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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mah. 1. 



every last vestige of accumulation. A cus- 

 tomary way of introducing hot water into 

 the human body is by means of a rubber 

 tube and a little pump, or ordinary syringe, 

 sucli as we find in 

 great plenty at our 

 drugstores. But I 

 have found some- 

 thing not only very 

 much better but 

 even cheaper ; and 

 this little picture 

 will, I think, make 

 it all plain. 



Fig. 1 represents 

 an ordinary screw- 

 hook, made of heavy 

 wire, such as you 

 get at the hardware 

 store for two or 

 three cents. This 

 is to be screwed 

 into the wall so as 

 to support a; pail of 

 water. Instead of 

 hanging the pail as 

 in the cut, however, 

 APPARATUS FOR IN- I would turn the 

 TERNAL BATHING hooka quarter 

 around and hitch it on to the pail at the ear 

 right where the bail is attached to the pail. 

 The rest of the apparatus is simply a piece 

 of rubber tubing (i inch, outside diameter) 

 about live or six feet long. Twenty or 

 twenty-live cents would cover the whole 

 <30st of the apparatus. Where the rubber 

 tube goes over the side of the pail, it must 

 be kept from slipping by means of a little 

 wire staple put across it ; or you can, if you 

 choose, tie it by a string at one of the ears 

 of the pail. It should go inside of the pail 

 so as to reach to the bottom, that it may take 

 out all of the water. To start the water, 

 throw the tube in the pail, so it sinks clear 

 under the water. Now take hold of one 

 end ; and as you do so. pinch the sides of 

 the tube so as to close it. Bring it over the 

 outside of the pail, and the water will run 

 of itself. If you bring it down below the 

 pail, as shown in the cut, the water will be 

 thrown from the end of the tube with con- 

 siderable force ; and it is just right to wash 

 out a jug, bottle, or any thing else, for the 

 force of the jet will make it strike every 

 part of the bottle. Now, you are to cleanse 

 the human body just as we wash out the 

 glass jar in the figure. I^lease bear with me 

 now, friends, a little, even if I speak very 

 plainly, in order that those who are awk- 

 ward 'with such appliances, just as I was 

 myself six months ago, may have no trouble 

 in managing the matter. When I spoke to 

 my mother about it, a few days ago, she 

 said, more than 50 j^ears ago she saved the 

 life of a neighbor in just this way when no 

 physician could be obtained. The doctor 

 told her, when he arrived, that the woman 

 would have been dead before he reached her 

 had she not used this simple remedy. The 

 only difficulty about the operation is in in- 

 troducing the end of the rubber tube into 

 the body ; and this, I suppose, would be an 

 impossibility with the average patient did 

 we not depend upon the good offices of the 



hot water before mentioned, in its power 

 of relaxing the muscles. The pail should be 

 at least two - thirds full of water, and I 

 would have it about as hot as it can be and 

 permit you to hold your hand in it. Now 

 let this stream of hot water play for a little 

 time against the external part of the organ 

 that ordinarily closes itself involuntarily by 

 muscular contraction. In a very brief time 

 the hot water will have the effect of relax- 

 ing the muscles, and after the pressure 

 of the water has forced a little of the 

 liquid through the opening, all difficulty 

 in that direction has disappeared. The 

 question naturally arises, •' Is there no dan- 

 ger of injuring the delicate machinery of 

 the human system V" I am sure there is 

 none whatever. The more water you can 

 get into the colon, as physicians term it. the 

 better. More of this, however, anon. I am 

 told by members of my own family, how- 

 ever, that not every one can use a simple 

 rubber tube as I do. In that case, put on 

 the end of the tube a hard-rubber nozzle, 

 such as is used on an ordinary syringe. I 

 presume different people will need to vary 

 the plan somewhat. But I have never heard 

 of anybody yet who did not succeed finally 

 in getting the water to fill the colon in a 

 satisfactory w^ay. Introduce as much water 

 as possible. Two quarts is better than one ; 

 and if you can store awav a gallon you will 

 probably make more effective work than 

 with a smaller quantity. If it persists in 

 bursting out, use a cloth or other means to 

 restrain it. I would first wash the colon 

 clean from everything it contains. Get out 

 every thing that can be made to pass out 

 with the water; then fill up again with 

 clean water, retaining it while you walk 

 about ; or if there is difficulty in removing 

 all accumulations, get some friend to roll 

 you and shake you, kneading the bowels, if 

 need be, the same way I spoke of in clean- 

 ing the jug. 



^Right here comes sometliing of my own 

 invention ; that is, I have not heard of any- 

 body else using water iniit-si the way I do. 

 It is well known that a running stream will 

 thoroughly cleanse many substances better 

 than any other means of using water. The 

 reason is, the current constantly carries 

 away all impurities, and fresh clean water 

 is constantly taking the place of that charg- 

 ed with the matter to be removed. Well, 

 I accomplish the above result by letting the 

 rubber tube remain in its place until the 

 colon is thoroughly cleansed, and the water 

 entirely emptied from the pail. The plain 

 rubber tube, without any nozzle of any kind, 

 gives a larger stream of water, and finishes 

 the cleansing much quicker, than where the 

 hard-rubber tube is used. If you do not 

 find yourself cleaner than you have been 

 before in year s I shall be mistaken. 



Let me give youXlittle of my experience : 

 During all my life I have been more or less 

 subject to what is called summer complaint 

 and trouble with the bowels. My wife, 

 years ago, recommended this water remedy 

 as ordinarily applied by physicians. But I 

 got a notion in my head that it was unnat- 

 ural, and tinkering with Nature's business. 

 The very thought of the thing, also, had 



