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NEW YORK: 1860. Entered, acoording to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by R. T. TRALL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Davies ure. Hard and impure waters are a prolific source of affections of the liver and kidneys. For invalids it is of especial importance that all the water taken into the stomach be soft and pure. Artificial " mineral waters," and the saline, alkaline, ferruginous, sulphurous compounds of the "medicinal springs," are pernicious beverages for the sick or well. The drugs they contain are no better, and no different in effect, than the same drugs taken from the apothecary shop. Those Water-Cure physicians who permit their patients to use them may be justified in thus yield- ing to popular prejudice; but to 'prescribe them, argues strange igno- rance of Hygiene, or perhaps a worse motive. .—«----------------- FOOD. • Dietetic Rules.—As fruits and farinacea are the natural food of man, preference should always be given to a vegetarian diet, whenever it can be had properly prepared. Those who uso animal food should never eat of it more than once a day; and they should restrict them- selves to the lean flesh of vegetarian animals. 22 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. Milk, and its products—butter and cheese—though favorite articles with many invalids, are in no sense physiological or natural food for adults. A large experience in this matter has convinced me that all in- valids (except infants and young children) can do much better without them. Eggs, rare-boiled, may be placed in this category. The best forms of animal food are beef and mutton, boiled or broiled. Fish, and particularly shell-fish, are among the least nutritious and grossest kinds of animal food. With regard to condiments of all kinds, salt, sugar, vinegar, pepper, spices, etc., the rule is, the less the better. Salt is an indigestible mineral substance, and in no sense dietetical. This last is also true of vinegar. The best seasonings are the saccharine and acid principles of vegeta- bles and fruits, as sugar or syrup, lemon-juice, etc. But even these should be employed in moderation. Among the fruits particularly recommended to invalids are apples, grapes, pears, peaches, cherries, sweet oranges, tomatoes, prunes, berries in their season, squashes, and pumpkins. Of the vegetables we may especially commend potatoes, beans, peas? parsneps, asparagus, spinach, green peas, and green corn. Those whose digestive powers are not much impaired, can partake, without detriment, of cabbage, carrots, turnips, and cucumbers. Invalids, however, in addition to bread and fruit, had better use but one or two vegetables at one meal. As a general rule, breakfast should consist of bread and fruit; dinner, of bread and fruit with vegetables ; and supper, of bread with a small allowance of fruit. Those who use animal food should take it at the noon meal. The breakfast should be light, and supper very light. Those who do not use fruit at dinner, may use a greater proportion of vegetables. Mushes, as wrheaten grits, rice, hominy, corn meal, etc., may be used as a part of the bread-food, at breakfast or supper. But they should always be eaten with a hard cracker, dry crust, parched corn, or something that will insure due mastication and insalivation. Times of Eating.—I do not regard it as of very great importance whether we eat once, twice, or thrice a day, provided we are regular in our habits, and have a proper regard for the time between meals, and the quantity and variety of our viands. I have known patients do very well on a single meal a day. One of my patients—Miss E. M. Hurd, of Sparta, N. J.—who afterward became my student, and is now a physician and the wife of Dr. N. W. Fales, of California, lived on one meal a day for more than a year. When she commenced this plan she WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 23 was an emaciated dyspeptic, but became healthy and fleshy while ad- hering to it. Another graduate of our school—Dr. E. P. Miller, now my associate physician in the New York Water-Cure—has eaten but once a day for a long time. He was also badly dyspeptic when he first adopted the p^an, but is now as fair a specimen of health and activity as can easily be found. I have known hundreds to improve rapidly in changing from three meals a day to two. Probably the majority of invalids, and especially those who are decidedly dyspeptic, will find it beneficial to eat but twice. Those who take three meals a day should take breakfast from 6 to 7 a.m. ; dinner from 12 m. to 1 p.m. ; supper about 6 p.m. Those who eat but twice should take breakfast at about 8 a.m., and the other meal at about 3 p.m. Those who adopt the one-meal-a-day system, should obviously feast about the middle of the day. Preparation of Food.—After all, the most difficult part of the Hygienic system is the management of the dietary. Few persons know anything about hydropathic cooking; and so perverted are the appe- tences of the masses, that to talk to them of physiological victuals is very much like talking to a brandy-toper of the beauties of " clear cold water," or to a tobacco-smoker of the virtues of a pure atmosphere. Bread, which is, or should be, the staff of life, has. by the perversions of flouring-mills and the bakers, become a prolific source of disease and death. Much as the Health Reformers declaim against the abomina- tions of pork, ham, sausages, and lard, as articles of human food, I am of opinion that fine flour, in its various forms of bread, short-cake, butter-biscuits, dough-nuts, puddings, and pastry, is quite as productive of disease as are the grosser elements of the scavenger swine. Nearly all the bread used in civilized society is made of fine or superfine flour, which is always obstructing and constipating, and which is deficient in some of the most important elements of the grain; and it is still further vitiated by fermentation, or by acids and alkalies which are employed to render the bread light. Pure and wholesome bread can have but three ingredients—meal, water, and atmospheric air. The water is only useful in converting the meal into dough; and the atmospheric air serves to expand its particles so as to make light and tender bread. If properly managed, bread can be made as light as ordinary loaf-bread with no other rising than atmospheric air. To effect this, three essentials must be re- garded. 1. The dough must be mixed to a proper consistence—neither too stiff nor too soft. 2. The dough must be cut or rolled into cakes or pieces so as to expose the greatest possible surface to the heat of the oven. 3. The oven must have a brisk or quick fire. The hotter 24 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. the oven—provided it does not burn the dough—when the baking process begins, the lighter will be the bread. The reason is this: The heat, when sufficient, instantly forms a nearly impervious crust over the dough, by which the air is retained, and, expanded by the heat of the oven without being able to escape, separates the particles of the dough, and thus renders the bread light. If the meal is mixed with cold water instead of hot, and allowed to stand and swell for several hours before baking, it will be nearly as light as if mixed with hot water and baked at once. As good bread may be regarded as the great regulator of the patient's dietary, too much pains can not be taken with it. All persons who undertake home-treatment should acquaint themselves with the processes for making it. Bread made in the manner I am about to explain can always be had fresh for each day or each meal, and may be eaten so soon after cooked as sufficiently cooled. It requires but a few minutes of time, and a supply can be made before breakfast for the day. Or a supply can be made for several days. If heated a few minutes, when two or three days old, it has the ten.der- ness and flavor of freshly-made bread. It is still more tender if dipped in cold water and then heated. Bread Rolls.—Mix wheat-meal (Graham flour) with boiling water quickly, by stirring rapidly with a stick or strong iron spoon to make a rather soft dough; as it cools knead it a little with the hands; make the dough into small thin cakes or rolls; prick them to prevent blistering, and bake about twenty minutes in a hot oven. The baker —an iron one is best—should be well dusted with dry meal to prevent sticking. The cakes should be one third of an inch in thickness, and one and a half to two inches wide. When made into rolls (which is the best form, as it exposes the largest surface to the heat and forms a thinner and more tender crust), they should be about the length and thickness of the finger. When a large quantity is required, it is more convenient to make them diamond-shaped. The dough is rolled out, cut in slips an inch and a half or two inches wide, then cross-cut into diamond-shaped cakes. The knife, roller, and board should be kept well covered with dry meal. Fine flour bread may be made light in the same way. But it must be mixed with cold instead of hot water. It requires baking from ten to fifteen minutes. Batter Bread.—Mix wheat-meal with cold water to the con- sistence of ordinary batter for griddle cakes. Pour the batter into WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 25 any convenient baking-dish—the bottom of which should be covered with meal to prevent sticking—and bake in a quick oven. The batter may be half-an inch thick, or so thin as it can be spread. The thin- ner it is the better, although if made very thin a large oven is required to bake much in quantity. For this reason the bread rolls are most convenient for families. An individual who makes bread only for number one, and who does not like the " muss" of working in dough, will find the batter-bread a very convenient article. I have, many a time, made it and had it cooking in a gas stove in less than two minutes from the time I commenced. Wheat-Meal Crisps.—Mix the meal with water, cold, warm, or hot, into a stiff dough; roll it out so thin as possible, and cut into small narrow pieces or strips, and bake in a quick oven. These are excellent for sour stomachs and irritable bowels. Wheat-Meal Crackers.—These differ from the bread rolls in being very dry, hard, and brittle. In order to render them so, the dough is thoroughly kneaded, and then baked in a brick oven till the moisture is entirely evaporated. If kept dry they will retain their sweetness and rich flavor for several weeks. If kept in a very dry and very cool place they will remain good for several months. They are made a little smaller and a little thinner than the Boston cracker of the shops. All traveling invalids should supply themselves with these crackers. Fancher & Miller, No. 15 Laight Street, New York, manufacture them largely, and send them to order to any part of the country. Loaf-Bread.—Very good loaf-bread may be made of six parts of wheat-meal, two parts of corn-meal, and one part of mealy potatoes, mixed with boiling water, and baked in the ordinary way. Rye-Bread Rolls.—Rye-meal (unbolted rye flour) may be made into bread rolls or batter-cakes in the same manner as for wheat-meal bread rolls. They are very light and delicious. Corn-Cake.—Wet coarse-ground Indian-meal with boiling water, roll it into a cake or cakes of half an inch in thickness, and bake in a hot oven. Some prefer this made with cold water, after the manner of the wheaten batter-bread. This is the old-fashioned and ever-to- be-admired " Jonathan-cake"—the "Johnny-cake" of "Down-East." Oat-meal Cakes.—These may be made in the same manner as the wheaten bread rolls. Oat-meal Crisps.—Made in the same manner as the wheaten article. When these are thoroughly dried over a slow fire, they will, if kept in a dry place, remain good for months. Pumpkin Bread.—Stewed and sifted pumpkin, or richly-flavored 2 26 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. winter squash, may be mixed with meal of any kind, and made into bread or cakes, in any of the wrays already mentioned. Frutt Bread.— Stewed apples, pears, peaches, pitted-cherries, black currants, or berries may be mixed with unbolted flour, and made into fruit bread. A little sugar added will convert the article into fruit cake. Snow Bread.—When snow is plenty and clean, a light and beautiful article of bread can be made by adding to flour, or meal, two or three times its bulk of snow, and stirring them together with a strong spoon. It may be baked in the form of a cake or loaf an inch or two inches in thickness. The oven should be quite hot. It will bake in about twenty minutes. A little pulverized sugar, mixed with the flour or meal, will convert this bread into a very short and tender sweet-cake. Griddle Cakes.—Oat-meal, wheat-meal, or corn-meal may be made into a batter by mixing with cold water and baking on a soap- stone griddle. Some prefer hot water for oat-meal. Squash Cakes.—Mix flour or meal with half its bulk of stewed squash, or West-Indian pumpkin; add milk sufficient to make a batter and cook on a griddle. Pastry.—Baker's pastry, and also " home-make pies," as ordinarily manufactured, are among the worst of dietetic abominations. But pastry can be made so as to be not only a luxurious but a wholesome article. Almost any kind of fruit, with a little sugar, and a crust of wheat-meal, or of rye and corn-meal, shortened with mealy potatoes, are all the materials required. Squash, pumpkin, and custard pies require the addition of milk. Puddings. — I regard all these dishes, even when made in the plainest manner possible, as things to be permitted rather than rec- ommended to invalids. They are mushes, made thin, moistened, and baked. Indian-meal, hominy, rice, and wheaten grits are the best farinaceous articles for making puddings. Sago and barley are allowable. Stewed pumpkins, properly sweetened, with a small pro- portion of farina or corn-starch, with or without a little milk, makes a very simple and light dessert that some persons are very fond of. Mushes.—These dishes are preferable to puddings. Wheaten grits and hominy, well boiled, are the best mushes. When wheaten grits are coarse-ground they require boiling five or six hours. For an ordinary family they may be ground in a large-sized coffee-mill; and if ground so fine as convenient,- they will cook in an hour and a half. Rye-meal, Indian-meal, and oat-meal make favorite mushes also. WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 27 Rice should be boiled fifteen to twenty minutes; avoid stirring it so as to break the. kernels; turn off the water, and let it steam fifteen minutes. All mushes, when cold, may be cut into slices, and moderately browned in an oven, when they become so good as new— and even better. Gruels.—These are merely very thin mushes. They are properly regarded as " slop diet" for feeble invalids during convalescence after acute diseases, in cases of obstinate constipation, etc. Wheat-meal, corn-meal, rye-meal, and oat-meal are employed in gruel-making. About two tablespoonfuls of meal are mixed with a gill of cold water, and the mixture is then stirred into a quart of boiling water, and boiled gently fifteen minutes. Rice gruel is useful in some cases of diarrhea. Porridges.—These are intermediate between mushes and gruels. Wheat-meal or oat-meal is usually employed. Half a pound of the meal to a little more than a quart of water is the usual proportion. They require boiling about twenty minutes. Raisins, pitted-cherries, black currants, or dried berries may be added if desired. Soups.—Split-peas, beans, barley, and rice are employed in the pre- parations of hydropathic soups. One pint of split-peas, boiled for three hours, in three quarts of water, makes one of the best soups for vegetarians. Some add a trifle of sugar. Bean soup is made of similar proportions, and then boiled in a covered pan for four or five hours. Rice should be boiled until entirely soft. Barley should be soaked for several hours, and then boiled slowly in a covered pan for four or five hours. Tomato soup, made in the following manner, is a pleasant and wholesome dish: Scald and peel good ripe tomatoes; stew them one hour, and strain through a coarse sieve ; stir in a little wheaten flour to give it body, and brown sugar in the proportion of a teaspoonful to a quart of soup ; boil five minutes. Okra, or gumbo, is a good addition to this and other soups. Boiled Grains.—Wheat, rice, hulled corn, and samp boiled until the kernels are entirely soft but not broken nor dissolved, rank next to bread in wholesomeness. They may be eaten with syrup, sauce, sugar, milk or cream, or fruit. Apple Dumplings.—Mix boiled mealy potatoes with flour into a dough; roll it out to a little less than one fourth of an inch in thick- ness; inclose in each dumpling a medium-sized apple, previously pared and cored, and boil or bake about an hour. Rice Apple Pudding Without Milk.—Boil rice till nearly done, then stir in sliced tart apples, and cook about twenty minutes. Boiled Indian Pudding.—Wet coarse corn-meal with boiling 28 WATER-CrRE FOR THE MILLION. water, add a little sugar or molasses, tie the pudding in a bag, leaving room for it to swell, and boil three or four hours. Apple Jonathan.—Fill a baking-dish two thirds full of sliced tart apples, sweeten to taste; mix wheat-meal with water and.milk (a little cream will make the crust more tender) into a batter, and pour over the fruit until the dish is filled; bake until the crust is well ^ browned. Rich Apple Pudding.—Take equal quantities of very tart apples, well stewed and sweetened, and bread rolls or crackers, previously soaked soft in cold water; mix them and heat them thoroughly for a few minutes. Any tart fruit will answer in the above. Crisped Potatoes.—Boil good, sound mealy potatoes till a little more than half cooked; then peel them, and bake in a hot oven till moderately browned. Potato Shortening.—Pare and boil good mealy potatoes, choos- ing those which are of an even size; pour off the water, and sift, while hot, through a wire sieve. An equal quantity added to flour makes the best shortening in the world for bread, pastry, cakes, etc. A little cream added makes a richer but less wholesome article. Animal Foods.