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VOL. XIII. NO. 6.] NEW YORK, JUNE, 1852. [S1.00 A YEAR.

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No 131 Nassau Street, New York.

Contents.
Illustrations of Physiology, 121 Miscellany, . , . 134

An Autobiography-, . . 122 Physic thrown to the Dogs, 134
Facts vs. Skepticism, . . 124 Coming Back, 134
Rheumatic Fever. . . 124 Gossip from Boston, 134
Winter Fever, 125 The Water-Cure in Virginia,135
Apoplexy, Constipation, 125 Our Progress, Now and then 135

Physiology— . . 125 Sick of it, 135
School Teachers, • 125 It’s Nothing New, 136

Belief in Water-Cure, , 125 The Good Work Goes on. 136
Infancy, …. 126 Cooling oflf a Doctor, 136
Nervous Diseases, , . 121 Money Saved, . , , 136
Cases of every- day occurrence, 127 Mure Testimony, 136
A Renovated Man, . 12S Water-Cure in New York, . 136
A Call from the West. . 128

Business Notices, . 137
Water-Cure in Canada, . 129 A New Inducement, 137
A Case of Convulsions, . 129

Our books in the West, 137
The Water-Cure at Home, 129

The American Nursories, 137
AVater-Cure in Iowa, 130

Water-Cure Triumphant, . 130
“Varieties, . t 137

“Water-Cure for Horses, . 130
General Debility, . . 137

Bathing by Affusion, 130
Bloomer Waistcoats, . . 138

Testimony of an Allopath 130
The effects of Cheap Postage 138

Syncope—Fainting, 131
Children’s Parties, 139

American and English Habits, 131 Awful Appearanee of the Al

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Water.—A Poem, . 131 lopathic Doctor, 139
131

Pleasant A|)pearance of the

Methodist Ministers short lived 132
Water-Cure Docter, , 139

A ” Regular ” in sheets, 132 The New Costume, . . 139

The Water-Cure Journal, 132
The Modem Belle, 139

The Right Spirit, . 132
Hovey’s Seedling Strawberry 140

A Venerable Couple, 132 To Correspondents, 140
Matters for June, 133 Book Notices, 141

More Deaths from Chloroform,133 Advertisements, … 142
Bayard Taylor on Vegeta- Water-Cure Establishments,

143

rianism, . . . 133 Notices to subscribers, 144

A New Volume of this Journal will be com-
menced with the next number, which will go to press
immediately, and be issued early in June. New sub-
scribers will commence with that number, and con-
tinue a year from July, 1852. Now is the time to
make up, and send in clubs.

It will give us pleasure to supply present subscribers

with missing numbers when possible. Those who re-
subscribe will be sure to receive complete sets. A very
large edition will be printed of the new volume, com-

mencing wiih the July number.

The Water-Cure Journal.—This beautiful, high-
ly useful, and interesting periodical, contains a vas

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amount of reading matter concerning the promotion

and preservation of health, which cannot fail of being

useful and valuable to all classes of readers.

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Home-
stead Journal.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF PHYSIOLOGY, NO- V.

BY T. L. NICHOLS, M. D.

“Whoever understands the blood knows every-

thing; for to comprehend entirely the nature of

this fluid, we must know how it is produced an

d

what it produces. This comprehends the whole

phenomena of life ; and this includes all know-

ledge. All other sciences are fragmentary—hu-
man physiology is integral and pivotal.

For to know what makes the blood we must
know geology, mineralogy, chemistry, botany, and
all natural history. And what the blood makes,
includes our whole being, attributes, faculties, and

destinies. The blood makes brain, as well as

bone. It gives thought as well as muscular mo-

tion. Stop the blood, and thought gives place to

insensibility. Hurry the current of the blood and

passion mounts into the realms of rapture. Poison

the blood and you may produce idiocy or insanity.

The blood is not the simple fluid that it seems.

Even the coarse and mechanical anatomists have

found that it is a living body, composed of various

parts. They tell us of the serum and crassamen-

tum—fibrine, albumen, and blood globules or
disks ; and some have noted vaguely an aura, or

aromal principle. Hunter demonstrated that

blood had vitality—its own proper life, instinctive
motions, and power of sustaining temperature.

Fresh blood will not freeze so easily as that which

has been frozen. Blood varies in its power of

clotting. When its life is destroyed at once, as
by a stroke of lightning, it does not clot at all.

And in this vitality of the blood is found the
great argument against bleeding, and the reason

why hemorrhages are so exhausting. The com-
mon herd of vulgar allopathic physicians, who
go about the country with lancet and calomel,

have not studied the first lines of a true physio-

logy. They ignorantly suppose that when they

take away a quart of blood, the dozen quarts or

so left in the system, are of the same quality as

that which they have taken. They have even

a

vague, absurd notion that they are taking away

the bad blood, and that that which is left is of a

better quality. The fact is that for every ounce

taken the whole mass suffers in the power of its

vitality. It is not so much a diminution of quan-

tity as an injury to the nervous power. You
might as well—you might better scoop out a few
ounces of the brain, with the idea that the rest

would not suffer, than take away a few ounces of

blood. Open a vein, and as the blood runs away,

ounce by ounce, each ounce will be found to have

a diminished vitality, and the system suffers, not

by loss of a certain quantity of blood but by the

diminished vigor of the entire mass.

Doubt not that this living body of the blood

has its own spiritual part. Doubt not that each
microscopic blood-disk may be a sentient being,
having its generation, its career of life, and its

period of death, more or less natural according to

its healthy conditions.

And as this living blood rushes over the system,
its rapidity measured by pendulum heart-throbs,

how varied the work it everywhere performs

!

In the bones it deposits cartilage and phosphate of

lime ; in the brain, nervous matter ; muscular mat-

ter where it is wanted ; and membranes, vessels,

areolar tissue, fatty matter, all come from the blood.

The eyes must be washed by tears, and the blood

supplies the salt crystalline fluid. The food must

be moistened with saliva, and the blood pours it

out. Gastric juice is wanted to dissolve food in

the stomach, and from the gorged vessels around

that organ the blood supplies the needed solvent.

A mild salivary fluid is wanted in the duodenum,
and the blood gives it to the pancreas. Bile

is

wanted to assist in the process of chylificalion,

and the liver separates it from the blood of the

vena porta. An ovum is needed for the repro-
duction of this wonderful organism, and it is

formed from the blood in the ovary. There is

needed a fecundating fluid to impregnate the per-

fected ovum, and the blood supplies even this, by

means of a complicated apparatus of the most won-

derful character. And here let me observe that
no part of physiology is more interesting than

that connected with sexual development and func-

tion; but this, perhaps, is not the best place to

treat of it It is a work I shall do at no distant

day, in a form and manner that I hope will prove

acceptable.

This separation of such various matters from the

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more or less complicated glandular apparatus. All

these glands seem to have the same character.

Wo anatomical dissection, no microscopic exami-
nation, no chemical analysis, can detect any differ-

ence, corresponding to difference of function.

Everywhere there is a membranous surface, more

or less expanded. Sometimes it is a simple, broad

membrane, sometimes this membrane is hollowed

into sacks or follicles, or lengthened into tubes,

or branched like a tree. But whatever the form,

the essential character remains. There is an ex-

panded surface, with which the blood is brought

in contact by minute capillaries.

Why it is that one of these surfaces should sep-
arate from the blood tears, another saliva, another

milk, another gastric juice, and so on, depends

upon the nervous power under which these secre-

tions are made, or upon the varying constitution

of the secreting cells. The former seems to me

the primal cause, for their secretions vary by ner-

vous impressions, as they could not if the process

were as simply mechanical as some suppose.

But do all these secretions exist in the blood

?

The principles of which they are formed certainly

do, but it may be doubted whether all the secre-

tions do. The blood contains the proximate prin-

ciples of milk, bile, urine, but we cannot suppose
the blood to contain the ovum, or the spermato-

zoon. The more perfect secretions, as the secre-

tions of use, are created by the nervous energy,

from elements existing in the blood, and the com-

plexity of the apparatus of these functions is in

some proportion to their importance.

The flower of a plant, which we so much ad-
mire, is its sexual or reproductive apparatus. In

man the most complicated and elaborate organ is

that which secretes or creates the principle of

life. It is composed of a

vast collection of delicate,

convoluted tubes, closely

packed together in the

manner indicated in Fig.

1, but in masses of which

this cut only shows an

open profile. Each of these

convoluted tubes (4, 4,) is

estimated to be seventeen

feet long, and there are

four hundred and fifty in

each organ. The epididy-

mus alone (7, 8, 9,) is

twenty feet long. This is

a wonderful instance of

the expansion of surface

gained by tubular convo-

lutions
; but how the end

is effected through such means we have little con-
ception.

Fig. 2 gives us an example of

a gland composed of an aggre-

gation of minute follicles, which

with their ducts resembles the

leaves, twigs, and branches of a

tree, or fruit upon its stems and

stalks. The salivary and mam-

mary glands are of this charac-

ter. Pig. 2.

The sudiferous, or sweat-making glands of the
skin, are shown in Fig. 3, where a section of skin

Fig. 1.

is given, showing long spiral ducts passing through

the skin. The lower ends of these ducts are con-
voluted into glands, upon which blood vessels

anastomose. Of these there are said to be seven

millions, which, allowing each tube to be a quar-

ter of an inch in length, would give an entire

Fig. 3.

length of twenty-eight miles. The entire length

of the tubes in the human body, would make a
line around the earth, and the entire expansion of

surfaces in a single human body is probably
greater than the whole surface of the planet we
inhabit. There are many reasons why

” The proper study of mankind is man.”

The lachrymal gland is placed at the upper and

outer corner of the eye, as shown in Fig. 4, from

which the tears

flow through
several ducts, in

a continuous
current, so as to

wash the eye-

ball, at every

closure of the

lids, and keep it

continually
moist. The su-

perfluous moist- EIG- 4.

ure is carried by a little duct into the nose. The

power of the nervous system over glandular se-

cretion is very noticeable in this. In sudden joy,

or affliction, or deep emotion of many kinds, the
eyes overflow with tears from the sudden increase

of this secretion. Here is something more than
mechanics and chemistry—something more than
endosmose and exosmose.

But the same fact is noticed in all the secretions.

A man thinks of something good to eat> and his
mouth waters, from the suddenly increased action

of the salivary glands. The mother thinks of her

babe, and her breasts fill with milk, which some-

times gushes out in streams. So under appropri-

ate excitants, other secretions are alike rapid.

These and similar facts must never be lost sight

of. Anatomy is too mechanical; chemistry is too
material ; all our philosophy needs a spiritual in-

fusion to give it vitality. As I get interested in

these sketches, I shall work them out with more

care and thought, hoping to inspire in many
readers a true love for the most fascinating, as

Well as the most wonderful of all sciences.

P. S. This article is written hastily in the tur-

moil of moving-time, before my library is un-
packed, and without my haviug the power to get
the engravings I should be glad to make use of.
For these, I am indebted to Dr. Trail’s Encyclo-
paedia, which I here take occasion to say is now
complete, and amply fulfils its promise. It is,
beyond comparison, the most thorough work yet
published on the Water-Cure, in its science, phi-

losophy, practice, and adaptations. As such,

I

cordially recommend it to every student. It has
been used from the first as a class book in the
American Hydropathic Institute. In future num-
bers I shall use a greater profusion of pictorial

illustrations; many of which have not before ap-
peared in this country.

ProsjKct Hill Water Cure,

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Port Chester, JV. Y., May 1. 5

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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
chai>ter x.

Billy McKee and the ” Maine Law.”

Through how many villages in this broad and beau-
tiful land has drunkenness marched like a destroying
fiend, sending the youth and those in prime manhood
to early, and dishonored graves ! There is something

in the death and burial of a drunkard more heart-sick-
ening than there is in his daily bestiality. For one
likes to associate virtue with the dead. One likes to
think of the creeping myrtle with its blue blossoms on

the grave’s surface, as a symbol of the qualities of the

dead when living. One loves to go to the spot where
lie those who, whilst walking, talking, living, and
laboring on Earth, were filled with all good aims and

noble desires, with high aspirations after a better life,

a sort of up-gathering of strength for ultimate free-

dom from all clogs ; an entire enfranchisement of the
spirit from corruptible influences.

One likes to think of the past life of the dead ; for
the past casts its glow on to the eternal, and shapes it

into forms of beauty, that are consoling to the stricken.

But who can do this in the case of the drunkard ?
Who is there that holds him in choice remembrance ?
Who goes to his grave where the weeping willow casts
its deep shadow, and by the tomb stone , whichperchance
is over the grave, calls from the deeps of the soul for

communion ? The drunkard is forgotten when death
takes him from sight ; for no love can clothe his form
with grace and tenderness, no effort of the imagina-

tion can hide his hideousness. For the living no mis-

sion toward the dead who lie buried in drunkards

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graves is left, but that of pity and tears. Tears so bit-

ter, so scalding as to scar the soul. Sorrow over the

noble dead seems selfish. They go up higher. They

pass to homes of greater love, beauty, and freedom than

we earthlings have. They range overb roader space,
and their associations are less liable to be a mixture of

the evil and the good. To die by the fiat of Nature, to
vacate the body because by use it has come to be un-

fit for the soul’s purposes, is to improve one’s condition.

He who lives obediently to all the demands of his
Maker and his race, whose life finds its highest relish

in doing what he is called to do, from love of the Bight,

he must find exquisite enjoyment in dying ; and to

weep and put on crape and wear sombre faces for the

death of such, is to show that the feebler elements of

one’s nature are out of place, are usurping a post de-

signed only for those that liken man to God. One
might as well weep at sight of the melioration of one’s

earthly condition. Weep not for the dead who have
lived truly, whose manly labor has left enduring re-

membrances behind them, whose open hand has dis-

pensed blessings like a good Samaritan, to such pay

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the tribute of joy and rejoicing when they go up into
the delectable land, where

June’s sweet roses blow,

and come forth in everlasting youth. Go to their rest-
ing places, not to sob and sigh and sadden your spirit,

but to gather from the visit a high determination, like

them to win for yourselves a departure from the old to

the new life, that shall quicken the souls of all such as
shall stand by your couch and bid you ” good bye.”

If you weep, let tears fall for such as having opportu-

nity to live like men have chosen to live like beasts

;

and whose degradation while living forces all who
knew them, after death to forget them as quickly as
possible.

My native village was in my youth a beautiful village,
and is beautiful now. In my childhood it reminded
me of Bethlehem, as that, from hearing scripture his-
tory , had fastened itself on my imagination ; so green
were its hill-sides, so quiet were its streets by night,

though ” bustlingly busy ” by day, so tidy yet plain

were its cottages, so bright was its sunshine. I often

have sat on our doorstep, and wondered whilst the

moon dropped her silvery light through the green
foliage of the Lombard}- poplars, upon my brow, how
I should feel if the news should come to me that Jesus
had been born in a stable in our village. It used to

seem to me in my childish wonderings that were Christ
to be born over again he would choose our village, it

was such a pretty place to be born in. It was so

quiet, and the hills were so pretty, and such nice places

for the shepherds to watch their sheep could be found

up back of the Episcopal Church, aud the wise men
could come into the village from the East without hav-

ing to go ” cross’lots,” and the sky was so blue and

Heaven so high, from our village being surrounded by

hills, that the angels could sing so that all could hear

the anthem which Bethlehem heard on the night of

his advent to earth. And I wondered if some one
should come and tell my parents that Jesus was lying
in our manger if they would go out and have his

mother and him brought in, and give them a good bed,

and my heart and head said there was no doubt of it.
Reader would you like to know in my young innocence
why I thus concluded so confidently ? It was because
I was daily witness to their kindness to the poor drun-

ken Indians that thronged our streets ; and I said if

father and mother feed and lodge and make comforta-
ble the Indians, they would not let Jesus lie in a man-

ger with no body to tend him but his mother. Even

then were my instincts true to a Divine religion.
Our village, notwithstanding its quiet and serene

beauty, was cursed. For each church that sent its

spire heaven-ward so that the cloud caps encircled it,

we had two groggeries, one called an Inn, and one
called a Grocery. There were three churches to bap-

tize the people with holy fire, that fire which burns

up dross and leaves the gold of human nature puri-
fied and bright, six groggeries that sent forth liquid

fire like that of the pit, to destroy every green and

beautiful thing which man could gather about him
for his comfort and improvement ; and one engine

house, where was kept an engine to put out earthly

fire whenever it should take a notion to play its pranks

about the cottages of the village. These were our

public buildings. The churches were neat, the preach-

ers orthodox, and powerful in demonstration of all

doctrine. A large portion of the population was pious,
and even the tavern-keepers devout ; yet no path

church-ward was so turn piked, so terribly beaten down
and packed to rocky hardness by human feet, as were
the paths to our Inns. Inns ! Yes, they were Inns; but

what came out of them ! Men ! no ! fiends—men with
their reason lost, with their instincts benumbed, so that

they could not tell the time of the clay by the town

clock, nor walk the earth steadily. There gathered

our citizens at elections, there went our young men
and maidens to their dances, there sat our magistrates

to administer justice, there stopped our strangers for

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comfort and shelter. No one complained of their en- ,
Ira lire way ; through that, respectability, sobriety and

;

piety entered ; but they were ofttimes enchanted and

bedeviled as wildly as was liinahlo in Armida’s bower.
They commenced their visits to our Inns, men whose
hands clasped the horns of God’s altar. They ended
those visits, men whose steps took hold on Hell. I
could write ” heart histories ” that would make one’s
hair stand on end, of the brave who died like fools,
and the beautiful who wilted like a smitten rose, of
the honest laborer who was slain in a gutter, and the
lawyer who was slain in his bed, of wives widowed
and children fatherless. L, could tell of pork barrels

emptied of their contents by a drunken thief, who
when sober was an honest man, of ham strung cows
mutilated by drunken passion, though he who commit-
ted the crime was quiet and peaceable when sober.

Rum stereotypes its histories. Generations succeed
each other without ridding themselves of the deep

wrinkles which it furrows on the cheeks of society.

No ” Wandering Jew ” ever scattered on his path as
God’s great avenger so many plagues on the wicked,
as Rum scatters curses in the high-way of human life.

Billy McKee, whose name stands at the head of this
article, was the type of a class of men, in this country,
who need the prevention of the law. An honest man,
he was the first who wras married in our village after
the organization of the town. He was united to
Miss Jenny Mulholland in the year 1795 , and the mar-
riage took place at a barn-raising Great was the joy

on the occasion. Had any person gifted with second
sight foretold that in 25 years Billy would have frozen

to death in a gutter, and his wife died also a poor sot

in her house, whilst poor Dan was so drunk that he
could not weep—Dan their first born, their only son,

—

Billy and Jenny would have laughed at such crazy

statement. Yet so died both, and what is quite as
significant, not less than six who were at that wedding
and ” Raising,” died out of their beds, and all drunk-

ards; and the Pious one submitted to God’s mysterious

Providences, whilst the ” Stills ” the Breweries, the

Inns, the groggeries, and the churches were all kept

at fever heat. For thirty years it has been a question

in £hat village whether the prayers of the saints, or

the ribald oaths of the drunken, reached the ear of God,

in the one case to move his mercy, in the other to swell

his wrath : whether the incense of its Altars should

settle over it, like an overshadowing Divine Presence,

or the fumes of its drunkeries gather about it, heralds of

the Avenger.

I have said Billy McKee was the type of a class of

men in this country who need the prevention of the
law.

Let me explain what I mean, and so argue for a little
this question of legal interference. Substantially, our

government is a democracy. It emanates from and is

amenable to the people. Its very existence concludes

the question of Human Rights. Men have rights, else
how could they form and keep in existence a govern-
ment. The government has powers, but how could it
have powers if the people have no rights. It may be
taken for granted then, that men have rights; but sum-
med up, what are they? In what consist they?
whither tend they? All to .^//-government, ^/-govern-

ment is the Divinely constituted government for man.

Other government than this may be divine. To be so,
however, it must contemplate its exercise not on man,

but on a phase or form of being less than man. A
child is not a man, hence restraint is applicable to a

child ; a crazy person is not a man, he may have the

years of a man, the strength of a%an, the size of a

man, but he lacks the vital, the essential constituent

of a man, self-possession, self-resource, self-control, the

perception to discern his own rights from those of his

neighbor, and the power calmly to contend for his own,

and to avoid invasion of his neighbor’s. Self govern-

ment is not his government, but social goverment i<—

nobody denies this. We have our Orphan As3-lums,

ami our lunatic asylums, toe one for children, the other
for orazy people ; and tre make mo distinction becan
of size, strength, or age. We go tor landmarks that
lie deeper than the aarfaoe. We sink down amongst
the elements or the son] for evidences of Manhood;
and ifthere, where ii>- responsibility and accountability,
we find it not, the years ol Methuselah or the size of
Goliath will not justify us in leaving nch

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a at

large. To do so is to peri] our neighbors’ right- ; for
it is exactly logical to Infer, that in- who cannot govern
himself cannot avoid abusing his fellows. Such persons
needfau>, stringentlaw—etatutesthat hem them in. that
with stern and earnest voice say,” Von have- an itching
to destroy your neighbor. We are created to prevent
it. Let alone your neighbor, ami we leave you alone,
touch him to hurt him and we touch you. Whilst yoa
are strong to do evil, he is weak to resist it, and the
object ofthe lawis to keep youfromcrushing—him from
being crushed. You maybe knavish, he foolish. God
imposes on the wise and well-balanced the obligation

to keep knaves from fattening on the heart’s blood of

foolish persons.” Now let us see how this general view
applies to the subject of the sale of ardent spirits, and

its prohibition by law.

It is readily admitted, that the tendencies of the

social, are to the loss of personal identity, and so to

despotism. All POWER tends to an expansion of its
prescribed limits, and so to the creation of -abuses.

To day, the danger is more imminent from the govern-
mental violation of rights, privileges, and liberties,

than from personal violation of them : for this reason,

that governments have less sense of responsibility than

persons have. They have less of the fear of God be-
fore their eyes, less of regard for man. I blame nobody

for watching the government of the Union, or of New
York. They need watching. And they need watching
as much for the cause that they fail in their duty t o
watch, as for anything. Nevertheless, whilst there is

great danger that the Government will step out of its
appropriate sphere and trench on individual liberty,

nobody can blame it for being faithful to its design to

prevent wrongs. I see no force in the commonly re-
ceived idea, that the object of government is to protect

rights. To me its mission is negative rather than posi-
tive. Open the door for the governmental protection of

rights, and from a path-master to your President there

is a reason for interference with individual pursuits.

No man is free, and no business free. Officials are at
every turn and corner as thick as frogs in Egypt. But

with the right on its part simply to prevent wrong, the

sphere of the government is specific. Its business is

that of restraint. It restrains the strong from ill ex-

cise of strength. It restrains the weak from injuring

others by their weaknesses.

How stands the matter between the Rumseller and
the Rum drinker? Is the relation one of which the
government may justly take cognizance? Let us see.
The inevitable effect of the introduction of alcoholic

liquors into the human body, is to excite the nervous

system; it does this because among other things it is

indigestible. It cannot be assimilated, and passes as

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it is when taken into the circulation. It is alcohol

\
when it enters the stomach, and not a whit less so when

X it enters the brain by means of the blood. In propor-

| tion to its quantity, it disturbs the economy and unfits

the person who has taken it for his duties. He is lifted
by it into a state where he is the victim of the gross

1 illusions, or he is sunk to a condition below the beast.

j
I will not deny that men may drink it in a certain

i
quantity and yet altera sort do their duties to aceept-

ance with society ; but I do deny that any man is as
;
well aide to take care of himself with it as without it,

I
and therefore just to the degree that it disables him

\ from taking care of himself, does it justify the govern-

j
ment in taking care of him. Hut there is another effect

| of alcohol not less devilish than the one alluded to. It

[
perpetuates itself. It creates a necessity for its con-

i tinuance. He who drinks a little while in small quan-

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tities, will find that he must increase both the quantity

and frequency of the dram. In this respect it acts like

all poison. The system accomodates itself to the poi-

son, and leaves it insidiously to work its way to its

own overthrow. The necessity for drinkers, after they

have turned a certain period, continuing to drink, is as

marked, physiologically, as the necessity for the Aus-

trian horses to have their daily dusting of arsenic on

their oats, to keep them in condition. Thus its use

takes from the user his power of self-control, and puts

the burden of his being cared for on the government.

Were this effect only casual, accidental, happening at

great intervals, and leaving great gaps between, it

might puzzle the casuist to decide about the right of

the government to say to the drinker, ” thou shalt not

drink.” But its effect is sure. Fire does not more

certainly consume wood. Carbonic acid gas is not

more deadly to the lungs, iron will not more certainly

sink in water, than alcohol will, as a drink, increase its

own demand with the drinker, and end in unfitting him

to take care of himself. If this is so, and who doubts

it, then the government may prohibit its use, on

the same ground that it may prohibit the erection of a

pitch pine dwelling at 208 Broadway. When a govern-
ment knows that a certain course produces certain re-

sults ; if those results make it obligatory to interfere,

it may interfere to prevent them. If alcoholic drinks

inevitably, sooner or later, makethosewho drink, drunk-

ards, and when made so government is bound to take

care of them, to pay for their keeping, their clothing,

their doctors’ bills &c, it is bound to prevent its use as

a drink. If charged in so doing with infringement of

individual liberty, it might pertinently reply : ” This

person is ignorant that drinking alcohol moderately

leads to drinking it immoderately, that its immoderate

use leads to drunkenness, and compels the government

to interfere ; or he is so far the victim of appetite al-

ready, as for its gratification to put himself where at

last self-respect and self-government will perish, and so

force the government to take him in charge.” Which-

ever may prompt his present course, the duty of the

government is plain, to interfere and save him. If he

is ignorant he is as a child, needing parental care. If

he is knowing yet wilful, he is the victim of his passions,

and the government must control him. A human be-
ing with his passions uppermost is not a man. For the

time he is a beast. That which dignifies him with

personality is extinct. He has lost his balance. Till
he recovers his centre of gravity the government is

obligated to see that he neither injures others nor him-

self. So much for the right of a man to make himself a
drunkard. For a little let me consider the rights of the
Eum-seller. There are two parties to a sale always,

the buyer and seller. What it is wrong to buy, it is
wrong to sell, what it is wrong to sell it is wrong to

buy. Now, if no man has a right to make himself a
drunkard, no man has a right to aid him to make him-
self one. If he has no right to put himself where

temptation changes chances into certainty, where the

probabilities are that he will become one, no man has
a right to place the temptation where it will probably

work his ruin. If he is bound to keep away from
temptation, his neighbor is not at liberty to put the

temptation in his way. If a man may not drink when
offered, no man may offer the drink. If a man may
not buy, no man may sell. If the government may
interfere to keep men from becoming drunkards,
government may interfere to keep men from making
drunkards. If what I have said about drinking be true,
it covers the whole ground. Yet there is one other

view to which I will pay respects, and bring this article
to a close. It is the view of property in Bum.

