The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-08-17
new RAIN TREATMENT
Latest Fad Is the Rain Cure for Rheu-
matism.-West Texas Appreciates
Rain Cure for Many Ills.
Texas stockman journal.

Texas Stockman journal.
The rain cure is now being
tried by number of persons in
that city whenever opportunity IS
offered fer taking the treatment,
says an Austin dispatch to the
Kansas City Journal. Some of
those who have taken it say that
it is panacea for chronic dis
eases as well as many lesser ills
of the body.
There is nothing complicated
about the rain cure. All that is
required of the patient it that he
shall stand in the open, with his
body bare of all clothing, and let
the falling rain pour upon HIM
The sensation is said to be very
agreeable. Those who have tried
the new treatment assert that the
rain falling upon the bare body
invigorates the whole system and
is especially strengthening to the
nerves.
There is no set rule Ter taking
the treatment. Some OF those
who began it several months ago,
at the early break of winter, have
stood in the rain for several
hours at time without suffering
effects of Il disagreeable char
acter afterwards.
Devotees of the rain cure well
come the appearance of black
cloud which forebodes u terrific
downpour Of ram. 1t is then
that they strip to the skin and
get out in their back yards,
which are enclosed by high board
fences, and let the water come
down on them in torrents.
1t is declared that the rain cure
is sure remedy for rheumatism
and that decided improvement
has been noted in cases of persons
afflicted with tuberculosis. Fol
nervous disorders the treatment
is said to be infallible. One treat.
ment, it is said, will cure a severe
cold.
The treatment is believed &c
have its origin IN Austin. So fal
as can be learned, John burst, @
young business man of that city
was the first person to give 1t q
trial
A few months ago he was suffer
ing from severe cold. A rain.
storm came up, and while it was
in progress he stripped and got out
into it to see if it would help his
cold. There is a high board fence
around his back lot. After dis
robing in the barn he went into
the lot and let the rain fall upor
his bare body.
The experiment was success
The one treatment cured his cold
Since then he never misses taking
the rain cure when at home dur
ing a rain. He has perfect
health.
He related his experience tc
some of his friends, and the fad
if such it can be called, has spread
rapidly.
1t is recommended that veal
persons who take the treatment
should not remain IN the rain too
long at a time and that u vigor
Gus rubbing should follow thu
wetting.
1t is the theory of those who
have taken the treatment that it
efficacy lies in the fact that thu
rain drops contain peculiar medi
cinal properties and that, coming
through the air as they do, the,
are charged with electricity
which has direct effect upon thu
body. Physicians who have beef
questioned on the subject say
that the treatment may hav
merits in its application to Ger
tain ills.
1t is out in West Texas that tn
rain cure is the most effective
Out in that section of the stat,
much depends on the amount ant
regularity of the precipitation
When there is an abundance o
rain the people are happy ant
progressive. But when tn
sluice ways of Nature becom
clogged and Old Sol comes u
day after day and slowly an,
witheringly passes across a brass
sky, the hearts of the people be