126 ON CHANGE OF CLIMATE. 



every invalid should be provided with a good stock of flan- 

 nel banians, cummerbunds, drawers, and woollen stockings, 

 in which he should proceed to array himself from head to 



to the Hilb are recommended to read tlie worts of Drs. Gully and 

 Jolmaon on Hydropathy, as the climate of the Hills is admitted to be 

 equal to that of " Malvern" for the exhibition of the cold-water system. 



The Editor, having experienced in his own person, and witnessed in 

 others, the wonderful power of the agency of cold water, in the efficient 

 eure of dyspepsia, and of long continued sufifering from headache, 

 and in strengthening and invigorating frames debilitated by long resi- 

 dence in the plains, is induced to make an em-nest appeal to 

 those who have so suffered, to lay aside all prejudice, and to read the 

 books adverted to — and judge for themselves, whether the rationale 

 is not convincing, and elucidated, by the mnumerahle cases cited of the 

 sv/rprising eifects of the system pursued by the authors ; and he calls 

 attention to the following emphatic language of the writer of the first 

 mentioned treatise, a man of acknowledged abUity, and a regularly ma- 

 triculated Physician of extensive practice. 



Dr. Gully, in his preface, thus expresses himself : 



" My hope is, that this book may open the eyes of all who read it, 

 to the destructive tendency of the drugging and unnatural stimulation, 

 on which such numbers of the EngHsh pubhc maintain & feverish vita- 

 lity for a few years, to sink at last into the condition of hopeless vale- 

 tudinarians. 



" The past history, and present state of many such, who are under 

 my observation, are perfectly terrific. It is no affectation to say, that 

 my mind has been oppressed, weighed down, by accounts which invalids 

 have given of the process by which they became the shattered beings 

 they were ; a process almost invariably including years of monstrous 

 driigging, and its unvarying accompaniment, intense suffering of mind 

 and body. 



" Most sincerely do I hope, that these pages may be the means of 

 effectual warning from that destroying plan of treatment, even though 

 they should fail to establish the more rational system which they pro- 

 fess to teach. 



" But almost every case, of every practitioner of the watee oueb, is 

 estabKshing it daily on a broader and deeper basis ; and fhe once most 

 sceptical, are now obliged to acknowledge that, at least, it is a vast 

 addition to the remedial art." 