What is it that makes an article a matter of property ?
How shall we define property ? Is it not that quality
in the article which enables us to appropriate it ? to
work it up to human benefit ? Is it not equally true
that as the right of property centres in man, so also
does the value of property centre in him ? His needs

make its measure of value. What no man needs has
no value. Now, alcohol has a value, for man needs it.
It is useful; chemical, mechanical, artistic purposes

need it. Men may buy and men may sell it for such uses.
But what uses has it for man as a drink”? None, all
Christendom and heathendom exclaim, but to kill him.

As a drink it has no value, for it has no use. It has no
property qualification. One might as well bring Plas-
ter of Paris into market to sell for bread, as alcohol for

drink. And objection might as soundly be made
against the governmental interference in the one as

in the other. Yet, when ten years ago the municipal
authorities of London took up and punished a large
number of the small bakers of that city, for making
their bread of equal parts of flour and pulverized

Derbyshire spar, thus starving and killing the poor,

nobody in London set up a hue and cry, that the au-
thorities had invaded the rights of the bread-sellers.

Men undoubtedly have a right to make bread and sell
it, but it must not be made of ground lime-stone. So
men have a right to sell drink, but not alcohol as a
drink ; for it has no useful properties drink. A
man would be thought infamous who, asked by a hun-
gry fellow for bread, should give him a stone ; but how
much more infamous would not he be who should sell
a poor starveling a stone and call it bread. This sell-

ing of alcohol is the climacteric of meanness. The

seller holds out the idea that it is in its various prepara-

tions useful as a beverage, and that the buyer gets an

equivalent for the money expended ; whereas for the
purpose for which it is sold and for which it is bought

it has no value. The transaction is a swindle of the

deepest hue. The whole transaction is of the Peter

Funk school ; and the government which does not in-
terfere fails greatly in its duty. All over this land there

are your Billy McKees who need the law to keep temp-
tation out of sight lest they fall. They are honest, im-

pulsive, generous creatures, whose passions are like

tyrants, wielding fierce mastery. The animal in them

is the strongest. Their sense of self-respect, their view

of human nature, their conception of the ultimate
good which is God, are all feeble , owing to the strength

of their passions ; such are not men in that sense of

the word which contemplates man as fit for *sel,f-
government. They need the social hand kindly yet

firmly to grasp theirs, to hold them back, to shut up

the gateways to death, and gradually to bring out of

their superabundant impulse a calm and steady self-

reliance which will be better to them than any authori-

ty, and keep them true to the high destiny intended

for man. Such men ought to die in their beds instead
of the corners of the streets and under the fences ; and

they will, as the Bumseller finds his alcoholic drinks

losing their value, by means of a prohibitory statute

forbidding its recognition as an article of property

when sold as a beverage.

adherence to the course prescribed by the Water-Cure r \
Practice, pass this trying time with comparative ease, ()
and perfect safety.

I inherited a feeble constitution, which was much
impaired by hardships in early life; so that at the age
of twenty-five, had but little health and strength re-
maining. However, I took no measures for their im-
provement for two years after this; then resorted to
the use of Patent Medicines, which I tried for six
months without effecting the desired object. At this
time I came in possession of Fowler’s Physiology, from
which I obtained (as I firmly believe) correct views in
reference to the restoration and preservation of health.
I immediately commenced the application of cold wa-
ter to the whole exterior surface, every morning, sub-
stituted Graham for fine-flour bread, laid aside all
greasy meats, and what is generally understood by rich
dishes, also sp ices,and ate but little butter, (I never

practiced drinking tea and coffee,) and at the expiration
of a year found my health greatly improved.

In my twenty-eighth year, gestation commenced for
the first time. This seemed to derange every organ of
the system. Dyspepsia, with which I had been trou-
bled, returned with renewed force ; so that I was
obliged to subsist chiefly on Graham bread, and that
in small quantities but twice a day. This course, with

the aid of cold water in the form of daily bathing, sitz-

baths, wet bandage around the abdomen, and Clysters,
enabled me to obtain a healthful condition of the sys-
tem, so that after Parturition, (which was protracted
andsevere) no medicine was needed, consequently none
taken; no pain experienced in any part of the system,
and lacteal secretion ; and instead of being attended
withfever, pain in the head, and a multitude of unpleas-
ant feelings, I was so perfectly devoid of anything of the
kind, that I was not aware that it was taking place
until there was a sufficient supply for my babe. The
application of water in its various forms was continued
after, as before confinement.

When my babe was a week old, I took a short ride,
which I continued to do daily, increasing the distance
each day, until I could ride several miles without fa-

tigue. Great benefit was derived from riding. The day
my child was four weeks old, I went a journey of twen-
ty-five miles in an open carriage, carried my child, and
received no injury. I have now a second child five
months old; pursued the same course as with the first,
and with even better success. I could eat a greater
variety of food, and perform more labor during gesta-
tion. The period of parturition was mnch shortened.

It is the opinion of some most intimately acquainted
with my condition, that I could not have survived the
birth of children had I not pursued this course.

I might give an account of the great success which

we have had in subduing fevers and other diseases in
our family by the use of water ; but as this article is
already longer than was intended, I will desist.

FACTS VS. SKEPTICISM.
BY MRS. E. A. WEBSTEK.

Gratitude for the benefit derived from the little
knowledge which I have obtained of the use of cold

water in the cure and prevention of disease, impels me
to send you a short history of my experience.

I also wish to array this evidence against the Skep-

ticism frequently expressed, in reference to the bene-

ficial effect of a Hydropathic course during Gestation

and Parturition.

Those who entertain doubts on this subject, claim,
that the cases given by you, are those of individuals of
remarkable health and constitutions, and that it is not

every female that can thus be benefitted. Undoubtedly,

it is not possible for every one to possess the same de-

gree of health and vigor during these periods; but my
own experience convinces me that the most delicate
and even impaired constitutions may, by a faithful

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RHEUMATIC FEVER.
BY J. A. SPEAR.

[The following communication from friend Spear,

offers another illstration that the success of all methods

of treating disease is very nearly proportioned to their

approximation to the Hydropathic]

A Botanic doctor, who has been very successful in
curing those who were afflicted with rheumatic fever,
and has often applied his remedy secretly in the night,

that the Allopathists might not know how he did it,
says, that ” six or eight hours is generally a sufficient

length of time to relieve the sufferer;” but he tells them

he will cure them in twenty-four hours.

His method is to give the patient a tea-spoonful or

more, of pulverized crawley, (a root, the effect of which

is to relax the pores and conjested capillaries,) and pro-

duce general perspiration. He also mixes a pound of

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pulverized slippery-elm bark, in about five gallons of

cold water, iu a tub; then a sheet is dipped in that ami

slightly wrong, and spread upon the bed, and the pa-

tient is laid upon it and wrapped up. Soon the patient

commences sweating ; and as the sheet gets too warm,

he dips the water out of the tub and pours it on to the

swoolen limbs and joints most freely, also on the head

and whole system. This operation is continued till the

patient is relieved. Then the patient is removed and

made comfortable in a dry bed. Then, after resting a
few hours, if the patient is not too weak, he can get up

and dress as usual and walk about. He tells of repeated
cases that he has cured in this way, after they had been

given up as incurable by the Allopathists. When they
have called upon him for the purpose of finding out

how he managed, he has dealt out the powdered root
in presence of the doctor, and handed it to the nurse,

telling her at what hour to give it. Then, after the

Allopathy doctor was gone, he would make the nurse
and others agree to not tell how he managed with the
elm-bark and water, and then commence the operation.
By the time the Allopathist would get there the next
day, he would have the patient relieved, and perhaps

dressed and sitting up. Then, while the Allopathist

would naturally inquire what he had given the patient,

he would say nothing but that powder, and, perhaps,

a

little water to drink. He would blind the doctor, by
not telling what the powder was.
Whether the crawley or elm-bark assisted in the cure,

I leave others to judge; for myself, I have but little or

no confidence in medicines ; still the bark might assist

in softening the skin, and the crawley in producing

perspiration.

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to the Atlantic Ocean,) what is the use of taking any
of the drugs, (or, if the term medicine will suit yon anj

better), we will use that phrase of the apothecary simp.
Why ransack the entire universe for remedies (i.e. hin-
drances,) why send our ships to foreign climes in search
of something to compel man to obey the laws of physi-
ology, which is all that can be done ? It is a departure
from these laws that causes disease; and if a man gets
sick, why not punish him in some other way; don’t
take all your revenge on the stomach.

—

[Peru, III.

WINTER FEVER.
ArorLEXY, CONSTIPATION, A REPORT OF CASES.

BY DR. E. POTTEK.

Case 1st. A child of some eight months old, taken
with what the Doctor (an Allopath) called Winter Fe-
ver, was regularly attended, and regularly dosed with
drugs of various kinds for some four weeks, during which

time the fever was broken ; and with it the strength and
constitution of the little fellow was well-nigh ruined.
His cough still continued, his strength and flesh gradu-

ally declined, the child was restless, and slept but little,

the surface of the skin was cold and clammy, and the
dejections from the Alimentary Canal irregular and of a
light frothy color. A continual dosing every two hours,
(enough to prevent the child’s recovering,) was the
treatment. My treatment was a hand bath at about 80°
Fahrenheit, three times per day, wet bandages covering
the entire chest day and night, water injections to
bowels three times per day, with water to drink and a
cool atmosphere to breathe for three days ; and then

omitting a part of the treatment, in a few days the

child became as well as ever. I may add, the child
improved daily under this simple though effective

treatment.

Case 2d, was a gentleman of some sixty years of age,
who had symptoms of apoplexy, constipation of the
bowels, great tenderness of the bowels, so great that the

weight of the bed-clothes were insupportable, great
nervous irritation, pain and dizziness of the head, and

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cold feet ; in a word, he was diseased from the crown of
the head to the sole of the foot. The treatment was
very simple indeed. I think there is more danger of
doing too much than too little. He took daily, forthree
days, sponge or towel bath at 75°, constantly wore the
wet bandage, took injections of tepid water to regulate
the alvine evacuations, and plain diet, and simple
cracked wheat, brown bread, potatoes and fruit. And
now, five days since the commencing of treatment, he
goes about town, reads the news of the day, which he
was unable to do before. He is clear of all pain, and
feels as well as could be expected for a gentleman of

his age.

Now, in view of these facts, (and this is only a drop

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PIIYSIOLOGY—SCHOOL TEACHERS-NO. I.
BY LETSON, THE BACKWOODS TEACHER.

A number of the teachers in Stark County, Ohio,
have come to the laudable conclusion to make a united
and more vigorous effort to overthrow the drear, dark,

gloomy empire of ignorance in this region, and to
crush to fragments, and crumble into dust all the various

obstacles that do oppose, or may stand as a barrier to
the full and free dissemination of scientific truth, con-
nected with the higher and nobler development of our

spiritual natures.

Having taken the above position, we consider that
one of the first and most necessary steps to be taken

is to renovate the PROFESSION, and to awaken in
the minds of its members a sense of the position they
occupy in the world and in society; also, to show them
that from the very essence of the work in which they
are engaged, they are called upon to take their stand,

firmly and positively, on the side of Progress and Re-

form. And in order that they may be capable of so
doing, and of successfully combating with error, ig-

norance, and hydra-headed superstition , it is absolutely

necessary that they spare no time, no labor, no oppor-

tunity, no available means, to amply qualify them-

selves to discharge their high and holy trust. As
the formers of the youthful mind, as the preparers of

the future sovereigns of our land, as the trustees or

guardians of society’s noblest treasure—the youth of
our country, as the Master-builders who are to lay the
foundations of the future characters, nay, even of the

very destinies of those youth,—they are called upon by
all that is sacred and holy, by all that we hold dear
in our republican institutions, to qualify themselves

for their high station; and to become thoroughly

baptized into the spirit of their calling. This is a glo-

rious and exhaustless theme, but I must not dwell

upon it, lest I weary you.

The subject which it devolves on me to present, is
the importance of teachers preparing themselves the

better to meet the claims which society holds upon
them, by becoming acquainted with the Doctrine of
Life, commonly termed Physiology. As no person is
either qualified to enjoy life, or to become a useful

member of society, without health, and as no person
can enjoy health without understanding the laws which

govern our physical natures, it becomes necessary that

every person should become familiar with those laws;

nor only so, but he should put his knowledge of them

into practical operation. Our own happiness and the
duties we owe society, as social members of it, demand
this at our bauds. It is not necessary that I here at-

tempt to point out the evils and sufferings entailed

upon the present generation, by the neglect produced

by the ignorance of our forefathers in this particular.

Nor that I portray the many premature deaths, and
the vast amount of physical suffering and consequent

mental deficiency, that thousands and thousands of the

parents of this generation will ignorantly entail upon

their innocent offspring. God pity them !
With these facts staring us in the face, and daily

forcing themselves on our notice, arc we not, as teach-

ers and as those who arc to stand at the helm of reform,
most solemnly called upon to become familiar witli the

laws of health, with the whole structure of our physi-

cal frame, and its beautiful and complicated machinery,

that we may be fully prepared to impart the requisite

Instruction to Hi” Incipient i
i ol woli tj , and

the pro pective father and mothers, thai may be com-
mitted, in ;iii their youthful Innocence and trn tfuL
to our care, and the formation of whose mind and
habits it devolves- onus, to a great extent , to produce?
.Most undoubtedly, w.- are. And yet, it grieves me
to have to say that near fonr-flfths of those in
this region, who have taken upon them to disco
the duties of this most responsible profession,! itherdo
not know anything about Physiology, or do not i
any practical application of whal knowldge they may
have been compelled to obtain, either by precept or
example. And what is the resull ?
These facts I have gleaned in various ways, but more

particularly by attending Teacher’s Meetings and In-
stitutes. As none but the more intelligent ch
teachers attend those Institutes, if we find than lurking
in this knowledge, what must we conclude in regard to
the other portion ! By observing closelythe habits and
actions, as well as expressions, of those convened at
such places, I could form a very fair estimate of their
knowledge and character.

I ascertained their acquaintance with physiology and
its necessary accompaniment, Hygiene, by noting
their using tobacco, drinking coffee and tea, ami, in
several instances, drinking ardent spirits; and I also
found that their morals corresponded witli their knowl-
edge.

But one of the most conclusive proofs to my mind,
that there was a lack of proper information on this
subject among teachers, was the promptness with
which everyeffort to show the impropriety and delete-
rious consequences of using that most poisonous and
most injurious of all obnoxious things, tobacco, was
put down by the teachers present,—in some instances,
amounting to hundreds ! In fact, those conducting the
institute, not only using it, but advocating its use

!

And those teachers the most intelligent ones too !
I do not wish to find fault with teachers for continu-

ing this and other pernicious habits, so much as 1 wish
to point out and hold up to view the great necessity
for reformation; and to show to parents the danger of
employing such men to educate their children. No
parent who knows anything about the laws of health,
and the force of example, will be willing to trust the
health and future happiness of his child, to any man
who daily and hourly violates those laws in the very
presence of that child.—[New Baltimore, Ohio.

BELIEF IN WATER-CURE.
BY J. C. JACKSON, M.D.

If the readers of the Water-Cure Journal will take

Richardson’s Dictionary and look at the words believe,

and belief, they will find them originally to have had a
very beautiful and expressive signification. I will not

at length transcribe what the distinguished Lexicogra-

pher says, but simply give an instance or two. He
quotes Robert of Gloucester, in two or three examples,

who uses the word believe, as by-leve, which means to
live by. In Pier’s Ploughman, the phrase “to bring
forth your bileve,” means ” to bring forth that by which

you may live.” Richardson goes on then to say ” To
believe then is—to live by or according to, to abide by;
to guide, conduct, regulate, govern or direct the

life by, take, accept, assume or adopt as a rule of life,
&c.” To me, this is a line rendering of the word. To
believe Christ, is to live by Christ, that is, to shape,

regulate, and conform one’s life by that of Christ. To
believe the Water-Cure System, one shapes, regulates,

and conducts his life by that system. How much
deeper this meaning plants faith in the human heart,
than the meaning which simply signifies an intellectual

assent. Such believers in the Water-Cure, as are

livers by the Water-Cure, are the men and women
which the enterprise needs. To them must be com-
mitted in a good degree for safe keeping, the ” Ark of

our Covenant.” In their lives and conversation more

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than in any theories they cherish, does the moral

force necessary to produce the conversion of their

neighbors, reside. For no human power over the hu-
man soul ever equals that which proceeds from a holy
life. And Holiness is conformity of conduct to princi-
ples which are divine. As one of the fraternity, I re-
ceive great pleasure in the increased evidence which

each issue ofthe Water-Cure Journal furnishes of’broad-

er, better ground taken by the ” brotherhood.” I am
pleased at the radical tone assumed by the correspond-
ents of the Journal. It is kind but decided. It is bet-

ter than it was a year since. Within that time, thou-
sands have found firm footing who were then afloat.
They have learned a good deal within a twelve month.

They know whereof they believe, or in the old mean-
ing of the word, they know what it is they live by. If
one consolation comes home to my dear noble wife and
myself in our weary house, cheering, and up-holdiug
us, making our hearts strong and our hands steady, it
is, that within the year, nearly 300 individuals have

come directly within our influence for months unbrok-
en, to learn of us the way of temporal salvation. And
so to learn as to live by what they learned. This gives
better food for reflection than the complacency which

one feels from the exercise of great skill. True, it is

gratifying to take a man or woman who has gone from
Doctor to Doctor without benefit, but not without in-

jury—like a handkerchief without an owner in a school
of girls—and by the application of Hydropathy, cure
such persons. But after all, in and of itself, the feel-

ing is of the lower order, and to give it sublimity, so as

when it swells the heart one has the consciousness that
he has allied himself to God, there must be added to

the fact that your patient is cured, the conviction that

he will stay cured. To cure him is one thing, to con-
vert him is quite another. A cured believer, by-liver,
one may well rejoice over. If, then, my heart and my
wife’s heart may rejoice in the good which, on a limited
scale, it has been permitted us to do, how greatly in-
creased must that joy be at the remembrance of the

good achieved by others. The men and women are
scattered all over the country, who, by the skill of Wa-
ter-Cure Physicians, and by Home treatment, under
the advice and writings of Water-Cure contributors,

have been redeemed and born anew. Yes, created
anew ! The language is not a whit too strong. They
were bed-ridden many of them, more were crippled,
still more unable to do labor, and still more unfitted for

life’s great battle. Some were hysterical, some hypo-
chrondriacal, some dyspeptic and cross, and some de-

spondent and inert. To nrbst, life was a burden, a load
to be taken up unwillingly each morning and easily and
readily bartered away for a long sleep in the grave,
could they and death have negotiated. The sun-rising
to them had no pleasure; the cloudy day was a curse.
They hated food, because they could not eat to the full,
and disliked abstinence, because they were forced to
adopt it. They loathed the sight of a doctor, and ut

:

tered tremendous phillipics against the nostrum-

makers. Now, no meadow-lark of a May morning is
merrier than they. May they never forget what Hy-
dropathy has done for them. But this is not all. The
ranks of the saved have not only swollen by the efforts

of Water-Cure workers, the past year, but the ranks of

the workers have increased during that time. Insti-
tutions have sprung up like springs of the Desert.
Many of them already are well patronized and doing
good. Within that time, Doctor Trail has prepared

his Encyclopedia, a work very able and very simple

—

a proof of its adaptability to the- general reader. Doctor

Shew has given us his work on Diseases of Children,
and, by general consent, has won additional laurels.
Doctor Kittredge, aside from his articles in the Journ-

als, has probably delivered moro public lectures than

any Hydropathic Practitioner; and many other noble
co-workers, with whose efforts in detail I am not fa-
miliar, have done good and gallant duty for the good

cause.

Doctor and Mrs. Nichols have performed great
tasks, and are now in the way of accomplishing incal-
culable good. They need have no fear, and can well
afford to bide their time.

“For the soul of the Past has come,
To its ancient home,
In the hearts of men,

To resume its reign again.”

TJieir graduates will do them quite a great honor, and
the cause as good service, as the graduates of our Or-

thodox Colleges. They must succeed or fail by their
skill and their enthusiasm. The latter aids the skilful

physician vastly. It steadies his hand, and braces up
his judgment. It clothes him with confidence and
makes him discriminative. It does not and cannot
belong to the Allopathic school. The philosophy of
the Begulars has failed them too often, to give calomel
and jalap to a patient or to have him take it enthusias-
tically. But I doubt whether a case is on record where

a patient has died under the care of a Water-Cure

Doctor, who carried with him a conviction amounting
to enthusiasm, that he should cure him. Let no young

practitioner in Water fear his enthusiasm. The com
mon notion that it unhinges one’s self-possession is er
roneous. It has the other effect exactly. By it, men
are sustained to do great deeds, to become Pioneers
in labor for the up-heaving of great abuses, such as in

their new homes will fall to the lot of our new co-
workers. If they will be close observers, careful ex-

perimenters, and be willing to earn a reputation before

they claim it; if they will eschew all compromises, and

make no alliance with Drugs, I will stake my reputa-
tion on their success. They cannot fail. In time they
will be heard and honored. To all the contributors for the
Journal let me express my obligations as one of its
readers for the instruction they have given me. The
points in which I have found myself differing from

them, have made their articles of additional interest to
me. The freedom of opinion therein exhibited, is of
great value. Let us have through it, from those who
speak, free utterance. God hides, now-a-days, some-
times, as in days of old, wisdom from the trudent
and reveals it to babes. Truth takes root where soil is
most congenial; and as far as my judgment may be al-
lowed of value, I declare that in no magazine or news
paper in this land with which I am acquainted, can be
found as much and as varied talent and information,
as is to be found in the Water-Cure Journal. One may
test it by comparison.

To the Publishers, all I can or need to say, is, God
bless them! “May their shadows never be less!”
Nobly have they redeemed their promises ; and in the
past which they have filled so well, have we, their
readers, securities for the future. And now for the
next volume.

—

[Glen Haven Water-Cure, 1852.

INFANCY.
THE ANXIETIES INCIDENT TO THIS STATE.

BY REBECCA ROXANA.
” Ere yet her child hath drawn its earliest breath,
A mother’s love begins—it grows till death

;

Lives before life, with death not dies, but Beems

The very substance of immortal dreams.”

Without question a vast amount of the suspense and
solicitude felt, regarding the bearing and rearing of
children, arises from a want of conformity to Nature’s
requisitions previous to, and at the time of accouch-
ment.

A large number of those who are mothers at the
present day, have violated more or less the laws of their
constitution from their infancy, and thus furnish in
their mode of living the main apology for anxious fears
and solicitude in the events which are to test their ef-
ficiency in giving birth to, and rearing up around them
an healthy progeny. Conformity to Nature’s laws, in

maturing the physical character of mothers, and in
their organic bearing, would diminish the fears and
anxieties now so often incident to the period of infancy
and childhood.

The relation which an healthy, well developed or-
ganization sustains to the bearing of healthy, robust,
and active children, is not appreciated as it should be.
If the grain which is sown is weak, wasted, and dam-
aged, the plants which spring from it will be liablo to
feebleness and speedy decay. The same law which
governs in the vegetable kingdom, governs in the ani-
mal. Hence, arises the dependence of children upon
their parents, not only for an existence, but for an ex-
istence perfect in its organization, complete in all its
parts, and sound throughout its entire constitution.

This lies at the foundation of all thorough physical
and mental development, and forms an indispensable
requisite to the formation of correct physical habits,
and the proper development of the physical powers.
This foundation deeply laid in the obedience of parents
to the organical laws, would furnish a broad base on
which might be reared a tower of mental might and
intellectual strength of superlative worth.

Were the first organic law recognized and strictly
adhered to, the cloud which so often gathers over the
enfeebled, dependent state of infancy, filled with por-
tentous fears and reasonable anxieties, would be dis-
pelled. There would be no other expectation than that
both mother and child would do well.
The conditions which Nature demands having been

complied with, she, ever true to her trust, would inva-
riably fulfil her part, and the bright sunshine of hope
removing all suspense, would make the anticipated
event, one of pleasure, and happily interesting to all.

Miserable beings, the very rudiments of whose exist-
ence are tainted with disease, are often brought into the
world; and ignorant parents are filled with anxiety
and sorrow, as the consequences of the violation of this
law.

Without any clear conception of the dependence of
posterity upon their progenitors for a sound constitu-
tion, the feeble in health, burdened with disease, often
enter the matrimonial state, and without any compunc-
tions of conscience regarding their agency in the or-
ganization which they transmit to their offspring.
‘ multiply and replenish the earth ” with a puny, sickly
and short-lived race.

Thousands, for their conformityto fashion and foolish
custom, in ministering to their physical wants, have
forfeited all right and title to health, and carry about
with them an ill-shaped, distorted, diseased ” earthly
house of a tabernacle” that has neither strength or
beauty in limb or. body, though originally designed to
combine them both.
The monsters of the deep are drawn largely upon by

the mothers and daughters of our day, irrespective of
age or circumstances, for stays and supports which
shall supersede the necessity for the development of
muscular energy, and vigorous activity of the vital or-
gans.

The original purpose for which the bone, muscle, and
nerve of the body were given, has long since been for-
gotten and shamefully neglected.

Every ocean must be traversed, every clime explored,
and the mightiest monsters thereof captured, in order
to furnish material by which the native beauty and
graceful development of every limb and feature of the
feminine form may be destroyed, the vital functions
all deranged, and the entire constitution diseased and
ruined.

Thousands wear the death-working compressing ma-
chine, under comparatively loose dresses, completely

deceiving the mere beholder as to the extent of the
compression, which usually covers the upper two-thirds
of the trunk of the body; well fortified before and be- c )
hind with bone, and sometimes steel, supplied with (1
sufficiently strong cord, into which the body may be
compressed into almost any conceivable shape or di-

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mansions. The consequences inevitably are, the lower

ribs are compressed, the stomach crowded from its or-

ganical position, a morbid state of the liver is in-

duced, the action of the diaphragm destroyed, the

lower part of the longs lie dormant, engorged with

blood from ten to fifteen hours every day, the blood,

from want of contact with the oxygen of the air, is not

properly decarbonized; the fluids are vitiated, and the

entire abdominal contents are pressed from their legit-

imate sphere of action and repose; while fortunes are

made by Abdominal Supporter Manufacturers, in sup-

plying machinery for undoing what mothers and daugh-

ters have been laboring their life-time effectually to

accomplish, and what fathers and husbands have as

blindly sanctioned.

