CURING CONSUMPTION.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 310, 4 January 1884, Page 3

CURING CONSUMPTION.

♦ 0 The\ New. York- 'Sun says that a young man who was compelled to resign his position in one of the public schools of that city, because he. was breaking down with' consumption, and who had .^merjsince been battling for life, although ,\gtb., little apparent prospect of recovery, several days ago, in a £ l "X see,'"he said,. " " that you seem surprisledat my improved, appearance. . No doubt you wonder what could have caused such a change. Well, it was a very simple remedy— nothing but hot water." "Hot water P" " That's all. You remember, my telling you that I had tried all of the usual remedies. s l' consulted some of the leading specialists in affections of the lungs in this city, and paid them large fees. They went through the . usual, course of experimentation with me under all sorts 'of 'medicines-. •- "'I went to- the Adirondack^ in the summer and to Florida in the winter ; but none of those things did me any substantial "good. I : lost, ground steadily, grew to be almost a skeleton, and had all the worst symptoms of a consumptive whose, end is, near at hand. At that juncture" a friend told me that he had > l^eayd of <Jiires being effected by ' drinking. - liot wafer^..,^/ , '- ' ; . -■ . ' '.{' I consulted a physician who had paid sj^cial attention to -'the- hot-water cure, ,^hd was usingr it w^th many -patients. IJe said :' 'There is nothing, you know, that is more difficult than to introduce a new remedy into medical practice, particularly if it is a very simple one, and strikes at the root of erroneous views and prejudices that have long been entertained. The old school practitioners haye tried for years to cure consumption, but theyare. as fa4feQmdoing.it.as.eYel-. . ■"Sir; the'only "rational explanation Sf Consumption' is; that if results from Sef eßtire nutritipP- ., B is ; always acpom-panieaMmal-^sW^B neaHY every case the stomach is the seat Of a !ennenta|[on t^at . necessarily pre-