food
and dispose of it properly. This is
effected by taking water into the
stomach, as hot as it can be borne,
an hour before each meal. This
leaves the stomach clean and pure,
like boiler that has been washed
out. Then put into the stomach
food that is in the greatest degree
nutritious and the least disposed to
fermentation.
"No food answers this description
better than tender beef. A little
stale bread may be eaten with it.
Drink nothing but pure water, and
as little of that at meals as possible.
Vegetables, sweets, tea, coffee and
alcoholic liquor should be avoided.
Put tender beef alone into a clean
and pure stomach three times day,
and the system will be fortified and
built up until the washing away,
that is the chief feature of consump-
ton, ceases, and recuperation sets
in"
"This reasoning impressed me. /
began by taking one cup of hot
water an hour before each meal, and
gradually increased the dose to three
cups. At first it was unpleasant to
take. but now | drink it with rel
ish that l never experience in drink
ing the choicest wine. | began to
pick up Immediately after the new
treatment. and gained fourteen
pounds within two months. | have
gained ground steadily in this try
ing climate of New York; and / tell
you, sir. | feel on a sure way to re-
covery."
Here an old gentleman who had
been standing near, and evidently
listening to the conversation, turned
to the teacher and said This rem
edy of hot water drinking has al
tracted my attention for some time.
1t has been of immense service in
relieving me of terrible dyspepsia
that tormented me for many years.
| tried numerous able physicians,
and there is probably no medicine
that is prescribed for such an ailment
which was not given to me; but
none of them gave me any perma-
nent benefit. But the simple remedy
OF drinking hot water, accompanied
by rational regulation of my diet,
has entirely cured me, advanced
Though | am in life. 1t was not the
dieting alone that did it. | had
tried that before. 1t was the use OF
hot water that cured me, for that
made it possible To derive benefit
from a judicious diet. | have also
found this treatment of great benefit
in kidney diseases, which are large
ly owing to mal-assimilation of
food"
The teachers listened very atten-
lively to the old gentleman's re-
marks:
II am glad to learn that you ex-
perience," he said, "agrees so fully
with mine. / have become acquaint-
ed with various cases in which this
simple method of treatment has ef-
fected permanent cures after all ef-
forts of the physicians had failed.
/ am convinced simply from what l
have seen, that almost any distur-
bance of the human system that re-
suits from disorders of the stomach
can be alleviated. and, in most in
stances, cured in the same way.
The very simplicity OF the thing
may cause some to hesitate about
attaching much importance to it;
but, like the ventilation of your
dwellings, it may prevent disease
and effect cures where all the drugs
of the pharmacopG will fail. IN Y.
Sun.
He Has NO OBJEcTIoN.-The Hon.
Daniel w. Voorhees,, United States
Senator from Indiana, remarks ::
/" NV opinion, sir. [ have no objec-