To facilitate and make efficient this disease-promoter
and death-worker, skirts of several pounds weight are

hung upon the hips and gathered at the small part of

the back, so as to bo at least, each, two inches thick,

and often stuffed with raw cotten and quilted; and

bundled on in such quantities as to keep the parts hot

and perspiring, and every function of the skin debili-

tated and diseased.

The compressing-machine, combined with the long,

bony-waisted dress and the loaded skirts, constitute an

infernal trinity, one in office, if not in essence, and most

assuredly accomplish their work in crowding from its

approximate sphere the entire abdominal apparatus,

and furnish the foundation for those fears so often in-

dulged in child-birth, not only for the welfare of the

puny, sickly, and dwarf-like infant, but for the safety of

the fashion-conforming mother. We wonder not at
the solicitude so often felt, but that the constitution so

long endures, and nature bears up under such palpable

violation of her laws.

One evil of great magnitude arising from this state
of things, is the perfect horror and dread which is im-

bibed and fostered by the ignorant and uninformed,

who see before them, in the married life, the trying
ordeal, and are led to infer there is no alleviation or

mitigation of the woes now so peculiar to child-bear-
ing. Could they once discover the connection which

their manner of life in relation to physical and organ-

ical development, has to a speedy and safe delivery in

child-birth, they would change their course, observe

Nature’s laws, and thus banish all cause for anxiety as

to the result.

Mothers are too often sinfully silent before their

daughters on this point; too often willingly ignorant

regarding the relation of which we are speaking.

Thousands induced to enter the connubial state

from motives aside from genuine regard for its grand

object, instead of looking for the consummation of its le-

gitimate end, are anxiously hoping that it may be de-
ferred for quite a number of years, if not altogether

frustrated.

Many, void of all holy principle, are led to destroy

their offspring while in the embryon state; and many
more seek the same object, but fail, and pass for re-

spectable women; yea, many of them for Christian
women, among those who can only form an opinion
from an external sanctity of high pretensions. There

is a day hastening on which shall unmask their hypoc-
risy, and make them known as now they are known
only to themselves and a just God. Who shall deliver
any man from horrors worse than delirium tremens,
when made conscious that his earthly destiny stands
identified with that of such a monster of crime. No
man ought to be bound by any civil obligation to
cherish and support in the bosom of his domestic circle

a woman as his wife, who will recklessly bid defiance
to the Laws of God and man, b}r seeking and doseing
with nostrums and poisons, that she may murder his
offspring and do violence to her own constitution.
Botany Bay would be a more suitable place, a more
congenial clime, than the atmosphere of the civilized

\ family fireside for such an one.
‘ No man should confide his earthly interest for a mo-

ment in the hands of such a monster; and the law
should absolve all previous claims which might exist
for protection and support from so unfortuuato a hus-
band.

Such arc induced to assumo the responsibilities of
the marriage covenant without ever dreaming of its

obligations; without ever caring a fig about the design

of Him who founded the institution in equity and love,
and made it the source of the purest joys which earth
affords. ” Who is the Almighty ” that they should ask
what he meant in establishing the domestic compact ?
There was something novel, a mysterious chasm

about the idea of being married, and they have ven-
tured the risk. If they can be flirted about upon the

ever-shifting sands of fashionable society; visit the wa-

tering places; attend every concert; go on every ex-
cursion; be flush with money; this will constitute their
maximum of conjugal bliss. To make home happy, is
a mere trifle , a secondary thing. To act in reference to
posterity, now in the womb, in the future; to care es-
pecially for them when home, is not their province. A
bright and happy group of smiling juvenile faces would
be a sort of Pandemonium to them, and the Heaven of
the home circle would be turned into a Hell.
Such enter not upon the matrimonial state to ” min-

ister to,” but ” to be ministered to,” not as an ” help-

meet ” in the great purposes of life, but as an help-eat,
devouring and exhausting all the resources from which

spring the only pure streams of substantial domestic

joy-

The remedy for these evils lies in the prevalence of
correct views respecting the obligations involved in the

assumption of the responsibilities of the married life

among parents. This would result in leading them to
recognize the relation existing, which binds them to
give their children a knowledge of Physiology, and the

laws of hereditary transmission of constitutional char-

acteristics, which would furnish the mightiest promo-

tive of domestic harmony and peace where nought but
confusion reigns.

NERVOUS DISEASES.
BY S. 0. GLEASON, M.D.

There are two forms of disease to which the nervous

system is subject. One is called structural—as where
the substance of the nerves, the spinal cord for exam-

ple, becomes changed in its texture, altered in its ele-

mentary principles, softened; in short, it is decaying,

dying; becoming unable to perform its accustomed

functions.

This form of disease is not as common, by any means,

as the other form yet to be described. Yet it is well

for us to be on our guard against any serious malady

that may seize upon us and make life but a mere bur-
den, destroying all our usefulness and happiness in this

life, besides making us a burden of no small magnitude
to our friends.

The approach of this disease is insidious—making its
way by stealth, like a serpent among the cane-brake

—

giving notice of its approach only by an uncertain

train of symptoms. Patients often find themselves ut-

terly incurable, long before they suspected the nature

of the malady that was daily gaining ground upon

them.

We may mention among the symptoms of this severe
disease, numbness of one finger or toe, one hand or foot,

one leg or arm, or any other part of the body. Such

parts lose their accustomed feeling, their acute sensi-

bility, and take on a morbid, indescribable sensation, at

times most ugly and disagreeable in its character.

Paralysis may be the ultimate result, or extreme ema-
ciation of a limb may follow. Every part of the nerv-
ous substance is subject to such changes as have been

described. The substance of the brain may become
involved, and mental imbecility follow as the result.

Two cases of this character have presented them-

selves to mo for treatment, since I have been engaged in
Hydropathic practice. Bat, SO far as I Know, they are
hopeless; nothing can be done to reorganize the nerv-
ous substance, to give it its prop<:r<-|<.-]iii:iits in due pro. portions. It thus becomes a matter of no small mo. ment to inquire into, and ascertain some of the causes which induce so serious results. Permit me to speak on this point entirely from per-

sonal observation of the few cases that I have chanced
to see. This one feature has presented Itself, \i/.. :
excessive bodily and mental labor combined, while the
system has been tasked to the utmost of its capacity
by stimulating food and drinks, in order to keep the
machinery in motion as many of every twenty-four
hours as possible.

One other phase has presented itself not unworthy
of notice; that is, the great aim of the lives of
these men has been to secure wealth, to hoard up for
its own sake. Acquisitiveness has been cultivated at
the expense of other parts of the brain and nervous
system; stimulus that properly belonged to other parts

has been diverted to one channel; other parts have be-
come poverty stricken and died from inanition

—

from shere want of natural food. It cannot but be an
unhealthy process to unduly task any part of the
brain, leaving the other portions in a torpid, inactive,

unused state. The same may be said of any part of
the system, as no muscle can be brought into activity,
no organ execute any labor, without the aid of nervous
stimuli.

Drug treatment uses up the nervous energy very rapid-
ly; lowers the vital powers; exhausts all the stock of

health and strength that the system might have on hand,
too soon. The digestive and assimilative process can-
not keep pace with the rapid waste caused by drug ir-
ritation. Hence, patients who may be bordering upon
this form of nerve disease, should especially beware of

imposing such terrible tasks upon their frames as the

drug treatment most imperatively demands. They are
certain to come, from such treatment, ten-fold worse

than when they commenced. There can be no mistake
in this matter—the philosophy is plain to any common-
sense observer; besides the practice has demonstrated

it in hundreds of unfortunate cases. Many are now mere
idiots, who might, had it not been for drugs, have been
good, useful, and happy for years to come. A war of
extermination upon medicine is a more glorious enter-

prise than any crusade of earlier times. Ifanythingisto

be done for cases verging upon this form of disease, it

is to be accomplished by a radical change of habits.

The accustomed train of thought must be directed into

another channel, while the mental and physical labor

must be less, the diet must be less stimulating, still

nutritious in quality. Sleep, the ” great restorer,”

must be taken in large quantities, and the doses fre-

quently repeated. No one thing contributes so much
as sleep to the restoration of the nervous system. It

can hardly be too much indulged in such cases as I
have described.

—

[Almira IVater-Curc.

CASES OF EVERY DAY OCCURRENCE.
BY E. A. KITTREDGE, M.D.

Miss R , aged nine, of a slender constitution and
scrofulous withal, subject to violent bilious attacks, was

seized, on Friday, with vomiting. The parents who were
strictly and intelligently Hydropathic, used all the sim-

ple means they could think of, but still the child grew
no better, or at least the relief obtained was not
permanent. On Sunday, p.m., I was called and found
the child vomiting dark coffee-grounds looking matter,

and looking very much exhausted and pale, pulse about
one hundred and fifty, but feeble, very: upon inquir-

ing, I found that the child had been eating nothing

but simple cracked wheat; but that previously and af-

terwards it had been most violently exercising, akip-

ping the rope, &c, with a young friend and playmate

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from whom she had long been absent. This led me to

believe that the wheat was the cause of all the trouble.

I had been in the house but a few minutes, when she

began to be convulsed. I ordered her immediately

into a hot half-pack, prepared by wringing out a wool-

en blanket in water as hot as it could be borne, covered

with dry ones, which afforded instant relief to spasms,

and stopped the vomiting entirely. In course of an

hour or two, convulsions came on again very severely,

and again they put her in the hot-pack, and with

like success. The packs were followed with wash-

downs of water at 65°, and afterwards with copious

injections; and in the course of the evening they

succeeded, after repeated injections, &c, in bringing

away the bigger portion of the cracked wheat eaten on

Friday, almost entirely undigested; a few simple wash-

downs and bandages completed the cure. Tuesday

she was able to sit up a good part of the day; and in a

day or two more was as well as usual.

Remarks.—The points in this case are these : friends
must not think they have done everything and give

up, because wet sheets and cold applications have

given only temporary relief. The fact is, every patient

is different from every other patient, even when af-

flicted with the same disease; and each stage of the

same complaint often requires a very different treat-

ment from the preceding one.

In this case, there was great exhaustion, and the re-
active powers were inadequate to the task of warming
up a whole sheet full of cold water; and though I say

it, it requires an experienced hand to know just what
to do as in a case of so delicate a being; a little injudi-

cious management would, perhaps, produce fatal
consequences. I say it is in these kinds of cases

that not only much study, but long familiarity with
the different phases of diseased action is absolutely

necessary. How is it, says the reader, ” that cracked
wheat, so simple in itself, could do so much mischief.”
Why is it that a clock won’t keep good time when
hung up ” any how ?” Simply because it requires some-
thing beside wheels, wires, and pendulums to make a
clock tell the hour truthfully : it is necessary that cer-

tain conditions should be complied with—such as per-
pendicularity, &c. So is it with digestion. The laws
of digestion, though not made in the State-house, are
laws nevertheless, and ought, once in a while at least,
to be obeyed. One of these laws—and the one most
often repudiated in Yankee land—is that mastication
shall precede the swallowing of food. A great many
people swallow it first and chew it afterwards; at any
rate, they don’t chew it before. Another law is that
the stomach shall have a due supply of nervous force,
without which it cannot readily digest anything. Peo-
ple, in general, seem to have no idea of this necessity;
at least it would seem so from the helter skelter man-
ner in which they live, eating as though they were on
a wager, and that too, when tired almost to death
often, if not bodily, mentally, which is as bad.

This child had plaj^ed so violently, that her bodily
organization—never even decently strong—had be-
come almost exhausted of its nervous force or tone.
Consequently, the half-mosticated food was as bad as so
much gravel almost.
Nothing can be more simple or suitable for food

than good cracked wheat, always provided it is pro-
perly cooked and eaten ; but the system must always be
in proper conditions, as I have said before, or else it
would be productive of evil. rather than good; and pa-
rents have a great deal to answer for, inasmuch as they,
as a general thing, pay but little or no attention to the
way, the how, or the when their children eat, pro-
vided they don’t eat the shovel and tongs, or drink
father’s wine, &c.

To day, I have been called to prescribe for a child
who had the misfortune to have a grandma ! not but
what the venerable woman was good as anybody, but
she didn’t know a thing about Physiology, and was
feeding the poor little sickly thing on custards, till he

had got absolutely disgusted with them ! Now let
any one who can remember as long back as when
they were nine years old, think how many and often
the poor sufferer in this case must have had to swal

low

a cup of custard to get him so as to refuse them entirely.

The child complained of nothing particularly in the

day time; but every night, about half past nine, he

would have a ” bad spell,” groaning and starting,

looking wild, &c, &c, for some minutes, when on giv-
ing him some warm drinks, the wind would come up
and he would feel better.

Now, I hesitate not to say, that child, though phys-
ically very weak and slender, might enjoy entire free-
dom from these ” spells ” if he wonld live as he ought to.
My advice was simply to regulate his diet, giving

him nothing in the shape of pies, pastry or rich food
of any kind, to eat his meals at regular hours, and to

bathe all over every morning in slightly tepid water,

to wear a bandage wet in cold water nightly, with a

sitz-bath once a day for the present, and to be sure and

keep him out of school, carry him to ride often, and
never let him play long or violently. The poor old
grandmam thought I was a fool, especially when I
told her his chief disease was excess of grandmam.
When will the world learn that an ounce of prevention

is worth a cart-load of cure ? Not only is prevention
better than cure, but it is infinitely easier.

Folks unfortunately practice precaution, &c, after
the powers of constitution are crippled, when it is all
in vain oftentimes.

A RENOVATED MAN.
A CONFESSION.

Pehmit me as a subscriber of your invaluable
Journal, to raise my voice in behalf of the Water-
Cure. Some four years ago my health became very
delicate, in consequence of living a very sedentary

life, (being confined for the last eight years to my
desk.) I took the dyspepsia, and commenced the use
of drugs. My liver became disordered, and in the
meantime I applied to some of the most eminent
physicians of New Orleans, (being at that time a resi-
dent of that city,) but could get no relief for my afflic-
tions; my health continued to give way until the fall
of 1849, when I took the yellow fever, and had a very
severe time before I was able to get about; just so
soon as I was able to be about I took the French
measles, and was confined some seventeen or eighteen
days; after that time my health improved a little, (in
the mean time I was compelled to give up a very lucra-
tive situation, and leave New Orleans,) or “pig ” out,
if you will permit me to use the expression of my doc-
tor. My health continued to be very poor until the
15th of January, 1851, when I had, in some four or five
weeks, four different attacks of hemorrhoids from the

lungs; after these attacks I took a very bad cough; my
strength, what little I had left, gave way, and I was
apparently a hopeless “consumptive.” I continued

to take my then dose of ” drugs ” three to four times a
day, but all to no purpose, and, in fact, I became to be
a living drug shop, for, I certainly think, within five

years I took enough “drugs and stuff ” to supply a
very respectable shop, and must confess that I had so
habituated myself to taking three doses a day, that I

had come to the conclusion that it was a matter of im-
possibility to live without the use of medicines. ” So

much for the advice of doctors.” My health, from the
time I had those hemorrhoids, until the 1st of last May,
continued to decline. About the 1st of May I was in-
duced by a friend, of this place, to leave off drugs and
try cold water. After some persuasion I determined to
commence the treatment at home, and commenced by
taking a sponge bath in the morning, sitz bath at 10

o’clock, and wearing the wet jacket and foot-bath at

night, and living on as little animal food as possible;

you would have been surprised at the change I felt in

one week’s time after I commenced the treatment; my
symptoms of hemorrhoid terminations to my head, my
regular attacks of coughing after retiring at night, all

left me in ten days from the time I commenced the
treatment. I continued the treatment until the 1st

of last July, when I was induced, by the advice of my
friends, to make a visit to Brattleboro’, Vt. I arrived
there on the 17th of the same month, and commenced
the treatment at once. After staying some six weeks,

and gaining some twenty-five pounds in weight, which

is quite an increase in weight, ” as I am naturally a
small man,” I left the cure in better health than I

had been for years. I returned home, and took up the

treatment, and have followed it through this winter,

(which has been very severe for this climate.) Since

my return home, I have not lost one hour from my
business, and much more than that, I have not taken
a single dose of medicine since I commenced the treat-
ment; all I require is plenty of cold water, good whole-

some diet and exercise.

On my return home, I found my son in very bad
health, having taken the summer complaint in conse-
quence of his teething; the doctors were called in, and

commenced by giving him calomel, the little fellow con-
tinued to grow worse, and on my return I found the
little fellow so very low I hardly knew him. I imme-
diately gave up the use of ” drugs,” and commenced
the cold-water treatment, he commenced to improve
immediately, his appetite returned to him, and now I
have the pleasure of saying he is as hearty a boy as

our city has. So much, gentlemen, for ” Cold- Watery
I do believe, if I had not have commenced the cold-
water treatment, that ere this I should have been num-

bered with the dead. I am induced, from these mo-
tives, to make this statement to you. My case is known
to a great many friends and acquaintances, and some
that have been afflicted as I have been, and hope that

this statement of my case, and relief, may be instru-
mental in pointing out the only means by which they

may be relieved of their afflictions. Hoping, gentle-
men, that your valuable Journal may find a subscriber
in every family. I am, very respectfully, your friend

and subscriber, David T. Melton.—[ Wetumpka,Ala.

A CALL FROM THE WEST.
BY A PIONEER.

[It gives us pleasure to lay before our Eastern friends

{with the western fever) an extract from a letter, de-

scribing the condition, wants, and advantages, of a
” home in the west.” Aside from its Hydropathic as-
pect, the letter will be found interesting.]

For years I have been disgusted with poisonous

emetics, cathartics, lancets, and blisters. A few years
since, I had a severe attack of lung fever; after the

raising of blood thirty or forty times in a day for seve-

ral days, I sent for a physician. The array of drugs and

prescriptions presented were perfectly disgusting; I

refused to take them; I called for water, and drank

nearly a pint of ice-water to begin with. Finding no

injurious , but rather beneficial results , I made the water-
pail my physician, and found it the cheapest and most
agreeable doctor I ever employed. I thought at the

time cold wet cloths would be beneficial, but the family

and friends thought I should take cold, and they were

abandoned. Nothing would give me more pleasure
than the introduction of a Hydropathic physician into

our beautiful and rapidly-growing village, or vicinity.

I am convinced that one of the right stamp would be
patronized above all others, in a very short time. My
reasons for believing this, are—first, the people are gen-

erally possessed of common sense ; like the pioneers of
every new settlement, they are not afraid to think, nor

to speak what they think; secondly, they are (or many
of them) convinced that drugging is not what it is
” cracked up to be.” Then the enormous charges ! A
gentleman told me a few days since, that he called on

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the physician to visit his family, nine miles out, and

his bill was $11, and would have been $20, had not the

woman done part of his work before, he arrived; but
this is all the doctor we have in the county, which
numbers 2,000 people, and I think aq k at that. A
person coming to this place could take the cars at New
York city for Galena, where he would find steamers

leaving almost every day for this and other places of

note around us. From Galena you ascend the Missis-
sippi, passing through Lake Pippin until you come to

the mouth of Lake St. Croix; running up this Lake

eighteen miles brings you to our village, situated on

the east shore of said Lake; the opposite is Minnesota,

a half mile distant. On the east of the village you are
met by bluffs, one of which is 100 feet high; passing
through ravines, or colies of easy ascent, of half or

three-quarters of a mile, you come to the fertile prairie

which puts on its green attire about the middle of May,

and is soon decorated with an almost infinite variety

of flowers, which succeed each other until the frosts of

fall (which commence about the 1st of October) bid
them retire. We are eighteen miles east of St. Faul,
twenty from Fort Snelling and St. Anthony’s Falls;

six miles from Stillwater, which is situated at the head

of Lake St. Croix and mouth of the St. Croix river,
thirty miles from St. Croix Falls; this village takes its

name from a river whose mouth is half a mile above it.
I claim a piece of land two and a half miles east of the

village, through which this large and beautiful stream

runs; also a pool, three rods in circumference, without

an outlet visible, containing fish; one rod below this is

a clear, cold spring of soft water, forming a trout brook,

and after running twenty rods empties into the river;

also another, running through my woodland, forty
rods, formed from pure springs, and emptying into the

river. No one need ask for purer water to drink than
this river affords the year round, except at the break-

ing up of winter, or in the time of flood. This is a

romantic place, on the river bottoms is fine smooth

prairie; going back from the river fifty rods is a rise of

about five feet, here is another smooth plain, from this

we ascend seven feet and find another plain ; then comes
the ravines and the mounds, varying from fifty to one
hundred feet. I would gladly give all the land neces-

sary for the erection of buildings on this land, and

also for gardens, and they might take their choice of

springs. All kinds of grain grow to perfection here,
also roots of all description. In a work, whatever crop

can be raised in the State of New York can be grown
here. Our climate is delightful; we have no rain from
the middle of November to the middle of March. I
have seen fifty-seven winters, but the last was the
most pleasant I ever saw. We have had a few days of
pretty cold weather, yet not so cold as I have felt in

Massachusetts and Ehode Island, or Ohio. Our fruit
here consists of plumbs, blueberries, grapes, blackber-

ries, raspberries, and strawberries, the latter in great

abundance. Fevers are of rare occurrence here, but

dysentery prevailed last summer to quite an extent,
and in many instances it proved fatal. I had an attack
but soon subdued it by wearing a wet cloth around my
bowels. I advised the people to let their sick friends

have cold water to drink, and also to give injections of

it; but I was not a doctor, therefore my advice was of
little worth.

Permit me to add : If any one should think of com-
ing to this place, who wants information, he may fill
a sheet with questions, and I will answer them to the
best of my ability. Respectfully, Caleb Greene. .

Willow River, St. Croix Coimty, Wisconsin.

Vapor Baths Applied to Cattle.—A letter from
Vienna states that for the last two years, an epidemic

disease has decimated the horned cattle, but that a Ur.

Godlewske, a native of Gallaeia, had recently claimed

two premiums of 75,000f. each, offered by the Austrian

and Russian governments, he having discovered an in-

valuable remedy in the application of vapor bathi.

WATER-CURE IN CANADA.
BY JAMES BRENT.

“To withhold from soolsty facta regarding health, li n m>ri. r.f [elony
against the common rights of liunmit naturo.”—Du. Lamb.

Mit. Editor :—Having for some time past contem-
plated drawing the attention of the public of Quebec,
through the medium of your invaluable and widely-
circulated journal, to the very important science of

Hydropathy, or the ” Water-Cure “—yet wishing that
some one more skilled in the Art, would, ere this, have
rendered any communication from me unnecessary,

—

I fear a further delay on my part would affix to me
the offence quoted above. Perhaps, at the outset, it

behooves me to state, that personally or relatively, I
have not the least interest to serve by this communica-

tion, save and except that which naturally arises from

being subjected in common with others to sickness and
disease, and may possibly need some day to call in the
help of some one who can so serve me; for I sincerely
hope that the attention of some professional gentleman
may be so directed to the wants of Quebec in this re-
spect, as to induce him to come here and help us; for
I am happy to state that many M. Ds. have left the
ranks of Allopathy, and are now proving to the world
that Hydropathy, or the ” Water-Cure,” is not only the

best, but the only sj’stem founded in nature and adapt-

ed to the wants of men.
Without further delay, I shall now lay before you a

few cases which occurred in Quebec, where the power

and efficacy of the ” Water-Cure,” even in my unprac-
tised hands, has been shown. The first, in order of

time, is my own child, who was attacked last winter
with the measles, in such a violent manner, as in a

few hours to quite prostrate him; his throat was so

sore as not to be able to swallow, accompanied by a
high fever, very restless, and labored breathing. .Be-

ing at the time only six months old, I feared he was
too young to expect a favorable termination even under

water treatment, but believing that physic would have

been worse than useless to him, I felt it my duty to try
and save his life, even at the risk of my own, had I
failed, (for possibly some would have said that I killed

him;) however, he was “packed in a wet sheet” for

about an hour, during which time he slept sweetly and

sound; I then unpacked him, gave him a douche bath

at about 65° Fr., dried and put him to bed, when he
again fell asleep for about 1 1-2 hours, the eruption

appearing beautifully out all over his body when un-
packed and after the douche. The same treatment I

renewed about four times; which was, when the fever
began to return. I think that in about two weeks or

ten days he was quite well.
The next case which I shall mention, is that of a

daughter of Mr. H. Benjamin, merchant, Fabrique-st.,

who was attacked by measles and scarlet fever, and in
such a dangerous state that the medical gentlemen at-

tending her gave the parents no hope of a favorable

termination, which was on the third day of the attack;

indeed, they acknoweledged that she was as ill then,

as her sister was (who died of the same disease about

a month before) on the eighth day of her attack. When
I was requested by Mrs. Benjamin to see the child, I

must say she was in a very hopeless state, and I gave

my opinion that the only chance for her was the water-
cure, and that she had better consider the matter, and

let me know immediately , as delay is dangerous. After
a family consultation—with the medical attendants
present—it was decided that the trial should be made;
accordingly the child was put through the treatment,

the doctors being present, who acknowledged most
candidly that even during the firstoporation a manifest

improvement was evident. To be brief, the disease

gave way, the patient was soon convalescent, and I

am happy to say is still enjoying very good health.
Now, I think it must be admitted, that if such a case
as this resulted so favorably, it must be manifest that

an earlier application of the water-euro would most

certainly have a tendency to avert a considerable

amonnt of suffering and danger; Indeed, it iras folly
‘ ‘i in tin- same family, iii tin- com “i another

daughter, several years older, who likewise caught the
disease about the same time, who in the commence-
ment of the attach was subjected t’> the same treatment
ami carried through the whole stage of it with com-
paratively Little Inconvenience.

Now, Mr. Editor, I hope that this communication
will induce many of our fellow citizens to study and
thoroughly examine the merits of simple pure watt r,
and urge them to hasten on the time when we shall be
able to enjoy in all our hou-ses a bountiful supply of
good wholesome waler.

A CASE OF CONVULSIONS.
FKOM THE BOSTON PATIIFINIIKK.

We have often taken occasion to express In strong
terms our belief in the remedial virtues of Water—in-
deed we might as well confess to having cherished a
faith in the “Gospel of Water,” bordering well nigh
on enthusiasm. But with most people, and very pro-
perly, one fact is worth adozen opinions; and we there-
fore feel impelled to lay before our readers a siraplo

statement of a recent case in which its virtues were
pretty decidedly tested. As this is but one of the
number of equally convincing instances occurring in
the writer’s family, we will leave the reader to judge
whether we have not some reason for a moderate
amount of enthusiasm in the matter.
A child of ours, a robust little boy, of a highly nerv-

ous organization, and about two years of age, was
recently attacked by a sudden illness, which in a few

hours resulted in that terror of parents, convulsions.

