Life in a tub; with a description of the Turkish bathDiogenes [pseudonym]
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Life in a tub; with a description of the Turkish bath
Diogenes [pseudonym]
Baths, Turkish; Hydrotherapy
The principles of its treatment, by the water system, are so sensibly
and rationally put forward in the pamphlet entitled, “An Address, &c.,”
that, as we think, the greatest sceptic must be convinced of the truth
of the doctrines it propounds, we strongly recommend its perusal to our
readers. Of the many cases treated by the author, ALL, we are told,
recovered, whilst not a single instance of secondary fever—the
invariable accompaniment of the Allopathic treatment, and only
secondary in danger to the disease itself—occurred. The necessary
prevalence of this secondary fever in the one case, and its absence in
the other, are beautifully explained, on natural principles, at pages 9
and 10. Though the pamphlet in question is anonymous, and the author
has taken some pains to explain his reason for concealing his name, yet
he has unwittingly betrayed his identity in the following extract from
a letter from Lieut.-Colonel Cummins, C.M., who, having tried the
system as an amateur, in America, thus writes of it:—
“Tell Barter that his system has lately become the universal
practice in the Southern States, for cholera; and since its
adoption, although it is, of course, but imperfectly carried out,
the mortality is not one-fourth.
“I never saw cholera of so frightful a character; that at Quebec,
which you recollect was so near doing for me, was nothing to it;
the violence of the spasms was such that blood oozed out through
all the pores of the skin, especially with the niggers. It did not
give the slightest warning; the men often fell while at work, and
before four hours were dead.”
The following statement, extracted from a letter written by Mr. James
Morgan of Cork, and which appeared in the Limerick Chronicle, 4th
April, 1849, affords a remarkable instance of the beneficial effects of
fresh air and cold water, so strongly insisted upon by Dr. Barter, and
corroborating the practice which, on theoretical grounds, he
recommends:
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