—As I never recommend animal food to invalids, although I sometimes tolerate the use of it in special cases, my remarks under this head may be very limited. Beef-steak, without butter or gravy, is perhaps the very best kind of flesh-food. Slightly corned beef, boiled until it is quite tender, is also admissible. Mutton chops, broiled, or the lean part of mutton, boiled, ranks next to fresh beef in wholesomeness. Eggs are not materially different in this respect. To cook them so hygienically as possible, pour boiling water on them, and let them remain on top of the stove, or near the fire, but not allowed to boil, for seven to ten minutes. Chicken, boiled or broiled, is next in order; and lastly, fish which are not oily, as cod, halibut, trout, perch, etc. Milk is rarely admissible. With dyspeptic, bilious, and rheumatic invalids it is decidedly objectionable. Nor should persons affected with constipated bowels, or profuse dis- charges of any kind, use it at all. Butter and cheese should be out of the question, although cream and curd may be allowed. EXERCISE, " Little and often," is the rule for most invalids. All exercises should begin and end moderately. The kinds of exercises should be as varied as possible, so as to bring into action all the muscles of the WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 29 system. Long walks should be alternated with frequent runs and occasional rests. The most severe exercises should be taken in the early part of the day. Those who are able should take moderately active exercise before bathing (except in case of the morning bath taken on first rising), and still more active exercise immediately after each bath. A morning walk or ride before breakfast is always desirable. Calisthenic, gymnastic, and kinesipathic exercises and manipulations, except in their mildest forms, should only be taken when the stomach is nearly empty. Regularity is of great import- ance. Feeble invalids should commence all exercises very moder- ately, and gradually increase them in time and severity. Whenever much fatigued, rest or a change of exercise is advisable. Invalids should not get so fatigued as to be restless in consequence during the night, nor so much so that a night's rest will not remove all its disagreeable feelings. Those who can not go into the open air will derive great benefit from exercising in their rooms with the windows open. Dancing and the dumb-bells are among the most convenient in-door exercises. As exercise develops strength, the weakest muscles should be exercised the most; but if very weak, passive exercises should be principally employed for awhile, as rubbing, kneading, riding, sailing, etc. Invalids who do not react well after bathing^ should be well rubbed over with a dry sheet by the hands of an attendant, and afterwards by the bare hands. Examples of all kinds of calisthenic and gymnastic exercises, illustrated with cuts, may be found in the author's "Family Gymnasium," published by Fowler & Wells, 308 Broadway, New York. VENTILATION. All persons generally, and invalids particularly, should be very careful in having an abundant supply of pure air. This is very apt to be neglected in sleeping apartments. In sitting-rooms, warmed by the hot-air stove or furnace, the air is rapidly contaminated unless special attention is paid to ventilation. Indeed, no room is fit to sit nor sleep in unless there is some inlet for the fresh air, and an outlet for the impure air. In fevers and other acute diseases, fresh air should in all weathers be freely admitted into the sick room; and in putrid, infec- tious, and contagious disorders, as yellow fever, small-pox, etc., the supply should be abundant. Invalids will find it an excellent practice to ventilate the lungs each morning before breakfast, by half a dozen or more deep inspirations and prolonged expirations. 30 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. LIGHT. The importance of light, as a remedial agent, is not sufficiently appreciated. Nearly all forms of disease are more severe and un- manageable in low, dark apartments. Many persons who live in elegant and expensively furnished houses so darken many of the rooms, in order to save the furniture, as to render the air in them very unwholesome. The scrofulous humors which prevail among those inhabitants of our cities who live in rear buildings and under- ground apartments, sufficiently attest the relation between sunshine and vitality. Invalids should seek the sunlight as do the flowers— care being taken to protect the head wrhen the heat is excessive. Exposing the whole skin in a state of nudity, frequently, to the air, and even to the rays of the sun, is a very invigorating practice. For scrofulous persons this is particularly serviceable. CLOTHING. The physiological rule is, the less clothing the better, provided the body is kept comfortable. It should never be worn so tightly as to impede, in the least degree, the free motions of the body and limbs. Especially must it be loose and easy around the chest and hips, so as not to interfere with the action of the vital organs in respiration. Flannel garments next to the skin are objectionable. In very cold weather, thicker outside garments, or more of them, may be worn; but flannel under-shirts and drawers tend to make the skin weak and susceptible to colds. Invalids who are accustomed to them should leave them off in the spring or early part of summer, and so in- vigorate the skin by bathing, etc., that they will feel no necessity for them the ensuing winter. SLEEP. Invalids generally do not sleep enough. The importance of sound, quiet, and -sufficient sleep can not be too highly estimated, as may be inferred from the physiological fact, that it is during sleep that the structures are repaired. The materials of nutrition are digested and elaborated during the day; but assimilation—the formation of tissue —only takes place during sleep, when the external senses are in WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 31 repose. Literary persons require more sleep, other circumstances being equal, than those who pursue manual-labor occupations. If the brain is not duly replenished, early decay, dementation, or in- sanity will result. The rule for invalids is, to retire early, and remain so long in bed as they can sleep quietly. If their dietetic and other habits are correct, this plan will soon determine the amount of sleep which they require. Gross, indigestible, and stimulating food, heavy or late suppers, etc., necessitate a longer time in bed, for the reason that the sleep is less sound. And for the same reason, nervine and stimulating beverages, as tea and coffee, prevent sound and refreshing sleep, and thus wear out the brain and nervous system prematurely. Those who are inclined to be restless, vapory, or dream- ing, during the night, should not take supper. BEDS AND BEDDING. All bedding should be so hard, and all bed-clothing should be so light, as a due regard to comfort will permit. Feather beds are ex- ceedingly debilitating. Hair, grass, husk, chip, straw, etc., mattresses, made soft and elastic, are the proper materials to sleep on in warm weather. In winter a light cotton mattress may also be employed. BODILY POSITIONS. Avoid crooked bodily positions in walking, sitting, working, or sleeping. Always bend the body on the hip joints; never- by crook- ing the trunk. Never lean forward while sitting so as to compress the stomach and lungs. Do not sleep on high pillows. Children are often injured and the spines distorted by this habit. Invalids who are so distorted, or so feeble that they can not keep the erect position in sitt;ng but a few minutes at a time, should change their position frequently—walk, sit, and lie down, etc., so often as either position becomes painful. NIGHT-WATCHING. The usual custom and manner of wratching with the sick is very reprehensible. If any persons in the world need quiet and undis- turbed repose, it is those who are laboring under fevers and other acute diseases. But with a light burning in the room, and one or 32 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. more persons sifting by, and reading, talking, or whispering, this is impossible. The room should be darkened, and the attendant should quietly sit or lie in the same or in an adjoining room, so as to be within call if anything is wanted. In an extreme case, the attendant can frequently step lightly to the bedside, to see if the patient is doing well; but all noise, and all light should be excluded, except on emergencies. It is a common practice with watchers to awaken the patient whenever he inclines to sleep too soundly. But this is un- necessary, because when the respiration becomes very laborious, the patient will awaken spontaneously. Under the drug-medical dis- pensation the custom is to stuff the patient, night and day, with victuals, drink, or medicines, every hour or oftener, so that any con- siderable repose is out of the question. But, fortunately for man- kind, the Hygienic system regards sleep as more valuable than the whole of them. FRICTION. Friction, more or less active, is desirable after all ordinary baths, except in cases of fevers and acute inflammations. And in some cases of tumors, enlarged joints, and torpid muscles, active and prolonged rubbing, in promoting absorption and increasing the circulation, greatly assists the curative process. Many of the cures of these affections performed by specialists, in which cases thorough hand- rubbing is conjoined with the use of liniments, decoctions, and other medicamentums, are attributable mainly if not wholly to the friction employed. Wens, chronic swellings from sprains or bruises, etc., have been cured by the rubbing process. ELECTRICITY. There are two kinds of electrical force, mechanical and chemical. The former is the ordinary machine electricity, which operates mainly by producing shocks which agitate the motive fibers. It is quite analogous to friction in its effect, and is hence sometimes called friction-electricity. It is a convenient method for exercising, in many cases, particular sets of muscles, or exciting action in some particular organ or part; and to this extent is a useful remedial agent. WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 33 GALVANISM. This is generated by alternate layers of metallic plates of opposite electrical natures. It is a powerful chemical agent, and as such is extensively employed in the arts. Its chemical action enables it to effect, to some extent, the decomposition of foreign and effete matters in the-fluids and tissues of the living system, and thus favor their elimination. The galvanic current will often excite action and sensibility in semi-paralyzed muscles and nerves, and is sometimes successfully resorted to for the purpose of allaying rheumatic and neuralgic pains. The galvanic battery in connection with the warm bath in the form of the electro-chemical bath, is probably the most convenient and efficient method of employing the galvanic influence as a depurating agent. MAGNETISM. Whatever may be the intrinsic nature of the mysterious property known as animal magnetism, and whatever may be its relation to the life-principle, it is certainly capable, under certain circumstances, of exercising a powerful influence over the vital functions. The salutary effects of a cheerful disposition, a hopeful mind, and a healthy organism, upon the minds and bodies of invalids, are well known to physicians. Many persons are exceedingly susceptible to the influence of magnetism, while others can with great difficulty be impressed at all. In some cases it will quiet pain and restlessness, and produce sleep more effectually than opiates ; and in rare cases it can be made an efficient anesthetic agent to suspend sensibility, so that surgical operations can be performed without pain. Its laws, however, are not yet sufficiently understood to enable us to reduce its remedial applications to any very definite rules. CLEANLINESS. Few persons seem to have a proper idea of the full import of this term. Being next to godliness the term, cleanliness, implies perfect purity in all our mental and organic relations. Many persons who are exceedingly nice and fastidiously neat in their attentions to the externaLskin, and in the matters of apparel, bedding, rooms, furniture, 34 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. etc., are, notwithstanding, extremely heedless in regard to internal conditions and external surroundings. They will continually take into their stomachs and lungs such aliments and miasms as poison the blopd and befoul the secretions; while they will permit the elements of contagion to accumulate to any extent in their cellars, yards, cess- pools, and out-buildings. I have known half a dozen members of a family to be prostrated with typhus fever, the chief cause being stagnant water and rotting vegetables in the cellar. Offal and garbage —dead and decomposing vegetable and animal matters of all kinds— in or around any dwelling, are a prolific source of disease. The hog-pen of many of our farmers causes more strange, putrid, and even fatal diseases than most persons suspect. I can hardly conceive of a fouler concentration of malignant and pestilent miasms than those which always emanate from a den of swine while undergoing the process of fattening. If folks will persist in keeping piggeries, they should be located so far from the dwelling-house that the abominable stench thereof will not be offensive to noses polite. PRACTICAL HINTS FOR HOME-TREATMENT. Simple Fevers.—When the heat is great and uniform over the whole surface, the wet-sheet pack is the best process, to be repeated so often as the heat increases. If the heat is moderate, tepid-ablutions are sufficient. When the heat is unequal, apply warm applications to the extremities, and cold or cool ablutions wherever there is abnormal heat, aiming, always, to equalize the temperature. If the diathesis of the fever is very low, do not use the wet-sheet pack nor very cold water, except locally where there is disproportionate heat; but rely mainly on tepid ablutions, with such local warm or cold applications as the particular symptoms demand. In intermittent and remittent fevers, apply the wet-sheet pack only at the height of the hot stage. At the commencement of the cold stage, the full warm-bath, or the warm sitz and foot-bath are useful. Whenever the patient perspires profusely, and is quite warm, sponge the surface with tepid water; if the sweat is cold and clammy, rub the surface gently with warm soft flannel cloths. The bowels should be freely moved at the outset with injections of tepid water; and subsequently whenever there is trouble- some fullness or hardness of the bowels. Diarrhea may be allayed with warm sitz-baths and small enemas of cold water. Griping pains and local congestions may be relieved by fomentations, followed by cold wet compresses well covered with dry cloths. Retention or WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 35 suppression of urine requires alternate warm and cold applications, as does tympanitic affections of the abdomen. Eruptive Fevers.—Small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, erysipelas, etc., are to bo treated on the same general plan as simple fevers. When the throat is much affected in scarlet fever, cold wet cloths should be constantly applied. In the malignant form, commonly called "putrid sore throat," or "diptheria," it is sometimes necessary to use very cold water, or pounded ice, in order to arrest at once the process of disorganization. Bits of ice, or sips of iced-water, may be frequently taken into the mouth. In the malignant forms of small- pox and erysipelas the intense irritation of the surface may be allayed by the application of dry flour. This is good also to prevent pitting in small-pox. In measles, when the cough is tight and troublesome, the chest-wrapper should be applied. Visceral Inflammations.—These affections, pathologically re- garded, are fevers with a disproportionate local affection. So far as the fever is concerned, it is to be managed precisely on the plan recommended for simple fevers. The local affection requires some- thing special, which is usually a cold wet cloth. In inflammation of the brain (brain fever), very cold water or ice should be applied to the head, with warm applications to the feet. Inflamed eyes should be covered lightly with a cloth wet in water of a temperature that feels most agreeable for the time. Inflamed ears should have cold treatment at first; but when the pain becomes of a throbbing kind, indicative of suppuration, warm-water fomentations should be applied. In inflammation of the tonsils (quinsy) of the larynx (laryngitis or throat-ail), and of the trachea (croup), cold wet cloths should be constantly applied around the throat, and often changed until the local heat and pain are entirely abated. In inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), the chest-wrapper is appropriate. In inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), spleen (splenitis), stomach (gastritis), bowels (enteritis), kidneys (nephritis), bladder (cystitis), and uterus (metritis), the wet-girdle should be applied around the abdomen, or wet towels laid over the abdomen. In these cases, too, moderately cool hip- baths are useful. Influenza.—This is a low fever with passive inflammation and great congestion of the lungs. The pain is not severe, but the breathing is very much oppressed. Keep the feet warm, and the head cool; apply the chest-wrapper, wet with tepid water, and sponge the whole surface occasionally with tepid water. Asthma.__A majority of cases are attributable to a morbid enlarge- ment of the liver, or spleen, or both. The wet-girdle, frequent hip- 36 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. baths are indicated. The pack and douche are proper for persons of robust constitutions. The diet should be very abstemious. Catarrh.—This is a chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose and frontal sinuses. It is obstinate, and has its origin in a diseased stomach or liver. The dietary can not be too plain, and must be abstemious. Butter and milk are particularly objectionable. Hip and foot baths are always useful; a morning ablution, half-bath, pack-plunge, or douche may be taken, according to the vigor of the external circulation. The wet-girdle is generally advisable. Bowel Complaints.