The spasms were severe, and recurred at intervals dur-

ing seventeen hours, being for the latter part of the

time almost incessant. He was treated solely with wa-
ter, at temperatures varying according to the indica-

tions. As the symptoms were supposed to result from
a severe contusion on the head received by a fall two

or three days previously, the treatment was at first

conducted on this presumption; but as the desired re-

sult was not produced, it was at length ascertained

that the main difficulty was intestinal. A vigorous ap-
plication of the treatment was then made to the proper
parts, when the spasmodic symptoms almost immedi-
ately ceased; and returning consciousness blessed the

anxious watchers with a ray of hope, A speedy re-
covery was the result, in which the superiority of this

system of treatment was quite as apparent as in the

conquest of the disease. The vitality of the system

not having been prostrated by the ” heroic remedies”‘

or powerful poisons which are usually administered in

such cases, the little fellow very rapidly ” picked up”

all he had lost, and by the fifth or sixth day was ; is

hearty, playful and rosy-cheeked a* ever. ” Ah, •’ said

the physician, (who was formerly an Allopath,) “had

I treated him sixteen years ago he would not have

been about in that way now!”

THE WATER-CURE AT HOME.
A few thousand new cases every year like the fol-

lowing, are enough to make the Doctors’ squirm, and

dry ” qiuick “” quack ” ” quark.,” Poor fellows, their
occupation’s gone, and the ” people,” yes the ” un-

grateful people,” have, by reading the Water-Cure

Journal, reduced the expanse of doctering, several

hundred thousand dollars per annum. But the worst

is not yet. Wo #have dedicated our lives, and the
Water-Cure Journal, to break up the whole busineas of

physicing, bleeding, and drugging folks to death,

and we shall thus destroy the trade. It can be done,

and by the help of those who have felt the evil of the

old practice, it shall bo done. Wherever this Journal

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circulates, the wages of Allopathic doctors will be re-

duced, and money saved by the Water-Cure readers. A
subscriber, J. G., writing from Laport County, Ohio,

says —
It is now going on three years since I subscribed for

the Journal, and before I became a subscriber, my
doctor’s bill was annually from $25 to $50, and since I

have taken the Journal, it has been dwindling down
to just no bill at all. One year ago last August, was
the last call I have made on a doctor, until last week

when my wife was confined, and being six miles from
any doctor, I did not dare to risk myself at such new
business, but have no doubt I should have done just as

well as the M. D. My wife took the Journal for her
guide during pregnancy, and got well prepared for the

event. She gave birth to a fine healthy child, weigh-

ing 9 lbs., and herself 90 lbs., at a 1-4 after 6 A. M.,

and dressed her child the evening following, and from

that time on has taken care of her babe. She rode out

a mile with me the third day, to the great wonderment
of the natives. She is now, the sixth day, as well as she

has formerly been, twenty days after confinement. I do

not allow one of my family to take medicine of any
description, under any circumstances. My wife took
two sitz baths each day, and one sponge bath, and

wet bandage all the time, and she is now well, and
” all about the house.” Tours truly, j. G.

Water-Cuke in Iowa.—A Physician Wanted.—
[When sending a list of twenty-six subscribers from
Iowa City, Mr. G. A., a merchant, gives us the fol-

lowing interesting statement.]

I have intended for some time to write and give

some account of the progress of the Water-Cure in this

part of the country, as I believe I am the oldest
practitioner in the West, and before you published any

works on the subject. After being a few.years in this

country suffering from sickness, and when sick drug-
ged to death, I became so disgusted with the drug-

ging that I determined to give it up and die a natural

death. I happened to see a letter from Graefenberg,

giving a short account of the treatment, and com-

menced to experiment on myself, (being very sick at
the time,) and then upon my children. The result
created astonishment, prejudice, and aroused opposi-

tion among the faculty. I was often called out to see
the sick, and when there was no hope of the patient
by other means, I got a chance to try, and partially
prevailed. The Water-Cure became by degrees more
popular, and my practice increased, and during the
last six years I have had more patients than any of
the “Doctors.” I practice, however, as a gratuity,

although many have been so generous as to offer to
pay me well ; but my object has been to try and get
the public to adopt what I believe to be the only true
method of cure. I have experienced great difficulty

in procuring water-cure books, and have desired that

you would select some bookseller in the West as an
agent. As the prejudice has now left the Water-Cure,
and has turned against the Drug practice, I wish that
you could advise some good Water-Cure doctor to come
out to this State. I believe a good one could do well,

as I believe the majority of the people would support

one. I am engaged in mercantile business, and have
little time to spare ; but notwithstanding that, I con-

sider it my duty to do what I can to promote the cause
of humanity.

Water-Cure Triumphant ! Hurrah for ” Na-
ture’s own Beverage ! ! “—There is a man in this
county, (Morgan,) who is„a respectable farmer and
whose word can be relied on, whom we all know, has
been married 13 or 14 years, and until within a year,

his wife had never been so fortunate as to become a

mother.

In conversation with him a few days since, he in-

formed me that he attributed his recent ” good luck ”

to his wife’s making a free use of water, and of physi-

cal exercise in the open air. About two years since
she commenced bathing regularly every morning, and
took plenty of exercise in the open air ; her general

health began to improve, and in due season she re-

joiced in being the mother of a fine child.

If the above is worth placing on fie, you are wel-

come to it. I am, very truly yours, J. c. s.

W. C. Connelsville, Ohio.

[We are happy to inform our friend J. C. S. that
this is not the first ” case of the kind” which has
transpired under our glorious Hydropathic princi-

ples. Yet this is a good case, and may well encourage
others, who have been equally unfortunate. One thing
is certain, namely, such Remedies as we prescribe cost
nothing, nor can they do harm, even should they

sometimes fail to produce the desired result.]

WATER-CURE FOR HORSES.
BY D. T.

Nearly three years ago, when the writer was travel-
ing through the State of Ohio, where the mud was
very deep, his mare became badly afflicted with the
scratches. Three of her legs became well under the
ordinary treatment, but the fourth resisted all such

means of cure. Having by that time obtained some
knowlege of the powers of water in the cure of differ-

ent complaints to which the human species are liable,
it occurred to him that it might have similar power in
curing the ailments of the dumb beast. He thought
that the experiment would certainly be attended with

no danger ; and he accordingly, after washing the
diseased leg clean, encased it in a considerable quanti-

ty of old cloths. After sewing them pretty tightly, as
far as the disease extended, he wet them thoroughly
with cold water, and turned the mare into a pasture-

field. The wetting of the cloths was repeated several
times a day, for three days, when, on examination, it

was found that the disease was effectually removed.

Last January his horse severely sprained his fore pas-

tern, by running his fore foot into a hole, concealed by
snow, at the side of a log, and jumping over the log.

The horse became so lame that he was unable to pro-
ceed on his journey. He was treated exactly as the
mare had been, and with a similar result—in three or
four days the lameness was entirely removed.

It is obvious, however, that it is difficult to apply

water to the healing of the diseases of horses, except

those which are seated in the feet or legs ; but to cuts,

bruises, or sprains in those parts, to the scratches,

hoof-binding, ring-bone, splint and spavin, it is easily

applied. The writer does not profess, however, to
have witnessed any cases treated by water, except the
two above related ; but he thinks that the other dis-
eases mentioned should be fairly submitted to the wa-

ter-cure processes before any others are resorted to.
A little ingenuity might apply these processes also to
the throat-distemper, and to the sweeny. Should the

water-cure succeed in such cases, the discovery would

prove worth hundreds of dollars to many who keep
that noble animal, the horse ; and principles of human-
ity, as well as prudence, demand the employment of
the water-cure in such cases, in preference to all other

modes of treatment. Not only are the modes usually
recommended in books on Farriery, and usually prac-
ticed, unsuccessful, but they inflict much suffering on
the animals subjected to them. Not only does a right-
eous man regard the life of his beast, but he regards
its sufferings, and cannot voluntarily inflict them un-
necessarily. Perhaps some of your numerous corres-

pondents can state cases in which they have known
water to have been successfully applied to the diseases

of horses, or other irrational animals ; if so, the com-

munication to you for publication might be of great

interest to many of the readers of the Water-Cure
Journal.

BATHING BY AFFUSION.
BY D. T.

The following simple method of general bathing is
practicable at all seasons of the year, by most persons.
Let a person take a large shallow wash-tub, and place
it on the kitchen hearth, or beside a stove, so that
there will be little danger of chilliness during the pro-
cess of bathing

; and let him have convenient to reach
a bucketfull of water, a tin cup, or other small vessel,
to dip the water, a fleshbrush, or coarse cloth, so as to

be able to reach between the shoulders, and two coarse
towels. Then standing, or partially sitting in the tub,
let him pour three or four tiufulls of water on his head,
and, dropping the tin, let him rub his head with his
hands, as fast as possible. Should he then elevate his

countenance, and pour a tin on his face and in his
eyes, partially opened, he will benefit his visual or-

gans. He may then, in the same way, employ the bal-
ance on his shoulders and breast ; employ the flesh-
brush or coarse cloth to his person as expeditiously as

possible. Then employ one towel to dry the water,
and the other to rub the skin , and thus assist in establish-
ing reaction. Then dress quickly, and go to some brisk
exercise, if the person is able to do this, and if it is at
such a time of day that this is proper ; if not, let the

person go quickly into a warm bed. The temperature
of the water should be adapted to the power of resist-
ance to cold, which the person possesses ; but usage

does much in this. It is always safe to begin with
water slightly warmed, then gradually employ it cool-
er, as it is found on trial that the system can bear it

without any considerable chilliness. Cold water
should not be used when the body is much fatigued or
exhausted ; but with this precaution, if the body is
warm, even to sweating, so much the better. On get-
ting out of bed in the morning is probably the best
time in the twenty-four hours of the day for bathing.

TESTIMONY OF AN ALLOPATHIC PHYSI-
CIAN.

[After reading the following, water-cure folks will

be strengthened in the faith that of all the pathies,

Hydropathy is best. Bead what a “regularly” edu-
cated, and formerly a ” regular” practitioner writes.
It is but truth, however strange it may appear.]

With Hydropathy I have been longer and more
intimately acquainted, being bred an Allopathic
physician in one of the New England States, and
having, for a long number of years, practised med-
icine under a diploma of the medical society in

Connecticut and New York. The profession was val-
uable to me chiefly as a mean of mental improvement,
and support for my family. I read all the theories of
medicine that came within my reach ; but none of
them, as a whole, gave me satisfaction. My acquaint-
ance with the practice of physicians of reputation is

considerable ; andfrom£/i«’rpractice,as wellasmyown,
and the best practical books and medicaljournals, I ven-

ture the assertion, that the practice of medicine is alto-

gether empirical. Not that the profession of medicine
does not rightfully boast of many men of science,
anatomists, physiologists, chemists, &c. ; but I assert

it as a fact, that no year has passed by for the last half
century, but some new or cast-off medicine or com-
position has been introduced into practice. And how
is it introduced, but by experiment? And, alas!
how often do we hear expressions of deep regret and
disappointment fall from the lips of some of our best
physicians through failure and want of confidence in
medicine ! All medicines are poisons, or all poisons

are medicines. What is a poison but an indigestible
substance that cannot be assimilated or appropriated

to any of the purposes of the animal system, but is

abhorrent to natural instinct, and must be cast out, or

makes a lodgement in some part or organ of the system,
where it remains as a predisposing cause of future dis- P

ease, or perhaps death 1 The medical profession is the
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sanctum to which alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and the

other physical enemies of human vitality have fled.
Shall we admit a truce, or storm the castle? Let us
meet them with our healthful appliances, though they
lay hold of the horns of the altar. As one, I have
counted the cost, and paid the price. Every kind of

poison, as medicine, or article of diet, has been re-

moved from the use of my family as rapidly as possi-
ble, for tho last six years, and, so far as we have any
influence in the neighborhood, it is extending around

us. I could send you in scores of cases, where not only

in the little domestic ailments, and in battling con-

sumptive and chronic complaints
; but in curing for-

midable diseases, as croup, fever, &c, water-cure, fully
and perseveringly applied, has admirably succeeded.

But I forbear. Brethren of the Water-Cure, go ahead,

do your duty to the public and posterity. Nature
will be ever true to herself. In her vocabulary there is

no such word as “fail.” J. S.

SYNCOPE-FAINTING.
BY JOEL SHEW, SI. D.

Fainting may be caused by a great variety of causes
—such as severe shock, mechanical injuries, wounds,
loss of blood, poisons—of the mineral or vegetable
kind—strong mental emotions, and the like. When
unaccompanied with structural disease of the heart

or large blood-vessels, it may be said to occur under
the following forms or varieties :

—

1. From inanition, produced by prolonged fasting,
excessive fatigue , or from a sudden discharge of any

large quantity of fluid, whether natural or morbid, from

the body, and which is accompanied with a sense of

extreme weakness.

2. From acute pain, caused by wounds or other in-
juries, whether external or otherwise

; from worms,
flatulency, or hysteria ; from powerful medicines, poi-

sons, etc.

3. From some sudden or overwhelmning passion or
mental emotion.

4. From a sudden retrocession, of scarlatina, small-
pox, measles, gout or other disease.

Infainting, occurring from the loss of blood, we have
a beautiful operation of nature—one which strikingly
exemplifies the goodness of Deity in framing our mor-

tal bodies with capabilities of preservation, and which

are here most visibly set forth. A man receives a
wound in the artery of the thigh, called the femoral
artery, we will suppose; the blood is pouring forth at
a rate which, if continued, would very soon destroy

life. But directly he faints; the heart ceases to beat,

or nearly so; respiration becomes suspended, and the
blood ceases to flow. This allows a clot to form at the

bleeding orifice, for running blood cannot coagulate.

Gradually, again, the heart begins to beat, and the

blood to circulate, although for a long time with less

force than before. In this way, then, by the coagula-
tion or clotting of the blood at the bleeding; orifice, life

is often, though not always, saved. Nature may not
always be competent to the task, but she always does
her best in her efforts to save life, by arresting the
heart’s action and the circulation of the blood.
Treatment.—Some patients after fainting revive

almost immediately, and apparently without expe-
riencing any harm whatever. Others, again, recover
very slowly, so that it may be hours, days, weeks, or
months, before tho full strength returns. Much, of
course, will depend upon the nature of the case. In
the treatment wo must do all in our power to remove
the cause of the difficulty. If it arise from a poison,

we must endeavor to remove it from the system, and
to counteract its effects. If a flow of blood be the

cause, that must be attended to in the proper way.
In general, people are much more afraid of syncope

then there is any occasion for. Soon as a fit comes on

they set about dosing the patient with camphor and
a hundred other things more or less Injurious, accord-

ing to their strength, whereas in nine cases out often,

they should only place the patient In a comfortable

posture—tho recumbent being generally considered
on the whole the best, sprinkle a little cold water in

the face, give a little to drink, and wait patiently for

nature to take care of herself.

If fainting ariso from the too tight adjustment of

corset strings, &c, as it has in days of old been known

to do, the natural remedy suggests itself. So, too, if

confined air, as in a large assembly, be the occasion,

it is plain enough what ought to be done; and I may
here remark, that it would be well for people to be

more cautious than they arc wont, in regard to going

into large assemblies, where the air is often necessarily

impure, and wholly unfit for the purposes of respira-

tion. It must, I think, be a performance of more than

ordinary merit—whether scientific, amusing or reli-
gious—that will at all compensate one for the physical
injury he receives in attending a great public gather-

ing in the places ordinarily used for such purposes. A
better state of things, however, begins to appear; peo-

ple are beginning to learn that there is a difference be-

tween good and bad air, although we do not see it with

our eyes.

American and English Habits.—I often hear
very unflattering (and doubtless in part true) com-

parisons instituted between the healths of the English

and Americans. Is there any natural reason why our
people should ‘not be among the very healthiest 1 I
have thought that perhaps our very changeable, extre-

mal climate might operate against us.

In view of Western circumstances and necessities,

the rush of new-comers—our peculiar fevers—rich
soils, poor, hard-water,—prevailing porkivorousness
&c, &c, would not an article or series of articles in
the Journal on the best means of acclimation and pre-

serving health be exceedingly valuable 1

Bathing or washing is certainly like food a powerful

stimulant, but unlike food not essential to health and

long life, as has been proved in innumerable instances.

Should it not therefore in a state of health be abstain-

ed from, or at least but moderately used ; in other words

is not daily bathing unnecessary for well people as

drawing too largely upon Nature’s reserved forces, to

say nothing of the time &c, required 1 Were it not
better to reserve it as a curative 1 I suppose water

like other remedial agents can be almost wholly robbed

of its efficacy by a too common use.
The W. C. J. I most profoundly esteem and ad-

mire—but think its most popular legitimate field, its
chief forte, lies in prevention—” an ounce of preven-
tion is worth a pound of cure.” Therein is your sure

platform, your steadfast, unmoveable foundation. In

your advocacy of prevention lies the broad gulf that

separates between your Journal and all tho other Me-
dical Journals I have seen. To be sure there is in ,
cleansing the Augean stable of humanity a Herculean

labor, preparatory to a generation who shall have
sound bodies to start upon. Now, as of old, Water is
doubtless the best cleansing agent—whether the only
one needed, may as yet reasonably in my humble
opinion be questioned. ” Cui bono 1″ Truth only

can make us free—and Truth as I have learned it is
broad, comprehensive, liberal, not narrow, exclusive,

bigoted, sectarian, bitter, boastful. Facts aro facts,

and as a Friend onco remarked, ” an Allophatic fact
goes just as far with me as a Hydropathio fact.”
Heaven guido you and all into all truth. r. k. p.

[Tho positions of F. K. P., aro in the main sub-

stantially correct ; in fact just what this Journal is

continually teaching. Daily bathing is not a natural

necessity ; but it is a necessity resulting from tho ar-

tificial, enervating, and erroneous habits of society.

All the doctrines wo teach arc specially aimod at tho

“prevention” of disease. Tho eaose of American*
being lew healthy than Englishmen, is found not in
ourwoi a climate, but in their better habits in early
life. English ohildren are developed on plain (bod,
with plenty of cxerciso in tho open air; American
children aro renderod peevish and puny by cakes,
candies, nick-nacks, and in-door confinement.

WATER.-A POEM.
BY MBS. FIDELIA W . (i I I. I. V. T T ,
Ho ! ye poor, feeblo nufforing onai

—

Racked with the thousand ill*
Of cough-., dyspepsia, burning brains,
Fevers or ague-chills

;

There is a medicine for you
Pour’d from our Maker’s hand,

And (lowing free as his great love,
All o’er the pleasant land.

It sparkles in the broad, blue seas,

And in the singing streams
;

And where tho spray of woodland founts
Upon the moss-bed gleams.

It nestles in the lily’s cup,

Conceal’d from human view
;

And as it nurs’d that little flower,
So will it strengthen you.

Go search the green and pleasant vales,
Roam o’er the grass-grown hills

;

Go bathe within the woodland fount
And in the singing rills.

Go forth, ye pale-brow’d. care-worn ones,
Weary of woe and pain,

Until upon your wasted cheeks

The red rose blooms again.
Cottage-Home, Mich., l^.jii.

TOBACCO.
This essay, friend Journal, I place in thy charge,
Hold it up to the people, the nation at large

;

Wilt thou print it, or burn it ? do both if you please,

Suit thyself, and thou’lt suit thy warmfriend, J. A. Pease.

POEM.
Bow to the tyrant whose banner is waving,
Low in the dust let each craven dunce fall

;

Grasp well the chain which, forsooth, is enslaving

The loafers profane, loafers pious and all.

Tobacco ! lean bastard ! ! no demon will own thee,
And yet hypo-Christians “snuff dust” at thy nod

;

They chew, smoke and snuff; hence they truly en throno thee,

Oh, say not ” These pseudo-saints make thee their Ged.”‘

Tobacco ! thon impudent coxcomb ! we’ve seen theo

Assume the cigar; and, to stretch thyself higher,

Tale, meddling loafer ! yes, often we’ve seen thee

At one end a fool, at the othe*—a fire !

And when the brain reels, and fine sense has departed,

Thou scourge of tho pit ! both in spew and in puff,

To render the Genius of Health broken-hearted,

Spit out as a quid, thou’rt restored as a snuff!

slave to this tyrant ! the chain that has bound thee,

Caress it, nay grasp it, lest thou shouldst be free ;
Ashamed of thy filth, let the swine all around thee

Abandon the ditch—a fit sanctum for thee.

Then bow to the tyrant whose banner is waving,

Full low in the dust let each craven dunce fall

;

Ay ! grasp well the chain which, forsooth, is enslaving
The loafers profane, loafers pious and all.

West Leyden, 185:1.

Salt.—A medical writer in England is endeavoring
to prove that salt was the ” forbidden fruit,v and

that if it was no longer used by the human race,
” their beauty, bodily perfection and power of mind,”

would exceed any era before known in the world.

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Methodist Ministers short lived.—We were
greatly astonished on reading the following from a late

number of the Methodist Quarterly Review.

In the Methodist Episcopal Church north, there are

five hundred and eleven superannuated and supernu-

merary preachers, nearly one-eighth of its whole

ministry ; that nearly half of all the Methodist

preachers whose deaths have been recorded, fell before

they were thirty years of age ; and that of six hundred

and seventy-two whose time was spent in itinerant
work, it has been ascertained, about two-thirds died

after twelve years itinerant service.

[Surely there is something wrong here. What is
the cause of this early decrepitude and death 1 In no
other similar occupation within our knowledge can

such a record be found. We repeat the question,
What is the cause 1 It cannot be pretended that the
Almighty requires any such sacrifice of human life as
this for any purpose. But let us get at the cause.

A ” Regular ” in the sheets.—[To drink behind
the door was, in former times, considered disgraceful,

and so our friend E. F. C, writing from Orangeville,
Ohio, seems quite indignant that a man ” who knows
the right, should still the wrong pursue.” But why
look for consistency in a doctor, who depends upon the
sale of drugs for his ” bread and butter.” Is it not

his interest to increase his “practice’?” Then why
should he apply the Water-Cure to his patients 1 But
here are the facts] •

Whilst writing, I wish to tell you that this vicinity
was fearfully scourged last fall with the dysentery (but
worse with the doctors), and in nine cases out of ten,
those who ” sent for the doctor ” died ! Poor suffer-
ers. Families swept off, except, perhaps, one or two !
But there were a few, here and there, who had got a
knowledge of the ” Water-Cure,” and applied it, re-

fusingall medicine ; and all who took this course got
well in one or two weeks.

And further : A physician of good repute took sick
(his was a fever), and, after drugging himself a few
days till he began to fear there was some danger in
his case, sent for a neighbor who was known to be fa-
miliar with the hydropathic treatment, to come and
put him through a course ; he did so, and cured the
doctor. Do you ask did the doctor ” shut up shop
after that, as an honest man should 1″ No ; he got
astride the drugs as before ; but when ” bored” with
the treatment of his own case, would say he ” was in
favor of cold water when it would do, but his was a
peculiar case.” Now, if these facts are worth a
place in the Water-Cure Journal, you are at liberty

to put them there. Respectfully yours, e. f. c.

The Elmira Water-Cure, will be opened early
in June, by our friends and contributors—Dr. and
Mrs. Gleason. We are informed that it is beautifully
situated, with all the necessary surroundings to make
it, in all respects, a desirable Home for those wishing
Hydropathic Treatment.

As it should be.—The proprietors of Mount Pros-
pect Water-Cure are now giving praotical instruc-
tion to pupils and patients, upon Physiology, Ana-
tomy, and Hydropathy. Thus besides receiving
treatment, the patients may, at the same time, if not
too feeble, go through a course of study, and qualify
themselves to practice at home and abroad. This is
as it should be. Convert every establishment into an
hydropathic school, let every Physician become a
Teacher, and let the patients become pupils, and we
may in a few years, supply the immense and increasing
demand, for water-cure practitioners.

The Fashion.—While thousands fall by clashing
swords, ten thousands fall by corset boards. Yet gid-
dy females—thoughtless train !—for sake of fashion,
yield to pain.

—

Tight Boots.

O. H. W. has sent us upwards of eighty subscribers
from Quincy, Illinois, and thinks he shall increase the

list, to one hundred.

The Water-Cure Journal,
AND

HERALD OF REFORMS.
Prospectus of Vol. XIV.,

Commencing on the 1st of July, 1852.

The Water-Cure Journal is published monthly,
illustrated with engravings, exhibiting the Structure,

Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, with
familiar instructions to learners. It is emphatically a

Journal of Health, adapted to all classes, and is
designed to be a complete Family Guide in all cases,

and in all diseases.

Hydropathy will be fully unfolded, and so ex-
plained that all may apply it in various diseases, even
those not curable by any other means. There is no

system so simple, harmless, and universally applicable

as the Water-Cure. Its effects are almost miraculous
;

and it has already been the means of saving the lives

of thousands who were beyond the reach of other
known remedies.

The Philosophy of Health will be fully discussed,
including Food, Drinks, Clothing, Air, and Exercise,

showing their effects on both Body and Mind.

The Water-Cure at Home.—Particular directions
will be given for the treatment of ordinary cases at

Home, which will enable all who have occasion to ap-
ply it without the aid of a physician.

To those in Health.—Without health, even life is
not desirable, unless a remedy can be found. To pre-

serve health, no other mode of living can compare with
this system. In fact, were its rules observed and car-

ried out, many of our ills would be forever banished,
and succeeding generations grow up in all the vigor of

true manhood. It will be a part of our duty to teach

the world how to preserve health, as well as to cure
disease.

To Invalids.—No matter of what disease, the prin-
ciples of Hydropathy may safely be applied, and, in
nine cases out of ten, great benefit may be derived
therefrom.

To Women and Mothers.—It is universally conce-
ded by all intelligent practitioners, as well by the Old

School as the New, that the Water-Cure is not equalled
by any other mode of treatment in those peculiar com-
plaints common only to women. The Journal will
contain such advice and instruction as may be consid-
ered most important, in all these critical yet unavoid-

able cases.

Reforms in all our modes of life will be pointed out,

and made so plain that ” he who runs may read.” We
believe fully that man may prolong his life much be-
yond the number of years usually attained. We pro-
pose to show how.

To Practitioners.—This Journal will represent the
entire Hydropathic profession. Reports of important

cases, and all other matters pertaining to health, will

be laid before our readers.

To the Public.—We have obtained the co-operation
of the leading Hydropathic writers, in order to present

the whole combined talent of the entire profession
;

and have secured the services of nearly all the medical

reformers in the land.

The Water-Cure Journal will be published on the
first of each month, devoted to the principles of Life,

Health and Happiness, on the following extremely

low

TERMS
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FOWLERS AND WELLS,
Clinton Hall, 131 Nassau-st., New York.

JSSrThe New Volume commences in July, 1852.

