Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-10
HOT WATER TREATMENT.
IT HAS BEEN MORE OR LESS PoPU-
LAR FOR TWENTY YEARS.

Its Virtues Described by q Doctor Who
Has Tried It ON Hinseif-Hov and When
to Take 1.-THE Manner in Which II
Operates on the Human System.
The hot water cure has lost some OF
its populsrity lately, but, if all that is
still said In it's favor is only half true, it
should be taken regularly by everybody.
Some twenty years ago an English
physician, by series of carefully con-
Quoted experiments, demonstrated that
diseases of the stomach and bowels, such
as dyspepsia, diarrhea, colo, dysentery,
and in short almost all disorders of the
intestinal canal, were caused by fermen-
tatioa, and the consequent generation of
q great variety Of irritating gases, and
other disease producing agents.
Apart from experimental demonstra-
ton, daily observation teaches US, says
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 1T.
Now, reason and common sense teach
us that the best way to get rid of all
1 HI &c To haln
food in proper quantities, and thus pre-
vent them.
But if through ignorance or any other
cause errors in diet are committed, the
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, and opening 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 ahera-
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 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 draught to begin
with should be abous half 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 aSlay. It is 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.
It should be slipped from spoon and
not drank from 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 ao-
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
davoring.
In chronic cases when it Is desired to
purify the blood, change the secretions
and renovate Observation-Disclosures the whole
system, the treatment should be contin-
ued for 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 It's acting is
much mere certain and permanent than
any drug or other means of treatment.
GOOD FOR A LIFETIME.
Indeed, it may be safely continued for
life, thus removing and preventing dis
ease by an inward cleansing which
amounts to q regeneration and re3avena-
ton, Of all the organs of the body and
the faculties Of the mind, impaxting the
elasticity and huoyaucy of childhood
and the physical purity Of babyhood.
The specific effects Of hot water are
clearness {. mind, the Punishment of |
feelings of mental depression and hypo;
the passage out of the body through the |
bowels,of the deprayed secretions from !
the liver, mouth and the whole intestinal |
canal, and the consequent publication !
taste, increasing the enjoyment Of food; |
the increase Of peyspiratien, which aids
in the good work of cleaning the whole |
system; the clearing mp 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 an0 al
other drinks is greatly diminished or !
abolished; the craving for alcoholic |
stinulants no longer exists, the blood, |
sweat, and everything which passes
from the body sse pure and free from /
odor, and in short those
who have perssstently and thoroughly
carried out this treatment are new
creatures in every respect
This may sound ezsrsvagant, hut is In
accordance with physiology. thedenon-
strated acsien of the remedy, andis patent
to reason and common sense, even IA the
absence Of medical knowledge.
The physician VINO introduced this