—Colics, choleras, diarrheas, and dysentery constitute what are commonly known as bowel complaints. When there is much heat in the abdomen, with tenderness, increased on pressure, several folds of cold wet cloths should be applied. If the sense of heat is trifling -and the pain not increased on pressure, and if the pain is of the griping or aching rather than the acute or burning kind, warm applications or fomentations should be applied, and warm water given as drink. When there is nausea or retching, warm water should be drank freely until the distress is relieved or vomiting is induced. The bowels, in the outset, shonld be freely evacuated by means of tepid injections, after which small quantities of cool or cold water should be occasionally injected. When there is a sense of burning heat in the stomach, as in the spasmodic cholera, bits of ice may be frequently swallowed. In the latter stage of choleras the hot- bath, followed by tepid ablutions and persevering friction, should be resorted to. Ordinary diarrheas are relieved by the warm hip-bath. When dysentery is malignant with low typhoid fever, the warm-bath and fomentations are necessary, to be followed, if the pain and heat of the abdomen increase, by cold applications. When the tenesmus is very distressing, injections of tepid water and prolonged tepid hip- baths are necessary. The whole surface, in all of these complaints, should be packed, or bathed frequently with tepid, cool, or cold water, according to the temperature, as in the cases of fever and inflamma- tions. Spasmodic Diseases.—The convulsions of children are almost in- variably caused by constipated bowels; and the principal remedy is, therefore, copious enemas to move the bowels freely. Epileptic fits are attributable, in most cases, to obstructions in some of the organs, hence the most important part of the remedial plan relates to the dietary and the action of the bowels. During the paroxysm little can be done except to keep the patient from injuring himself. During the in- tervals, ablutions, hip and foot baths are usually indicated. Hysteric spasms can often be arrested promptly by means of cold applications WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 37 to the head and fomentations to the abdomen. In those more formi- dable manifestations of convulsive disease, tetanus and hydrophobia, we have had as yet but little opportunity to test the efficacy of water- treatment. I have, however, great faith in alternate warm and cold bathingj and in the prolonged tepid half-bath. This plan is excellent in cases of delirium tremens. Gout and Rheumatism.—These diseases are essentially inflamma- tory affections of the-joints with more or less constitutional feverish- ness. The febrile disturbance is to be treated according to its type and diathesis, as in all other forms of fever. The affected joints should be constantly covered with wet bandages, very frequently renewed, and continued till the heat, swelling, and pain are entirely abated. After the acute stage has subsided, the douche is useful. There is no danger whatever that the external application of cold water to gouty or rheumatic joints will cause the disease to " strike in," and go to the heart, brain, or lungs. These metastases are always the result of bleeding, colchicum, niter, mercury, antimony, or other reducing agents and processes. The diet should in all cases be abstemious. Rheumatic patients who have been severely salivated can not bear very cold treatment; and gouty patients who have been bled freely, should always be treated with water of a very mild temperature. Consumption.—In the incipient stages, provided the patient has not been exhausted by prior diseases, as dyspepsia, hemoptysis, spermatorrhea, mismensturation, repelled eruptions, etc., and has not been bled nor drugged much, the wet-sheet pack, followed by a moderate douche, is borne with advantage. In other cases the tepid half-bath must be substituted. The chest-wrapper should be worn constantly when there is much heat in and about the lungs. Hip and foot baths are always useful as derivatives; and in the latter stages we must depend on these with tepid ablutions, so far as bathing is concerned. When hectic fever attends, so that the patient is chilly in the morning and feverish in the latter part of the day, he should bathe only during the hot stage. If troubled at night, the bedding should be very light, and a tepid sponge-bath taken at bedtime. All exercises should have special reference to expanding the chest so much as possible; and the diet must be extremely simple and rather abstemious. A little of the "hunger-cure" would be no disadvantage to most con- sumptives. If the lungs are greatly obstructed with tubercles or abscesses, so that respiration is very much impeded, very little food can be used, and more than this becomes an additional burden. It is true that ninety-nine physicians of every hundred prescribe exactly 38 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. the contrary plan, and recommend their patients to increase the quantity of food as the respiratory function is diminished. But I think that the uniform result of their prescriptions'—death—is pre- sumptive evidence that their plan of treatment is exactly the contrary of what it should be. Cachexies.—Scrofula, in its various forms of humors and tumors, glandular enlargements, white swelling, cutaneous eruptions, fever Bores, rickets, lumbar abscess, hip-disease, otitis, ophthalmia, etc., as well as plethora, scurvy, elephantiasis, cancer, etc., require, all the appliances of purification and invigoration that can be brought to bear upon the system. Plenty of pure air, abundant sunshine, and out-door exercises are to be allowed especial prominence in the remedial plan. The diet should be rigidly physiological. Bathing, as in all cases, must be governed by the temperature of the patient, the rule being to have all applications so cool as may be without being very disagreeable to the patient. Ulcers and swellings are to be covered with wet bandages. The dripping-sheet and half-bath are well adapted to a majority of cachectic patients. The electro-chemical baths are also useful. The air-bath is admirable in these cases. Fine flour and fermented bread should be excluded from the dietary. The majority of the food taken should be hard and solid, so as to secure thorough mastication. Wheat-meal crackers, parched corn, oat-meal crisps, and uncooked apples are to be specially commended to this class of invalids. Hemorrhages.—Bleeding from the nose (epistaxis), stomach (hematemesis), lungs (hemoptysis), kidneys (hematuria), uterus (menorrhagia), and bowels (hemorrhoids), require cold applications to or near the part, a quiet recumbent posture, free exposure to cool air, occasional sips of cold or iced-water, and a very spare diet. The extremities should be kept warm, and the surface clothed according to its temperature. Apoplexy.—Cold cloths to the head, or the pouring head-bath, warm applications to the feet, tepid ablutions to the whole surface, and copious enemas to free the bowels, constitute the remedial plan. The head should be well raised. Palsy.—Palsy of one side (hemiplegia), is connected more particu- larly with diseases of the liver and spleen. Palsy of the lower extremities (paraplegia) is generally the result of injuries to the spine, or of constipation and fecal accumulations; and palsy of a particular set of muscles (particular palsy) is almost always the result of mineral or narcotic poisons. The electro-chemical baths are more or less useful in all of these forms of paralysis. In a majority of cases WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 39 the wet-sheet pack, warm, tepid, or cool, is useful. In the more feeble cases we must rely on tepid ablutions and friction. The dietary recommended for cachectic patients will apply to the paralytic. Dyspepsia.—Plain solid food, water-drinking according to thirst, horseback-riding, climbing mountains, dancing the schottisch, with the morning ablution and half-bath, and a hip-bath once or twice a-day, are the things to be commended to the attention of dyspeptic invalids. If constipation of the bowels exist, a tepid enema should be taken every morning until they are disposed to act without it. Two meals a-day are better than more for the majority of dyspeptics. All greasy things should be avoided; vinegar should not be used at all; and sugar, except in very small quantities with fruit, is especially objectionable. Sour stomach and water-brash require a dry diet. When there is pain or heat after meals, the wet-girdle should be worn. The sense of " goneness," so often complained of, is best relieved by . abdominal manipulations and the wet-girdle. Liver Complaint.—Wear the wet-girdle during the night when the weather is cold, and during the day when it is warm. In other respects treat it as for dyspepsia. Jaundice.—The electro-chemical baths are very serviceable.. The tepid half-bath, with the dripping-sheet and the dry rubbing-sheet, are the other bathing processes most commonly indicated. Nervous Debility.—This is generally the combined result of dyspepsia, liver complaint, jaundice, and drug-medication. Sometimes it is caused by spermatorrhea, and occasionally by leucorrhea. A mild course of bathing, with gentle exercises, pleasant avocations, and a strict regimen, are the essentials of the restorative plan. Spinal Irritation.—This is also the result of the combination of circumstances just named. Treat it as for nervous debility. Neuralgia.—Generally the consequence of mineral or narcotic drugs. The electro-chemical baths, and warm, tepid, cool, or cold bathing, as either proves the most sedative in the particular case, constitute the leading measure of treatment. Sometimes very warm, and at other times very cold, water will relieve the pain. Worms.—Restrict the patient's diet to wheat-meal bread or crackers, hominy, parched corn, and uncooked fruit, avoiding all saccharine and greasy things, and the worms will not long molest the bowels. Rashes and Eruptions.—These should never be "cured," or rather repelled, with ointments, astringents, irritants, sulphur, mercu- rials, etc., as the consequence is often disastrous and always injurious. 40 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. A judicious plan of dieting and bathing will purify the blood, and then they will disappear. Burns and Scalds.—Instantly cover the part with dry flour. If the pain does not soon subside, apply cold wet cloths, gradually increasing the temperature as the inflammation subsides. Coughs and Colds.—Take a hot-bath at bedtime, and a wet-sheet pack in the morning; move the bowels with an enema, and fast for twenty-four hours. If inclined to chilliness, remain in a comfortably warm room, and keep the feet quite warm. Dropsies.—As with consumptive diseases, dropsical affections are generally easily cured in their incipient stages, and with difficulty afterward. When supervening on long-continued chronic diseases, a ' cure is almost impossible. Especial attention must be directed to the action of the skin. Packs, when the temperature will admit, the rubbing-sheet, and the dry-blanket pack, are the measures usually indicated. Asphyxia.—Whether induced by non-respirable gases, drowning, or narcotics, the main indication is to inflate the lungs. Place the patient in the sitting position, pull the tongue forward so as to prevent the closure of the glottis, and imitate the natural respiratory efforts by alternately raising and depressing the arms, at the rate of fifteen times a minute. Gentle compression against the abdominal muscles, while the arms are being elevated, assists expiration. This plan should be persevered in for some time before abandoning the case as hopeless. When insensibility has been induced by narcotic drugs, anesthetic agents, or a shock of electricity, the pouring head- bath and the cold ablution are advisable. Mismenstruation.—In painful menstruation the wet-girdle, tepid hip-baths, hot and cold foot-baths, and alternate warm and tepid intra-uterine injections are proper. For pale, feeble, anemic patients, the warm sitz-baths, fomentations, and the full hot-bath are often necessary. Obstructed menses require frequent tepid hip-baths, the wet-girdle, and active exercises in the open air. Excessive menstru- ation requires quiet, cool hip-baths and an abstemious diet. In severe cases very cold water should be injected, or pieces of ice applied. Chlorotic females should have a daily ablution, and abundant exercise in the open air. They should regard sunshine as the very best kind of " blood-food." Leucorrhea.—Frequent hip-baths and vaginal injections with water so cool as can be borne without disagreeable chilliness, and a plain abstemious diet, are the specialties of treatment. Spermatorrhea.—A rigidly simple and abstemious diet, with mod- WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 41 erately cool hip-baths two or three times a day, and strict attention to the general regimen, are essential. Venereal Diseases.—Gonorrhea and syphilis can always be promptly cured by judicious water-treatment. In secondary venereal affections the electro-chemical baths are very useful. Inflammations, ulcerations, swelling of the glands, etc., should be treated on the general plan applicable to such morbid conditions when resulting from other causes. When chancres exist, the surface should be de- stroyed by some powerful caustic to prevent the generation of in- fectious matter. Gleet requires warm local bathing at first, gradually reducing the temperature as the discharge subsides. In persons of gross habits and debilitated constitutions, the full warm-bath, followed by the wet-sheet pack, is the best purifying process. The ordinary drug-treatment for this class of diseases is, taken altogether, vastly more injurious to the constitution than the diseases would be if left entirely to themselves. There is no truth whatever in the popular notion, that mercury is a "specific" or an "antidote" for venereal infection. Poisons.—In a strict sense, everything which is not food is poison. Drugs and medicines of all kinds, whether derived from the animal, mineral, or vegetable kingdom, are poisons, and nothing else. So are all simple elements. Every chemical, substance in the universe is a poison to the living organism. So are many organic products, as tobacco, lobelia, henbane, opium, etc. All of the acid, alkaline, earthy, and mineral ingredients—sulphur, iron, iodine, etc.—which are found in " medicinal springs"—are so many poisons. The rule to determine whether a substance has a normal or abnormal relation to the living organism—whether it is a food or a poison—is simply this: If it is usable in the normal processes—if it is convertible into tissue- it is food; if not, it is abnormal and poisonous. The poisons more immediately dangerous to life are the strong acids and alkalies, as aqua-fortis, oil of vitriol, muriatic and oxalic acids, potash, etc.; the corrosive mineral salts and oxyds, as arsenic, tartar-emetic, corrosive sublimate, etc.; and the narcotics, as opium, prussic acid, strychnine, aconite, etc. , . . v It is not generally known, and very few physicians seem to be aware of the fact, that calomel, when taken into the system, is very liable to be converted into corrosive sublimate. In this way an ordinary dose of calomel may produce fatal effects. Thousands are killed in this way, neither patient nor physician suspecting the cause of death There are many substances in the system, resulting from the continual changes of the organic elements, which are capable of 42 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. thus converting a mild preparation of mercury into one of the in- tensest poisons known. Free chlorine will do this, and this is readily furnished by common salt. No person, therefore, who uses salt as a dietetic article, and who takes mercury in any form, can have any assurance that corrosive sublimate will not destroy his life. Many persons have been severely salivated, and. others have died very suddenly and mysteriously, soon after taking very small doses of calomel, blue-pill, and other mild preparations of mercury. I re- spectfully commend these facts to the serious attention of the mercurial doctors, and to the solemn reflections of their patients. The general remedial plan in all cases of poisoning is the stomach- pump, if at hand, or if not, free vomiting, induced by the swallowing of as much warm water as possible, and irritating the throat with a feather or the finger. Acids will neutralize the alkalies, and vice versa; but it seldom happens that these things are at hand. The effects of arsenic and corrosive sublimate may be to some extent neutralized by the administration of albumen or gluten; hence the white of egg, milk, and wheaten flour are useful. Acrid drugs, as cayenne pepper, phosphorous, alcohol, mustard, horse-radish, cloves, etc., excite inflammation. The nervines, as tea and coffee, and those narcotics which combine nervine and stimulating properties, as all forms of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, opium, camphor, etc., are fast undermining the stamina of human constitutions all over the civilized world, and threaten, at no distant day, either to exterminate the race, or to reduce all the nations of -the earth to barbarism. The worst bane of our country is undoubtedly tobacco. Its use is rapidly in- creasing among the young men and boys of this land, contaminating their instincts, depraving thejr passions, poisoning their life's blood. wasting their vitality, deteriorating their whole organism, checking their development, and rendering them gross, filthy, sensual, and imbecile. And the medical profession, I am sorry to say, teach and commend, by their theories, examples, and practices, the doctrines which lead directly and necessarily to liquor-drinking and tobacco- using. They mistake stimulation for nutrition; and under this delusion they are leading the world into the wrays of drunkenness, debauchery, sensuality, and all their ruinous consequences. They teach that alcohol—and the same is equally true of tobacco, opium, tea, coffee, and all other poisons which possess nervine, or combine nervine with narcotic and stimulating properties—sustains or supports vitality, or imparts something to the system whose action or effect is a substitute for food ; and on this false assumption they prescribe it for nearly all the maladies which flesh is heir to. It will be difficult, I WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 43 apprehend, to bring the masses of the people up to the total-abstinence principle so long as their physicians, backed by the standard authori- ties on chemistry and physiology, teach this pernicious error. It is the clearest logical proposition in the world, that if alcohol possesses this vitalizing power, the temperance people are all in the wrong; 'and if the temperance folks are right in denouncing alcohol as a poison, the doctors are as certainly wrong in pronouncing it a " res- piratory food," or a " supporter of vitality." If it is a poison, it can not support vitality in any sense nor under any circumstances. If it can impart or support vitality, or supply to the system any necessary element of nutrition, it is not a poison. For a full discussion of this subject I refer the reader to a small work I hav.e written entitled, " The Alcoholic Controversy." POPULAR OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. 