” The Water-Cure Journal” is bold, earnest, and
enthusiastic—written with the zeal and energy that
nothing but sincere conviction can inspire. In its
whole tone and spirit it presents a noble contrast to
the vagueness, indecision, and technical prattle of
many professed scientific journals. The facts which it
brings forward in overwhelming abundance are suffi-
cient to startle the Old Medical Profession out of the
deepest slumber.

—

New York Tribune.

The Right Spirit.—F. K. P., when sending a
list of new subscribers from Delevan, Wisconsin, holds
the following language. These, I ought to have sent

you last season

—

in fact I have felt guilty in regard

to this neglect on my part, every No. I have rec’d.—for
I cannot express to you my esteem for the Journal.
Had I only some spare copies to take with me when
traveling, 1 think I might obtain many subscribers
for you.

If you think worth while, you may send me ai>y
reasonable No., and I will pay postage cheerfully, Bi>d

try to make good use of them in a Missionary way.

[Of course we send the extra numbers, and hope it
may prove to be good seed, sown on good ground.
May such Missionaries as F. K. P. be multiplied.]

A Venerable Couple.—Master John William Neale,
aged fifteen years, and Miss Sally Ann Blockwell,aged
thirteen, got married at Brooklyn, Ky., on the 10th

ult.—The papers.
[To perish early, like fruit picked when green. They

will wilt—never ripen. Parents or guardians who per-
mit such things, are either ignorant or indifferent to-

wards their children. In either case a great physiolo-

gical law has been violated, and an unpardonable sin

committed. The penalty will just as surely follow as

darkness follows daylight.

The Water-Cure Journal—A monthly of great
interest and utility. We do not know how many
copies of this work are taken in the city, but we be-
lieve if more were taken, there would be more rosy

cheeks and sparkling eyes, and less sallow counte-

nances, pain and misery. We make no hesitancy in
saying it is one of the most valuable publications in

the country.

—

[New Orleans Daily Times.

[Our circulation is gradually increasing in the
” Crescent City,” and we take this occasion to recom-

mend the erection of a first-class Water-Cure in New
Orleans—it would at once be liberally patronized.]

The Forestville Water-Cure.—This new estab-
lishment is pleasantly siluated near the termination

of the New York and Erie Rail Road, in Chautauque
County, N. Y., the only one, we believe, West or
South of Buffalo, in the State. Drs. Charles Par-

ker, and Amos K. Avery are the proprietors and
managers. It will be seen in their advertisement, that

Dr. Parker, once a patient, became convinced by ac-

tual experience of the superiority of the Hydropathic

system, and henoe its adoption for the treatment of

others. We wish the Forestville Establishment,
Great Success.

The Milford Water-Cure.—It gives us pleasure
to record the opening of a new W. C. Establishment
by Dr. E. A. Cone, in Milford, Oakland Co., Mich.

This is the pioneer establishment of Oakland County,

of which Pontiac is the Capital. We shall expect to
hear a favorable account from this laudable enterprise.

\ The July Number of the Water-Cuke Journal will be sent to

i, those whose subscriptions expired with the June Number, But as our terms

‘( are payable in advance, we shall send no more, until directed to do so by

thoso who may wish to renew their subscriptions.

m&m&$&–

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\\ pjm-fmkf %\ut 1852,

It will hk our aim to adapt tho Journal to the wonts of ” the Pko-

flk ” gvEKvwiiK. k. It is not, ns some have supposed, designed for med-

ical men only, but tor all mkn aud all WOMBN.—PUBMBHBM.

Our numerous contributors will not be impatient nor consider their

articles declined, should thoy not appeal in our first issue after their re-

ceipt. Wfl have a number of valuable communications which will not

• poil by keeping.

Condense.—Tho publishers would respectfully suggest that it would
be quite as well, for all concerned, if Advertisers would announce their

establishments in the brikfkst POSSIBLE manner. A few lines, when
properly worded, telegraph-like, giving location and routes by which

they may bo reached, will usually be sufficient after tho first elaborate

description. Our space is quite too valuable to bo occupied with adver-

tisements of unnecessary length. Brief announcements will be found quite

as profitable to all concerned.

The editor of the Indiana State Journal, writing from Indianapolis says,

“Here is the best place in the West for a Water-cure establishment, can’t

you send some person to put one up! [Answer. We will try, sir, but
guess you must ” wait a little longer.”

We believe there are several thousand inhabitants in Indianapolis.—J.
D. DefrEes, Editor State Journal, will give particular information on the

subject to those who may desire it.

Extra numbers of the Journal for specimens will cheerfully be

furnished (of such as we have to spare) with which to obtain new subscri-

bers. The reading of a single number will usually be sufficient to incline

every intelligent man or -woman to subscribe, especially if they would

economize in either life, health, or money.

We will furnish journals, our friends will furnish subscribers, and if our
opinions and principles take root, the world will be the better.

Our Circular Prospectus.’—To facilitate the recording of names, we
Gend a circular prospectus, which our friends and co-workers will hand

around among their neighbors, in order to make up clubs of new and old

subscribers.

These semi-annual periods, when new volumes commence, afford an ex-

cellent opportunity for the friends of this great Health Reform, to pre-

sent these money-saving, and life-preserving principles, to those who are
yet unacquainted with their advantages.

FOWLERS AND WELLS,
No. 131 Nassau street, New York.

MATTERS FOE, JUNE.
BY R. T. TRALL, M.D.

Adulterated Foods.—Few persons are aware, and
many do not seem to care, to what an extent fraudu-
lent adulterations are practised in the matter of food

and drink. If the thing eaten or drank is agreeable to

the taste, and served up according to the fashion, the

dealer and consumer are generally satisfied with each

other. There is no branch of commerce in which
counterfeiting and cheating are carried on so exten-

sively as in relation to articles taken into the human
stomach, in the shape of aliments, beverages and med-

icines. Xo person who is unacquainted with the test-
qualities of pure and healthful articles, and who pur-
chases second-hand, can have any assurance that he is

not swallowing slow but fatal poisons with every meal.

Whether adulterations are practised to a greater or
less extent in New York than in London, we do not
know ; but all who carefully peruse the following ex-
tract will be convinced that the whole subject of
” what to eat, drink, and avoid,” is worthy of a thor-
ough investigation.

” The Analytical Sanitary Commission of London
has been in existence, we believe, since the beginning
of 185 1 ; durjng which time it has prosecuted its la-
bors with the most untiring zeal and unflinching cour-
age, and with results sufficiently astounding. They
are still proceeding with their labors, the results of
which are published in the London Lancet. The ob-
ject of this Commission is to make actual and careful
analysis of samples of the various solids and fluids con-
sumed in that metropolis, in the way of foods and
drinks, and to record the results of their examinations.
Thus far these examinations have embraced the fol-

lowing articles of every-day consumption : Sugar, tea,
coffee, chicory, cocoa, chocolate, mustard, pepper,
bread, flour, arrowroot, farinaceous foods, oatmeal,

isinglass, water, milk, vinegar, pickles of all descrip-
tions, cinnamon, and spices.
The results of these inquiries have exposed deep and

wide-spread systems of adulterations, commencing
often with the manufacturer, aud terminating only

I

with the retail dealer. It has shown that in puri
ing any article of food or di ink in that metropolis, the
rule is that one obtains an adulterated article—the
genuine commodity being the exception.
The articles used for these adulterations are alwaj –

of iin inferior quality, generally worthless—frequently
positively injurious—and not uncommonly even poi
sonous.
Thus it must be a pleasant reflection to our readers

(for we presume there is no reason to suppose that
man)’, at least, of the articles mentioned above which
arc used by us are not as much adulterated as the like
articles used in England), it must be pleasant, we Bay,
to think that when we sip our tea of an evening, it is
more than likely we are drinking a decoction in which
sulphate of iron, logwood, blacklead, talc, China clay,
soapstone, indigo, turmeric, Prussian blue, mineral
green, verdigris, arsenite of copper, eliminate of had,
and many other delectable substances, form no incon-
siderable ingredients. It is eddying to think, that we
cannot take a spoonful of sugar, drink a cup of coffee
or chocolate, season our edibles with a little mustard,
pepper or vinegar, take a mouthful of bread, eat a bit
of pickle, or enjoy our pastry, but that the chances are
we are swallowing some vile poison.
Yet such actual experiment has demonstrated to be

the case. All the substances enumerated above, and
many others, were found in the various samples of tea
examined by the Commission, in no inconsiderable
quanti

ties.

All the samples examined were purchased from deal-
ers, and were, therefore, in the exact condition in
which they reached the consumer. These examina-
tions are made with the aid of the microscope, and are
followed by the publication to the world of the names
of all the parties of whom purchases have been made.

More deaths from Chloroform.—Within a
few days, no less than four deaths from this anaes-
thetic agent have been recorded in the newspapers

and medical journals. In all of these cases the
patients were in apparently fine health, and inhaled

the chloroform for the purpose of having some slight

surgical operation performed without pain. Added to
the above list of casualties, is one in Williamsburgh,

wherein a father nearly killed, and probably quite

ruined his own child by holding chloroform to its nose
as a quieter, whenever it was noisy or uneasy. These
circumstances suggest the propriety—while the ques-
tion is being debated in Congress whether Dr. Jackson,

or Dr. Morton, or the legal representatives of Dr.

Wells, or all together, shall have an appropriation of

$100,000 for its discovery—of placing some legal re-
strictions upon the employment of this article. Some
physicians resort to it on every occasion of the extrac-

tion of a tooth ; and others insist on administering it

to every mother in child-birth. It is positively certain

that death will now and then occur instantaneously as
the result of such practice ; and who, knowing the
danger, would hazard their lives in this way ? Sulphuric
ether is far less injurious, and never endangers life

;

and besides, it will produce the desired insensibility in

nearly, if not quite every case. Why then should it
not be substituted ?

By the way, we notice, as part and parcel of a dis- ‘

cussion that ” came off” at a meeting of the Philadel-
j

phia Medical Society, recently, the following ” strik- >

ing” views presented by Dr. Darrach :

“This blessing (chloroform), removes the sting of
disease, operations’, and the cursed pain of child-birth.
Man’s punishment is to obtain his food by the sweat of >
his brow—hard labor! and woman’s to have pains in

j

child-birth. But the law is satisfied; and now, since >

man is blessed, through Christianity, with labor-saving >.
machinery, that he may no longer toil, woman in

j

child-birth must not judicially and cruelly be denied ;
chloroform, her pain-saving boon in labor.”

Those who can admire either the philosophy or the-
ology of such sentiments, must see through eye-glasses

j

very different from ours. The law is satisfied, and yet
j

the Law-maker, in the exercise of a most wanton act >

of judicial cruelty, continues the penalty! And the j
doctors—benevolont souls—must come in with their < blessed chloroform, to defend women from her Creator!

!

Bayard Taylor on- Vegetarianism.—It rarely I
happens that a traveler who travels to write 5

a book, and writes a book to suit the market, es- <

pecially if be is himself fond >.r the ft b poi ; and
‘

‘< especially if he Indulge* freelj In the ruby wine ; and most [ally if he is In the habit of meditating on gravi philosophical subject the inspiration of tobacco-smoke, lets an opportunity slip for knocking teetotalism, vegetarianism, and similar isms, on the head; and wherever he goes, or wheresoever he he is always morally certain to find ample data to serve bis purpose. Thus the traveler above annoui now traveling in Egypt, writes :

” The scenery of the Nile, southward from Shendy,
IS again change,!. The tropical rain-, which fell
sioually at Al>ou-llaimiic

It is not very remarkable that our traveler, who
goes abundantly supplied with selected provisions, ob-
sequious attendants, and all the appliances of self-
preservation, who lounges in airy cabins when the
weather is cool, and reposes on the nicely carpeted
green grass when the temperature and the breeze ren-
ders that locality delightful to the senses, as well as

conducive to health, and who, moreover, is well-educa-
ted and intelligent in man3′ of the laws of physiology
and rules hygiene, should enjoy better health than the
ignorant laborers, serfs or slaves ofa semi-barbarous peo-

ple, even though these get but little to eat, save dourra,

and, perchance, not half enough of that. We have no
right to expect a candid, much less an intelligent opin-
ion on this question, which requires for its propcrsolution

an accurate knowledge and careful consideration of all

the voluntary habits and social circumstances of the

people adjudged, from any one who sets out with the
proposition that coffee, urine, ami cigars are among the
necessaries of life ; and who, in almost every commu-
nication, puts his love of” sherbet,” and his enjoyment

of ” chibouks’* prominently forward. The great truths

of a purer life never were and never will be seen

through the stimulus and smoke of such ” sumptuous

fare” as flesh, liquor and tobacco.

Of course we do not deny the facts stated by Mr.
Taylor. Hut we contend, and verily believe, they are
susceptible of a very different explanation. Yet we
are pained at the uncandid and heartless manner in
which the writer treats the subject ; in common, in-

deed, with nearly all the advocates of his side of the

controversy. A fling at ”lank Sylvester Graham,”
a witticism on ” bran and turnips”—did he forget the
steivot\ ped argument of saw dust pudding J—and the
subject is finally disposed of. Man is omnivorous and
Ethopians like mutton !

Allopathic Progress.—We like to keep our read-
ers posted up on all the medical improvements of the

day. whether they originate in the school we so zeal-

ously advocate, or in that wo so faithfully oppose.

People ought to bo intelligent enough to be able to

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give a reason why they do this or refuse to do that.
They ought to know the why and wherefore that in-
duces them to select a hydropathic remedy, or to

reject an allopathic one. In furtherance of this end

we copy the following announcement from the New
York Medical Gazette of a recent date :

” The urate of ammonia is said, by Professor Hor-
ner, to be a valuable agent for external application in

many painful inflammatory affections ; and he recom-
mends a trial of it in pleurisy and peritonitis. He
employs Guano for the purpose, made into a hot poul-
tice, clay, and covered with oil silk or India rub-
ber cloth. Its use was suggested by witnessing the
effects of human urine thus applied, in a case of viru-
lent inflamation of the knee joint.”

Now all the above remedies are merely animal excre-
ments ! It may do for those whose faith in drugs is
strong and abiding in proportion as those drugs are

rank and poisonous, to seek remedies for diseases in

the decaying and putrefying matters of the excretions

—

faeces, bile, sweat and urine—but our faith in healing
the sick, lies in the direction of getting rid of impuri

ties.

A Theory op Population.—Under this heading
the Westminister Eeview, for April, has an able and

philosophical article on the puzzling problem of the

final condition of the inhabitants of this earth in

relation to the means of subsistence. Eejecting at

once the absurdities of Malthus and Doubleday, the

author proceeds to trace the law of reproduction

from the lowest form of animal organization to the

highest development of the human being. He shows
that, as the scale of animal creation ascends, the or-

ganization becomes more complex and the powers of

self-preservation proportionably increased, while the

faculty of reproduction is correspondingly diminished.

This law is evidenced by the comparative size of the

brain and nervous system in relation to the rest of the

body. Thus the average ratio of the brain to the body

is, in fishes, 1 to 5,668; in reptiles, 1 to 1,321; in birds,

1 to 212 ; and in mammals, 1 to 186. The ability to

maintain individual life is, throughout the entire ani-

mal kingdom, exactly in the inverse ratio to the faci-

lity of multiplying it. The mean capacities of the cra-
nia in the leading races are given at, in the Australian,

75 cubic inches ; in the African, 82 ; in the Malayan,

86 ; and in the Englishman, 96.
” That an enlargement of the nervous centres is go-

ing on in mankind,” says the author, ” is an ascer-

tained fact.” And this enlargement, it is argued, will
continue until the ability of individual preservation

balances the present excess of fertility ; after which the

births and deaths of the world will balance each other.

At that time, too, the earth will have become vastly
more fertile under an improved system of agriculture,

and the evils of a crowded population will be no more

known. The human race, though perhaps somewhat
diminished in osseous and muscular bulk, in mere ani-

mal strength will be vastly more developed in those de-

partments of the brain and body pertaining to the in-

tellectual and moral nature.

There is much food for reflection for those who de-
sire to be represented in the future generations of the

earth, in the following observations, with which the

article concludes

:

The effect of pressure of population, in increasing
the ability to maintain life, and decreasing the ability
to multiply, is not a uniform effect, but an average
one. In this case, as in many others, Nature secures
each step in advance by a succession of trials, which
are perpetually repeated, and cannot fail to be repeat-
ed, until success is achieved: All mankind in turn
subject themselves more or less to the discipline de-
scribed ; they either may or may not advance under
it ; but, in the nature of things, only those who do ad-
vance under it eventually survive. For, necessarily,
families and races whom this increasing difficulty of
getting a living which excess of fertility entails, does
not stimulate to improvements in production—that is,
to greater mental activity—are on the high road to ex-
tinction ; and must ultimately be supplanted by those
whom the pressure does so stimulate. This truth we

have recently seen exemplified in Ireland. And here,
indeed, without further illustration, it will be seen
that premature death, under all its forms, and from all
its causes, cannot fail to work in the same direction.
For as those prematurely carried off must, in the aver-
age of cases, be those in whom the power of self-pres-
ervation is the least, it unavoidably follows, that those
left behind to continue the race are those in whom the
power of self-preservation is the greatest—are the se-
lect of their generation. So that, whether the dan-
gers to existence be of the kind produced by excess of
fertility, or of any other kind, it is clear, that by the
ceaseless exercise of the faculties needed to contend
with them, and by the death of all men who fail to
contendwith them successfully, there is ensured a con-
stant progress towards a higher degree of skill, intelli-
gence, and self-regulation—a better co-ordination of
actions—a more complete life.

§ 16. There now remains but to inquire towards
what limit this progress tends. Evidently, so long as
the fertility of the race is more than sufficient to bal-
ance the diminution by deaths, population must con-
tinue to increase ; so long as population continues to
increase, there must be pressure on the means of sub-
sistence : and so long as there is pressure on the
means of subsistence, further mental development
must go on, and further diminution of fertility must
result. Hence, the change can never cease until the
rate of multiplication is just equal to the rate of mor-
tality ; that is, can never eease until, on the average,
each pair brings to maturity but two children. Prob-
ably this involves that each pair will rarely produce
more than two offspring ; seeing that with the greatly
increased ability to preserve life which the hypothe-
sis presupposes, the amount of infant and juvenile
mortality must become very small. Be this as it may,
however, it is manifest that, in the end, pressure of
population and its accompanying evils, will entirely
disappear ; and will leave a state of things which will
require from each individual no more than a normal
and pleasurable activity. That this last inference is a
legitimate corollary will become obvious on a little
consideration. For, a cessation in the decrease of fer-
tility implies a cessation in the development of the
nervous system ; and this implies that the nervous
system has become fully equal to all that is demanded
of it—has not to do more than is natural to it. But
that exercise of faculties which does not exceed what
is natural, constitutes gratification. Consequently, in
the end, the obtainment of subsistence will require just
that kind and that amount of action needful to perfect
health and happiness.
Thus do we see how simple are the means by which

the greatest and most complex results are worked out.
From the point of view now reached, it becomes plain
that the necessary antagonism of individuation and
reproduction not only fulfils with precision the a pri-
ori law of maintenance of race, from the monad up to
man, but ensures the final attainment of the highest
form of this maintenance—a form in which the amount
of life shall be the greatest possible, and the births and
deaths the fewest possible. In the nature of things
the antagonism could not fail to work out the results
we see it working out. The gradual diminution and
ultimate disappearance of the original excess of fertil-
ity could take place only through the process of civili-
zation; and, at the same time, the excess of fertility
has itself rendered the process of civilization inevita-
ble. From the beginning, pressure of population has
been the proximate cause of progress. It produced
the original diffusion of the race. It compelled men
to abandon predatory habits and take to agriculture.
It led to the clearing of the earth’s surface. It forced
men into the social state ; made social organization
inevitable

; and has developed the social sentiments.
It has stimulated to progressive improvements in pro-
duction, and to increased skill and intelligence. It is
daily pressing us into closer contact and more mu-
tually-dependent relationships. And after having
caused, as it ultimately must, the due peopling of the
globe, and the bringing of all its habitable parts into
the highest state of culture—after having brought all
processes for the satisfaction of human wants to the
greatest perfection—after having, at the same time,
developed the intellect into complete competency for
its work, and the feelings into complete fitness for so-
cial life—after having done all this, we see that the
pressure of population, as it gradually finishes its
work, must gradually bring itself to an end.

More Physic thrown to the Dogs.—Dr. Mil-
lar, of Sunderland, Mass., writing under date of April

7, 1852, informs us that from reading the Water-Cure

Journal and the Hydropathic Encyclopaedia, he has be-

come an exclusive Hydropath, and has resolved, total- J \
ly and for ever, to abandon the administration of 7

‘

drug-poisons. He says, ” I have practiced allopathy
for thirty years, up to the first of August last, since

which time I have treated diseases wholly on the

water-cure plan. Judging from my experience thus
far, I shall never again have need of poisonous drugs

to cure disease ; but shall depend wholly on pure water.

In every case thus far it has more than fulfilled my
expectations. In my own person I have eradicated
rheumatism and scorfula. I am fully satisfied that all
and more can be accomplished in healing the sick with

pure water, than with the whole pharmacopoeia.

Coming Back.—Just what we expected. Our
Prospectuses are coming back to us from the four
quarters of ” every country.” We are glad of it. Espe-
cially when they are well filled with good names and

we don’t like to say that word, for it looks a
little lucreish, but were that not absolutely indis-

pensable, to carry on the “printing business,” wo
would have nothing to do with this ” root of all evil.'”
We don’t love it, yet find it a less disagreeable medi-
cine to take in a/topathic, than in .Homeopathic doses.

But we are more glad to look upon the familiar names
which those returned messengers of hope contain. It

is like the meeting of congenial friends, whose ac-

quaintance we are always glad to make, and to renew.
With them, come cordial greetings. Thanks for good
received—and that is strengthening beyond our power
of language to describe. Yes, send them back, and in

return, the Journal, shall bring to you glad tidings,

with ” health ” upon its wings. It shall be a harbin-

ger of hope to the desponding, and a Herald of life

to the dying youth. Then let its truth-revealing

pages have the benefit of your co-operation, a good

word, an earnest impress, and a zeal imparted with

such earnestness that it shall carry conviction to every

mind, a way which water-cured folks only know well

how to use. Who can withstand the innumerable
facts which every practical Hydropath can bring to

bear in support of his opinions 1 Then, too, behind

this formidable array offacts, he has a more profound

Philosophy to back him, than ean elsewhere be

found in the Healing art.

Besides other arguments which cannot’ be refuted,

based on the immutable laws of God, he has a perso-

nal experience, which all the theories invented by

man cannot overthrow. Fortified with such an
amount of light and truth, every man and woman
may go forth in the world and become true disciples ;
if not actually “healing the sick,'” of putting them in

a way to avoid disease, doctors and druggists,—to
live in harmony with the laws of matter and of mind.

Then ” send them back,” laden with the names of Re-

formers and Reformed. This is a way in which all,
lettered and unlettered, may do good, and help our
glorious cause, which brings to the homes of ” The

People,” Life, Health and Happiness.

GOSSIP FROM BOSTON.
BY NOGGS.

Turnpike to Health.—In the beginning “man
was created upright !” Anybody wouldn’t think so to

look at him now ! And God- made -certain ways
wherein he should walk, the end of which should be

health, happiness, heaven. How long he walked in
these old-fashioned ways we know not—ever since we
can remember any how, he has been trying ” short

cuts,” &c. ; some say Adam himself made the first
turnpike, about the time the apple-woman tempted

him! The “old road” to health, it is said, was a

very respectable old road, and that the pleasure of

traveling therein was very great ; tradition even goes

so far as to say it is decidedly the best road after all,

all things considered ; but there’s nothing like our

ways, these old-fashioned folks would always have us

believe ; anyhow, people now-a-days don’t think much

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of these old ” straight and narrow” ways ; thoy say it

is all nonsonse to suppose that a man in theso days of
railroads and steamboats is going to ” happy land,”

via the ” old road,” when thero are so many new
ones—turnpikes too ! Tho road that Adam traveled
before that apple speculation, they say aint a circum-

stance to the McAdani roads wo have now-a-days

!

and that it don’t take half so long to get thero as it

used to, and such “fun all tho way!” Steam and no-
thing short, now-a-days : especially when in pursuit of
” pleasure.”

Now and then we find one who happenod to get ac-
quainted with the old natural way of doing up theso
things, but he’s sure to turn out an exceedingly queer

personage, a very plough jogger, who maintains the
even tenor of his way, without variation or shadow of

turning, year in and year out, but what does he know
of life ? Ten to one if he knows mock from real tur-
tle soup, hock from Madeira, or Champagne from
Newark ; aye, he doesn’t even know by experience
what it is to live in the atmosphere of the gods, into
which a magnum of old Madeira or a bottle or two of

‘

” Schreider” will convey a man—in a word, he never
j

drinks ! How can such a man be said to live ! 1 Not
;

only does this strange, old-fashioned fellow abstain
;

from liquor, but from tobacco as well ! Talk to him
j

about the elysium produced by the inhalation of the !
fragrant odors of the ” glorious weed,” and he as

;

likely as not, will cry out ” pooh, pooh,’ it’s all :

smoke !” As for the pleasure of eating, why, in all
human probability, he never tasted of a venison pastry
served by a French cook, and does not know a sardine
(” little fishes biled in ile,”) from a smelt; and oh,

mirabile dictu ! he never eats a mouthful more than

his stingy old appetite craves ! Now, how in the name
of all that is eatable and excitable, can he possibly

know anything about living! Let such jog on their
devious way, “We,” say the masses, “will travel
no such road. No, no,” say they, ” we are posted
up, we know there is many a turnpike to health and
happiness which cut off lots and lots, and the rapidity

with which we can travel over them is truly delight-
ful.”

” But,” says Mrs. Prudence, ” turnpikes are very
suggestive of tolls ! Have you no tolls on the road
you travel 1″

” Tolls ! What do you mean by tolls 1 We never
stop for tolls, but keep right on V
” Aye,” says Mrs. P., ” but methinks you complain

often of a bad sense of fullness, and great uneasiness,
after eating your highly-seasoned food in large quan-
tities.”

” Oh yes, true, but that’s nothing ; a glass or two
of brandy carries that all off.”

“But the headaches.”
” Oh, they don’t amount to much, a few e cock-

tails ‘ set them all right.”

” But thoso terrible bilious spells you have every
now and then, horrid colics, &c., what are they V
” Oh, why everybody is sick as often as every now

and then, and I am bilious, Dr. Calomel says, and
must expect such things. I have only to take a bluo
pill every night and morning to prevent them.”

