The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-10
VIBRATE AND BE CURED.
WV PANACEA PROHIBITS mEDI-
CINE AND TUNES THE PATIENT
TO CONCERT PITCH.

according 10 This Fad. Due to In
terruption of thc NibrntOry Move
ment which Constitutes Healthful
Life; Therefore, Attach the Patient
TO shaking Machine and Shake
Him Back to His Proper Throb.
How the Treatment Is Given in
One f.thc 'sInstitutes"-The Sem
sntion of BeinG Vibrated Is start
ling al First. but Pleasant when
One Becomes Accustomed to IT.,
and the Nerve Process Relieves
Headaches, Nervousness and Other
Ills.
New York. June IA new cure-an fad
has come across the ocean to this coun-
try. which in many respects is as pic
turesque as the Kneipp cure, and which
promises to have as great a vogue. Fash
ionable invahds in New York have taken
it up. and now it is spreading among the
great army of the sick and ailing in other
parts of the country. Like the panacea
of the Swiss priest. the new cure taboos
the use Of medicines but its application
requires no such inconvenient procedure
as walking barefooted in wet grass in the
early morning. Disease. according to the
new idea is a mere matter of altered vi
bration. If you have a headache, or dys-
pepsia or rheumatism or nervous pros
tration or any other ailment in the cata-
loeue, you are, or that part of you affect
ed is out of tune-your rate of vibration
has become too fast or 10 slow and needs
adjusting. To affect the proper adjust
ment the new curists strap you TO a ma
chine and shake you Cor vibrate YOU I'M
I'll, like a pendulum, you get back INTO
your normal swing.
The system does not belong to any one
person like the Kneipp Cure. 1t came
from Europe, and already there are half
O dozen institutes" in New York city
and any number of practitioners who will
bring their machines to private houses
and give special treatment There is one
place on Fifth avenue where the fash
ionables are shaken to their hearts con-
tent. There is another in the heart of
the shopping district, where tired women
may stop in and be restored" after
days bargain hunting and there are sew
eral institutes in the residential dis
tricts
Every new cure must have its funda-
mental theory. Here Is the theory upon
which the Vibrationists go. In the first
place, all things are in a state of vi
bration-light sound, heat are vibration
itself. But even those things which are
popularity supposed to be in state of in
animate rest, the houses in which we live,
the very furniture upon which we sit, are
said to be in a state of vibration. And
so the very act of living is a matter of Vi
bration. In other words every living an
imal and vegetable pulsates according TO
Its individual wave length. Every part
Of every animal has its rate of vibration,
which, when normally maintained, keeps
the member in a stale of health but
which, when it departs from the normal,
induces a state of diease. At least, so
say the high priests of the new move
menj, who reason, therefore. that the use
of medicine is a very roundab bout way of
producing what can be accomplished with
few odd shakes And since the writer
himself saw the miracle of the pasied
take place under his eyes by means OF
vibration machine and since the machine
itself is not so complicated but that, in
the hands of an ingenious man, it might
be constructed from an old sewing ma
chine-perhaDs within certain wide limits
the contention is true.
Sometimes it is not advisable for the
sufferer to be strapped TO the machine.
In dispeling a shopping headache, for
instance, the operator straps her own
hand 10 long rod attached to the vi
orator. The machine moves her hand at
the rate of many hundred if not thousand
pulsatons a second, and when her hand
is pressed or stroked gently on the suf-
ferer's forehead the thrill communicated
is at least a delicious new" sensation.
The writer learned this during a recent
visit to one of the New York institutes"
where many women go daily to be vi
brated. The place is not pretentious. 1t
looks like an ordinary doctors office, plus
the machine which might be taken for
one OF those relics Of the Spanish Iuquisi-
ton 10 be found in all dentists Offices An
electric motor is geared TO a small spin
Gle, and to the side of the spindle is at
tached a long steel rod. which, when the
motor is revolved at great speed moves
rapidly in unison with it, like a piston
rod. To the end of The piston rod is at
tached heavy leather glove with the fin
gers cut out. The operator places her
hand in the glove and the piston rod,
moving back and forth, gives to her hand
a Vibratory motion which makes it
feel as though ID were being
traversed by an electric current In
fact. to touch her hand gives you a
sensation exactly like that obtained
from the poles OF battery. Now. mag
Inc a sedate but overworked Wall street
gentleman sitting, placidly, with a far
off look in his eyes while the young lady
operator applies the thrilling touch of her
hand to his forehead or 10 the base of
his aching brain. and there is the cure in
operation.
While the operator moves her fingers
deity along the bridge Of your nose, bill
literally outward via your eyebrows and
then downward back of your ears toward
the upper end of your spinal column, she
crOons softly the reason for il all, telling
you minutely just what is taking place
inside OF you while the process is going
forward Now, since the feeling In your
spinal cord is precisely that described by
the negro who said that mineral water
tasted just as though his foot was asleep
you are not as much impressed by her
remarks as you might otherwise be, but
there are certain words, such as "capilla-
ries." "stagnation.' stimulation" etc,
which stick by you, and you remember 1t
oil afterward as YOU might dream.
An she says you have catarrh.
Yes, every one has catarrh In this eli
mate. Yet taere is no need of 1t. 1t Is
a matter OF stagnation whether from the
climate or something else. You see, the
capillaries become ciosged ana the prop
er blood supply does not get to che DELI
cate membranes or the nose. Then there
Is trouble But with this method We slim
ulate the capillarics and presently the ca
tarrh is gone. OF course, it can not be
done ia a day All OF these treatments
take weeks TO accomplish Now l will