1. " Water-treatment is too slow for dangerous and violent dis- eases." Answer. It is the most speedy method of curing all diseases in the known world. 2. " It is too harsh for feeble persons." A. It is the mildest plan of treatment ever invented. 3. "It is troublesome, and too much like work." A. Health is worth working for. It is very convenient to take medicine, and very easy to die. A few drops of prussic acid would kill an invalid in five minutes, but long years of toil might be required to restore him to health. But which would the wise man choose ? 4. " Pale, weak, and bloodless invalids can not bear cold water." A. Nor should they take it. Such persons need warm or tepid applications. 5. " It shocks the system and disturbs the circulation, thus con- ducing to organic diseases of the heart." A. Nonsense. If too cold or too severe processes are employed, the result will be internal congestion and debility. But all this is un- necessary. 6. "Cold applications to inflamed, gouty, and rheumatic joints tend to drive the disease inward upon the vital organs." A. Nonsense again. They are just the things to keep it on the surface. Gouty and rheumatic affections are never struck in upon the brain, heart, or lungs, except in persons who have been reduced by bleeding or poisoned with drugs. 44 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 7. " In skin diseases the application of cold water tends to repel the lad humors to the internal organs. A. Not so. Humors of all kinds naturally tend to the surface, and cold applications increase such determination, whenever there is pre- ternatural heat. When repelled from the surface, it is always by depleting processes or poisonous drugs. 8. " Some persons have tried the wet-sheet pack, shower-bath, etc., with manifest injury; they did not react." A. Very true. But it was malpractice with them. Either the patients were not in condition for such appliances, or the practitioner who advised them did not .understand his business. 9. " The dietary—mostly vegetable—is too low and meagre to suit all constitutions." A. It is the most nourishing diet that can be found. 10. "You exclude tea, coffee, etc., which to many persons are a necessity." A. They are no more so than alcohol and tobacco are to others. We take away all stimulants for the reason that they do not give strength, but waste it. 11. "Persons who live according to your system until they get well, are obliged to continue the system, or they are liable to get sick again." A. And so they should be. A reformed drunkard can remain sober no longer than he lets intoxicating drink alone. Our system does not propose to avoid the penalties or disobedience to nature's laws. It is predicated on oledience to them. 12. "It deprives persons of many good things they are accustomed to." A. Habit is poor authority for what is good or bad. Our system prohibits nothing that is intrinsically good; but it opposes all false habits and morbid appetences—everything, in short, which is itself a cause of disease. 13. " The great majority of regular physicians oppose it." A. Because it opposes them. Its universal adoption would be the ruii. of the medical profession. 14. "Some Water-Cure physicians give medicine; others pretend to give none. Who shall decide when doctors disagree ?" A. Refer to first principles. Our system is Hygienic, not medicinal He who practices drug medication is not a true Water-Cure physician, no matter what his pretensions may be. 15. " Why can not physicians, who are in possession of all the lore the profession has accumulated for three thousand years, judge of the merits of your system as well as you can V WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 45 A. Because they do not investigate it. 16. " Water-Cure, vegetarianism, and such new-fangled notions, expose one to ridicule." A. Unanswerable. You are right for once. ONE HUNDRED REMARKABLE CASES. Case 1. — Dyspepsia with Extreme Emaciation. — Theodore Tweedy, of Danbury, Conn., aged 20, having become dyspeptic and undergone the usual routine of drug-treatment, was reduced to extreme debility and emaciation. His physicians and friends thought he could not live without stimulants, and he was brought to my establishment under the influence of extra doses of brandy and opium. At this time he weighed only seventy-five pounds—his ordinary weight being one hundred and forty. He was so pale, torpid, and bloodless that no amount of bed-clothing could keep him warm, and he was obliged to have a bedfellow. His appetite was excessively morbid and wholly ungovernable, so that I was obliged to stipulate his allowance of food. In a few weeks his circulation began to improve; in a few months he had gained five pounds of solid flesh. His improvement was steady, and after following up home-treatment one year he became a plump, rosy-faced, and healthy young man, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds. Case 2.—Spinal Injury with Paraplegia.—Dr. John B. Elwood, of Rochester, N. Y. (ex-mayor of that city), aged 54, while spending a winter in Florida, by a misstep fell down a long flight of stairs, and so injured the spine as to cause paralysis of the lower extremities, and sub-paralysis of the lower half of the body. In a few months he recovered so much as to be able to walk a very little; after which he began to fail. Caustics and issues were applied for a long time to the vicinity of the injured part, and his pains were kept in subjection with opium and quinine-. Under this management his nervous system rapidly became exhausted, and all of his original symptoms were becoming aggravated. He consulted the most eminent surgeons of Philadelphia, the celebrated Dr. Mott, of New York, and several Hydropathic physicians, none of whom gave him any encouragement; and he came to me at the earnest importunities of his friends, having, apparently, no hope for himself. Indeed, he was the very picture of despair. I undertook his case with the express understanding that he should, in all respects, submit to my directions, and should not touch a particle of medicine. For several weeks the issue was doubtful, the 46 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. patient often complaining that he was getting worse ; but at the end of three months he was willing to acknowledge a decided improve- ment. At the end of six months he could walk several miles very comfortably, and was soon after in the possession of good health. Case 3.—Rheumatic Gout with Sub-Paralysis.—William R. Smith, of New York, aged 51, had inherited the arthritic diathesis, and, becoming dyspeptic, anfl taking the usual routine of pills, tonics, and alkalies, his joints became very weak, so that he could only walk with a staff in each hand. For several months he had been dosed largely with hydriodate of potash, which had much aggravated the weakness in the joints of tlie lower extremities, rendering them at times almost paralyzed. He had also been an inveterate cigar- smoker and coffee-drinker, and when he commenced water-treatment, he seemed but the relics of a shattered and ruined constitution. He was under moderate treatment for six months before he experienced any very decided benefit. For two years thereafter he continued steadily to gain; and being a gentleman of wealth and leisure, he remained with me most of the time for three years, when he could walk twenty miles a day without any unpleasant fatigue. Indeed, he seemed to have undergone a complete rejuvenation. Case 4.—Hemorrhoids with Sub-Paralysis.—John Floyd, of Brooklyn, aged 38, had suffered horribly of constipation and bleeding piles for many years. Having exhausted the skill of a number of phy- sicians, his friends sent him to the Broadway Hospital, where he grew steadily worse for eight weeks. He then came to me, scarcely able to walk with the aid of crutches. The dripping-sheet in the morning, tepid hip-baths two or three times a day, frequent enemas of cold water, and a dietary restricted to unleavened bread, crackers, apples, and potatoes, so far restored him that he was enabled, at the end of ten weeks, to do a moderate day's work. Case 5.—Dyspepsia w'ith Chronic Diarrhea.—Frederic A. Strale, of Flushing, N. Y., aged 49 (Professor of Languages), was also brought to my establishment from the Broadway Hospital, where he had been running down for eight weeks. He had been a confirmed dyspeptic for many years, and for two years had been exhausted with a constant diarrhea. He was very pale and emaciated, able to walk but a short distance, and was tormented with an incessant craving for tobacco, stimulants, and improper articles of food. Tepid hip-baths, enemas, fomentations, the wet-girdle, and occasional packs in the warm sheet, with a rigidly plain dietary, enabled him to resume his business in three months. Case 6.—Chronic Diarrhea following Dysentery.—Capt. A. B. WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 47 Wing, of Columbus, Ga., having been severely drugged through a course of malignant dysentery, had one of the usual "sequela)" of such management—chronic diarrhea. For more than two years this had annoyed him constantly, the discharges averaging three or four daily. Eight weeks' treatment restored him to perfect health. Case 7.—Complicated Prolapsus.—Miss Harriet Storrs, of Buffalo, N. Y., aged 30, had been an invalid for twelve years, and for seven years had been confined to the bed, unable to sit up a moment without assistance. More than a score of regular physicians had exerted their skill upon her with worse than useless results; and she had been the whole round of irregular drug-medication, including that of Botanic, Root, Indian, and nostrum-vending doctors, all of whose prescriptions had a damaging influence. She was brought all the way to my estab- lishment on a soft feather bed, and carried to her room in the same horizontal position in which she was obliged to travel. The whole muscular system was extremely relaxed and flabby; the bowels had long been obstinately constipated; there was a falling of the womb, and the bowels were badly prolapsed. In one month she was able to walk across the room, and in six months thereafter she walked two miles without fatigue. Her recovery was so surprising to herself and friends that they regarded it as a "special interposition of Providence." Case 8.—Spinal Irritation with Extreme Nervous Debility.— Mary Ford, of Morristown, N. J., aged 19, was under the care of the family physician for nearly a year, under whose treatment she steadily declined until she was unable to sit up. Her lower extremities were becoming paralyzed; the irritation in the spine was constantly in- creasing; the abdomen was very much bloated, and she was subject to frequent spasms. She was brought to my establishment on a litter, not being able to bear the motion of a carriage. Her friends, who came with her, were afraid she would die on the way, and to keep her alive plied her liberally with hartshorn, spirits of niter, and camphor. So soon as she was carried to her room, she was so exhausted that her father and mother besought me earnestly to give her something to revive her, lest she should swoon away fatally. This I declined, assur- ing them that rest and quiet were the best anodynes. She never took a particle of medicine after entering the establishment. It was three or four months before she could stand on her feet without trembling violently, and six months before she could walk across the room with- out assistance. But she gained gradually, and in one year was enjoy- ing good health, and one of the greatest walkers in Morristown—four, five, and six miles' walk being only a pleasant exercise for her. Case 9.—Dysmenorrhea with Neuralgia.—Miss Elizabeth An- 48 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. drews, of Meriden, Conn., aged 24, had been under the treatment of a dozen of the most eminent physicians of New York and New Haven for nine years, and had grown steadily worse all the while. She suffered excruciating neuralgic pains, for which she had taken for years enormous quantities of morphine and brandy. Her muscular system was so enfeebled and distorted that respiration was always difficult, and she had not known a night of quiet sleep for years. She was unable to walk without crutches, and could sit up but very little. Her medicines were at once excluded; she was put on a strict diet and a moderate course of bathing, manipulations, etc., under which she improved slowly and gradually, so that in eight months she re- turned home in comfortable health. Her mother has since informed me that she had long before given up all hopes of ever seeing her walk about again. Since her recovery she has been instrumental in curing several of her neighbors similarly affected. She attended our medical school, and is now a graduate of the New York Hygeio- Therapeutic College, the wife of Dr. John P. Phillips, and a very suc- cessful practicing physician in New Haven, Conn. Case 10.—Prolapsus Uteri.—Miss Isabella Wildman, of Danbury, Conn., aged 22, had been unable to walk or even to sit up without artifi- cial support for many months. She was brought to my establishment with a chair on wheels, constructed for the purpose of enabling her to travel from one room to another, and to be drawn out into the open air. In three months she was restored to good health, and became the wife of a worthy young man, to whom she had been for some time affianced. Case 11.—Retroversion of the Womb.—Mrs. M. Hommer, of Clinton, N. J., aged 40, had been unable to walk without great pain and difficulty for ten years, and so great was the difficulty in the movements of the bowels, that her physicians had treated her for stricture of the rectum. But the obstruction was found, on examina- tion, to be owing to retroversio uteri—the body of the womb being enlarged and obstructing the action of the bowels by its constant pressure thereon. The displaced organ was soon restored to its nor- mal position, and in ten weeks she returned home perfectly cured. Case 12.—Enlarged Liver with Paralysis.—Miss Amanda L. Peakes, of Holme's Hole, Mass., aged 22, lost the use of one of the lower extremities, in consequence of an enormous enlargement of the liver. The muscles of the right leg were so relaxed that the knee-pan was displaced an inch or more, and the least motion of the limb wras attended with excruciating pain, often followed by fainting spells. The Boston surgeons who attended her wholly misunderstood the WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 49 nature of her difficulty, imputing the paralysis to mere debility of the muscles; and in order to strengthen them they resorted to the most efficient plan that could be devised to destroy all of the remaining muscles. They contrived heavy splints and bandages, with which they bound up the affected limb from the toes to the hip so firmly as to preclude all motion. A chair, mounted on wheels, so contrived as to answer the purpose of a seat or bed, was invented, on which her body could be raised or lowered, and moved from place to place, without disturbing the weak limb. This management greatly aggra- vated the local weakness, and under the use of this horrid and foolish machinery she was fast becoming paralyzed all over and all through. When she came to my establishment she had been kept in these bar- barous fixings for more than three months. For one whole month she lay, gasping, as it were, between life and death; the enlarged liver pressing on the lungs, causing her to breathe like one in a severe par- oxysm of asthma. We gradually loosened the trappings, overcame the constipation with enemas and coarse food, restored the action of the skin by means of tepid ablutions and friction, and reduced the swelling of the liver by wet bandages. In the course of the second month a great change for the better was manifest. In three or four months she began to walk, and in six months after entering our Cure she was walking as well as ever about the streets of her native village, so altered that many of her intimate acquaintances did not at first recognize her, and could scarcely believe their eyes, when she saluted them with every appearance of good health and sound understandings. Case 13.—Synovitis.—James Ferguson, of New York, aged 35, coal merchant, while traveling in the South some years before, was attacked with bilious fever, for which he was salivated and otherwise drugged secundem artem, the result of which was a chronic and painful swelling of the knee-joints. Whenever he would walk much the heat, pain, and swelling would be greatly aggravated, so much so at times as entirely to disable him from business. Four months' thorough treatment reduced the swelling completely, and restored the limb to its original vigor. Case 14.__Synovitis with Paralysis.—Samuel C. Woodward, of Wapping Falls, New York, aged 25, in consequence of a repelled erysipelatous affection, had lost the use of the right leg. The knee- joint was weak and painful, and the affected limb was considerably emaciated. In this condition he had remained for three years, his friends and physicians advising him to have the limb amputated above the knee. He was in my establishment for one year, during which he improved very much, and by following out the plan of 3 50 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. treatment afterward at home, he was quite restored at the end of another year. Case 15.