” Yes, but are not these tolls 1″

” Why, they cost something of course in the run of
a year.”
” Aye, that they do, especially when you reckon in

the loss of time occasioned by their use, a mercurial

fever now and then &c. ; but the tolls I have reference
to are the demands made on the soul and body rather
than the purse ! We are almost indignant at tho toll-
house keeper who stops us on the highway and demands
our four penco. While we cheerfully submit to the ex-
actions of the doctor, whose bill, maybe, is fifty dollars
a year on an average, and what is stranger still, waste
in one night’s debauch, or one month’s foolish living,

a whole year’s vitality! I know it has been told you
of olden time that you might sin with impunity—if

you would only tako certain drugs ; ‘ only go over my
turnpike,’ says Drs. Antimony, Lobelia, and other*,
and thore is no danger you will soon bo there ; ‘ it’s
the road through by daylight,’ &c, aye, long bel’oro
daylight sometimes ! You havo ‘ no appetite !’ Well,
sir, what then 1″

” Why, I suppose I ought to tako tho hint, and wait
patiently in propor conditions till I got one.”

“Pooh, pooh,” says Dr. Gentian, “that’s real old
fashioned. You’ro like a cow or any other four-footed
thing, they always ivait, but man, tho noblest work of

God—ho wait, absurd ! No, no, don’t be an old maid,
but take tho compound bitter turnpike, and ‘ go it

while you’ro young,’ and tho first thing you’ll know,

you’ro thero right into tho middle of a tip top appe-

tite and no mistake !”

” But if nature wanted food and could digest it,

why didn’t she ask for it ! !”

” Nature 1 O, ah, I remember—a poor, superannu-
ated, old fool, nobody thinks of consulting her taste

now-a-days; she’s behind tho age, decidedly; her

ways are exceedingly vulgar, by-ways, in fact, where

nobody travels, at least none of the ‘ upper,’—now
and then a poor ascetic, water-smitten man or woman
may perchance be found treading her tedious paths ;
but all those who are posted up and havo the means,
take some of the many turnpikes.”

” But the tolls V
” Tolls ! what care such for tolls !”

” I know it, but somehow or other I can’t divest
myself of the idea that nature’s way must be the way
after all, if it is old fashioned. Why not rich folks go
in it if it is the right road, and make that the fashion-
able road 1″

” What ! not use our beautiful turnpikes got up at
such an expense ! no brandy, no bitters, no blue pill,

no opium, no coffee, no tobacco ! monstrous, why tho
man is mad. Why, 1 should as soon think of going
to New York in a hand cart, as to think of getting to
the port of health and happiness through those old

moss-grown paths of nature’s. Only think of the fa-

tigue of traveling those horrid lanes, self-denial and

obedience ! ugh, don’t mention it

!

” But perhaps, Doctor, if you were better acquainted

with those unfrequented paths, you would like them

more
;
you would, perchance, find that though lone-

some at first, and not so gay, yet nevertheless they
were ‘paths of pleasantness and peace.’ Those who
have traveled both say, that all things considered, it

is infinitely best to go the old road. They say the
sparkle of the sunlight upon the placid waters of Lake
Hygiene—only found on this route—far surpasses that
of the sparkling champagne ! and that the beautiful
echoes of ‘well done,’ (never heard on any turnpike)

which are heard all along this beauteous way, are im-

measurably beyond all the sounds ever produced by
revelry or the syren lute of vitiated pleasure.”

” Oh nonsense,” says Dr. Stimulant, ” who’s going
to travel that straight and narrow road, all alone al-

most, just becauso it’s cool and shady, has pleasant

echoes, &c, when thero aro such splendid turnpikes,
wide enough for all, and on which everybody that is

anybody are traveling 1″

” Aye, there it is again ! go this way, not because
it’s the right way, but because it is wide and smooth

and everybody’s on it! Well, so it must be then, I
suppose. Now as ever, ‘ straight and narrow is the
road that leadeth unto life and few there bo that find

it, whilo broad is the road that leadeth to destruction,

and many thero be who travel therein.’ ”

The Festival.—Our readers in Western New
York will remember tho Glen Haven Festival, which

is announced to take place on Wednesday the 23d of

June.* Wo repeat the suggestion. It would be well
for the proprietors of all W. C. Establishments to in-

* A report of which wa hope to receiye for an oarly num-
ber of the Journal.

vite their patients and guest* to a pleasant Annul
Festival.

Tm: WaTSE-CuBI In VlBOINU.—[It It truly en-
couraging in notice tin- rapid itridei which ‘*«ir •
in making in the “Old Dominion.” The Journal li
now finding it* way into all parts of Unit State, and
so far as wo havo heard, its minion baa been attended
with yreat success. As an indication of tin- prevail-
ing feeling throughout Virginia, wo quoto from a let-
ter recently received from Wheeling.]

Enclosed you will find ten dollars, with twenty
names for the Water-Cure Journal for 1K’,2, eoiu
ing with tho January number.

Since July last I havo been reading this valuable
Journal, and have come to the conclusion thai Hydro-
pathy or Water-Cure is the system, and I intend »<>
use my influence in circulating tho Journal. Odo
thing is certain, it will do no harm. My own copy is
going round amongst my neighbors, and is now pretty
well used up. Can you send me say five or six num-
bers for circulation V 1 am going to try and get fifty
subscribers this year, and you may expect to hear
from me before July, as my year’s subscription ends
then.

I wish to prepare the way for a good Water-Curt
Physician in our city, or grave-digging will become a
“flourishing business” with us, for we have an over-
stock of drug M.D.’s. Very truly yours, a. s. o.
* Of course wo will. Wo nlwnys print a fow extrn aopfM of tho Journal

to be used na specimens, with which to obtain new subscr.Urs. To IhOM
In want wo any, ” oak und ye ahull receive.”

Our Progress, Now and then.— [When sending
for a packago of Almanacs, our friend and co-work-
er L. B. V., writing from Bowling Green, Ohio, draws
the following interesting contrast.]

I have now ten Subscribers pledged for the Journal,
where two years ago I could obtain only two. I bare
a part of the money yet to collect, which I intend to
send with the names, so as to commence with the July
No. Our County is new and sparsely settled ; but the
principles of Hydropathy aro progressing. Seven
years ago I was the only person in this vicinity who
would venture to try the ” wet sheet pack.” Now,

scores are trying it, and other forms of Water treat-
ment, and many of our physicians are feeling their
way into the practice. May God speed the good
work. Yours truly, l. b. v.

Sick of it.—Notwithstanding the liberal salary of
two thousand and five hundred dollars a year,
an Allopathic doctor in New England wishes to ” sell
out.” Wo clip the following advertisement from the
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and give it an
insertion without charge.

A PHYSICIAN, enjoying a practice of $2,5C0 per annum,in a commercial, increasing, and cash-paying commu-
nity, will dispose of his practice, without the encumbrance
of real estate. Inquire at this office.

[Now it is evident that this doctor has either got
rich in this ” cash-paying community,” oris ” sick of

his trade,” for he would hardly let go the snug sum of

$2,500 a year, which, in tho short period of twenty

years practice, would amount to fifty THOUSAND
dollars ! ! ! The doctor may have become convinced
of ” the errors of his ways,” and conscientiously wish

to discontinue physicing, blistering, and blccditig this
” cash-paying ” community, and return to the cultiva-

tion of his ” real cstato,” as it will be seen he does not

wish to ” encumber ” his successor with this ” real

estate ” when ho sells his ” practice. ” Can it be pos-

sible that this dootor intends to turn Hydropath. Does

ho foresee tho inevitable effect of tho Water-Cure

Journal on his ” cash-paying community 1″ But this

is enough to let this ” cash-paying community ” see

whero their money goes to. They must judge whether

or not they receive an equivalent in the shape of pills, O
plasters, and pure genuino Cod Liver lllutle Oil. If H
they are satisfied, why, then, let them continue to feed

themselves away to hungry blood-suckers. But ire had

rather save both, our money and our health. We

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136 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL.

believe in economy, utility, and some other equally

strange and wonderful things.]

It’s Nothing New.—Most Old-School Doctors
stoutly affirm, that ihe Water-Cure is nothing new,

and that it is as old as the healing art. Therefore

they would have it inferred that modern Hydropathists

deserve no credit, for all this ” thunder ” belongs to

them. Now we don’t care a “wooden-one-pence”
about the exclusive honor of the thing, if the Old-

School Doctors would only put the knowledge they

claim to possess into immediate and general practice.

But while they set up claims, owl-like, of superior wis-

dom, and yet never practice what they preach, we

sorter-kinder-reckon, how as that a pin will be stuck

into this self-puffed up notion before we get through.

We extract a few paragraphs from a letter just re-
ceived from Alabama.

Gentlemen.—I am much pleased with the Water-
Cure Journal. I am an Allopathic Physician, but had
neve}- seen any work cm Hydropathy, until I got your

Journal. I was not satisfied with the practice of the

Allophatic School, and concluded to try the Water-

Cure.

The writer then says, ” I am almost afraid to men-
tion the water-cure in some places, for they (the Doc-

tors) will cry out Humbug,—but they prescribe, and
the people take cart loads of calomel, and other poison-

ous drugs, yet say they are afraid of water ! ! I will

do all I can for this Reform.”

[Here is a regularly educated Allopathic Doctor,

who thus candidly, and honestly confesses, that the

Water-Cure Journal was the first work he ever saw on

Hydropathy.

How absurd for those ” Old Fogies ” to pretend to
know all about this nciv system of medical practice,

while at the same time, and almost with the same

breath, they cry out Humbug, Quackery, etc.

Let us in this connection quote a little Sacred His-

tory, it may illustrate our subject.

One Demetrius, a silversmith, employed many work-
men in making images of Diana, who was worshipped
as the Goddess that presided over sickness and the
compounding of drugs. Demetrius and his workmen
became very wealthy from their occupation, and they
all loved it, because of the great gain it brought them.

At length there came among them those who exposed
their craftiness before the people. Then Demetrius
and his workmen assembled, and after declaring among
themselves that their occupation was in danger of
coming into contempt, they all began to cry ” Great
is Diana of the Ephesians,” the Goddess of our occu-
pation. In this manner they hoped to blind the eyes
of the people and preserve their calling from a fall.

Thus the great secret of all this opposition arises,

simply fiom this fact, They deal in the articles of

Drugs, Pills, Plasters, Blood- Suckers, Body-Braces

and other such rcmcdics(?) in which they have money

invested, the sale of which would (and will) be de-

stroyed by the water-cure.

To this a/tW) exceptions may be made. Some Doc-
tors still in practice, are too old to see or appreciate

the advantages of Hydropathy over other systems,

while another class are too young, not having yet got

their ” eyes open,” and of course, are entirely igno-

rant of the water-cure.

These two classes are excusable. It is understood,

the world over, that an old dog cannot learn new

tricks, and who would attempt to teach a kitten to >
catch mice until after they were ” nine days old V I
But enough of this, to establish the unequivocal claims I

of the ” Hunkers” to the oft repeated assertion, that )

its ” all a humbug.” And besides that, It’s Nothing I
New, for we have practiced it all our lives. \

The Good Work Goes on.—At the conclusion of )
a course of Lectures to Ladies, on Practical Water \
Treatment, delivered in Trenton, New Jersey, by Dr. < Bourne, the following unsolicited testimonial of appro- \

val was unanimously tendered him.

Resolved, That we hereby tender our unfeigned r
thanks and warmest gratitude to Dr. Bourne, for the >
instruction imparted in his valuable course of Lectures \
to the Ladies of Trenton ; and inasmuch as he has
treated the various topics presented in a forcible,

j

chaste, and dignified manner, he merits our approba- i
tiou and esteem, and we cordially recommend others I
to give him a hearing. /

After which it was resolved to establish a ” Society
\

of Friends of Water-Cure,” for the purpose of found- \

ing a Library of Water-Cure, Educational and Phy-
j

siological Works—Social Reunions—Mutual Advice,
and Comparison of Experience in treatment.

Dr. Bourne was also obliged to yield to the desire

for a repetition of his course of Lectures.—Water-
Cure, therefore, has become a fixture in the Capital of

our Sister State, and we trust its friends will not fail

to radiate from their central point the lights and

truths which it inculcates.

Cooling off a Doctor.—A correspondent, who is
traveling in Iowa, relates the following among vari-

ous interesting ” pencilings by the way:” Called at the

office of Dr. Ossifus while he was absent. I asked his

wife to sign for the Water-Cure Journal. “No,”
said she,” that’s Graham system. I don’t believe any-
thing in it. I’ve heard of Grahamites that died.”

1 dare not mention hydropathy to Dr. Ossifus ; he is

so scientific : ridiculing every reform that had not its

origin where he got his diploma.

A few months ago while giving his daughter-in-law
some instructions about managing children, I had

occasion to remark in the old man’s presence, that

cold water would cure the greatest fits of anger, even on \

men. The old Dr., who prided himself much on his
ill temper, remarked that it might do in some cases,

j

“but,” said he, “it would never cool offOldVer- i
mont.” A few evenings after this conversation, Dr. i
Ossifus came home with his lower organs fired up with i
the spirit that acts so contrary to the spirit of Elijah. ;

He soon succeeded in getting up a fight with his own
j

son who lived in the house with him. Ossifus Junr.,

and Ossifus senr. At it they went—round the house,
j

breaking the furniture that came in their way, as well ‘/

as upsetting the bureau and stove. Such ” noise and >

confusion!” The jingling of ironware ; the smashing
j

of dishes; the shrieks and screams of women and \
children ; and the stamping of feet like so many i
horses ; all mingling together were sounds really ‘

frightening. It soon brought the neighbors to the I

spot : but before they arrived the daughter-in-law had
j

thought of my previous advice, and accordingly, while /
each had a thumb in the other’s eye, a bucket of cold !

water was applied. Not another blow was struck, all ,
was calm, Old Vermont was cooled off, and the ” father \
was reconciled to the son.” \

The fact being established that cold water will cool >
off the angry, political editors might profit by its ap-

j

plication ; seeing that our great quadrennial contest
\

is about to begin with unusual earnest.
;

” The Water-Cure Journal for April is a treasury of
good things. The women of the country owe Dr.
Trail a complete set of new surgical instruments for
his gallant defence of their right to be, and to employ
physicians of their own sex against the remonstrating
M.D.’s; and if laughing can effect it, they will all
grow fat and rosy over his anatomical exploits in that
direction. No wonder the subscriptions to the Journal
are competing with the steam-power speed of the iron
horse.”

—

Windham County Democrat.

[Thus writes Mrs. Nichols, the talented co-editor
of that liberal and always agreeable paper from which

we quote. We think with her, that Dr. Trail is essen-
tially entitled to the ” new instruments,” but, thank
fortune, he is already supplied with everything neces-

sary in that line. How would it do for the women to
present the doctor with a superbly bound copy of the

new Illustrated Hydropathic Encyclopedia 1
Publishers.]

Money saved.—A correspondent writes :—” I have
taken your Journal going on three years, and it has

saved me a great deal of money, for, for the last two
years and a half preceding the time I first subscribed

for your Journal I paid our physician ninety-seven dol-

lars ; since that time we have been our own physician,
with the exception of four calls from a doctor. One
of these cases was accouchment, the other three was
in a very severe case of bilious intermittent fever and
flux—the first was an allopath, the other was hy-
dropath.

” If I was capable of writing for the public eye, I

Would send you an account of our own cases, with the
treatment and the result, but your Journal is better

filled as it is.”

More Testimony.—[Everybody believes in facts,
while but few care for mere theories, and we always
take pleasure in recording well-authenticated and un-
controvertible facts. Here are a couple.]

Having been afflicted for some years with a chronic
disease which I had inherited, and which threatened
to deprive me of the use of my limbs, I was prevailed
upon by a few friends to try the water treatment,
which, by the blessing of God, has made me very com-
fortable, and able to attend to my business.
Near the close of November last my son was vio-

lently seized with inflammatory rheumatism, a disease

with which he had been afflicted at four different
periods before, and which at this time was rendered
particularly alarming, from the fact that the charac-

ter of the attending fever was very decidedly typhoid.
On former occasions he had been treated by allopathic
physicians, but as his constitution had been much in-
jured by the combined operation of the disease and
the poisons which had been used to cure it, it was now
decided, in family council, to try the virtues of hydro-

pathy. Accordingly Dr. J. H. Stedman, of Ashland,

was immediately called, who, in face of a strong cur-
rent of opposition on the part of neighbors and friends,

deliberately and boldly prescribed for, and treated his

afflicted patient, and that with the most complete suc-

cess, so that now the sufferer rejoices in health, the
family are happy in his society, and the community are
astonished at the effects of cold water. Truly yours,

Jewett, Greene Co., N. Y. Oliver Coe.

Water-Cure in New York.—Dr. & Mrs. Ni-
chols, in removing their Hydropathic and Educational

Establishment to the beautiful and salubrious heights

of Prospect Hill, where their prospects are alike bril-

liant and extensive, have not been unmindful of the
wants of our city. They have taken an office at No.
45 White street., a few doors west of Broadway, a
place almost equally accessible from all parts of the

city, where one or both of them will be in attendance

every Wednesday, from 2 to 5 o’clock P. M., for con-

sultations. They will also meet patients at their city
office on other days, by previous appointment.

They have also arranged with Dr. Wm. F. Reh,
late of Paterson, N. J., a graduate of the American
Hydropathic Institute, and a zealous and competent

Water-Cure Physician, to occupy this office in their

absence, and attend to City practice. Through Dr.
Reh’s exertions, a large club of subscribers to the

Water-Cure Journal was obtained in Paterson, and

we shall expect a rapid increase in this city from the
same cause. Let them come on—the more the merrier
for us and them—for everybody but the doctors and
druggists.

The East Hampton Water-Cure.—This new
establishment has been recently opened by Dr. E.

Snell, formerly of Springfield. With pleasant sur-
roundings—good water—and proper management, it
will become popular, and aid in restoring to health

those who may have occasion to avail themselves of
Hydropathic appliances.

§

THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL.

A New Inducement.—For the encouragement of our volun-
tary agents and co-workers, we are happy to present the fol-
lowing extraordinary inducements for the continuance of

their generous services, in promoting the good cause to which

this Journal, and our lives, are devoted.

Besides the happy consciousness of aiding in relieving

distress, and in prolonging the lives of his fellow men, the

co-worker will receive a pecuniary equivalent for his services.

For $10.00 we will send twenty copies of the Water-Curb
Journal one year, and present, as a premium, any books

which we publish—to the amount of one dollar—deliverable
at the office of publication.

For $20.00, we will send forty copies of the Journal, and
the worth of $2.00 in books, and fifty Water-Cure Almanacs
for 1852, or, for 1S53.

For $30.00, we will send sixty copies of the Journal, and the
worth of $3.00 in books, and one hundred copies of the Al-

manacs which (at retail prices, including the books,) amount

to nine dollars and twenty-five cents.

For $10.00, eighty copies of the Journal, the worth of

$1.00 in books, and two hundred copies of the Almanac.

For $50.00, one hundred Journals, the worth of $5.00 in

books, and five hundred Almanacs. This premium amounts
to $36.25.

For $75.00, one hundred and fifty Journals, the worth of

$3.00 in books, and one .thousand Almanacs (amounting to

$70.50).

For $100.00, two hundred copies of the Journal one year,

the worth of $12.00 in books, one thousand and five hundred

copies of the Almanacs for 1852 or 1853.

At retail prices (and they are richly worth it), fifteen hun-

dred Almanacs amount to . $93.75
Premium-Books to the amount of . . . . 12.00

d

Making, in Premiums alone . . . $105.75
Besides two hundred copies of the Journal which, at

regular single rates, amount to $200.00

Add the above premium …… 105.75
Making, in all, the handsome sum of . . $305.75

Thus—for one hundred dollars—we actually give the worth
of THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS AND SEVENTT-FIVE
cents, which leaves us the pleasure of doing a ” large busi-

ness,” without other profits than the thanks of the thousands

whom we seek to benefit.
With these extremely liberal terms, we cannot be expected

to make any variations whatever. We frankly admit, that
all we give over and above the cost of the Journals and books
herein offered, should be considered a free gift of the pub-

lishers. But, as we believe the planting of a liberal crop of
Hydropathic principles through the Water-Cure Almanacs
will produce a harvest of new converts to our glorious cause,
we offer them thus freely.
Our New Almanac, for 1853, will soon be published, con-

taining more valuable matter than any other hitherto pub-

lished on the subject. It will be amply illustrated with ap-

propriate engravings, and adapted to all the meridians in

the United States. We hope to circulate at least five
hundred thousand copies of it for 1853.

Now, Friend, how many Books and Almanacs will you
have ? Please bear in mind, these premium almanacs may
be sold to agents and country booksellers, everywhere, at

wholesale prices, by the dozen—the hundred, or the thousand.
Nor do we know of a more effectual way to advance the
cause, than by the wide circulation of these Journals, Books.

and Almanacs.

Subscriptions for the Journal may be sent in at once,
one, two, three, or a hundred at a time.

The Almanacs and Books maybe ordered anytime between
this July and next January.

Who will have a premium? Our fast presses are running
night and day, to supply all demands. We shall print enough
for all. Send on the clubs.

Many of Fowlers’ and Wells’ publications have done great
good. We believe “The Water-Cure Journal” is among the
best of them, and tVat it has brought an entire revolution in

the habits and health of many a family who read it.

—

Cleve-

land True Democrat.

Our Books in the West.—The frequency with which
we are greeted’with liberal orders fromthe west, is truly en-

couraging, and affords evidence, the most conclusive, that the

subjects on which our works treat, are becoming immensely
popular in the Western Empire. As an example, we copy
a brief letter now before us.]

St. Louis, Mo
, May, 1852.

Messrs.

Fowlers and Wells, New York.

I enclose you a draft on New York, for $100,00. I want the

worth of it in your publications,—assorted,—such as you
deem most useful to circulate, and most likely to sell, in Illi-
nois, where the people have heard but little of the important

subjects treated of in your books and periodicals.

I want the books for an invalid friend, who thinks he can

do some good for himself and the world, by scattering good

books.

Please box up safely whatever you choose to send him for

said hundred dollars, and send by way of Chicago, directed to
S. N. k Co., St. Louis.

If he succeeds as well as he hopes, he will be able to sell a

^ood many books, and get a good many subscribers for your
Journals. Yours truly, vr . ii. W.

P. S.—If you can give Mr. I., (the friend above referred to,)
any direciion, or make any suggestion that you think likely
to benejit him in this business, he will receive them with gra-
titude, w.

[The fact that we do.not (cannot) sell our works on com-
mission, is the only reason that they are not kept by all local

Booksellers, and also why it is that they are so much sought
after by Agents, at wholesale. We sell at’a liberal discount,
which enables him to realize a fair profit, and, at the same
time, do good to his fellow men.
There is hardly a village in all the Western Slates, Ohio,

Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ken-

tucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Iowa, or Minnesota,

where hundreds of our useful Books could not readily be sold,

with profit to the seller, and great good to the purchaser.

Will not our energetic young men supply this great and in-
creasing demand ?

How They Like it.—D. J., writing from Wilkesbarre,
Pa., says : A neighbor said to me the other day, that he had j
taken the Water-Cure Journal for two years, and considered

it above all praise, and said he, ” it has saved me, in a pecu- \

niary point of view, more than fifty dollars for doctors’ bills.

It is unnecessary to urge any one to subscribe for it the se- ]

cond year. >

Specify.—When ordering Journals, please specify wwch

J

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and State
;
also the name of the writer.

\

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Our Journals will be sent in clubs, to one or one hundred \
different post-offices, as may be desired. It will be all the
same to the publishers. The more the better.

The “Water-Cure” and ” Phrenological” journals areas

tasteful, sparkling and beautiful as ever.

—

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Saturday Courier.

Chicago, Illinois, has a population of 40.000, and is more

rapidly increasing than any other western city.

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them a call.

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Not Received.—A B aoia,aaya:
”

1 v. i i to inform too that I did nol rooeire my f • ..-
rnary No ol the Water-Care Journal. lVer« I in the habit
of treating your Journal, ai I sometimes do, i
ol tin! poUl i day, 1
should not lake tin: trouble to r«’iue*t a copy, to fii.il:>- my
vol. complete. Bat I feel at iliuu^h a vol ol the Water-
Cure or Phrenological Journal would l»> an acquisition
worth thrice the original cost, to my library, and the e ol my
acquaintance, who take ‘ the Water-Cnre aru carried away
by the same itrangt delusion,’ ;h they hare no spare eopy,
You can form a correct opinion -.villi rei;arJ to tin
and intelligence of the good people in Hie great valley ol the
Mississippi, by the gre.n No. ol Journals rou –nd to theae
hardy pioneers of the West, who not only read but practice
the Water-Cure. I have tried it m my family and neighbor-
hood, in febrile diseases, (which are the moat prevalent dis-
eases of this climate) with the greatest succe™. ‘ u w. n.

Tub American Nurseries.—We should be glad to obtain,
for publication in this Journal, a complete list of all tho

Nurseries in the United States. A Catalogue, showing
the extent of this branch of human industry, health and
wealth, together with the locality, age, and condition of each

nursery, would, we are confident, be hailed with delight by
every lover of fruit. Such a list may be easily prepared, arid
we hereby invite proprietors and managers of nurseries to
favor us with the desired information, that we may present the
same to the public in a complete list, through the Water-

Cure Journal. The post-office address, with state, county,
and town, should be given. Catalogues and descriptive cir-

culars may be directed, post-paid, as follows—” Water-Curb
Journal, New York”

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author of ” A Summer on the Lakes,” ” Woman in the Nine-
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an Introduction, by Horace Greeley. Containing :

—

Part I.—A Short Essay on Critics; A Dialogue; The
Two Herberts

; The Prose Works of Milton ; The Lile of Sfir
James Mackintosh

;
Modern British Poets

;
The Modern Dra-

ma
;
Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts.

Part II.—Poets of the People; Miss Barrett’s I’oems
;

Lives of the great Composers, including Haydn, Mozart, Han-
del, Bach, Beethoven

;
A Record of Impressions produced by

the exhibition of Mr. Allslon’s Pictures
; American Litera-

ture; Swedenborgianism
;
Methodism at the Fountain.

Appendix.—The Tragedy of Witchcraft.
Published by Fowlers and Wells, 131 Nassau-st., New

York. One vol. 12mo. pp. 370. Price §1.00.
[This work will be published on the 1st of July, 1852.]

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each. All letters and orders should be post-paid, and directed

to Fowlers and Wells, No. 131 Nassau street, New York.

The Water-Cure Journal has gained a world-wide re-
putation, and is most judiciously conducted.—The Jersey-
man.

General Debility.—” Poor old General Debility !” ex-
claimed Mrs. Partington; “it is surprising how long he
lives, and what sympathy he excites—the papers are full of
remedies for him.”

