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In the Hydropathic Encyclopedia of R. T. Trail, we are presented 

 with the following lucid statement of the modus operandi of water: 



"Contrary to the teachings of the standard medical books of Al- 

 lopathy, Homeopathy, and the Eclectic Schools, we must ever bear 

 in mind that disease is never a positive entity, [tumors ten pounds 

 avoirdupois, colic, cholera, enlarged spleen, lock-jaw, nonentities !~\ 

 but always a negative result; it is the absence of health, [a stick 

 of timber present is never a positive thing, but always a nega- 

 tive result, it is the absences? NO STICK of TIMBER!] or of the state, 

 circumstances, and actions which constitute the balance of functional 

 duty we call health. [Causes of these nonentities!] Abuse of hygienic 

 agencies produce abnormal causes of disease, bad air, improper 

 light, impure food and drink, excessive or defective alimentation, in- 

 dolence or over-exertion, unregulated passion in three words, un~ 

 physiological voluntary habits. General indications remove obstruc- 

 tions, wash away impurities, supply healthy nutriment, regulate 

 temperature, relax intensive and intensify torpid action ; and what but 

 water, with its concomitants air, light, food, temperature, can answer 

 these indications?" 



How clear and bright, luminous and heavenly, in the mind of 

 Priessnitz, must have shone the vision of the power of the infallible 

 panacea, water! 



"Water, water everywhere, 

 And all their throats did shrink ; 

 Water, water everywhere, 

 And forty barrels to drink." 



