The San Francisco call., 1907-03-24

PASO ROBLEs. March 2S.-"Great
Scott" says the operator to Walter
Martin, but you give up easy. Why,
I was told in the East that the San
Francisco people didn't perspire at all
that their pores were grown up solid"
Victor the hydropsthic engineer is
from Lakewood. New Jersey, where tbs
said the new hydrotherapy treatment
: is so popular that all the brain workers
and many Of the brain loafers go TO il
; like clockwork. They say they have
some tough cases over there. John y.
Rockefeller, for instance, who takes
IL regularly He uses the last ounce
OF steam and nearly bursts the gauge
before he gives up. Hartman. they
say, isn't so bad. but j. p. Morgan Is
rated slow" ana Vice President Fair
banks is reported as never giving up
at all. They call Il a new disease,
! 'sNewyorkitis." over at Lakewood. and
all the big brokers and the captains of
] finance are running down from New
York City for their weekend tonic"
and q brace-Up for the new week, while
the society leaders and, OF course,
: the followers go down for a longer rest
and patch themselves up SO as to return
70 their dissipation.
And now hydrotherapy has come to
tne coast and society has found It, You
should have seen Walter Martin and
Horace Pillsbury last week, encased in
wood cabinets. side BY side. with iced
towels about their heads, the temper
ature in the box creeping from $50 de-
grees TO zoo degrees. Their beautiful,
pleased expression never failed them.
The regular process is five, ten or ff-
teen minutes in the cabinet" TIL the
victim gives up" and then TO the
douche, an elaborate affair calculated
to hit a man with some kind OF jet
in every part OF his BODY. From be-
meath the canopy and from the four
side rods a thousand needle jets dart
their singing points at The already
psrboilcd skin and the hydrotherapy
engineer stands braveiy at his post.
some twenty feet away, with a watch
fui eye on the clock, the thermometers
and the pressure gauges. lie plays his
valves TO the tune the doctor has set
and from the score which hangs be-
fore him.
u may be like this:
"canopy-2O sec. Temp. 1000 deg.
'.Needle--f0 sec. Temp. 90-75 deg.
s'Fan-20 sec. Temp. S0-65 deg.
'Jet--1O sec. Temp 7060 deg.
or some other combination 70 ft the
nerve tension OF the patient, for the
duccs many kinds Of wine from one
bottle PLAYS his valves for every tenn
pcrature. from ice-cold TO pure steam,
end every pressure from zero 70 fifty
pounds.
An ordinary kind Of sinner gives up
in fho not box" IN ten or fifteen Hin-
utes lhCn twenty seconds under the
needle Jets and his circulation comes
10 tns surface in q hurry The oper-
atot szys. turn around, please" and
a s.ooS-xized fire hose plays twice up
ard down lis back. Again II Is turn
around. please" and the cold fan Jet
cs.osrcles his body. 10 be followed by
-,.c solid stream from the same nozzle
llp and down the spinal column Tor
about ten seconds more. The canopy
ara rttie needle tets still play; every
ling is on, and just as ne clutches the
framework with both hands and Is
Thinking that aii those needles are
really going through TO meet N the
middle. and that Chief Shaughnessy Is
81 the nozzle with No. engine playing
that stream up and down bis back, the
whole thing is over, and the patient