The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-22
Chr 9ailg 9 llletin.
SATURDAY, MAY %, 1886.
HyDROPAIHY.

EDITOR BULLETIN:--Let me nov |
proceed to show my readers Is
briefly and as plainly as possible. :
what hydropathy will do for ths /
diseased and dying person towards /
saving his life, and restoring him
again to vigorous health, simply by |
purifying every organ of the body. |
When any diseased person enters
upon the hydropathic treatment, the
first effect produced is to relieve the
most prominent symptoms of the
disease, such as pain, inhammatory
action, morbid heat, irritability,
fever, restlessness and oppression.
But the reader may wish to know
how these things are accomplished, or
how does hydropathy act, and this
is exactly what my mission is to
show you. These are accomplished
by the operation of certain un-
changeable natural law which has
been implanted within us by the
Creator, for the preservation of his
handy work, and is inherent in all
animals, and this law is named in
science 1.-The Law Of Endosmoses
and Exosmoses," which was origin
ally discovered by Prof. Dutrochet,
and demonstrated by Prof. Liebig,
certain facts in relation to the inter-
change of dissimilar fluids in diff
ferent parts of any animal struc-
lures. According to the active prjn-
ciple of these laws whenever any
animal membrane has one of its sur
faces brought in contact with a
different fluid an intelchanging cur
rent takes place between the fluid
within the animal membrane and
the fluid without, and each fluid
passes and commingles with the
other by n continuous Interchange
until each fluid is exactly simial.
The term Endosmose means inhi-
bition, and is applied to the current
passing from without to within, and
EXosmose means tlansudation and
is applied to the current passing
from within to without. Let it be
remembered as l have previously
intimated that in all cases of posi-
tive disease the blood held in the
capillary vessels is highly charged
with effete, foreign and poisonous
matters, all of which are held in
solution by the performance Of
water in the blood. Now, when
pure water in proper quantity, tenn
perature and conditions is held in
contact with the surface of the skin
of a diseased human body, it meets
the water which is within that holds
in solution the gross numerous mat
tiers in the blood, and the action of
the pathes of hydro stimulated by
animal heat, combined with the
action of the laws of Endosmose and
EXosmose, immediatly commences
and continues 10 operate by inter-
changing, until the pure water with
out and the impure water coDtaiG1ti
in the capillary vessels within are
perfectly assimilated, and these pro-
cesses are repeated by hydropathic
appliances until all the gross dis
eased matters in the blood and body
are absorbed outwardly and sup
planted by pure water.
| trust, l have now succeeded in
showing my readers ut least one out
of many principles upon which the
hydropathic science of affinity puri-
fies all diseases from the human
body. And providing these priu-
ciples are true, and / know they
are, and / challenge the scientific
world to confute them, it may be
asked why is there so much disease
and suffering. 1t is because the
people are ignorant, prejudiced and
unbelieving, and will not think fol
themselves, and to sum up the mat.
ter, answer, because they will not
be made clean. And here in these
beautiful Islands, where all the con,
ditions of temperature and salubrity
are so favorable to the full enjoy,
ment of all animal life and health
it is sad to know Of a thousand OF
more of this noble people, languish
ing out their life in hopeless misery
In conclusion l may now predic
that as soon as the principles which
/ advocate, together with the prac
tice of hygiene, are established anc
properly conducted at the leper hos
pitfalls upon these Islands such re
suits will follow in a period of 81!
Ornine months that many of the case
may be discharged as cured, ant
those who now oppose its adoption
will stand ashamed of what they ar
now doing.
j. HERBERT REEVE, +. ii. S.