—Apostematous Consumption.—James Macgruder, of Sixth Avenue, New York, aged 34, had been troubled for two years with abscesses in the lungs. They would usually suppurate and dis- charge so often as once in a month or six weeks, flis cough was very violent, and the evidences of extensive disease in the lungs i i imistakable. He had been under the care of Dr. Mott and other eminent physicians of the city, without benefit. Six weeks' treat- ment removed every vestige of his disease. Case 16.—Neuralgia with Sub-Paralysis.—Susan E. Smith, of Milford, Conn., aged 31, had been so reduced by disease and drug medication as to be unable to walk. For three years she had only moved about the room by means of a chair mounted on rollers. She was dreadfully afflicted with neuralgia, and so morbidly sensitive at times, that she could not endure ordinary daylight nor the noise of ordinary conversation. I confess I had but little hope in her case; but the result exceeded my expectations, as well as those of herself and friends. In three months she walked, supported on each side by an attendant, to St. John's Park—distant from the establishment one hundred and fifty feet. Three months afterward she walked around the park, and to Broadway, alone and unsupported. She remained under treatment nearly two years, at the end of which time she could walk five or six miles, and was among the most active and sprightly inmates of our establishment in the various plays, dances, and other exercises. Case 17.—Humid Asthma.—William Campbell, of Waverly, III., aged 45, was prononnced to be in confirmed consumption by the doctors. Becoming alarmed at the diagnosis, he started for New York. On a careful examination I ascertained that his case was one of those asthmatic affections, of which I had seen many, resulting from extreme congestion of the liver. His cough was extremely violent; muco-purulent expectoration very copious; breathing con- stantly laborious, and night-sweats constant. In six weeks he was enabled to return home relieved of every symptom of his malady. Case 18.—Asthma with Pneumonia.—Dr. J. Covert, aged 52, a homeopathic practitioner of this city, had been a confirmed asthmatic for twenty years. Undue exposure brought on an unusually severe attack, complicated with inflammation of the lungs, of tlie form known to physicians as typhoid pneumonia. His cough was inces- sant, expectoration difficult, and breathing constantly laborious, and he was unable to lie down a moment, notwithstanding the opium WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 51 which he had taken in allopathic doses. In this condition he came to my establishment. In one week he was able to resume business, entirely cured of the pneumonia, and more relieved of his asthma than he hud previously been for many years. Case 19.—Hemiplegia.—Moses Woodbury, of Boston, Mass., aged 43, while employed in a brass manufactory of this city, was suddenly prostrated writh complete paralysis of the left side of the body. His physician administered calomel, strychnine, and other drugs freely for one week, when his case was considered hopeless. He was then brought to my establishment; I found his liver very torpid, his bowels excessively constipated, and his skin extremely inactive. These functions were attended to, and in four weeks he was enabled to return to business. As may be supposed, this man has ever since been " down on drugs." Case 20.—Epilepsy.—John Hagan, of Brooklyn, aged 22, had been steadily declining with epileptic fits for more than a year. The paroxysms were continually becoming more severe and more frequent, his general health was rapidly failing, and his mind was evidently breaking down under the almost incessant convulsive agitations. His allopathic physicians could give him no encouragement, and so, as a desperate chance, his parents came with him to my establishment. In about one month he was slowly improving; his fits became gradually less frequent and less violent; and in five months he was well. Case 21.—Incipient Laryngeal Consumption—Mrs. C B. Griu- nell, of Boston, Mass., aged 43, came to my establishment laboring under a very dyspeptic stomach, great torpor of the bowels, emaciation, and extreme nervous debility. Her breathing was short and hurried; pulse small and feeble, with a sense of weight or heaviness in the upper part of the chest, an irritable cough with slight expectoration of a tenacious phlegm. It was a well-marked case of incipient con- sumption of the laryngeal form. Her husband used tobacco excess- ively, which no doubt greatly aggravated her throat difficulty and nervousness. Indeed, no woman can sleep with a man habitually whose breath is rank, and whose blood and excretions are befouled with the fumes and stench of tobacco poison, without endangering her health. Thousands of women have lost their lives by this cause alone. One month sufficed to relieve Mrs. Grinnell (she being absent from her husband) of all her consumptive symptoms. Case 22.—Catarrhal Consumption.—C. P. Adams, of Cornwall, Canada West, aged 44, came to my establishment with confirmed catarrhal consumption, on the recommendation of a neighbor of his who was similarly affected and cured at this establishment. His lungs 52 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. were deeply ulcerated, cough violent, expectoration profuse, pulse rapid, with hectic fever and night-sweats. Fortunately he had origin- ally a good constitution, had never been dissipated in his habits, and had taken very little medicine. He was completely cured in two months. Case 23.—Confirmed Tubercular Consumption.—James Mackean, Esq., of New York, aged 34, was pronounced by Professor Sweet, of this city, to be fatally affected with tubercles of the lungs. The case was also complicated with severe chronic laryngitis. His breathing was very short; the upper portion of the windpipe exceedingly sore and irritable; the voice constantly hoarse and rough, and the cough so incessant and annoying that it wras with great difficulty that he could take his meals. Besides all this, he has two or three times bled copiously from the lungs. He was treated at my establishment about six weeks, and then followed up the treatment under advice for nearly a year at home, which entirely restored him to health. Case 24.—Dyspeptic Consumption.—Mrs. H. Farrington, of Wil- liamsburg, L. I., aged 34, having suffered for many years of torpid liver with dyspepsia, and having taken repeated colds, was attacked with all the symptoms of confirmed consumption—cough, expectora- tion, hectic fever, etc. When she came to my establishment she was very much emaciated, and much of the time was unable to sit up. After a three months' course of treatment she was again enjoying good health. Case 25.—Bronchial Consumption.—A. B. Knowlton, of Stam- ford, Conn., aged 19, came to my establishment with violent cough, considerable expectoration, a diffused sense of soreness all through the chest, constant difficulty of breathing, and night-sweats. The cough and soreness were aggravated by a full inspiration; his strength was rapidly failing, and he was greatly emaciated. This disease was no doubt brought on by a repelled skin disease. Two years before he had applied mercurial ointment (red precipitate) freely for some cutaneous rash or eruption, which cured the external disease by pro- ducing an internal one—a result I have known to occur in very many instances. The chest-wrapper, which the patient wore constantly after coming under treatment, was stained of a dark-red color for nearly four weeks, a confirmatory evidence of the presence of the mercurial poison. This patient was completely cured in ten weeks. Case 26.—Chronic Sick Headache.—Rev. William Hunting, of Sag Harbor, L. I., had suffered from periodical attacks of sick headache from childhood. The paroxysms were very severe, attended with much retching and vomiting, usually disabling him for two or three WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 53 days. They recurred regularly once in about five weeks. He had but one attack after entering my establishment, and was completely cured in three months of all liability to them. Case 27.—Inflammatory Rheumatism.—Rev. Nelson Snell, of New York, aged 32, was brought to my establishment entirely help- less. He was carried in the arms of the attendants from his carriage to the bed. The whole surface was inflamed and tender to the touch, and so swollen and painful were nearly all the joints of the limbs that any attempt to move was attended with excruciating pain. One week's treatment reduced the fever and inflammation, and in another week he was enabled to resume his pastoral duties. Case 28.—Acute Rheumatism.—J. E. Jackson, of Philadelphia, aged 28, of a strongly rheumatic diathesis, was attacked while in this city with a violent form of the disease known to physicians as acute rheumatism, articular rheumatism, or rheumatic fever. The larger joints, especially of the ankle, knee, and elbow, were much swollen, very hot, and exceedingly painful; the fever was severe, and the pulse very rapid. The patient perspired profusely, as is usual in this affection, without any abatement of the fever or inflammation. He was entirely cured, at my establishment, in one week. N. B.—This is the form of rheumatism in which bleeding, mercury, opium, etc., are so disas- trous. Patients treated in the ordinary manner are usually confined to their rooms several weeks, and frequently several months, and, if they do not lose their lives, they never escape being more or less crippled and disabled for life. I have never failed to cure this form of rheumatism within two weeks. Case 29.—Nervous Debility with Narcosis.—Mrs. J. P. Matthews, of Canterbury, Conn., aged 36, has suffered much for many years of neuralgic pains and extreme nervous depression, for which her physi- cians had administered large doses of opium. This narcotic has so torpified the bodily functions and stupefied the mind, that she had become utterly indifferent to her future health. Indeed, she was rapidly becoming demented. When brought to my establishment she was obstinately opposed to all treatment, refused to converse on the subject at all, and requested nothing but opium and to be let alone. One month's treatment restored her mental functions; her bodily infirmities gradually yielded, and in three months she was in good health, as desirous to live, and apparently as capable of enjoying life as the majority of persons. Case 30.-Torpid Liver.—Hon. S. C. Foster, of Pembroke, Me., aged 58 though of large frame and well-developed vital organization, had a constitutional predisposition to torpid liver and constipation of 54 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. the bowels. For several years he had suffered so much from these obstructions as to seriously endanger his life, when he came to my establishment for treatment. He was greatly relieved in a few days, and in less than three months left us in the enjoyment of good health. Case 31.—Colic with Displaced Bowels.—Franklin G. May, of New York, aged 33, editor, was violently attacked with that form of colic called in medical books iliac passion or intussusception, on account of one portion of the small intestines becoming locked, as it were, in another portion. He was attended by Dr. Whittaker (allo- path) who gave him large doses of opium and other drugs with but little abatement of the pain in the bowels. After suffering terribly for ten days, he was brought to my establishment. A warm-bath, fol- lowed by the wet-sheet pack and a tepid injection, relieved him more than all the narcotics he had taken. Though his physicians declared that " cold water wouldn't agree with his case," and his nurse shed tears because of the great risk he was running, and his friends pro- tested that we should "kill him sure," our treatment enabled him to return to his business (that of editor) in one week. Case 32.—Diptheria.—Master Allen Mason, of Augusta, Me., aged 9, was violently attacked, in February last, with this disease, which was very prevalent at the time, and was treated in our institution. The lining membrane of the mouth, throat, tongue, palate, nostrils, and upper portion of the windpipe were thickly covered with the dense, tenacious secretion peculiar to diptheritic inflammation; his eyes were closed by the general swelling of the face; he was entirely deaf, and his breathing was extremely laborious. From the fifth to the eighth day his case seemed utterly hopeless to his friends. But on the ninth day a favorable crisis occurred. The membranous patches sloughed off, the ulcerated surfaces healed rapidly, and in a few days he was quite restored. Case 33.—Typhoid Fever.—A. L. Lapham, of Northville, Mich., aged 49, was suddenly prostrated with typhoid fever of the low nervous form, at the Merchants' Hotel, where he was stopping. He was attended by a homeopathist for one week, but becoming alarmed, was brought to my establishment. He had formerly suffered much of the bilious fevers and agues of the Western States, for which he had taken the usual routine doses of calomel, quinine, etc. He was also affected with a bilious or erysipelatous humor which, aggravated by the fever, induced him to rub and scratch the skin until his shirt and the sheets were spotted with blood. We subdued the fever in three or four days, which left him so exhausted and torpid that he could scarcely speak or raise a hand. In this condition he remained several WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 55 days. His friends, being of course greatly alarmed, importuned me to give him cordials—wine, beef-tea, chicken broth, tonic medicines, etc, to all of which I strenuously objected. After remaining in this state of torpidity or collapse until nature had enjoyed a good " resting spell," he revived, without the aid of stimulants (he never would have revived with their aid), and in a week was able to return home. I have no manner of doubt that, had I yielded to the entreaties of his friends for a moment, the patient would have lost his life. I have known hundreds to die under such practice as they desired; and I have never lost a patient of a fever whea I gave no stimulants nor medicine. Case 34.—Intestinal Concretions.—H. T. Wakefield, of Putnam- ville, 111., aged 46, had been troubled for many years with obstinate constipation, great weakness of the lower extremities, and a hard, uneven, and lumpy intumescence of the abdomen. His gait was stiff, his walk feeble, his posture leaning, his hair quite gray, and his general appearance indicated a confirmed invalid of sixty or seventy years of age; and I was not a little astonished when be assured me that his age was only 46. After being under treatment eight or ten weeks, large quantities of hardened fecal accumulations were dis- charged from the bowels. This crisis—for such it proved—was attended with great weakness and relaxation of the muscular system, so much so that he was eonfimed to his bed for several weeks. His improvement was thenceforward steady and uninterrupted, and in a few months he walked erect, in the enjoyment of excellent health, with the appearance, so far as looks and actions were concerned, of being fifteen or twenty years younger than when he came to me— always excepting the gray hairs. Case 35 —Dyspepsia with Supposed Heart Disease.—Guy Foote, Esq., of Jackson, Mich, aged 31, suffered severely for several years of dyspepsia, constipation, hemorrhoids, and palpitation of the heart His pulse was very irregular and intermittent; his breathing was hurried and laborious on the least sudden exertion; he was subject to frequent and distressing palpitations of the heart, and a constant throbbing of the descending aorta and the carotid arteries. Ei.*t of the most eminent surgeons of St. Louis, Buffalo and New York, after a eareful investigation of the case, pronounced it to be or^anie disease of the heart, and incurable. My judgment, after a full history of the patient's vocation and habits of life was, that all of Ins symptoms were attributable to functional derangement, induced by intemperate night-work and excessive indulgence in strong coffee and cigar-'moking. Although I assured this patient that I had had at 56 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. least one hundred similar cases to treat—all of which one or more physicians had pronounced to be heart diseases, and every one of which finally proved to be merely functional derangements of the digestive organs, and easily curable—still the fatal prognosis of so many learned doctors had a most depressing influence on his mind and spirits. Frequently, while in my establishment, he would seem the very personification of despair, and for days would scarcely speak. However, a moderate course of bathing, with an extremely rigid and spare diet, in a few weeks overcame his constipation, balanced the circulation, soothed and strengthened the nervous system, and so quieted the tumultuous throbbings of the heart and arteries that hope began to dawn upon his mind. In one year he was entirely relieved of all his difficulties. Case 36.—Obesity.—Mrs. Van Winkle, of Bergen, N. J., aged 44, though a person of less than medium size, had accumulated adipose matter until she weighed 240 pounds, and was constantly oppressed with the injurious burden, and predisposed, in consequence, to asthma and dropsy. Two months' treatment reduced her weight between fifty and sixty pounds, and correspondingly improved her respiration and locomotive powers. Case 37.—Dysentery.—A. L. Graham, of Brooklyn, aged 26, had an attack of dysentery of the ordinary non-malignant form. Though the early symptoms were severe, there was nothing about the case indicative of danger. He was, however, treated allopathically with the usual routine of drugging, and at the end of a week the disease had attained an alarming character, and his physician became dis- couraged. I was then sent for, and took charge of his case. The substitution of hydropathic for allopathic medication soon changed the aspect of the case, and in three or four days he was conva- lescent. Case 38.—Malignant Dysentery.