Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-06-24
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Dr.. H. 1.indlahr Of Chicago Tells Q
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DR.. II. 1ind1shr Of Chicago Tells OF
Emcaoy Of Natures treatment.
Eyes, Nature Cure is all right, but it
takes so long, Almost daily we hear
this or similar expressions. Our an
swer is, mo. it does not take long. 1t
is the swiftest cure in existence" The
trouble is that in sanitarium work we
do not, as a rule, receive any but the
most advanced cases Of so-called in
durable disease. While people have the
least particle of faith in the medicine
bottle, the knife or metaphysical
formula, they do not turn to nature.
The methods necessltate personal eff
fort, self-control, the changing Of cher
ished habits; these are things which
every one Of us evades as long as he
can. mo meat. no coffee. the cold
"blitz-gussv I'd rather died!"
The most dreaded terror on the
threshold" seems to be cold water. I'm
doubtedly, it has kept thousands away
from natural treatment and, thereby,
from the only possible cure for their
chronic ailments. If we could, with
out 'heroic" methods of treatment
still achieve the same results, the side
walks leading to nature cure institu-
tions would be lined with people. At
ter ALL this foolish fear Is entirely
groundless. The cold water is no more
to be feared than babys 'Boogie Man."
1t is one of our fundamental principles
of treatment never to do anything that
is painful to the patient. We always
temper the wind to the shorn lamb"
the water and the manipulations to the
sensitiveness and endurance of the sub
ject. Beginning with mild. alternating
warm and cool sprays, which are pleas
ant and agreeable, we gradually accen-
tuate force and temperture until the
cold "blitz-guss" becomes delightful, a
positive luxury.
1t is amusing to watch the extra
ordinary change in attitude of the pa
tients towards the cold water treat
ment. Many times we have had to
spend hours on earnest persuasion in
order to induce a patient to try the
first mild spray. A few weeks later,
possibly something interfered with the
cold water applications. Indignantly,
the patient would dress and refuse to
take any treatment whatever, If there
was to be no cold water. There GER
tainly is no finer tonic than water, no
more delightful sensation than that
produced by artistic alternating DOUGH-
es and "blitZ" The real cause Of this
cold water scare arises, we believe,
from the bOasting Of the veterans
When, with protruding chest and ele.
waited chins they boastingly tell their
friends of their heroism and of the
sangfroid with which they allow the
cold hose to be turned on them, the
listeners shudder and exclaim, 'This
cold water may be all right for you,
but it would never do for me-" 1t is
doubtless this bravado Of the initiates
which keeps many a novice from the
first plunge into the mysteries of Nat
ure Cure. If the towards only know
what they missed
From a business point Of view 1t
would be better to leave out the cold
water altogether, and it would be much
easier. but the rugged honesty which
accompanies German Nature Cure has
impelled its followers to insist upon
giving the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. everything that is Of bene-
fit to the patient and helpful in max
ing a real cure.
The mode of treatment will depend
upon the object to be accomplished. If
it. is to make the patient feel BETTER"
with the least possible expenditure of
time, money, personal effort and self
control, then manipulations or meta
physical formulas may be sufficient of
themselves, but If the object is to act
ually cure deep-seated chronic diseases
1t will require all methods Of natural
treatment, intelligently combined, and
adapted to the individual case, in or
der to- accomplish results.
Cutting off their heads does not kill
the weeds. The first Improvement in
the treatment Of chronic disease is not
a cure.
An abatement of symptoms is there
fore, not always a permanent cure, the
latter depends entirely on the elinii-
nation of the inner hereditary and &C.
quired constitutional taints and pois-
Ons.
When, under the influence of natural
living and treatment, the body IF the
"chronic" becomes sufficiently purified
and strengthened, there arrives a per-
iod of marked Improvement All symp-
toms gradually abate, the patient gains
In strength, both physically and mental
ay, he feels LAS though there was moth
ing the matter with him, any more"