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Title: The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life
Year: 1854 (1850s)
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Subjects: Hydrotherapy
Publisher: New York : Fowlers and Wells
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ous de-rangement, and so on that hypothesis the treat-ment proceeded. No mechanical appliances wereever made besides the wet-bandage, no replace-ment, no supporters, no pessaries or manipula-tions, no kneading of the bowels, no motorpathy,nor any thing of that kind. Believing that thespecial ailment was an effect, we went to the man-agement of her case with a view to the removalof the cause. Her treatment it would be tedious to detail:suffice to say, that she had chills, fever, diarrhoea,greatly increased urinary secretions, and a rashfrom neck to hip which made the surface look likeraw flesh. She could not allow it to be dry fiveminutes at a time, and would have to wet herbandages from five to seven times a night. Atthe end of thirteen months she was fleshy, hardy,able to enjoy long walks, the prolapsus was over,and she left our institution hopeful and hearty.The last we heard of her, her husband wrote thatshe was enjoying excellent health. f \2^^SX2& () 76 THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL
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HOVETS SEEDLING STRAWBERRY CULTURE. The beautiful large engravings witli whicli wehave the pleasure of adorning these pages, aresimply truthful and exact representations of thevines and fruit of the two varieties of the straw-berry indicated, as they appeared on the groundsof Mr. Charles A. Peabody, a successful and dis- Itinguished cultivator in Georgia, to whom, <through the kind offices of L. F. W. Andrews, )Esq., editor of the Georgia Citizen, we are in-^^ debted for their use. I Vd) Mr. Peabody has given to the public, in anessay on the subject, his plan of culture, and theprinciples on which it is founded, together withthe results of his long and successful experience.This method is causing a revolution in the culti-vation of this fruit throughout the South. Thesame principles, modified in their practical appli-cation to adapt them to differences of climate,should be brought to bear at the North and West.Their truth has been amply demonstrated byactual, practical, and

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