—Lewis A. Potter, aged 27, was brought to my establishment from the Astor House, in this city, labor- ing under dysentery, with fever of the low typhoid form. The dis- charges were frequent and bloody, the tormina and tenesmus excrucia- ting, and the whole abdomen very much distended and exceedingly tender to the touch. He had previously suffered much of constipation. The treatment greatly mitigated his sufferings in a few hours; in three days the violence of the disease had materially abated, and at the end of one week he was fairly convalescent. Case 39.—Throat-Ail.—John A. Gambrell, of Wall Street, New York, aged 40, had been under the cauterization treatment of the celebrated Dr. Green for eighteen months; and, notwithstanding his WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 57 symptoms were several times improved temporarily, he was left in a much worse condition than when he commenced. One month's water-treatment removed every vestige of his complaint. Case 40.—Duodenitis.—J. G. Slater, Esq., aged 47, a confirmed dyspeptic, came to me from Pittsburg, Pa. He had for years suffered so intensely of canker, water-brash, colic, and ''goneness" at the pit of the stomach, that he was obliged to rise once or twice during the night and take a cup of warm tea with a cracker to allay the irritation so that he could sleep. For this purpose he was in the habit of carry- ing a spirit-lamp wherever he traveled. He had been treated regularly by many eminent physicians, with no advantage, and had tried all of the infallible nostrums in the market. In less than four weeks he was relieved of all of his difficulties, and had no further use for his tea-pot. Case 41.—Chronic Ophthalmia, with Total Blindness.—Master Burrell, of Lahaska, Pa., aged 16, suffered of chronic inflammation of the eyes and of drug medication until he became totally blind. For months he had been unable to distinguish objects, and at the time his mother brought him to my establishment he could barely recognize the difference between daylight and dark. His whole skin was ex- ceedingly torpid, the feet always cold, the head hot, and the eyes so sensitive to light and air that he kept them covered continually with a bandage. His bowels were also very torpid. One month's treat- ment regulated the bowels, balanced the circulation, and enabled him to discriminate small objects; also to expose his eyes freely to air and light without pain. In three or four months his eyes were quite well, and his general health good. Case 42.—Ulcers of the Eyes wtith Loss of Vision.—A niece of Mrs. Williams, of Port Jervis, N. Y., aged 9, had acute inflammation of the eyes, which, in consequence of the injudicious application of caustic, became chronic. Ulcers at length appeared on the coats of the eyeball, which were repeatedly aggravated by caustic and irritant washes. When she was brought to me by Mrs. Williams she had been totally sightless for several months. The coats of the eyes were much inflamed and thickened, and the deposits in them and in the humors rendered it impossible to discriminate between day and night, or to distinguish any object whatever. So sensitive had they been for a long time to air and light that, the more effectually to exclude them, she had acquired the habit of bending her head so low down as pos- sible, a habit which had become so confirmed that it was difficult to make her walk erect. She was one of the most pitiful cases of mal- treatment I ever saw. But, thanks to a better way, she was entirely cured in three months. 58 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. Case 43.—Chronic Rheumatism.—William Dickson, of New York, aged 30, had been for years subject to frequent attacks of inflammation in the large joints, at times confining him to his room for days. The attacks were becoming frequent and more aggravated; and in order to rid his system entirely of the diathesis on which the attacks de- pended, he came to reside in my establishment. He was a patient for about six weeks, at the end of which time he was relieved of all ap- pearance of rheumatic inflammation. He remained in the establish- ment, as a boarder, for more than a year thereafter, during which time he had no return of the complaint. Case 44.—Gouty Rheumatism.—Glen Harvey, of New York, aged 24, had inherited a gouty diathesis, and frequent exposures, with the constipating dietary of the hotels, had rendered him liable to very fre- quent swellings, with beat and pain of the small joints, more particu- larly of the fingers, toes, wrists, and ankles, but occasionally also affecting the knee, elbow, shoulder, and hip-joints. The inflammatory attacks of the joints were very erratic, often disappearing suddenly from one place and as suddenly reappearing in another. He was under treatment in my establishment for about three months, when his joints were entirely free from all pain and swelling. He boarded with me for several months afterwards, but had no further trouble with them. Case 45.—Enlarged Tonsils.—Miss Abby C. Ford, of Madison, N. J., was so troubled with a chronic enlargement of the tonsils and relaxation of the uvula, as to materially impede respiration, especially on lying down. The complaint had been gradually increasing for sev- eral years, and at times rendered swallowing somewhat difficult. The constant irritation of the throat also occasioned a severe tickling cough, with mucopurulent expectoration. At the time she came to my establishment her friends were seriously entertaining the proposition of the doctors to have the tonsils extracted and the soft palate cut off. She was completely cured in three months without the benefit of surgery. Case 46.—Anemia.—Mrs. Wright, of Staten Island, aged 32, had for years suffered of dyspepsia with torpid liver, congested spleen, constipated bowels, and extreme nervous debility; was in my estab- lishment about three weeks and received some benefit; but her friends were so bitterly opposed to the system that she could not longer re- main. One year later she called on me for advice. She was emaciated almost to a skeleton, her weight being but seventy pounds, though in health weighing one hundred and thirty pounds. Her husband, who called with her, informed me that he had not the least expectation that WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 59 his wife would live many days, and he only brought her to me because she insisted on it, and he knew no other way to quiet her. As he would not consent to her remaining in the establishment, though she was very desirous to do so, I gave her the best advice I could for self- treatment But as every one of her family, friends, and neighbors determinedly opposed her " fanatical notions" of being cured without medicine, I had little hope of her recovery. But the patient was des- perate and self-willed, and, despite her frail and feeble condition, and the formidable opposition which surrounded her, persevered in the simple bathing processes and the dietary which I recommended for several months, when she began to improve in flesh and strength. I saw nor heard nothing more of Mrs. Wright until at one of our clinics before the medical class, during the last winter's school term, she was present and introduced herself to me. I could not have recognized her, so altered was she from the gaunt, haggard, pale, and corpse- like patient I had prescribed for a few months before, to as plump, rosy-faced, and healthy-looking woman as could be found in the city! She told her story to the medical class, who were deeply interested and greatly instructed by it. Case 47.—Bronchitis with Chronic Wakefulness.—E. H. Smith, of Olean, N. Y., aged 35, stopped at my establishment in November last, on his way to a Southern climate. For years he had been a "nervous dyspeptic," and at this time was affected with cough, ex- pectoration, hectic fever, rapid pulse, short hurried breathing, night- sweats, and all the indications of confirmed consumption. For many years he had been a most intemperate worker, generally, attending to business until past midnight, and rising at four or five o'clock in the morning, and even during the little time he was in bed, his sleep was seldom sound; and very often, as he informed me, his mind was so intensely occupied with his business projects that he scarcely slept at all. The result of this was a morbidly irritable state of the nervous system, so that sound sleep was impossible. He was wasting rapidly away for want of sleep; but sleep he could not. I succeeded in con- vincing him that his contemplated journey was hazardous under the circumstances, and he submitted himself to treatment. In one week his nervous system became composed, and he was enabled to sleep all night long. His cough and other pulmonary symptoms rapidly sub- sid°ed; his digestion correspondingly improved; his strength and flesh began to return, and in two months he left us entirely cured. Case 48.—Cholera.—Mrs. Grainger, of Thirtieth Street, New York, aged 33, was attacked with unmistakable symptoms of spasmodio cholera, 'in August, 1854. A member of the family—a strong, robust 60 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. man, having been attacked two days previously, and having died after twelve hours' drug treatment, so alarmed Mrs. G. and her friends that they concluded to try Hydropathy, and accordingly I was called. The family physician, Dr. Hammond, having requested to be present when I made my prescription, I assented, and he was called in. lie declined all argument with me on the merits of the case; but when I told him how he, and myself, and all other persons might live so as never to have the cholera, he declared that my remedy was worse than the disease! Cold water, bran bread, and unseasoned cucumbers had no charms for the red-faced, portly-bellied, and flesh-loving doctor. How- ever, his patient died, and mine recovered, which is, perhaps, the best commentary I can make on our matters of difference. Case 49.—Cholera with Consecutive Fever.—Rev. W. Campbell, of South Adams, Mass., aged 46, was taken with the cholera while passing through this city on his way to a religious convention. He was treated for two or three days by a botanic physician with large doses of "composition," cayenne "No. 6," and other pungent nervines and stimulants, which checked the diarrhea, and, as usual in such cases, induced congestion of the brain with "consecutive fever," more dangerous than the original cholera. His abdomen was hard and ten- der, his lower extremities very much swollen, and the disturbance of the brain very great. Altogether his chance seemed to be a desperate one. But, at the earnest solicitation of his physician and friends, I consented to receive him into the establishment, where I had the good fortune to cure him in one week. Case 50.—Diabetes with Prolapsus.—Mrs. C. A. Halsey, of Fall River, Mass., aged 36, in early life became a victim to the murderously- foolish practice of tight-lacing. She was married at 25, and kept about for ten years after in a miserable and constantly declining state of health. When she came to me she was laboring under a severe form of diabetes, which has troubled her for several months. She was extremely emaciated and anemic, scarcely able to walk, and her waist had been so contracted by her corsets as to force the pelvic viscera low down in the abdomen, and produce a painful prolapsus of the uterus. She had almost as much resemblance to a living skeleton as the celebrated Calvin Edson, and so deformed was she in shape (being, as it were, nearly cut into in the middle, and resembling, as Willis ha? said of lacing women, " a word of two syllables joined together by t hyphen") that I procured an artist to paint an exact likeness of hei external bodily conformation, which can now be seen in the anatomi- cal rooms of the Hygeio-Therapeutic College. Her skin was so torpid and bloodless that we were obliged to commence bathing with very warm water, and reduce the temperature very gradually, occasionally giving her alternate hot and tepid baths. In three months we suc- ceeded in restoring her to complete health, and expanding the diameter of the chest more than three inches. Case 51.—Mercurial Ulceration.—William L. Hunt, of Brooklyn aged 41, having been severely salivated some years previously during a course of fever, and having taken "blue pill" several times after- ward for bilious attacks, became affected with foul, corroding ulcera WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 61 of the palate and nostrils. When he came to me for treatment the end of the nose was eaten entirely off; extensive ulcers were spreading over the palate and tonsils, with every prospect of a speedy death in a manner so horrible that it can better be imagined than described. In a few days we arrested the progress of the ulceration, and in four months his sores were all healed, leaving no deformity but a slight cicatrix on the end of his nose. Case 52.—Rheumatism with Bronchitis.—H. R. Fisher, of North Adams, Mass., aged 43, was constitutionally of the rheumatic diathesis, and had long been subject to torpid liver with bilious attacks, compli- cated with rheumatic affections. While in the city, he was severely attacked with bronchial inflammation, complicated with rheumatism of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles, so that breathing was extremely laborious and painful. At the end of one week we had succeeded in reducing the inflammation; but the patient was utterly prostrated and helpless, and his friends being greatly alarmed, of course, besought me to give him tea, coffee, cordials, wine, animal broths, tonics, and all such things as they are used to see drug-doctors prescribe under similar circumstances. I resisted all their importunities, not- withstanding the uncomplimentary epithets which were bestowed on my obstinacy, and the tears with which their solicitations were en- forced. In three weeks from that time the patient was enjoying better health than he had before experienced for many years. Case 53.—Dropsy of the Abdomen.—Mrs. Van Deusen, of Van Deusenville, Mass., has suffered for several years with encysted ascites. The abdominal swelling had been steadily increasing from the first. She had been under home-treatment for six months; but mistaking the wet sheet for a sweating process, she had remained in the pack daily for five and six hours, with the view of inducing perspiration. The result was, the skin grew paler and drier, and the swelling in- creased. By packing her properly, applying warm bottles to the sides and feet, etc., the circulation was soon restored to the surface and extremities; a large pailful of water was then taken away by tapping, and in one month the patient was restored to health. Case 54.—General Debility.—H. G. Combes, of Delaware, N. Y., aged 43, had been under the treatment, for a number of years, of eminent allopathic physicians who had at different times diagnosti- cated dyspepsia, torpid liver, heart disease, kidney complaint, nervous debility, chronic rheumatism, spinal irritation, and neuralgia, and they had dosed him with all the drugs which are usually prescribed for these several maladies. The result was, a complication of drug diseases; and when he came to my establishment for treatment, at the earnest solicitation of his friend, Dr. McCune, of Delhi, N. Y., he was one of the most discouraged invalids I ever saw. But fortunately, although the medicines he had taken had greatly damaged him, they had not disorganized his tissues. His improvement was rapid, and in a few weeks he was, as his friends expressed it, "a new man." Case 55.—Schirrus Cancer.—Mrs. M. A. Petrie, of Eatonville, N. Y., aged 34, came to me with a hard tumor deeply seated in the right'breast, attended with lancinating pains, extending to the armpits, 62 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. enlargement of the adjacent glands, and the usual symptoms of a can- cerous growth. There being no tendency to immediate ulceration, I deemed it possible to arrest the malady without extracting the tumor. The refrigerating applications were applied occasionally for three months; the electro-chemical baths were employed frequently, and she was placed upon a very strict dietary and regimen, which she willingly and cheerfully adhered to. In four months every vestige of the disease had disappeared. Case 56.—Open Cancer.—Mrs. Purdy, of Alton, 111., aged 51, had an open cancer on the left breast which had been gradually increasing for three or four yeaz-s. The ulcer was about three inches in diam- eter, with ragged, livid edges and a very offensive discharge. The glands in the armpit were very much inflamed and tender, and were affected with sharp, lancinating pains, as well as the cancer itself. As her general health was very poor, having had the intermittent and bilious fevers of the West, and taken immense quantities of quinine, and other drugs, I deemed the case a very bad, though not a hopeless one. I put tlie patient upon a rigid dietary; applied the processes of purification thoroughly. The cancer was frozen solid once a week. In about six weeks her general health was greatly improved, the can- cer had lost all offensive smell, and assumed a less malignant aspect. I then applied mild caustic, and gradually destroyed the cancerous mass, leaving a clean sore, which healed Avithout difficulty. Case 57.—Hemorrhagic Consumption.—William Page, the cele- brated painter, formerly of New York, now of Florence, Italy, was, twelve years ago, so reduced by a bronchial affection and spitting of blood, as to be obliged to relinquish business. He even despaired of living long. He was treated for several weeks by the late Dr. Shew, under whose directions he improved very much, and spent the succeed- ing winter in my establishment. Before spring he was able to paint a number of portraits, and in May left for Europe, in good and vigor- ous health, on a professional enterprise, which had long been the darling scheme of his life. Case 58.—Slow Nervous Fever—Nervous Typhus.