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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mak. 1. 



lay. In one case that baffled the physicians, 

 dissection revealed the fact that the valves 

 of the heart had become ossitied. At an- 

 other time, a lady, a distant relative of 

 mine, was doctored and drugged for months 

 for a complaint that all doctors thought was 

 of the reproductive organs. An examina- 

 tion after death show^ed these organs to be 

 in a perfect state of healtli. The whole 

 trouble was what they call intro-suscep- 

 tion— a mechanical derangement of the co- 

 lon. Of course, the trouble w^as in the 

 neighborhood of the organ they were doctor- 

 ing ; but when the real truth came to light, 

 they found thev had been giving the most 

 powerful drugs known, in the attempt to do 

 something for an organ that had nothing to 

 do with the disease tnat produce d her death. 

 N^ow, when a watch or clock is deranged we 



pull it to pieces to see what cog is broken or chance for a circulation of 

 what tooth is bent. Then we can easily the worst arrangement we 

 confine our efforts to the precise spot where 

 the trouble is. How often I have wished 

 the human body could be taken apart in the 

 same way, that we might not be blundering 

 in the dark ! Well, the medical world is 

 making great progress in just this line. By 

 the use of the knife they go right to the 

 point of disease, and in many cases fix it as 

 w^e would fix a watch ; and I confess that, 

 when I first discovered that we could flood 

 and cleanse at least a great part of the in- 

 ternal body, it seemed to me a great step 

 toward what I had been so long looki ng tor. 

 I believe our physicians do not all agree 

 that this water thrown into the colon can 

 make its way into the bladder ; but when 

 they take that ground, they are certainly at 

 fault. Almost any one who has used the 

 treatment thoroughly will tell you that quite 

 a portion of the injected water can be pass- 

 ed off through the urinary organs. If this 

 be true, then vou can, by the same means, 

 rinse from all impurities, accumulations, 

 and secretions, the urinary apparatus as 

 well ; and I am sure that I have received 



great benefit in just this line. 



Of course, great things are claimed for 

 this new remedy. Some of those who sell 

 the secret have enumerated a long string of 

 diseases that may be cured by flushing the 

 colon. I suspect there is great exaggeration 

 in this line ; but for all that, I would recom- 

 mend that every person who is out of health 



eral opinion seems to be that it certainly 

 can do no harm, even if it does no good. 

 Therefore let us be clean and keep clean, as 

 in the language of our text ; and when we 

 have done every thing we can along this 

 line, we have certainly paved the way for 

 Nature to go to work vigorously iii her 

 work of catching up and fixing up. 



There is one unpleasant feature connected 

 with this drugless remedy. In my instruc- 

 tions I have planned to have the pail hang 

 up in the ordinary out-building belonging to 

 most rural homes. The trouble is this : Be- 

 fore you get through, your clothing will be- 

 come scented unpleasantly. A chimney at- 

 tached to the out-building, so as to carry 

 the bad-smelling air clear out at the top, 

 would be a remedy. The close out-build- 

 ing, with a vault underneath, with no 



air, seems to be 

 gement we can have in this 

 one respect. A very open building, so that 

 the air can blow freely through and all 

 around it, would probably not scent the 

 clothing. A friend suggests that the form 

 of water-closets used in cities, where wa- 

 ter and nothing else is used to carry 

 away accumulations, is a perfect arrange- 

 ment for the drugless remedy. The Smead 

 system will doubtless work beautifully, 

 only they are not so arranged, usually, as to 

 dispose of so large a quantity of water. If 

 this new remedy, which commends itself 

 to every one who loves cleanliness, comes 

 largely into vogue, as I suspect it will, our 

 out-buildings must be planned especially 

 for them. It seems to me that this is a 

 matter that not only our health-journals^ 

 but our rural and agricultural journals, 

 should take in hand. In our family, one 

 member has been perfectly cured of a 

 chronic diarrhea of years standing, that 

 threatened to be something very obstinate 

 and serious. Another has been receiving 

 great relief from a tendency in the opposite 

 direction ; and wherever it is used, so far 

 as I know there has been but one verdict. 

 A good many of my friends and acquain- 

 tances have paid $4.00 for the remedy ; and 

 in several cases no one knew they were us- 

 ing it until those around them began to no- 

 tice a wonderful improvement in the gen- 

 eral health. When questioned, this drug- 

 less remedy was the explanation. Our 



from any cause should go to work carefully, printers are instructed to have several 

 andseewhateffectthis treatment will have, thousand copies of this paper printed for 

 If you are weak and in poor health, and free distribution. We will mail to any of 

 take cold easily, be sure you do the work in the readers of Gleanings, or, in fact, to 

 an apartment sufficiently warmed so that anybody else, just as many as they want, to 

 you may not take cold by drafts or exposure, give to whoever needs it; and the more 

 Although I have never heard of trying it calls you make for them the better I shall 

 for a patient in a chill, it seems to me it is be pleased. I have had, as you may know, 

 - "- '• "' ' -L- ' -^ '-—•-'— some experience in furnishing without pay 



things that benefit mankind. He who is 

 working to benefit his fellows will always 

 find the wherewith. God himself will see 

 to it, when the work is done within the 

 bounds of reason, and in a Christian way. I 



far ahead of bottles of hot water, hot bricks, 

 and every thing of the sort. I should say, 

 from personal experience, that the hot wa- 

 ter goes directly into the circulation ; for I 

 can feel the warmth clear to the ends of my 

 fingers, and toes, after using it for, say, five 

 or ten minutes. .Just think of the effect on 

 the system, of introducing into the body. 



should be glad to answer any questions our 

 friends may see fit to ask. One great reason 



say half a gallon of water just as warm as for writing this paper is the general desire 

 you can possibly bear your hand in it ! I for information in regard to this whole mat- 

 have counseled with quite a number of good ter— not only from my own acquaintances 

 physicians before writing this, and the gen- here in Medina, but from far-away friends. 



