434 A Modern Bee-Farm 
the thirsty body, choked skin, and sluggish crimson river, 
ever crave, but seldom get under the usual allopathic 
systems. And what is more remarkable where the soothing 
hydropathic treatment is carried out the skin does not peel 
off as is always the case with the destructive drug treat- 
ment. The skin is parched because the heated blood has 
no moisture to spare it, its own circulation being already 
impeded for the want of sufficient water. It can readily be 
seen therefore, how the moisture of the pack or the bath, 
at one stroke, relieves the pores of the skin, while at the 
same time it gives back to the blood its needed proportion 
of water, giving it again that mighty circulation, which 
restores its purity, casting out its dross, and enabling it to 
laugh at the fever microbes which are now hustled to 
destruction with no aid whatever from drugs, which only 
too surely impede the life-giving circulation. 
Just one instance, but I could give many. A patient 
with fever was given up by his doctors; the fever had done 
its worst, and he was to die. But he could just beg to be 
placed in a bath of warm water ; “ What does it matter ? it 
can do him no harm, after the doctors’ hopeless decision.” 
And so be was placed in the bath, when that blessed 
sleep which drugs and fever had hitherto denied him, 
came upon him there. He slept for a long time; he 
slept on after they laid him back in his bed—and he slept 
to get well. 
I have had several estimable friends among the medical 
faculty, but it is when one has retired from active practice 
that he is most ready to speak lightly of the medical 
practices of that honorable profession. One of the 
fraternity, a greatly esteemed friend, asked what medical 
attendant I had for my family? After explaining that we 
never have a doctor in the house (professionally), and relied 
upon common-sense treatment only : “Well, there is one 
