The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-14
HOT WATER TREATMENT.
IT HAS BEEN MORE OR LESS PoPu-
LAR FOR TWENTY YEARS.

to Take 1.-THE Manner in Which 1t
operates on the Human System.
The hot water cure has lost some OF
its popularity lately, but if all that is
still said in its favor is only halt true, 1t
should be taken regularly by everybody.
Some twenty years ago an English
physician, by a series of carefully con-
Quoted experiments, demonstrated that
diseases of the stomach and bowels, such
as dyspepsia, diarrhea, collie, dysentery,
and in short almost all disorders of the
intestinal canal, were caused by fermen-
tation, and the consequent generation OF
a great variety of irritating gases, and
other disease producing agents.
Apart from experimental demonstra-
ton, daily observation teaches us, says
a doctor who believes in hot water, that
most diseases of the stomach and bowels
are the result Of food improper in quail
ty or excessive in quantity. This is seen
every day in the acid and other foul
quotations, the collie pangs, cramps, di-
arrhea, liver disorders, headaches and
an almost numberless list Of diseases,
direct and sympathetic, arising from in
digested and ~decomposing food.
THE LOGIC OF IT.
Now, reason and common n teach
us that the best way to get rid of all
these troubles is to eat good, wholesome
food in proper quantities, and thus pre-
vent them.
But if through ignorance or any other
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next best thing is to dilute, wash out or
eject the matters which have given rise
to the disturbance asspeedily as possible.
The safest, best and most expeditions
way to do this, if the offending matters
are still in the stomach, is to drink free
ly of warm water and "throw it up"
For cleansing the stomach and bowels,
washing out the deranged and offensive
secretions and restoring the lining mem
brane of the stomach and bowels to a
healthy condition, ana e..Stling up the
ducts of the liver, nothing is equal to
hot water continuously and judiciously
used. Water, when thus used for its
stimulating, tonic, cleansing and altera-
tive action, should not be lukewarm, but
as hot as it can be swallowed. Taken in
this way, it excites the stomach and
bowels to a downward action, and is
grateful to the stomach, while if taken
lukewarm it is disgusting to the taste
and causes upward action or vomiting.
The quantity at a draught to begin
with should be about half a pint. and it
should be increased as the stomach may
be able to retain it, the quantity taken
during the day being regulated by the
effects on the urinary secretion.
The water should be taken one or two
spoons before each meal and at bedtime,
making four draughts a day. 1t isa bad
practice to fill up the stomach with any
kind of fluid just before eating, and the
water should be taken sufficiently long
before meals to be absorbed and to pass
out of the stomach into the circulation of
the blood.
1t should be slipped from a spoon and
not drank from a cup, because it can be
taken better in this way, and because
by taking it slowly the stomach will re-
tain more.
Taken hot it will be grateful with few
exceptions to battle the stomach and
palate, and especially after becoming ac-
customed to it, but, if desired, it can be
favored with a little lemon or orange
peel or a small piece of ginger or lemon
Juice, or any other agreeable simple
flavoring.
In chronic cases when it is desired to
purify the blood, change the secretions
and ~renovate andrevolutionize the whole
system, the treatment should be contin.
ued for a length of time-in most cases
not less than six months-but the length
of treatment is not Objectionable when
it is remembered that the remedy is not
''bad to take" is perfectly safe, costs
nothing, and though slow in its acting is
much more certain and permanent than
any drug or other means of treatment.
COOL FOR A LIFETIME.
Indeed, it may be safely continued for
life, thus removing and preventing dis
ease by an inward cleansing which
amounts to a regeneration and rejuvena-
ton of all the organs of the body and
the faculties of the mind, imparting the
elasticity and buoyancy of childhood
and the physical purity of babyhood.
The specific effects of hot water are
clearness Of mind, the Punishment of
feelings Of mental depression and hypo;
the passage out Of the body through the
bowels of the depraved secretions from
the liver, mouth and the whole intestinal
canal, and the consequent publication
of the breath, the improvement of the
taste, increasing the enjoyment of food;
the increase of perspiration, which aids
in the good work Of cleaning the whole
system; the clearing up of the skin, and
the removal of pimples and other skin
diseases which causes roughness and
destroys the beauty of complexion so
much admired by men and desired by
women; the thirst for ice water and all
other drinks is greatly diminished or
abolished; the craving for alcoholic
stimulants no longer exists, the blood,
sweat, and everything which passes
from the body are pure and free from
disagreeable odor, and in short those
who have persistently and thoroughly
carried out this treatment are new
creatures in every respect.
This may sound ~extravagant, but is in
accordance with physiology, the demon
strated action of the remedy, and is patent
to reason and common sense, even in the
absence of medical knowledge.
The physician who introduced this
mode of treatment makes this emphatic
declaration, founded on his own obser-