[Why don’t he try the Water-Cure ? Cod Liver Oil has
failed, Patent Pills have failed (except to hurry up the ‘ un-

dertaker”)
;
and we would now propose a remedy which will

cost nothing but the trying, and it will do no harm if it does

no good. But we are quite sure the old ”General” would

at once become a subscriber to the Water-Cure Journal ]

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O*” ^SS
THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL

BLOOMER WAISTCOATS.
BY MARY B. WILLIAMS.

The waistcoat, or vest, has now become a well-established

article of woman’s dress.

Those who wear the new

costume have generally

adopted it. The accom-

panying outline draw-

ings show the most ap-

proved style of the gar-

ment adapted to the

Bloomor dress.

Figure 1 is the straight

collar waistcoat, and

figure 2 shows the front

and back sections of the

same. This form is the

one usually preferred.

The material is buff cas-
simere

; the back of white

linen or cotton ; and the

buttons are fine gilt,

with a plain flat surface,

half an inch in diameter.

Fig. 2.

Figure 3 is a high

rolling collar vest. It

is also of buff cassimere,

with plain fiat gilt but-

tons. This form of the

waistcoat is only suited

to slender figures.

Figure 4 shows the

loiv rolling collar waist’

coat. This style is best

adapted to women of full
habit. It may be made
of white silk or Mar-

seilles, with covered

mould buttons.

Figure 5 is the double-

breasted waistcoat ; and

the front and back sec-

tions, with the collar,

are given in figure 6

This form is intended for

cold weather. Fig. 3.

Fig. 4.

kinds of whalebone

fixtures
;

it abolishes

those troublesome and

inefficient contriv-

an ces called hooks

and eyes ; and plaees

the entire operation

of buttoning in front,

where one can see

how to do it. It is a

garment that clothes

the bust suitably and

comfortably at all sea-

sons, for it can be so

fashioned that it may
be closed up entirely

to the neck, or just as

high as may be de-
sired. The pockets

furnish handy and

secure places for car-

rying the watch, mo-

ney, and small arti-

cles
;
and it has other

merits which are too

palpable to require

naming.

“The vest is worn
with a detached skirt,

and a basquine or

sacque, both of which

are of the same goods,

generally of a dark

color. The basquine

is made to fit loosely
;

and has sleeves either

demi or full length,

as the season or in-

dividual taste may
demand. The Bkirt

is simply buckled

around the waist, the

waistband being over-

lapped by the bottom

of the vest. The chem-

isette, collar, and cra-

vat are in the style

worn with riding hab-

its. The whole cos-

tume is simple—so
much so that it can always be put on and off without as-
sistance, and in less time than almost any other dress.

t

Occasionally, waistcoats in the form of figures 1 and 2 are

made of white Marseilles or silk; For the Bloomer dress,
however, the general sentiment favors the buff waistcoat. It

is worn by the leading women in the dress reform, and is des-
tined, probably, to become a distinguishing feature in the

Bloomer costume. In a late number of Mrs. Moore’s ” West-

ern Magazine,” the editress introduces a well- written article

upon the subject, with the prediction that ” it will, no doubt,

become generally worn.” From the article itself, written by

Mrs. E. L. Morley, the following extracts will be found use-

ful and interesting :
” It (the waistcoat) enables the wearer to dispense with all

Fig. 0.

“The most fashionable material for the lady’s waiatcoa1

is buff cassimere of fine quality, and of a hue nearly resem-

bling that of brimstone ; and the buttons are treble gilt, hav-

ing a plain flat surface. This is a style of vest that has of-

ten been worn as part of the riding-dress. It is, in truth, a

feminine garment rather than a masculine one, because it is

too delicate, both in regard to its color and its buttons, to

stand in good contrast with a bearded face.
” The beauty of a buff vest depends upon a good fit, a

tasteful arrangement of the buttons, and, above all, upon the

lustre of the latter. It is important that the buttons should

be of ,the best quality—extra rich treble gilt, and with the
entire surface plain and flat. The most desirable size is
half an inch diameter, which is about equal in dimensions

to the gold dollar. They ought to be placed just one inch
apart, measuring from shankto shank!; and there should be

a button hole to every button, because it is in bad taste to

wear them solely for ornament. When the vest has a straight
collar, the row will take in about fifteen buttons

; when it is
made with a rolling collar, it will require only about ten.
They should be fastened on by means of eyelet holes and
rings, the latter being concealed by the inner buff facing. If

put on in this manner, they can be easily replaced by a new
set, when they become soiled ; though, if proper care be
used, these buttons will retain their original lustre a long

time. In addition to their extreme beauty, they possess the

merit of great strength, which is an important desideratum.”

It may be remarked, in conclusion, that starch goods, such
as Marseilles, do not answer so well for waistcoats as cassi-

mere. The latter is softer, and more pliable, and not subject

to creasing badly. Still, a white waistcoat, either of mar-
seilles or silk, is always genteel, and looks well with plain

gilt buttons.

The cravat is simply tied at the throat, dispensing with
the pin. In fact no jewelry whatever should be worn with
the Bloomer waistcoat—its buttons being amply sufficient
for ornament.

Thb Effects of Cheap Postage.—It quickens the human
mind—increases correspondence, trade and commerce. It
enlarges our acquaintance and sphere of usefulness. It re-

news and strengthens our friendship. It places the inhabit-
ants of our continent within easy reach of each other. It

facilitates the diffusion of knowledge through daily, weekly,

monthly, and quarterly newspapers, magazines, books,

scientific and literary periodicals, rendering them accessible

to all classes, and placing our people into more intimate re-

lations with each other.

Now, instead of once or twice a year, as formerly, rela-
tives and friends write each other from great distances week-

ly, or monthly, and when they have no special news to com-

municate, young people write for the mutual improvement

of each other.

Formerly, it was an event to receive a letter from an ab-
sent friend, at the cost of half a week’s wages for postage.

Noiv, it is a frequent and unexpensive luxury, which all

who can read and write may enjoy. Formerly, the recep-
tion of a letter from a traveler in a joining state, caused

a ” great commotion ” throughout the neighborhood |from

which he started. Fathers and mothers wept for joy to hear

from the son, while the children would carry the ” glad

tidings ” to the school, and the church, and the young men
to their work shops and factories, so seldom was it that an

absent friend reported himself by letter. But how different

now ! A young man leaves home for the Far West, the
North, East, or South, and is considered negligent if he fails

to write home from every principal stopping-place, giving

an account of his progress, success, health, and so forth.

Anxiety is thus allayed, and all are made glad and happy.

Children should be provided with pen, ink and paper, at

an early age, and be taught to write a ” good, plain hand,”

even before studying arithmetic or geography. It will be

found far less irksome for most pupils, it being a mechanical

process, and easily learned. Every boy and girl at twelve

years of age should know how to write and direct a letter

properly. Once taught they will, with few exceptions, go

on improving, until they acquire a finished hand—than
which, what accomplishment for a young man or woman is
more desirable 1

Then write letters—write for the press—use the facilities
which government, through the ” people,” offer for the diffu-

sion of thought, the improvement of mind and morals, the

progress and development of man.

Cheap Posttage will do much to people new states and

territories, and, to a great extent, to educate their
” people.”

It will equalize political, religious,’ and social privileges, ( -J

strengthen ambition to do good, and lift mankind up—up, out
of darkness into light, enlarge his soul, and inspire him with

a higher and holier love for God and man.

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THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL

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CHILDREN’S PARTIES.
There are two kinds of parlies for children—one a mere

fashionable display, made to gratify the vanity of parents
;

the other projected and carried out with a sincere desire to

render the little ones happy, and cultivate in them truly so-

cial feelings. The end always gives quality to the act, and
the operation of this law is clearly seen in the matter of chil-

dren’s parties. Where these are given from parental vanity
and love of display, the children are feasted to repletion on

rich confectionary, and kept rip until a lato hour in the night

—but where the innocent pleasures and social good of the
little ones are alone regarded, there is little display, a mode-

rate and healthy supply of refreshments, and early hours for

retiring home.

Punch has hit off, with some exaggeration, in the picturo

we have given below, the con?oqnonces of a fashionable

children’s party. The appearance of the doctor is “awful ”

enough. He is no Homcaopathist by the way ; there would

be little consternation among the juveniles were such the case.

AWFUL APPEARANCE OE THE ALLOPATHIC DOCTOR.

Infinitesimal doses do not kill. Though the ” dynamio

force ” may augment inconceivably at each additional
” shake,” the potency required is never of the death-dealing

kind. ” The doctor’s coming ” has long been a bug-a-boo

to send noisy children shuddering to their hiding-places.

From earliest infancy the appearance of the ” medicine-man”

has been associated with “pains and penalties” from which

adults as well as children sometimes shrink in terror. Bleed,

blister, burn, leech, scarify, pustulate, puke, purge, torture’

PLEASANT APPEARANCE OE THE WATER-CURE DOCTOR.

ones into obedience. Young children easily become as fond

of paddling in the water as young ducks : and the cry,

—

” The Water-Cure doctor is coming,” will be apt to be re-

garded as a chance for extra indulgence : so that the rising

generation may render themselves liable to punishment for

mangle, poison, nauseate, are among the anxious reflections
j

the artist has so graphically exhibited in the terrified coun- !

tenances of the family group ; while the unrelenting, tiger-
\

ocious, expression in the knowing face of Esculapius, re- >

minds one of the decision given by Diogenes in a question of I

precedence between a doctor and a lawyer,—” Let the thief
\

go before, and the executioner fo’low.”

It may be urged as an objection to Water-Cure doctors, >
that their name cannot be relied upon to frighten the little

the mere fan of suffering it. This is an objection to our sys-

tem we cannot very well meet ; and as it is the only one in-
surmountable by us, we leave the next group of children in
the hands of the hydropath, and submit the whole affair to
the unerring pencil of the artist.

THE NEW COSTUME.
HINTS SUGGESTED BY NEARLY A YEAR’S EX-

PERIENCE.

BY KISS 1IAUKIKT A. MORSE.

When heavy woolen goods are usod for tho dress, the pkirt
ought to bo single. If one thickness of tho cloth be insuffi-

cient, it may be lined with colored muslin or merino, with
a layer of wadding quilted to the lining. This will make
the skirt keep in shape in any weather.

The trowsers, if woolen, (which is decidedly preferable for
any Beason,) ought to be cut with half-gaiter bottoms, to rest
on tho instep. With trowsers of this kind, one can wear
high boots, gaiters, or low shoes, as circumstances may re-
quire.

Since the vest has been introduced, a sack is indispensable.

This is made in a variety of forms. For good service, the
sleeves ought to be plain and have the coat form, as the

oriental cut with muslin undersleeves, is only adapted to

times of leisure. The collar should be turned back, and the
lappels cut straight, which gives an opportunity for velvet

edging, binding or embroidery. Its general appearance does

not differ much from a military frock, though it is much
looser in the waist, particularly the back part.

The vest, (which is cut strictly in the male style,) overlaps
the skirt about two inches. The best form is that given in

the December number of the Water-Cure Journal. The
upper half should not be buttoned except in very cold weath-

er. Buff cassimere is better than Marseilles, because it is less

apt to wrinkle, and being free from starch sets more neatly

to the form. [We here omit such remarks as are embraced
in another article in the present number. Ed’s.]

The Magyar hat is conceded to be the neatest and most

comfortable for the winter season. When summer comes,
straw, of course, will be again worn.

As^a general rule, the sack, skirt.fand trowsers, should be

of the same goods—or, at least, of tho same color. Tho hat
may be either drab or black.

Tiie Modern Bklle.— [Who ” don’t like” “the new cos-

tume “]

By John G. Saxe.
The daughter sits in the parlor,

And rocks in her easy chair :

She’s clad in her silks and satins,

And jewels are in her hair

—

She winks and giggles and simpers,

And simpers and giggles and winks,

And though she talks but little,

‘Tis vastly more than she thinks.

Her father goes clad in russet,

And ragged and seedy at that

—

His coats are out at the elbow,

He wears a most shocking bad hat.

He’s hoarding and saving his shillings,

So carefully day by day,

While she, on her beaux and poodles,

Is throwing them all away.

She lies abed in the morning,

Till nearly the hour of noon ;

Then come down snapping and snarling,

Because she was called too soon.

Her hair is still in her papers,

Her cheeks still dabbled with paint,

Remains of the last night’s blushes,

Before she intended to faint.

[These are the ” birds” who would bo praised for the “fine

feathers” they were, and who would take delight in being

regarded as the leaders of fa sh ion. How useless to them-
selves, to their parents, to society. But they don’t live long.

Yet they are a damage to the world while they live. Let

us be charitable to the poor things ; nor treat them wiili li sa

regard than wa would the other sex, who belong to the same

low stratum of society, denominated Dandies.]

When a man now-a-days wishes to communicate tho in-
telligence that a daughter has been added to the family, he
says, ‘• that his domestic affairs have reached a cry sis.”

[The man who made that ” pun ” must belong to tho Allo-
pathic school. Water-Curo ” tisscs ” don’t cry, when pro-
perly taken care of ]

In Oswego, N. Y., there are nine churches, two Episcopal

two Presbyterian, two Methodist, two Roman Catholic, and

one Baptist. There are sixteen flouring mills, with eighty-

t/hroe run of stone, capable of manufacturing 7,575 barrels of

flour per day. Srf8,181 barrels were shipped by canal in 1 BS 1

.

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There are four grain -warehouses, and twenty-two manu-

facturing establishments, among them a cotton and a woolen

factory, and the largest starch factory in the world, working

up 200,COO bushels of corn annually. There are six fire en-

gines, two hook and ladder companies, and one Water-Cure

Establishment. The aggregate value of trade with Canada,

in 185L, was about $5,000,000, and the total value of the

Lake trade $22,575,246.

Discouraging.—In declining a communication, sent to the
N. Y. Mirror for publication. The Editor thus writes :
“To Correspondents.—The young gentleman who sends

an essay in verse, which he calls ‘ Midnight Watchings,’
must excuse us from publishing these firstlings of his uncul-
tivated Muse. Many of his thoughts are beautiful ; but his
“feet” are imperfect, and his rhythm limps. We commend
him to Shakspeare, Nature, and the cultivation of potatoes,
rather lhan poetry. The latter occupation pays better, and
is more conducive to health, both bodily and mental.”

NATURAL FLOWER.

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STERILE FLOWER.

HOVEY’S SEEDLING STRAWBERRY.

The Strawberry.—Now that the season is at hand for
enjoying this delicious fruit, we take the pleasure in present-
ing our readers with a beautiful Engraving of one of the

best varieties—together with a few remarks in regard to its
culture, which we select from various sources.
The A1nerica.1i Agriculturist says :

” This splendid Strawberry was raised by Messrs. Hovey,
and company, of Boston, and for this climate is one of the
finest of all varieties. It bears the largest and most delicious
of fruit, frequently measuring, under ordinary cultivation,
three or four inches in circumference, or an inch to an inch
and a quarter in diameter. To produce berries of mammoth
size, take large, thrifty plants, and transplant them in rich,
deep soil, one foot apart, and keep all the runners trimmed
off, and the ground loose. The next season clip off all but
two or three of the first blossoms on each plant, taking care
to have a few plants of another variety of the same class,
with staminate flowers, in their vicinity.”

The Secret of Growing the Strawberry Six Months
Continuously.—This secret has been discovered and prac-
ticed by Charles F. Peabody, of Columbus, Georgia, one of

the editors of the ” Soil of the South,” for several years,

not as a theory or mere experiment, nor accidental produc-

tion, but as a science—a study of time, successfully carried
out for profit ; for he sends his market wagon into the city

loaded with this rich luxury from March till September ; and

last year, his vines continued to ripen fruit until Christmas.

What is the secret? our fair readers exclaim. What new
variety ? No other than Hovey’s seedling, impregnated by
early scarlet, and never manured, but kept continually moist

by artificial watering ; for which purpose he uses a garden

engine.

For four years, Mr. P. cultivated the same variety in rich

garden mould, manuring liberally every year, and at any

time during summer could have mowed a heavy swarth of

green luxuriant vines, which would have made very good
C
} hay, but that was not what he wished to grow. Failing to

( f Set ^ru ‘ t kY
garden culture, he commenced the experiment

which for six years has proved so eminently successful. He

cleared off a strip of low land along a little rivulet, the soil

of which is coarse sand and loose gravel, intermixed with

clay slightly, and of course covered with forest mould ; dig-

ging out the roots of a thick growth of bushes sufficiently

prepared the land. The vines were then set in rows, six of
Hovey and one of scarlet, and the surface has never been
disturbed since by spade or hoe, except so far as going over

the ground once or twice a year to cut out here and there a

decaying vine or bunch of grass or weeds—few of which,
however, in consequence of using no manure, ever make
their appearance

;
neither do the plants run to vines, spread-

ing all over the surface every year as they did in the gar-

den. The whole strength seems to be exerted for the pro-
duction of large rich berries to such a degree that the ground

is red with fruit, not green with leaves ; and this not upon

a little plat, but over a field of five acres.

And does he never manure them ? is undoubtedly asked by
every tyro in the business of growing strawberry vines. Mr.

Peabody grows roots, stems, and fruit. I repeat, he never

manures, never digs the ground, nor turns under the old roots

to give place to new ones. In autumn, he gives a light
dressing of the surface soil of the forest, and covers the

ground with leaves
;
these remain until decayed, and serve

to keep the berries clean during the long bearing season.

This, and the watering every hot day when it does not rain,
is the great secret of growing strawberries ; not only six

months, but last year he actually had them upon his table

every month but two—January and February. Of course,
at the north, the bearing season could not be of equal dura-

tion, but it may be greatly extended by the same course of
cultivation.

The Phrenological Journal, has the following :

” This delicious gift of nature (improved, as is the human
mind, by Culture,) is, without question, the reigning prince
of berries. Its flavor, its color, its melting sweetness, and
its undisputed wholesomeness, impart to it a pre-eminence
of popularity with the universal palate. It is easy of culti-
vation, and every man who can command a few feet of
ground can. in the season, preside over this luscious repast,
fresh from nature’s ” horn of plenty.” Nor should any cot-
tager, much less farmer with his large kitchen garden, be
without this most delicious fruit.”

€n (ttttupninin. f
We are often requested to reply to questions, “ire the very

next number.” Which we are always glad to do, when the
number is not too far advanced. Subscribers will bear in.
mind, that the immense edition which we now publish, re-
quires us to commence printing early in the month, preced-
ing the date. Therefore, unless received before the 10th of
June, answers cannot be given through the Journal, until
the August number. The same is true, in regard to advertise-
ments. They should be sent in early, to ensure an early in-
sertion.

Chronic Cough and Debility.—V. D., Caledonia, Pa.—
The patient has been taking James’s pills for months, to
keep down the cough, induced by a common cold. He now
suffers extreme weakness, and wants to know how to man-
age with water. This complaint is incipient consumption

,

and he should not undertake treatment, especially as he is
wholly unacquainted with the water-processes, without a
competent adviser, or at an establishment. Thousands of
consumptions are induced, and lives destroyed, by those
abominable pills of Dr. James’. The active ingredient is
tartarized antimony, and this is the most deadly and de-
bilitating poison of the whole allopathic materia medica.

O?” See Hydropathic Encyclopcedia, vol. 2, page 315. Ar-
ticle, Antimonial Poisons.

Kine-Pox Infection.—H. K., Joliet, III.—The contagious
matter of small-pox, as modified bypassing through the body
of various domestic animals, constitutes what is called kine-
pox. For purposes of vaccination the kine-pox matter is
usually obtained from the cow. This modified small-pox,
alias kine-pox, when inserted beneath the cuticle of the hu-
man being, produces an affection very similar to the disease
of the cow, and protects the body from the genuine small-
pox. You are therefore right; and all of the regular doctors
in your place are in the wrong. Perhaps they cannot aban-
don that wrong without also hazarding their bread and but-
ter; therefore, as self-preservation is the first law of natu,-«,
they have a sort of a shadow of an excuse for warring upon
you.

Constipation and Piles—J. H. C, North Vassalboro, Me.
The principal treatment in your wife’s case is dietetic.
Without coarse opening food, a cure is impossible. Frequent
hip-baths would be useful. You say, she does not like
Graham bread. Wheaten grits, rye-meal mush, wheat-meal
biscuits, rye and Indian bread, potatoes, and fruits, &j., will
answer instead of Graham bread. It is no uncommon cir-
cumstance for a female to prefer a miserable existence

;
and

to drag through life, loaded down with disease, rather than eat
coarse bread, which will make the bowels move. It is, how-
ever, a horrible perversity of appetite.

Bathing Rooms.— J. S., Greenwood, 111.—” Can you not
give us some plan of a bathing-room, with tub, douche, &c

,

which will be convenient and not expensive?” The plan
should have reference to the supply of water, and the manner
in which it can be brought into the bathing-room. Douches

are easily constructed
;
a barrel or hogshead can be elevated,

a sufficient height to serve as a reservoir ; and the stream can

be regulated by a tube of the desired diameter. The shower-
ing apparatus can be fitted to the same reservoir, and the
tub can be placed beneath

Dyspepsia and General Debility with Neuralgia.—E.
P. G., Richmond, la., asks for a letter of information, &c.
How can we address a letter to you, when you have only sent
the initials of your name ? Write again, and describe your
usual and present dietetic habits; also the medical treatment

you was subjected to, when you had the “low nervous fever.”
From what you say of yourself, there does not appear to be
any serious difficulty in the way of recovering good health,
but you want the full water and dietetic part of the treat-
ment.

Cutaneous Diseases.—Z. I., Salem, Ohio —The oldest of
the children you mention requires frequent packing, followed

by the half-bath, with a diet wholly of unfermented and un-

bolted bread, fruits and vegetables, with abstinence from

salt, grease, and hard water. The youngest needs to have
the above system of diet strictly followed by its mother. The
probability is, that the parents will not be strict enough in

home-practice to effect a radical cure
; hence they should go

to an establishment.

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Medical Education.—C. D. A., Concord, N. H.

—”What
time is it necessary to devote to study to become a good Hy-

dropathic physician, and what will it cost?” One, two,

three, or four years, according to capacity to learn and pre-

vious qualifications. The expense may be much or little,
according to circumstances. CD. A, says: “I have been
at a stand, whether to study with a botanic or hydropathic

physician, if I conclude to study medicine.” Study with a

botanic by all means, if you have the least shadow of doubt

in choosing. Nobody should ever take up hydropathy who

is merely aiming at a profitable trade, nor unless fully im-

bued with the spirit of Him who ‘” went about doing good,”
whether the majority liked or disliked his doings.

“Dropsy.—Tnquirkr, Linden, Wis., says: An allopathic
doctor, from Germany, (acquainted with the Water-Cure,)

says water will cure diseases generally, but that the patient

becomes dropsical, and soon dies ” Can this be so ?” No.

It has not even the shadow of truth. This was one of the

first “objections” started by the allopaths to frighten peo-

ple away from water doctors ; but, like cod-liver oil, it has

had its day.

Mucous Dyspepsia.—J. D. , Detroit. Cases like)yours require
a long time, often years, to effect a restoration. Keep on

the plain diet plan, and use hip-baths once or twice a day,

as cold as can be borne without feeling chilly, or stiff in the

muscles of the abdomen, and lower extremities afterward.

Wear the bandage whenever the weather is not very cold
;

omit it, ^however, during the night. Walking foot-baths

would be useful for the state of your eyes.

Skin Disease.—Hibernia Canadensis, Cincinnati. We do
not hold ourselves under obligations to answer anonymous

communications ; but presuming you have a local habitation

and a real name, we answer your question, What is the best
treatment of the disease called acne, or black spots on the

skin? by referring you to the Hydropathic Encyclopaedia,

Vol. 2, chapter on Diseases of the Skin.

CANK.ERrsn.-S. K. writes anonomously from Boston :

“Please inform a sufferer, through the columns of your Jour-

nal what course of treatment you pursue in curing the can-
ker in the stomach, throat and mouth.” Please inform us,

who you are, and the circumstances of the case, if you desire
gratuitous advice. General information you can get in hy-

dropathic books. This place is designed to answer brief and

specific questions.

Filtered Water.—J. J. P., Portland. ” Can filtered rain
water be retained from one rain storm to another of long du-

ration, without losing any of its remedial properties
; and

what is the best method of preserving it ?” It depends some-
what on how long the duration is between the storms. In
most cases it will keep good from storm to storm in this cli-
mate. The best way to preserve it, is to keep it as cold as pos-
sible.

Difficult Breathing.—J. F. B., Burnt Corn, Ala.—Symp-
toms like your3 generally originate from constipated bowels,
or from an organic imperfection or malformation of the heart.

If from the former, the remedies are, coarse food, hip-baths,

kneading the abdominal muscles, &c. The latter difficulty
is irremediable.

Chronic Inflammation of the Throat and Larynx.—
J. W. F., Ellenbuigh.—Wear the chest-wrapper constantly

;

take a daily ablution or half- bath, also one or two hip-baths,
as cold as can be borne, followed by quick and comfortable
reaction. A plain vegetable diet is also necessary.

Spinal Injury with Fits—J. F. jr., Oak Creek, Wis.
Wash the whole body every morning

; apply a moderate

douche to the back, two or three limes a week
; and on

the alternate days, take a hip-bath about 65°, ten minutes.

Temperaments, &c —B. B., Canada West.—1st Question,
Probably you can ; much, though, depends on the subject
you hit upon. 2d. Yes; but be brief. 3d. No. 4th. A
slight rash often occurs in such cases. 5th. Yes.

Fistula in Ano.—Z. T., Brandon. Some cases can be cured
by water-treatment alone ; others require surgery, as the

caustic or ligature, or both. This matter is explained in the

Hydropathic Encyclopaedia, Vol.2, Page 3G0.

Inflammatory Rheumatism.—C. A., Genoa, Ky.,
to know what course he should adopt in a case of inllamma-
tory rheumatism of three years’ standing, after having em-
ployed all the resources of allopathy, and having grown worse
continually? Go to a good establishment at once. The
drugs must bo ” packed ” out of you

; and you require thor-

ough but careful management.

Dyspepsia.—J. E. Woodvillc, Miss. You are on about the
right plan, a hip-bath occasionally, five to ten minutes,

would assist the cure. Probably sufficient perseverance will

result in a restoration.

St Vitus’s Dance.—H C, Monticello, Iowa. ” Can this
disease be cured by water and hygiene

;
and if so, what are

the means to be employed ?” See Hydropathic Encyclo-
paedia, Vol. 2, Page 212.

Liver Complaint —S. R W., Boston. The general unea-
siness, numbness, pain about the shoulders, &c, indicate a
chronic inflammation of the liver ; and the treatment for

that affection would doubtless apply to you.

R. W. H., Payson, Illinois.—Give us a detailed account of
the prevalent diseases, and their common treatment as now
practiced by ” regular” doctors, also what progress the Water-

Cure is making in Adams county.