—While phy- sician to the Lebanon Springs Water-Cure, in the summer of 1850, I was called to attend Mr. Gillett, aged 60. The typhus fever had been in his family for several weeks. Three of his sons had been confined with it, one of whom had died. They were attended by the allopathic physicians of the place. The old gentleman was utterly prostrated with trouble and night-watching, and, having lost faith in drugopathy, without finding faith in anything else, he resolved to trust his case to nature. But in a week or ten days his prostration so increased, and his friends became so alarmed, that the conclusion was to try the water-treatment, and I was sent for. The patient was so completely exhausted, that the exertion of rising up in the bed to put his feet in warm water induced fainting. The treatment was therefore limited to tepid spongings, and cold or warm cloths, as the temperature indi- cated. He was fairly convalescent in eight or ten days, after which he gradually recovered, without any relapse or untoward incident. Case 59.—Hemorrhoids with Supposed Hematuria.—John Riggin, WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 63 of St. Louis, Mo., had suffered for many years of piles, with frequent attacks of rheumatism. For a year previous to coming to my estab- lishment his urine was very high colored—almost blood-red—so much so, that he regarded it, as did his physicians, as a case of hematuria, or bleeding from the kidneys. I soon convinced him, however, that the urinary discoloration was not hemorrhagic, but owing entirely to mor- bid secretions. He was very much improved by one mouth's treat- ment, when he returned home. In a few months he wrote me that his health was entirely re-established. Case 60.—Jaundice.—Mrs. John White, of Key West, Florida, aged 43, having suffered much of bilious and miasmatic diseases, and taken the usual medicines, became badly affected with jaundice, ller skin was deeply discolored, of a yellowish livid hue, and very much blotched and mottled. Her improvement was very rapid, and after being in my establishment one month, the skin had acquired a comparatively clear and healthy color. Case 61.—Pleurisy.—Mrs. J. C. Smith, of 13 Vandewater Street, New York, aged 27, was treated by an allopathic physician for pleurisy. She was a very feeble woman, of a consumptive tendency, and at the end of six days her physician expressed an unfavorable prognosis; but, as a last resort, and the only hope for the patient, he left a large blis- ter to be applied to the chest. Instead of putting on the blister, the patient sent for me. A warm-bath, followed by the wet-sheet pack, and the application of the chest-wrapper, changed the character of the symptoms, so that'on the second day after I saw her, she was free of cough, pain, and fever, and fairly convalescent. Her former physician, not having been sent for again, but feeling a desire to know the result of his last prescription, called in and found her sitting up very com- fortable, and directing the domestic affairs of the house. "Ah," said he, " that blister has worked like a charm." He does not know, prob- ably to this day, that "that blister," instead of being placed on the patient's chest, was put in the stove! Case 62.—Chronic Bronchitis.—I. H. Harris, of Fort Lee, N. J., aged 43, became asthmatic—the immediate consequence of an enlarge- ment of the liver, and finally a chronic inflammation in the mucous membrane of fhe air passages was the result. His breathing was short, hurried, and most of the time wheezing; a catarrhal affection, of which he had suffered for years, had entirely destroyed the sense of smell; he was so debilitated, that he could walk but a very little, and the least exposure or exertion would excite violent coughing. He was pro- nounced a hopeless case, by several physicians, at the time he came to my establishment. Three months' treatment enabled him to return to his business—a picture-frame maker—in comfortable health. His sense of smell, however, has not returned to this day. Case 63.—Secondary Syphilis.—I. M. W., of Cuba, W. I., came to my establishment in a most wretched state of debility and despair. He had, several years before, for a syphilitic affection, taken mercury for several successive weeks, which changed the primary malady to a secondary disease, much the more malignant of the two. He was full of aches and pains; the muscles of the back and limbs were rigid and 64 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. spasmodic; he was almost constantly tormented with neuralgia; and the face, hands, palate, and groin were affected with painful pimples and pustulations. He was cured in eight weeks. Case 64.—Spermatorrhea with Sub-Paralysis.—I. W. L., of Hempstead, L. I., aged 25, had suffered of nocturnal emissions until he was so weakened as to be unable to walk without crutches. There was nothing peculiar in his case, except the singular fact that he had taken no medicines—a circumstance very much in his favor, as it did not hinder us from curing him so that he was able to resume his occu- pation of school-teaching in a few weeks. Case 65.—Chronic Gonorrhea wiTn Stricture.—A. J. W., of Washington, D. O, aged 40, after suffering of a severe gonorrhea, which was treated in the usual manner with cubebs, copaiva, astring- ents, injections, etc., found himself the victim of a very terrible gleet and a dangerous stricture. Every surgeon whom he had consulted ad- vised the painful operation of cauterization as the only remedy. Before submitting to this painful and uncertain experiment, he determined to try Water-Cure, and came to my establishment. The gleet was cured in three weeks, and in less than three months the stricture was entirel" removed, without the use of caustics or instruments of any kind. Case 69.—Fibrous Polypi.—Edward Ilines, of Pocasset, Mass., age*. 28, had polypous tumors completely filling both nostrils. They had been partially extracted twice, but soon became as bad as before. I removed them carefully by a painless operation, so that the roots were completely eradicated; and in three weeks he was permanently cured. Case 67.—Soft Polypous Tumors.—Mrs. M. A. Tomlinson, of Derby, Conn., aged 26, of exceedingly sanguine temperament, and subject to rush of blood to the head, with a tendency to hemorrhages, came to my establishment with a soft polypous tumor in each nostril. On account of their disposition to bleed, the process of extraction was slow ; but at the end of six weeks she was permanently cured. These tumors were partially removed twice by the usual operation before she came to me. Case 68.—Polypous Excrescence.—Mrs. Towle, of Bangor, Me., aged 46, came to me with a large irregular polypous excrescence, springing from the spongy bones back of the root of the nose, pushing into the nostrils so as to fill both cavities, and extending downward so as to annoy the patient exceedingly in speaking and swallowing. Being of a firm, fibrous consistence, it was easily extracted, and she was cured radically in two weeks. Case 69.—Polypus with Chronic Catarrh.—Thos. W. Sloan, of Fairhaven, Conn., aged 44, came to me with a polypous tumor of the left nostril, accompanied with extreme tenderness of the mucous membrane, consequent on a chronic catarrh with which he had been afflicted for many years. It was removed without difficulty. Case 70.—Hard, Fibrous Polypus.—William Caul, of Falls Vil- lage, Conn., came to my establishment with a hard, fibrous excres- cence, completely filling one nostril. It was radically cured in two weeks. Case 71.—Cartilaginous Polypus.—H. U. Miner, of Falls Village, WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 65 Conn., aged 36, came to me with a large grisly polypous tumor, occupying both of the nasal cavities. A radical cure was effected in two weeks. Case 72.—Inflammatory Rheumatism.—Jno. F. Trotter, of Harlem, N. Y., aged 32, was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism so severely that he could not sit, nor stand, nor turn over in bed w'ithout assistance. In this condition he was brought to my establishment, and in three days thereafter returned to his business. Case 73.—Distinct Small-Pox.—I attended a child of John Cop- cutt, of New York (now of Yonkers), two years of age, through a course of small-pox, taken the "natural way," and, although the dis- ease was severe, the child recovered without the least pitting or blemish of the skin. Case 74.—Confluent Small-Pox.—A little girl of Mr. Andrews, of 141 West Broadway, New York, five years of age, had the malig- nant form of small-pox. The fever was of the low typhoid character the eruption dark, indistinct, and coalescing, and the issue for several days doubtful, yet she recovered without a mark or scar of any kind. I should remark, perhaps, that this child not only took no drugs during her sickness, but had never taken any. Case 75.—Scarlatina Anginosa— A daughter of Mr. J. Green, ot Degraw Street, Brooklyn, three years of age, had a severe attack of scarlet-fever of the anginose form. The glands of the neck were so swollen for more than a week as to render the breathing laborious, and the difficulty of swallowing great. Although the symptoms were alarming for a few days, the child was entirely well in two weeks. _ Case 76. — Scarlatina Simplex with Narcosis. —A little girl daughter of Mr. W. Pearson, of High Street, Brooklyn, was attacked with scarlet-fever of the mild or simple form, and attended by the family physician, who happened to be a homeopathist. He gave aconite in doses so nearly allopathic as to narcotize the brain and render the child stupid and comatose. Mistaking the effect of his drug for a fatal congestion of the brain he gave the child over to die. I was then sent for. The child was put into a tepid half-bath for a few min- utes then laid on the bed with cold wet cloths to the head and warm applications to the feet, and the next day was out of all danger. Case 77.-Scarlatina Maligna.-I was sent for to attend a little girl seven years of age, one of the inmates of the Mission School ot Rev L M. Pease, of this city. It proved to be one of the worst cases of malignant scarlet-fever. The skin was intensely hot and burning, and the fever of the putrid typhus form, and the chud was tossing about in agony on the bed. A full warm-bath quieted her at once, and in two days she was convalescent. Case 78 -Smp-FEVER.-Rebecca Macguire, a servant girl, aged 19, a few days after coming to my establishment was taken with ship- fever! She had crossed the Atlantic a few weeks before m a crowded ship on which the ship-fever prevailed. After landing, her mother, who had, with a large family, moved into a low, damp basement in a dark rear building, was taken with the fever, and after lingering one week under drug medication died. Rebecca remained with her mother 66 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. through her sickness, acted as her principal nurse by day and by night. Two weeks after her mother's death she came to my establishment as chambermaid, and in two or three days thereafter was taken with ship-fever in its most malignant aspect. The tongue was covered with a black crust, the breath was hot and fetid; the excretions dark and offensive, and she was either in a stupor, or violently delirious con- stantly. Scarcely any one who saw her thought she could live twenty- four hours. But in one week she was able to do light work about the house. Case 79.—Chronic Gout.—Leonard Peck, of St. Thomas, W. I., aged 48, came to ray establishment with a painful gouty swelling and inflammation of the knee, ankle, and elbow joints. He was also sub- ject to those forms of rheumatism known as lumbago and sciatica. He was entirely cured of all his difficulties in a little less than three months. Case 80.—Measles.—Rev. Jacob Friday, of Kimberton, Pa., aged 30, while under treatment at my establishment for a chronic affection of the digestive organs, was attacked with measles. The eruption came out "beautifully," and I mention the case only to say that, if persons would keep their skins well cleansed by frequent bathing, eruptive fevers would lose all their terrors. Cases 81, 82, and 83.—Measles with Hooping-Cough.—During the last winter these diseases were very prevalent in this city, among the cases which I attended, the following present some peculiarities worth mentioning. Two sons of Mrs. A. S. Olmstead, of this city, aged 9 and 11, after having had the hooping-cough for several weeks, were attacked with measles. Both were severely sick, but the eldest soon recovered. The youngest had a complication very nearly resem- bling dyptheria, and rendering the patient almost helpless and entirely speechless for several days. After this, however, recovery was rapid. Soon after the last-mentioned case became convalescent, Mrs. O. was taken with measles. The eruption did not seem to come out in the usual manner, but instead thereof the skin had a hard, warty, or lumpy appearance, and felt rough and knotty to the touch, as though it was studded with tubercles rather than covered with a rash. On investi- gation, I found the explanation to be this. She had some years before applied strong mercurial ointments to the skin for some cutaneous affection, which had no doubt the effect of repelling the humor and inducing the peculiarity of the skin just mentioned. A troublesome cough followed the mercurial cure, and two years ago she came to my establishment on the verge of consumption, the result most undoubt- edly of this method of curing skin diseases. Case 84.—Painless Labor.—The problem that pain in childbearing is not a constitutional necessity, but the result of unphysiological habits, seems to be demonstrated in the following case: Mrs. D. C. Gardner, of Jersey City, was under treatment at my establishment before she became pregnant, and during pregnancy lived and bathed according to the directions we had given her. The result was, that in her confine- ment—although it was her first time—she suffered no pain to complain of whatever. I could mention other similar cases. WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 67 Case 85.—Mercurial Salivation.—A little son of Mr. A. Derrom, of Paterson, N. J., aged two years, was attacked with diarrhea, for which the family physician administered the usual " chalk powder," which he assured the parents did not contain a particle of mercury. Three days afterward the child was brought to my establishment, laboring under a severe mercurial salivation. Warm-baths and sweat- ing appliances stopped the drooling, and cured the sore mouth in a few days; but the child was subject to cough, and extremely liable to take cold from the slightest exposure for two years afterward—the result of the " hydrargyrum cum creta." Case 86.—Albuminuria.—Rev.E. Fay, of New York, aged 40, was cured of this formidable disease in my establishment in three months. Case 87.—Maltreated Bronchitis.—B. S. Buckley, of Manchester, Conn., spent several years in California, and while there was salivated two or three times for slight attacks of sickness. The result of all was a chronic bronchial affection, for which he took treatment six months at the water-cure in Biloxi, near New Orleans. When he came to my establishment (in the month of November) he had worn the chest-wrapper continuously for six months, day and night, the consequence of* which wras, his skin had become so susceptible that he could not bear the least exposure without taking cold and aggravating his cough. He imagined that he could not endure so cold a climate as New York in the winter season, and was about leaving for a warmer climate, when I learned the full history of his case. I assured him that his unusual susceptibility was the result of maltreatment, and persuaded him to discontinue the chest-wrapper. In one month there- after he was entirely free from this particular trouble. He remained with me all winter, and left in the spring in good health. Case 88.—Maltreated Dyspepsia.—Jas. H. Allen, of New York, aged 24, was under treatment at one of the water-cures near North- ampton, Mass., four months for nervous dyspepsia, and during the last two months had been, as his physician said, " under crisis." He had been for four whole months taking very cold hip-baths of two hours' duration. The result of this was to chill and stupefy him, and this depression the stupid doctor called a " crisis." I gave him mild treat- ment, with tepid hip-baths of ten minutes' duration, and soon had his cold-water crisis cured. Case 89.—Spermatorrhea with Bleeding Piles.—J. A. (x., ot Baltimore, Md., had long suffered of constipated bowels with bleeding piles and of frequent and exhausting nocturnal emissions. He was extremely melancholic, and, to add to his afflictions, his face became the seat of discolored blotches and red watery-looking pimples When he first came to my establishment he informed me that he had for some months seriously meditated suicide, as the only remedy for his unendurable miseries. This was five years ago. He was under my treatment a few weeks, and then followed up self-treatment, under my advice, for two years. He is now in the enjoyment of excellent health—a married man—has no blemishes on his face, and no disposi- tion to go out of the world before his time. Case 90.—Fever Sore.—Homer L. Brown, of Philadelphia, aged 68 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 58, placed himself under the treatment of Dr. Gilbert, the celebrated cancer doctor, whose treatment aggravated the ulcer, while some medicine which he administered brought on an attack of bleeding piles. He then came to my establishment, and his piles and fever sore, which was situated on the right leg, soon began to mend; in a few weeks he was quite well. Case 91.—Venereal Disease.—C. S. S., of Brooklyn, came to me badly affected with chancres and gonorrhea. He had taken some medicine which aggravated the gonorrheal affection, and rendered micturition exceedingly distressing. The full warm-bath, followed by the wet sheet, was prescribed twice a day, which, with proper local treatment, entirely cured him in one week. Case 92.—Abortion with Flooding.—Mrs. R. L. Cady, of Atlantic Street, Brooklyn, aged 28, had suffered frequent abortions, with dan- gerous hemorrhages in several instances. I was sent for on one occasion to attend her, and found her in a state of syncope from loss of blood. The feet were very cold, the head exceedingly hot, and the abdomen tumid and painful. Warm bottles to the feet, cold wet cloths to the head, and alternate hot and cold applications to the abdo- men soon made her comfortable, and she went through the process with little more difficulty and scarcely any loss of blood. Case 93.—Maltreated Dyspepsia.