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ferent shapes of such derangements, remove obstructions 

 of the emunctories, and wash out or deterge the abomina- 

 tions of the body, especially if, as is always the case, the 

 water be " accompanied with absolute diet, and exercise in 

 the open air with uncovered head." They call it Hydropathy, 

 and take, with the good sense of the world in all ages and in 

 all systems, such aphorisms as this : An essential law of life 

 is activity ; without exercise or some shape of motion no 

 animal can be healthful or live ; things are so constituted, 

 and not otherwise; and that cleanliness and diet are powerful 

 helps to nature in every shape of disease or morbid condi- 

 tion of the bodies of men or animals. 



Let us honor Priessnitz with the honor due unto him, as 

 the great apostle of cold water, in an age whose history 

 will be redolent of whisky for a thousand years, and among 

 a people whom it has become necessary to muzzle with 

 the strong arm of the common law, and whose lips it has 

 been deemed advisable to close with padlocks, only giving 

 the keys to courts and juries. 



Thirdly, look for a moment at the sediment of the rappers. 

 In the far East, the region of the cradle of the races, and, of 

 course, the fountain of light and knowledge to all the world, 

 the Oriental spiritualists or doctors, whose interpretation of 

 disease is, that each one is a bad spirit or devil, rap on hollow 

 trees and drums, blow with horns, and roar with gongs, to 

 frighten them away. This is the whole medical treatment. 

 The spirit rappers, by giving no medicine, "being guided by 

 a secret though invisible intelligence," may also, by calling 

 in the ghosts of the dead, alarm the ravens of disease and 

 resuscitate the sick and dying by fear or faith. 



Send a lock of your hair to Mrs. , and suddenly be 



made whole, thou colicky sinner! 



It is written, "man shall not live by bread alone." Being 

 half an angel, he must have some pabulum for his soul ; 

 being half spirit, he must, to be sound, have some food from 

 heaven ; why shall not the spirit medium, practicing with 

 trans-grave ideas and remedies, say, man shall not die by 