Typhus Fever.—H. F. G.—See April number of this
Journal; also Hydropathic Encyclopaedia, Vol. 2, Pages 72

to 90.

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A perfect Daniel of a lawyer, but he has not “got his
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—

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But he forgets that “Old things must pass away, and all

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;
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Succeeding so well in the first attempt, the author could

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In this, his last work, we have a different cast of mind ; mirth,

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he “taken off” many foolish absurdities, leaving it to be
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An exceedingly interesting volume, answering in all re-
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A poet of high and holy aspirations, exhibiting, perhaps,
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WATER-CURE ESTABLISHMENTS.

Hydropathic Institute.—Dr. Trall receives patients at his
commodious city establishment, 15 Laight street, New York,
(the oldest city Water-cure in the United States), one door
from the beautiful promenade grounds of the St. John’s
Park, and in the immediate vicinity of the Hoboken Ferry.
The house enjoys one of the most open, airy and quiet locali-
ties in the city ; and a sail of ten minutes across the Ferry
brings the cure-guests to the shaded walks and delightful
groves of the Elysian Fields.

In addition to the usual appliances for full Water treat-
ment, he has with the assistance of Dr. J. L. Hosford, es-
tablished a department for the special management of those
female diseases which are incurable without peculiar mechan-
ical and surgical treatment. Consultations and city practice
attended to as heretofore . June, tf.

Dr. T. L. Nichols and Mrs. Gove Nichols have removed
their Water-Cure Establishment to Prospect Hill, Port
Chester, N. Y., one hour’s ride from the city, on the New-
Haven Railroad—a situation of unsurpassed beauty and sa-
lubrity.

Their City Office is at No. 45 White-st, near Broadway,
where they will receive consultations every Wednesday,
from 2 to 5 P. M., and on other days by appointment.
Dr. Wm. F. Reu, a graduate of the American Hydropathic

Institute, and a thoroughly educated and competent Water-
Cure Physician, will be at this office daily and nightly, and
attend to consultations and city practice. We cordially re-
commend him as deserving entire confidence.
The first term of our School for the Physiological Edu-

cation of Young Ladies, will open on the first Monday in
June.
The third term of the American Hydropathic Institute will

open on the first Monday in November. For Circulars, ad-
dress T. L. Nichols, M.D., Port Chester N. Y. June, It.

New Graefenberg Hydropathic, and Kink.sipathic Es-
tablishment.—The subscriber Hatters himself, that the suc-
cess of his institution is already as firmly established and
extensively known as any health institution in this country,
—and would simply say that any desirous of knowing more,
by writing to him will have sent them free of expense, a
pamphlet of 10 pages, containing a full report of all the par-
ticulars. The institution is situated on Lockport Hill, about
5 miles from the city of Utica. Address R. Holland, M.D.,
New Graefenberg, N. Y.

Lebanon Springs Water-Cure —This Institution is one
of the oldest in America. It is situated directly across the
way from the celebrated Thermal spring, at New Lebanon,
N. Y. For salubrity of air, cold, pure, and soft water, ro-
mantic and delightful scenery, and general healthfulness of
climate, and every facility for successful Hydriatic treat-
ment, this place is not excelled in this part of the country.

D. Campbell and Lady, the well known proprietors of the
institution for the last seven years, still continue to provide
for the wants of the sick and afflicted, and hope their long
experience and qualifications will enable them to give the
same general satisfaction in future, that has marked their
efforts in the past.

The Medical department will be under the care of Dr. B.
Wilmarth and wife, who from twenty-five years’ experience
and observation of disease and remedies, (five of which have
been Hydropathic practice,) feel confident a good degree of
success will mark their efforts in all curable cases commit-
ted to their care. Mrs. W. has qualified herself for taking
charge of the “Female department ” of the institution, and
treating that long list of painful and harassing complaints
peculiar to her sex. Terms, $5 to $:? per week

;
payment

weekly. Examination free. Advice by letter $1. Patients
will provide the usual articles for treatment. D. Campbell
6 Son, Proprietors

; B. Wilmarth, M.D., Physician. Jn, tf.

Milford Water-Cure Establishment.—The undersigned,
having tested to considerable extent, in his Medical Practice
for several years past, the wonderful virtues and power of
Water, when judiciously applied as a curative agent in
disease of the Human Organism, has, after duly considering
the subject, and feeling the great importance of such an in-
stitution, to meet the wants and necessities of the public,
and, by the urgent solicitation of many friends, finally con-
sented to open his house for the reception of the Sick and
Afflicted who may desire to obtain the benefits of Water-
Cure Treatment. Chronic disease of every class will re-
ceive due attention, more especially Scrofulous, Lung,
Rheumatic, Uterine, (or Female difficulties,) Hemorrhoidal,
(or Piles.) Nervous, and every variety of Cutaneous, or Skin
diseases.

Suitable arrangements have been made for Nurses, and
the accommodation of patients.

Patients are requested to bring one heavy comfortable, two
woollen blankets, two coarse cotton and one linen sheet, four
towels, and a quantity of old linen for bandages.
Terms—as liberal as at any other water-cure establish-

ment
;
payable weekly. Address the undersigned, post-paid.

E. A. Cone, M.D., Milford, Oakland Co., Michigan. Jn, It.

Mammoth Water-Cure of the West.—C. Graham, M.
J}., Froprietor ; Roland S. Houghton, A.M., M.D., Resi-
dent Physician. This establishment is situated on a com-
manding eminence adjoining the town of Harrodsburg, in
Mercer Co., Kentucky ; being 30 miles from Frankfort, 23
from Lexington, and 8 from the Kentucky River,—near the
geographical centre of the State. The main establishment
is one of the most elegant and spacious buildings in the
West ; capable, together with the surrounding cottages, of
accommodating no less than 500 patients. Since the last
season, the proprietor has erected, at a large additional ex-
pense, a spacious and commodious Bath- House, for the
especial purpose of the Water Treatment. This new
building has been so constructed that the two departments
into which it has been divided (for the exclusive use of the
male and female patients, respectively,) are entirely distinct
and complete. It is supplied with an abundance of excellent
water from an inexhaustible spring in the vicinity of the
establishment, of an average temperature of 55 degrees.
Among the different baths will be found every variety which
experience has shown to be suitable for the treatment :

—

such as the Douches of all kinds—rising, descending, and
horizontal ; eye, ear, and nose baths ; irrigating fountains ;
the “snake bath ;” the plunge, shower, half-bath, shallow-
bath ; sitz baths, etc., etc. In fine, the proprietor has avoid-

ed neither trouble nor expense in order to render the estab-

lishment inferior to none in Europe or America. The
grounds are elevated and extensive ; and the walks have

been tastefully laid out, while they are perfectly shaded in

the hot season. Jn wet weather, the spacious and entensive
piazzas in front of the establishment afford a delightful and
sheltered promenade of no less than 300 yards in extent.
The establishment is also provided with two Bowling Sa-
loons, and an elegant Saloon for the accommodation of pa-
tients who wish for other kinds of physical exercise. The
Ball-room of the institution, which is 00 feet by 45, is one of
the most tasteful and elegant rooms of the kind in the West-
ern country.
The Medical department is filled by Roland S. Houghton,

AM, M.D. , author of “Dulwer and Forbes on the Water
Treatment,” ” Three Lectures on II ygioiie and Hydropathy
etc., etc.

; and heretofore, lor a number of years, a su’:’
practitioner of the Water-Cure m the City ‘.I New-York.
The proprietor U oonfident that Dr. HotrOHToi’a experienoe
in the various departments of #lydro])aihy, will entitle him
to the entire confidence of those who may stand in need of
his professional services.

Patients are requested to bring two heavy comfortables,
two blankets, two coarse cotton and one heavy linen sheet,
six towels, and a quantity of old linen suitable U>r bandages

;

all of which should be carefully marked.
Terms.—The terms for board, medical fees, and attend-

ance, will be ten dollar* a week tor each patient for the
first four weeks

;
for each successive week, icioii i DOU.1M.

Servants who may be brought to attend on patients will be
charged $260 each week. For further information, address
Dr. C. Graham, Harrodsburg, Kentucky. June. tf.

Glen Haven Festival.—Invitation.—We cordially and
earnestly invite all persons who have been inmate! under
treatment at Glen Haven Water-Cure, with such mem-
bers of their families as may desire to accompany them, to
join in the celebration of our annual Festivalon Wednesday,
June 23d, and partake of a dinner to be given by us on that
day. Our design is two-fold :

—

We wish those who have been our guests should enjoy a
Re-union. Those who, while here, from having a common
object, came to have a common sympathy, can but be pleased
to look into each other’s faces a-new, and read fresh chapters

I

in each other’s life. And all will have opportunity to learn
;
whether others faith in the philosophy of Water-Cure has

;

brightened or dimmed by the lapse of Time.
Our other design is, if possible, to convince unbelieving peo-

i pie of the value of Hydropathy as a means for preserving
1 health and curing disease. We shall therefore extend invi-
! tations by letters to persons of both sexes. We know that
;

prejudice is strong ; but Truth is mightier than prejudice.
;

We know that it is not uncommon to believe that Hydro-
i pathic Physicians nearly starve their patients. We shall set
i our table wilh no article on that day which does not in its
> season find its way to the table of the Cure. Our friends
] shall see how our patients starve. We know that it is sup-
j
posed that it is worth one’s life to undergo the administration
of the baths. We want those who think thus should be dis-

\ abused. We know that many persons think Water Instilu-
! tions are desolate, uncomfortably looking places, with no-

j
thing of the breath of Home about them. We hope to be able

)
to give opportunity for thorough inspection of Glen Haven

‘, on that day, and leave all to draw conclusions
We shall spare no effort to make the occasion one that shall

\ be wreathed with pleasant memories. For all who may come

J

on the Albany and Buffalo Railroad from East or West—the
i Steamer Homer will be at the dock at Skaneateles, and at

j
10s o’clock A. M., will leave for the Glen. The ride up the

> lake on a bright June day is worth a journey of five hundred

j
miles. Will you permit us to impose one condition ? That

)
such of you as see this notice, and will, if possible, be pres-

{ ent, send us a letter to that effect as early as the 25th of .May,

j
or the 1st of June outside, that we may know the probable

j

number of our guests. That you will all come, and that your

|
faith in Nature and Water as the great preservative and cu-

) rative forces may be quickened, that the day may be bright,
> and all enjoy it, is our wish. Our P. Office address is Scott,
> Cortland County, N. Y. Respectfully, The Proprietors.

I Easthampton Water-Cure.—Dr. E. Snell, having re-
! moved his residence from Springfield Water-Cure on account

j
of its bad location and great unfitness for the business, has

j
located himself in the beautiful village of Easthampton, near

> the Williston Seminary, and has purchased and fitted the
5 building known as Snow’s Hotel for a Water-Cure.

The great success attending his practice is shown in the
fact that eighty out of a little more than one hundred pa-
tients treated at his establishment for a few months past
have been discharged cured or nearly so, and all greatly bene-
fitted. Easthampton, the most beautiful village in Massa-
chusetts, possessing every attraction, is but four miles from
Northampton Depot, where a carriage from the house is al-
ways in waiting at the arrival of the several trains. Dr.
Snell has the most unparalleled success in treating female
complaints of all kinds. He also finds Coad’s Patent Gradu-
ated Battery, which he has obtained at great expense, very
useful in many cases of Paralysis, Rheumatism, &c. Terms,
$G per week. Examination fee. §2 Patients will furnish
two comfortables, two blanksts, two sheets, and some towels,
all well marked. N. B. Patients very feeble, and bringing
a nurse, can board the nurse for $2 per week at the estab-
lishment Dr. E. Snell, Proprietor and Physician. Jn, 2t.

Mt. Prospect Water- Cure and Institute, Binqiiamton,
N. Y.—This Institution is located in a beautiful and roman-
tic grove at the base of Mt. Prospect, and within the corpo-
ration of the Village. Possessed of a never-failing Spring of
pure soft water, an atmosphere free frcm miasmatic influ-
ences, of carriage and foot-walks up the mountains, “free from
the noise and turmoil of busy life,” with excellent rowing
and sailing privileges upon the pleasant waters of the Che-
nango, are a few of the presentation the ” Cure ” offers to the
invalid.

The house is new, commodious, bathing apparatus ample
and convenient, well ventilated, with 230 feet piazza.
The Medical department is under the entire charge of Dr.

Thayer and Wife, who have had five years’ experience in
Hydropathic practice, and are favorably known as successful
practitioners. Courses of lectures, with full plates and illus

trations, will be given throughout the season to the Studen

and Patients upon Anatomy, Physiology, Hydropathy a
Hygiene. Terms, from $4 to $3 per week, according to room
and attention required, payable weekly. Patients will bring

the usual fixins. O. V. Thayer, M.U.. Resident Physician

D. W. Rasney and II. M. RanNEY. Proprietors. May, tf.

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Orange Mountain Water-Cure.—This establishment is
situated near the village of South Orange, Essex County,
New Jersey, five miles from Newark, and fourteen miles
from the city of New York, on the line of the Morris and Es-
sex Railway, by which passengers are landed at the Station
House of the establishment, a.’ few minutes’ walk from the
door. Having been greatly enlarged and much improved, it
now affords facilities for the treatment of upwards of one
hundred Cure-Guests.

All the requisites for such an establishment are here found,
viz. : pure mountain spring water, beau tiful and retired wal ks
through the woods and upon the mountains for several miles
in extent, and shielded from the winds in winter and the sun
in summer ; springs of soft water along the various paths,
and picturesque scenery.
From many points in the wa?ks where the prospect is not

intercepted by woods, an extensive panoramic view is pre-
sented of the cities of New York, Brooklyn, and the towns
adjoining ; East and West Bloomfield, North and South
Orange, Newark, Belleville, Elizabethtown, the waters of
New York harbor, and Newark Bay, Staten Island, its vil-
lages, etc.

The establishment is admirably adapted for the Water-
Cure practice in winter, (which for many diseases is the most
favorable period of the year,) being sheltered on the East
and Northwest by prominent mountains, fitted up in a very
superior manner,and provided with abundant suppliesof cold
and hot water. Ladies need not leave their rooms for treat-
ment, as private baths are attached to most of them.
Terms, $3 and $10 in winter, and $10, $11, and $12, in

summer, payable always weekly. Consultation fee, $5. Per-
sons occupying the whole of a double room, or requiring ex-
tra attendance, will be charged accordingly. Board of private
servants, $3 per week.

Patients must provide themselves with four course thick
linen sheets, two thick blankets, two thick comforters, and
six towels

;
or when unavoidable, the same may be hired of

the Institution for $1 per week.
Persons coming to the establishment from New York, leave

the foot of Courtlandt street at 8% and 11 o’clock A. M., and
4 and 6 o’clock P. M. The time occupied in reaching South
Orange from New York, is about one hour. Visiters can
come from and return to the city several times duringtheday.
Dr. Joseph A. Wedkp., late of Philadelphia, is the Physi-

cian of the Institution. He is a graduate of the Medical
College of Freyburg, in Baden, Germany; he has visited the
Grafenberg Institution, conducted by the celebrated Pries-
nitz ; many of the water-cure establishments of Europe

;

and has had twelve years, experience in Hydropathy. Let-
ters upon professional business should be addressed to Dr.
Weder

; all others to George H Mitchell. Superintendent,
directed to South Orange, Essex County, N. J. May, It.

Concord Water-Cure Establishment, Concord, New-
Hampshire —This Institution, situated in the delightful
village of Concord, N. H., has passed into the hands and un-
der the Medical supervision of Dr. Wm. T. Vail, of New
York, who will spare no effort to render it an agreeable home
to the invalid, and everyway worthy of the liberal patronage
it has heretofore received.
To those who would seek the recovery of their health by

this simple, beautiful, and efficient method of cure, perhaps
no location presents superior inducements to Concord. The
unsurpassed purity of the water with which the establish-
ment is supplied, the beauty of the town, the salubrity of
the air, and the delightfulness of surrounding scenery, con-
spire to render it a desirable resort for the invalid, and con-
tribute essentially to aid him in his recovery. Concord is
accessible from almost every direction, being the converging
point of several different Railroads. Persons from New York,
can visit the place at a cost of $5.
Terms, from $6 to $3 per week in summer

;
$4 to $6 in

winter. A deduction from the above terms if two patients
occupy the same room. Each patient is required to provide
himself with two comfortables, two thick woolen blankets,
one linen, and two course cotton sheets, towels, &c. May, 3t.

Wyoming Cottage Water-Cure — Wyoming, Wyoming
County, N. Y.—This Institution now commences its second
season. Its location is retired, three-fourths of a mile from,
and overlooking the beautiful village and valley of Wyo-
ming.
The surrounding country is noted for the beauty of its

scenery, while its pure and bracing atmosphere is health-
giving in all its influences. The building is new, the rooms
are ample in size, some of them delightfully pleasant, look-
ing out upon beautiful landscapes, all of them neatly fur-
nished and perfectly ventilated. We have greatly enlarged
and improved our Bathing arrangements, now comprising all
the varieties of local and general baths. The grounds are
tastefully laid out and the summer walks cool and inviting
Wyoming is situated twelve miles south of Leroy, sixteen

miles west of Geneseo, ten miles east of Attica, and six
miles north of Warsaw—and patients coming by Railroad
from Rochester or Buffalo, will stop at Batavia or Attica.
A stage leaves Batavia every Tuesday and alternate morn-
ings, and Attica every morning, bringing patients to the
door of the Establishment. These stages run in connection
with the morning express trams east and west. Stages
leave Geneseo and Warsaw for this place every morning.
P. H. Hayes, E. C. Winchester, Proprietors. Ap. clt tf.

The Round Hill Water-Cure Retreat —Established
in 1847. Located at R.OUND Hill, Northampton, Mass. Ac-
cessible by Railroad from Boston, Albany, and New York, in
from 4 to 5 hours. For beauty and healthfulness of location
—softness and purity of water—large and well-furnished
rooms, and for comforts and conveniences for patients and
their friends, this establishment is unsurpassed by any in the
country. Address A. Randall, Esq., Agent, or C. A. Hall,
M.D., Physician. Feb. lit.

Forestville Water-Cure, at Forestville, Chautauque
Co., N. Y.—This new Establishment got up on an improved
plan and supplied with pure soft water from the hill-side, is
now open for reception of Patients.

This is a point easy of access from all directions ; situated
upon the New-York & Erie Railroad, two miles from its ter-
mination at the lake, and five miles from the Buffalo and
State line Railroad, from which passengers can come almost
every hour in the day, leaving at Silver Creek. The Village
has several hundred inhabitants, and is surrounded by a rich
and productive farming country. The scenery romantic,
and climate healthful.

Dr. Parker, resident Physician, for the restoration of his
own health resorted to this system of treatment as practiced
in several of the best establishments in the country, and now
abandons for this, his former mode of practice, as a less effi-
cient and curative means. No pains will be spared in furnish-
ing nurses anc attendants for the benefit of the patients, and
all indulgencies at the table and elsewhere allowed, consistent
to the condition of the patient. Patients are required to fur-

nish two good sized cotton comfortables, two strong sheets,
six coarse bath towels, and something suitable for body
bandages. Charges for Board, attendance, lights, fuel, &c,
from ,§5.50 to $3. Charles Parker. M.D , and Amos R.
Avery, M D., Proprietors. Address, Hanover P. 0., Chau-
tauque Co., N. Y. June, 6t.

Sugar Creek Falls Water-Cure.—This institution is
now ready to receive patients. It is beautifully and health-
fully located on a commanding eminence 3-4 of a mile east
of the Falls, on the road from Wheeling to Wooster, and from
Massillon to Canal Dover and New Philadelphia, 12 miles
south of Massillon, 8 miles west of Dover, 12 miles west of
New Philadelphia, 7 miles from the Zoar community, acces-
sible by Stages daily from all the above places. It is abund-
antly supplied with very soft, pure spring water, conveyed to
the Cure by stone pipe. Terms, from $5 to $3 per week,
payable weekly in advance. Post-office address, Dr H.
Frease, Deardorflf’s Mills, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. May
1st, 1852. May, 3t.

Athol Water-Cure.—This Establishment has been liber-
ally patronized during the past year, and is still in successful
operation, under the charge of Dr. J H. Hero, who is striv-
ing to make his place what it should be for the treatment
of every variety of Chronic Disease.
Athol abounds in pure soft Water, good air, and fine sce-

nery, and is accessible by Railroad.
Each patient requires two comfortables, two woolen blan-

kets, three sheets,- six crash towels, and old cloth for band-
ages. Terms, $6 per week, unless extra room or attention is
required. May, 4t.

Rock Spring Water-Cure, by Cary Cox, M.D., Marietta,
Georgia.’ ; The Water-Cure Establishment of Dr. U. Cox has
been successful, not only in the number of patients, but in
proving the efficiency of the mode of treatment adopted for
the removal of disease. Dr. Cox is prepared to cite instances,
in this place and elsewhere, of invalids of long standing who
have, under his regimen, been restored to vigorous health.
No place in the State offers greater advantages for such an
establishment as that ef Dr. Cox, or holds out stronger in-
ducements to persons in bad health who wish to avail them-
selves of the peculiar mode of treatment used by Hydropathic
Physicians.”

—

Marietta Advocate. Letters of enquiry, post
paid, will be promptly attended to. May, 2t.

Cleveland Watkr-Cure Establishment —The above
Establishment, having been put in fine order, is now com-
mencing its fourth season. The success which has attended it
thus far enables the subscriber to say with confidence, to all
who wish to make a practical application of the Water-Cure
Treatment, that they can pursue it here under the most fa-
vorable auspices for the removal of disease. The location,
although in the immediate vicinity of one of the most beau-
tiful cities in the Union, is still very retired. The water is
very pure, soft, and abundant.
The charge for board, medical advice, and all ordinary at-

tendance of nurses, is $3 per week, payable weekly. T. T.
Seelye, M.D. , Proprietor. Feb. 5t.

Worcester Water-Cure Institution, No. 1 Glen Street.
—This building was erected expressly for Hydropathic pur-
poses, and embraces all the conveniences necessary for the
improvement and enjoyment of patients. The location is
retired, and overlooks the city.
Terms —For full board and treatment. $6 to $10 per week,

according to rooms occupied.
A medical fee of $2 for first examination will usually be

required.
Patients are requested to bring two coarse cotton and one

linen sheet, two woolen blankets, one comfortable, and old
linen for bandages. S. Rogers, M. D. E. F. Rogers, Su-
perintendent. Feb. tf.

Forest City Cure, near Ithica, on the eastern bank of the
lovely Cayuga, and well furnished. Health of locality, pu-
rity of water, and beauty of scenery unsurpassed. Science

and experience in the Medical department. A Gymnasium
and other places for exercise and amusement attached.
Terms, $5 to $10 per week. Students accommodated. Mor-
ris Dwight, M.D. J. T. Burdick, M.D , Proprietor. Jn. tf.

The Brownsville Water-Cure Establishment, under the
direction of Dr. C. BiELz, is open for the reception of patients.
Summer and Winter. Feb. lOt.

Willow-Grove Water-Cure—Is now open under the di-
rection of Dr Henry F. Meir, M.D. Letters addressed
Willow-Grove, Montgomery Co, Pa., or, Philadelphia, 43
South 10th street. Philadelphia City Practice personally
attended to. June, It.*

The Elmir.v Water-Cure will be open on the First ofJune,
1852. The entire -management will be in the hands of
S. O. Gleason and Mrs. R. B. Gleason, M.D. Mrs. G.
pay especial attention to the treatment of female diseases
Each patient (for packing purposes) is expected to furnish

three comforters, one blanket, one linen sheet, and four bath
towels.

Terms, Third floor, double rooms $5, fo» each person per
week. Second floor $G, do. First, price according to the
amount of room required. Address S. 0. Gleason, M.D.,
Elmira, N. Y. May, tf.

Water-Cure at the Lehigh Mountain Springs, near
Bethlehem, Pa. The water is excellent, air pure, exercises
on the mountain and rowing on the delightful river

; also, a
bowling-alley and gymnastic amusements—new bath ar-
rangements, all assist to effect good cures. It may with
truth be said, a more beautiful spot cannot be found. Dr.
F. H. Oppelt. May, 2t.

Dr. R. Wes?elhoeft’s Water-Cure Establishment, in
Brattleboro’, Vt., notwithstanding many reports to the con-
trary, continues in successful operation. Patients are receiv-
ed at all seasons of the year, and will meet with the personal
care of Dr. W., who has so far recovered as to be able to at-
tend again to his professional duties. March, 4t.

Vapor Baths.—John Hanna, of 86 Forsyth street, near
Grand, New York, will administer Vapor Baths daily, from
9 a m to 10 p. m. A female will be in attendance to wait
on ladies. Feb. tf.

Pennsylvania Water-Cure Establishment—By Edward
Acker, M. D., Phillipsburgh, opposite the town of Beaver,
on the Ohio river, Beaver county. Pa. Feb. 8t.

George Hoyt, M.D., Hydropalhist, while doing City
‘practice,’ will also visit patients in the country. Office,
No. 20 Winter-st., Boston. June, 2t.

Water-Cure—for reception and treatment, of patients, by
Dr LaChenmeyer, 106 Callowhill-st., Philadelphia. Jn, 3t.

Rhode-Island Water-Cure.—Dr. C. R. Broadbent’s
Office and Residence, is 341 Hight-st , Providence, Jn, 2t.

Miss M. H. Mowry, Physician, No. 22 South Main street,
Providence, Rhode Island. Feb. 14t.*

The Phrenological Cabinet contains Busts and Casts from
the heads of the most distinguished men that ever lived :
Skulls, both human and animal, from all quarters of the
globe, including Pirates, Robbers. Murderers, and Thieves :
also numerous Paintings and Drawings of celebrated indivi-
duals, living and dead : and is always open free to visiters.

Professional Examinations, with written and verbal de-
scriptions of character, given when desired, including direc-
tions as to suitable occupations, the selection of partners in
business, congenial companions for life, etc., etc , all of which
will be found highly useful and exceedingly interesting.
Our Rooms are in Clinton Hall, 131 Nassau St., N. Y.,

and 142 Washington st., Boston. Fowlers & Wells.

NOTICES TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Volume XIV. of the Water-Cure Journal commenced
with the July Number. The terms are, for a single copy,
$L.00 a year in advance. Five copies, $4 00. Ten copies,

$7.00; and twenty copies will be furnished for $10.00.

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at the same rates when desired, as it frequently happens that
old subscribers wish to make a present of a volume to their
friends, who reside in other places.

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reasonable person of the great superiority of the Water-Cure

system over all others ; a complete knowledge of which may
be obtained through the Water-Cure Journal.

It is believed that a greater blessing cannot possibly be

bestowed on the human race, than the universal diffusion of
the Life and Health principles advocated and taught in this
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