Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-08
STRANGE Winter Cures for Disease.

Strange Winter Cures for Disease.
In Russia just now marvellous viz
tues are attributed to an ice-c cold bath
The patient is taken to a frozen lake or
river, the ice is broken and he is
plunged up to the neck into water at
the temperature of 81 degrees Fahren-
heit.
obviously the patient must be a per-
son of robust constitution to react to
the terrific shock. But when rolled up
in blankets and perhaps stimulated
with little brandy he experiences
very pleasant after effects. And the
great efforts made by the body to re-
cover from the paraizing effects of the
icy water is said to be sufficient to
drive away the more or less imaginary
disease.
Somewhat similar. tho less heroic
is the Kneipp snow cure At the little
village of Worishofen, near Munich
thousands of suffering people are said
to have been cured by means of cold
water. Pure air and icy cold water
bring about a proper circulation oil the
blood. The patients not only take
baths of every kind, but walk bare
footed on the snow and rub them
selves all over with it. They drink wa
ter from morning to night, wear cot
ton as coarse as sacks next to the skin
and eat very rich heterogeneous foods,
such as meat. cheese, fish, milk. peas,
beans and lentils.
Most of the famous cures ring the
changes on water. There is Bou-
chards treatment of typhoid fever,
which consists of bathing the patient
eight times a day. The remainder or
his waking hours is spent. according to
a medical authority. in taking medi-
cines, SO that the microbes are con-
stantly on the defensive and cease to
worry the patient.
Then there is mechanical morse,
which ambles, trots and gallops dy-
spepsia and all sorts OF 'vapors ou'
of the the body; little hammer
which taps the spine up and down
hundreds of times; kneading NIL
chine, which kneads the body ailing
with rheumatism. nerve pains, bruises
and sprains, and host of other
strange contrivances.
At Meran, Montreux. Grunberg and
many more places, the grape cure
is the favorite. This can be carried
out at home quite inexpensively 1t
is said to cure such opposite maladies
as consumption and obesity. together
with govt, dyspepsia and great many
other diseases. The routine Is, first,
a grape repast, in the house early IN
the morning, another about O'Clock
in the vineyard. at noon meal Of
bread and water, early in the even
ing more grapes. and grapes again
on retiring for the night. The patient
begins with one pound a day, and
gradually advances to six or eight
pounds.
The most remarkable point in con-
nection with cures is that almost eV-
cry remedy has it's contrary Directly
opposed to Father Kneipp's water cure
is DR.. Schrotf1s dry cure. an ordeal
which no disease ought to survive
In this method the food is freed from
all moisture, the patient has nothing
10 drink except one small glass OF
hot wine morning and night Din
ner consists of boiling vegetables
dried with pepper AMI
salt. For all other meals the patienf
eats only dry bread. This is said 10
cure cold in the head. rheumatism IN
the joints and those painful effuslons
Of fluid between bones and their
membrane, the perios
teum. The cure for those who suffer
from a superabundance of adipose It's
sue are countless. and many of them
are curiously antagonistic to each
other.
One prominent European physieiao
lowers weight by giving as much fat
as possible to his patients, and at the
same time forbidding them all starch
food, such as bread and potatoes. etc.
In another method, on the contrary.
fats are forbidden, and the patient IS
allowed to eat as much beefsteak as
he likes, say three pounds day,
while one pound Of Goldfish and six
pints of hot water complete the days
-ations. Mountain climbing is the
simple remedy recommended by yet
another specialist, while a fourth in
sists upon diet of skinned milk.