—Enoch L. Strang, of Rollin, Mich., aged 35, came to me in 1855 as a student. He was a confirmed nervous dyspeptic, very pale and emaciated; had an exalted opinion of Water-Cure, with very little knowledge of its practical manage- ment, and felt competent to treat himself. In a few weeks he became exceedingly nervous and irritable, was unable to study, and could not even sit out the lecture. I inquired into his management, and found that in order to " tone up" and get strength so fast as possible, he had been taking cold shower-baths in a cold room, and very cold sitz-baths. I assured him that such management was dangerous malpractice, and put him on the right plan, which he followed out very strictly, and soon recovered excellent health. Case 94.—Brain Fever from Repelled Eruptions.—I mention in this place the case of A. E. King, Esq., aged 30, a lawyer of this city, which, though fatal, teaches an important lesson, lie was a boarder in my establishment for nearly a year, but would never con- sent to come under full treatment. lie was affected with pimples and a blotched appearance of the face, which annoyed him exceedingly. In other respects he enjoyed fair health. He had taken many nos- trums with no benefit, and at length some new "discovery," or " blood purifier," attracted his attention, and he purchased several bottles. Before he had taken half of it he was suddenly attacked with raving delirium. The blotches receded from the face, and the membranes of the brain became violently inflamed. In his more lucid moments he besought me to take charge of his case, but his friends came and took him to the asylum at Flushing, where he died the next day, another victim to a method of curing skin diseases which destroys thousands. Case 95.—Constipation with Hemicrania.—Mrs. N. Blakeley, of Bleecker Street, New York, had long suffered of obstinate constipa- WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. 69 tion, and was subject to violent periodical attacks of headache. These were becoming more and more frequent, and she came to me almost distracted with the apprehension that she was becoming insane and would soon be the inmate of a madhouse. In one week we relieved her of constipation, and she had no trouble with the head afterward. Case 96.—Cutaneous Eruption.—Samuel N. Carter, of Harris- burg, Pa., aged 35, came to my establishment completely covered with an erysipelatous or scrofulous humor, which had been getting worse for several months. He had formerly had ague and fever several times, for wThich he had been dosed with calomel and quinine; but aside from these circumstances, I could assign no cause for his present malady. However, a thorough course of treatment smoothed his skin completely in six weeks. .T Cases 97.—Varicose Ulcer.—B. J. Bailey, of Bellville, N. J., aged 49 had an ulcer on the right leg, caused by varicose veins of twenty years' standing. He came to my establishment with and on account of his wife, who was suffering of nervous remittent fever, but con- cluded to come under treatment at the same time. Suffice it to say, that both were restored to health in four weeks. Case 98.—Bilious Colic—Mr. A. Gazzam, of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, while in this city on business, was violently attacked with this most distressing disease, and brought at once to my establishment. Tepid enemas and the hip-bath relieved him at once, and in a few hours he w *is \v g1 1 Case 99—Throat Ail.—Hon. Wm. Case, of Cleveland, Ohio, came to my establishment, after vainly trying Dr. Green's famous " probang and nitrate of silver" treatment. His improvement was rapid, and he was soon rid of his difficulty. Case 100.—Ulceration of the Uterus.—Mrs. J. W. Blake, ot Worcester, Mass., aged 29, came to my establishment after being under the treatment of the celebrated specialist, Dr. Vanderveer of Flatbusn, L I for one year in vain. She was unable to walk but a few steps, and'could not get up and down stairs without assistance. She re- mained with me three months, and became greatly improved, and soon after recovered perfect health. CONSUMPTION FROM REPELLED ERUPTIONS. The case of Mrs. D. Wetherby, of Auburn, N. Y., now under treat- ment is so instructive and so admonitory that I can not forbear men- tioning it in this place. Fourteen years ago, she and two of her sisters had the erysipelas very severely, and were treated allopathically in the n^nal wav The result was, as is usual in such cases, the humor was rpnelled from the skin to the lungs; and soon after a tickling cough, lm-2 throat, sense of weight in the chest, with muco-purulent expecto- ion short breath, and night-sweats revealed unmistakably the ap- F • mch of pulmonary consumption. Mrs. Wetherby's two sisters em- Ployed the drug doctors, and went to their graves seven years ago. Mrs. 70 WATER-CURE FOR THE MILLION. Wetherby utterly refused to take their medicines; and by placing all of her faith in Hygiene, living plainly and simply, and taking much exer- cise in the open air, she has thus far prolonged her life. She has strug- gled under confirmed consumption for more than seven years; abscesses have repeatedly formed in the lungs; the upper portions of her lungs are considerably tuberculated; she labors under a chronic laryngitis constantly ; to all of which must be added very feeble digestive organs and a continual diarrhea; yet with this complication of maladies, she is an active business woman, with a prospect of living many years and a possibility of ultimate recovery. GENERAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE. I wras regularly educated in the drug system and practiced it for ten years; since which I have practiced " Water-Cure" for more than fifteen years, in establishments, in private families in city and country, and in correspondence by letter, without giving a particle of medicine in any case whatever. And the sum-total of my ex- perience, since I adopted "the better way," may be thus briefly stated: 1. I have not destroyed any lives. 2. I have not seriously damaged any human constitution. 3. I have never failed to cure an acute disease, when I had the case from the start, and no medicine of any kind was given. 4. I have treated hundreds of cases of fevers, including all kinds which prevail in this city and vicinity— bilious, typhus, remittent, intermittent, "congestive," "pernicious," ship, scarlet, etc., without losing a case. 5. I have treated a large number of cases of measles, small-pox, and erysipelas, and have not lost a case. 6. I have treated many cases of influenza, and scores of cases of pneumonia, in old and young, strong and feeble, and have never lost a case. 7. During the last winter, when the deaths in this city of scarlet-fever and pneumonia alone exceeded one hundred per week for months, none of the physicians of our establishment lost a single case, although we treated many. 8. I have never lost a case of diar- rhea, dysentery, nor cholera infantum, although I have treated hun- dreds. 9. I have treated many cases of convulsions in children without losing a patient. 10. I have treated all forms of gout, every variety of acute, inflammatory, and chronic rheumatism, without failing to cure in every case. 11. I have cured some cases of confirmed consumption. 12. I have cured radically nine tenths of the cases of dyspepsia, liver complaint, nervous debility, spinal irritation, spermatorrhea, and simi- lar diseases which have come under my treatment. 13. I have cured every case of uterine ulceration, obstruction, and displacement, which I have treated. 14. I have never failed to cure promptly gonorrhea, syphilis, chancres, gleet, nor any form of venereal disease. 15. All who have consulted me by letter, so far as I know, have been benefited; and a majority for whom I have prescribed, by letter, a plan of self-treat- ment, have recovered. 16. And lastly, no drug doctor on earth, no matter of what school, can truthfully make a similar statement in re- lation to any three of these particulars. NOTICES AND ADVERTISEMENTS. Public Medical Clinics. Dr. TR ALL is prepared to make arrangements for giving CLINICAL LECTUKES in any place within convenient distance of New York, when the people are sufficiently Interested in the subject to provide a suitable place and give due notice. He will, in a public meeting, examine and prescribe for all of tlie invalids in the place, or so many of them as will come together; and in presence of the people and of their physicians explaiu the effects of medicinal drugs, and the radical differences between drug-medication and Hygienic treatment. These clinics, before the medical class of the New York Hyge.io- Therapeutic College, have proved more instructive than formal lectures; and it is be- lieved that in no other way can the principles of our system be so well explaned and illustrated to the common people. Syringes. SYRINGES have now so generally superseded cathartic drugs, that a good self- Injecting instrument has become a necessity of almost every family. I am often written to for information respecting the different kinds, prices, etc. There are seveml stjles and qualities in market. The best articles can b« sent by mail, prepaid, for *3. These are warranted to give satisfaction. A very fair article can be had for >2. I advise all, however, to get the best. Sexual Physiology. I am preparing a work on this subject, applying newly-discovered physiological prin- ciples to the production and rearing -»f healthy and beautiful children, the regulation of the number of offspring, the determination or choice of the sex, and other matters of importance to married persons and to the race. Meanwhile private instruction will be given on the above subjects to proper persons. Send stamps for circulars. Important Work. "THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE," explaining the physiological law of sex, and giving to parents and breeders of animals the control of the sex of offspring. The first edition of this remarkable work having been exhausted, it will now be sent, post-paid, by mail, for $1. Address, FANCHER & MILLER, No. 15 Laight Street, New York. A liberal discount to agents and the trade. Graham Crackers. The very best article of Dr. Tbaix's Graham Crackers can be had by the barrel, for seven cents per lb., seventy-five lbs. in a barrel; ten cents in smaller quantities. Sent to any part of the country. FANCHER & MILLER, 15 Laight Street, New York. Hand Mills. If you want the best and most durable Hand Mills, for grinding Graham flour, cracked wheat, rusk, hominy, etc., etc., send to FANCHER & MILLER, 15 Laight Street, New York. Price, |2. 72 NOTICES AND ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. II. F. Briggs' Educational Institute, No. 63 "West Fourteenth Street, corner of Sixth Avenue, New York. Dr. BRIGGS has invented and proved a system of education radically new, for curing constitutional defects, and securing to all their full measure of strength, beauty, and gracefulness. He has perfected his PATENT BRACE, which sustains the pantaloons and skirts in a way to promote health and symmetry of the neck, shoulders, and chest; also his supporter, which equally improves the hips, loins, abdominal and pelvic muscles, and viscera. The combination promotes full respiration, and improves the figure to an extent never before attained. Dr. B. models his pupils after no artificial rules, but unfilds the resources of each, curing imperfections, and fitting him to choose the trade or profession insuring the highest eminence. TESTIMONIAL OF DR. TRALL. Dr. BRIGGS has taught his system of physiological culture to the students of the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College for several years with remarkable success, and to the incalculable advantage of many of the students and other inmates of our Estab- lishment. I can, therefore, fully indorse it, and can also certify that many teachers, physicians, and clergymen in this city and vicinity, cordially approve and recommend it. R. T. TRALL, M.D., Principal and Prof. New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College. Popular Medical Lectures. HTJLDAH PAGE, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College, is prepared to give Public Lectures in explanation and advocacy of the Hygienic System. She would prefer to give a Course of not less than half-a-dozen Lectures in a place, embracing the following special subjects: 1. The Drug and Hygienic Systems Explained. 2. Fevers and Inflammations. 8. Bowel Complaints and Summer Diseases. 4. Consumption and Liver Diseases. 5. Diseases of "Women and Children. 6. Alcohol and Tobacco. The friends of oul system who desire to secure the services of Mrs. Page will please direct their communications: Profs. TRALL and PAGE, 15 Laight Street, New York. IM^TW YORK HYGEIO-THERAPEUTIC COLLEGE, [CHARTERED BY THE LEGISLATURE.] The Course of Lectures for the Winter Terms will commence the second Monday In November of each year, and continue twenty weeks, including one week's vacation during the holiday season. FACULTY. R. T. TRALL, M.D., Institutes of Medicine, Tiieory and Practice, Materia Medica, Female Diseases, and Medical Jurisprudence. 0. T. LINES, M.D., Anatomy and Surgery. HULDAH PAGE, M.D., Physiology and Hygiene. D. A. GORTON, M.D., Cuemistky and Natural Philosophy. LYDIA F. FOWLER, M.D., Obstetrics. Dr. H. F. BRIGGS, Philosophy of Voice, Speech, and Gesture. L. N. FOWLER, A.M., Phrenology and Mental Science. CURATORS. G. F. ADAMS, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. JAMES C. JACKSON, M.D., Dansville, N. Y. C. H. SHEPAKD, M.D., New York Ci^y. 0. T. LINES, M.D., Williamsburgu, N. Y. D. A. GORTON, M.D., Pkekskill, N. Y. Fees for the whole Course, $75, payable in advance. Matriculation Fee, $5. Graduation Fee, $20. Candidates for the degree of M.D. are requtred to deposit a thesis on some medical subject, with the Graduation Fee, two weeks before the close of the term. Board can be had in the city for from $3 to $5 per week, according to rooms and other accommodations required. Siudenls who prefer, can hire rooms and board themselves. Programme of Educational Exercises. Usually there will be Four Lectures daily, of one hour each. Half an hour, morning and evening, will be devoted to gymnastic and elocutionary exercises. A Clinique will be held every Friday; and on Saturdays the students will visit the hospitals and public institutions, where a great variety of surgical operations are performed, and where almost every phase of diseased and deformed humanity can be seen. There will"be a Lyceum debate on Medical subjects one or two evenings of each week, with criticisms, essays, etc., by members of the class, for mutual improvement. One or two evenings of each week will be appropriated to music, dancing, and other wholesome exercises and recreations. Summer Term.—Thero will be a Summer Term of twenty weeks (including a vacation of one month), with occasional Lectures and Cliniqucs, for such students as prefer to remain the year round, and for the benefit of those who can not attend the winter term. It will commence on the second Monday in May. Tuition $50, payable in advance. For further information, address R. T. TRALL, ITI.D., 15 Laiqiit Street, New York. r€13 —=^b1Ji]^===^rJtn] HYDROPATHIC iTITIBTi 113 X^aig\ht Street, ISTE^W 1TOEK. R. T. TRALL, M.D.J Phmicianl. FANCHER & MILLER, E. P. MILLER, M.D., } r/iysician8- Proprietors. This commodious Establishment, widely and favorably known as Dr. Trall's Water- Cure, has been newly furnished and painted, and provided with increased conveniences for the comfort of Invalids, and such boarders as desire to live in an Institution of this kind. BoarderS) who desire the dietary of the Institution without medical attendance, can be accommodated with pleasant rooms. The business arrangements of this Establishment comprehend: 1. General Practice, in City and Country, by Drs. Tball and Miller. 3. Office Consultations, personally or by letter, with full written directions for self- treatment 3. Infirmary Department. This is under the exclusive management of the Phy- sicians, and comprehends a Department for Female Diseases, in which is treated prolapsus and other displace- ments, deformity, sterility, and all forms df uterine diseases, requiring either medical, mechanical, or surgical management. Also a General Medical Department, for the treatment of all forms and varieties of con- stitutional diseases. And a Surgical Department, for the Cure of Cancers, Polypus and other tumors, ulcers, etc. Movement Cure, or Kinesipathy, for the treatment of relaxed or contracted muscles, displaced organs or parts, distortions and other deformities, spinal curvatures, and a variety of ailments usually denominated " chronic debility." This department ia under the special direction of an experienced manipulator. Among the diseases which we treat with almost invariable success, are fevekm and inflammations of all kinds; gout and rheumatism, both acute and chronic; all varieties of bowed complaints; consumption in'its earlier stages; every stage of dyspepsia, asthma, liVer and kidney complaints ; constipation and piles in their most obstinate forms; gonorrhea, spermatorrhea, etc. Our constitutional remedies embrace air, water, food, temperature, electricity, magnetism, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises, and mental recreations, variously modified and adapted to our patients, as each particular case demands. The surgical part of our practice embraces the knife, ligature, cautery, and congela- tion, for the cure of cancers, polypi, hemorrhoids, and various ulcers and tumors, fis- sures, strictures, etc. Our location is near the business parts of the city, pleasant and airy, adjacent to the promenade grounds of St. John's Park, and in full view of the beautiful Hudson, on the west side of the city. Terms.—Consultation fee, $5. Full treatment with board, $7 to $15 per week. First prescription for home treatment, $5; subsequent advice or letter, $1. Board, $5 to »10 5o per week. Transient boarders $1 per day. Special fees are charged for special t'jsos. All bills payable weekly. Necessarie?.—Each patient must provide a pair of flannel blankets, two corn'ortables, one linen sheet, two cotton sheets, and half-a-dozen towels; or these can be hired at the establishment for $1 per week. 83T" A gymnasium is attached to the premises; and calisthenic exercises are taught daily in the Lecture Hall—free to all inmates of the establishment. £f^-===gig.