"I cannot understand how drugs can reach any destined point; it appears to me that all drugs are inimical to the human subject." "Medicine introduced into the system, like the venom of a serpent, permeates all the tissues." "Mercury becomes enveloped in phlegm or slime, and remains in the system, notwithstanding the body is continually subjected to the laws of renovation and decay." "Powerful medicines act speedily and detrimentally to the constitution. The Water-cure is slow but advantageous in its operations." "The wet sheet, which is in fact, a poultice, extracts pernicious matters, as a sponge water from a basin, and brings something away each time it is immersed in it." XXXIII.--QUESTIONS PUT TO MR. PRIESSNITZ, AND HIS ANSWERS. 1.--Q. What should be done for:-- Severe cold settled on the lungs, attended with cough and expectoration? A. Rub the chest and throat with cold water, and hold water in the mouth often. In cold climates, bandage the throat: in warm climates, washing it often is best. 2.--Q. Inflammation and soreness of throat attended with hoarseness and difficulty in speaking? A. As No. 1. 3.--Q. Exposure to change of climate with clothes occasionally wet, attended with shivering? A. Rubbing-sheets. 4.--Q. Continual public speaking of damp evenings? A. Rubbing-sheets. Wash head well. A foot-bath for a long time; and take exercise afterwards until feet are warm. 5.--Q. Cold accompanied by fever and restlessness at night? A. As No. 4. 6.--Q. Head-ache occasioned by excitement? A. As No. 4. 7.--Q. Shooting pain and tightness across the chest? A. As No. 4, and rub the chest well with wet hand. 8.--Q. How guard against the effects of a damp atmosphere? A. Keep the throat and chest always bare; if kept close and warm they will soon become relaxed. Parts most used should be exposed to the air. 9.--Q. At present I am packed for half an hour, and take the plunge bath at 5 A.M. Douche for three minutes at 12. Two Abreibungs and a Sitz-bath for half an hour at 5 P.M. If I remain the summer, should I continue or diminish this cure? A. Continue it certainly for a month, and then begin to diminish it, leaving off the Douche for instance. 10.--Q. If continued, might I take the Douche after my walk in the morning before breakfast, and the Abreibungs at mid-day, so as to have my afternoons free? A. Some cure must be taken after dinner as a rule; but in case of necessity the cure may be shirked. 11.--Q. Ought I to continue any part of the treatment on leaving Gräfenberg, and what? A. Washing morning and evening, either bath or Abreibung. 12.--Q. After leaving must I attend to the same diet, and abstain entirely from Wine, Coffee, and Tea? or may I indulge in them continuously in small quantities, or only occasionally? A. Wine, Coffee and Tea may be taken now and then, but by no means regularly.