The Magnolia gazette., 1892-10-22
THE BAREFOOT CURE.

In treating certain nervous dis
eases many of the nervous special
lists are using a unique cure. 1t is
in advising the patient TO go bare
footed, and il certainly is fact
that certain forms of nervous dis.
eases have been cured by this
method. The dscoverer of this
unique cure for special nervous
diseases is said to be the celebrated
German physician, DIR. Gessler,
who first discovered that person
who constantly walked barefoot
could be cured of such nervous
diseases as neuralgia of the
trifacia, nerve, commonly called
ticdoulOureuX; scialca, or neural
gia of the Sciatic nerve intercOstal
neuralgia, or diseases of the in-
tercostal nerves; gastralgia, or
pain in the region of the stomach,
and nephralgia, or pain ia the
region OF the kidneys. The new
treatment does not pretend to cure
mlasmatic neuralgia, rheumatic
neuralgia, or neuralgia disturb
ances caused by constitutional
causes, superinduced by au im-
poverished condition of the ble0d,
or from the exhausting effects OF
general diseases. Tonlcs, good diet
and plenty of exercise are the three
things that will do much to allevi-
ate constitutional neuralgia. What
the friends of the barefooted fad
say is, that it will cure almost all
Of the neuralgia diseases of the
nerves, and in many other cases 1t
will greatly alleviate the condition
of sufferers. DIR. Gessler, after he
was convinced that many nervous
diseases could be cured by means
of the blref0oted treatment, start
ed at Berlin, in quiet way, a
hospital for the use of patients that
might come to him for treatment.
The hospital was simple, old
fashioned house, but which had
around it several acres of ground,
as it was situated on the outskirts
Of Berlin. For four hours daily
two in the morning and two IN
the afternoon-Dr. Gessler caused
the patients TO walk on the green
turf that covered the ground
around his hospital, without the
formality Of wearing shoes aud
stockings. The scene must have
been startling one. To see pretty
but nervous women of the most
aristocratic families of the German
empire padding along with bare
daiuty, white feet to see old men
whose lives Of pleasure had caused
shatterng of their nerves, alst
stamping along barefOoted, mad'
a unique picture. Among DR.
Gessler's patients were old ant
young Of every degree of fortune
SO happy were the results fron
the new medical treatment tha
about three months ago, when th
empress of Austria was taken i
of lic-dououreaux, she decided t
send for DR.. Gesslrr to treat he
When the physician reache
Vienna he found the empress i
quite a desperate condition. II
/ quickly ordered her to remove be
d shoes and stockings and begin
long tramp in the demesnes of I'll
. royal castles near Vienna for
week. The empress decided to tr
a the treatment, although her ow
physicians laughed at iJ, aud sal
: that the only way to cure neura
gIa was by old approved method
and that all the empress would g
- from the barefoot fad was sever
cold. But her majesty was oI
durate, aud insisted on trying I'll
Il new cure. 1t was announced tina
although nearly crazy from pal
Il when the treatment began, all
which would not ieId to the mo
powerful anodynes, the empress
= two days was better, and in foi
was perfectly cured of neuralgi
u TO which she had been "A martyr Il
years. DIR. Gessler would not sa,
n when asked by German iello
physicians, to what power he a
n tIibuted the cure of neuralgia |
the barefoot method. Whether o.
v Mother Earth, in bearing up
barefooted sou or daughter, il
d parts the impalpable vital forces
The patient she cOnceals in b.
Ie bosom, or whether the imaginatiC
ot the patient has a benetici
&c effect OH the nerves and Civ
them an opportunity to rest al
I. cure themselves, DR.. Gessler wou
not decide. He simply pointed o
Ie that he had cured many persOl
afflicted with nervous troubles
= his methods, whom other phyl
clans had given up as incurabl
"a He didn't attempt to explain d
cure; he only knew that his meth'
n. cured.
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