The Water Cure

We have read various sober, methodicnl, malter-of-fhct descHpitons of the way in wliich people are washed clean from i disease at the "water cure" estnblishments ; but liere is one, supplied by a victim at Brattleboro' for the New Haven Ilerald, whirth does up the process in a vivid, graphic, humorous kind of way,! but probnbly not a whit less truthful than the dullest of the others. - Mass. Spy. "A feeble voung man leaves his home ! and the nursing cares of a doating mother ! or fond wife, and comes herc away nonli j among the hills, to seek the wil] o'wispj angel of health - in other words, to gel hia stomach washed oul nnd his Hver put in order. After a night's balmy repose, or rather in the midst of a night's slumbers, in whidi he dreams of fire-side and home and the matcrnnl cofFee and toast that awail his awakening, the door of his chamber opens, and in walks a figure with shagtry hair and bare and brawny arm?, who shokes the slumberer and arouses hirn with the hollow spoken words, ''your bed is ready." Your bath is ready, he means, without the poüteness of nsking, "Are you ready for your bed V' As i exorable as fute he stands, while the miserable victim risos and denudes himself till no covering but his skin sliields his , shrinking nerves from the chili air thro' ! the open window. The tormentor then strips the bod and spreads first a blanket and then over it a thtck sheet jast wet in water at 4Gdeg. Fahrenheit. Upon this the shivering, shrinking patiënt with his whole surface in a state of goose-iloshiness, extends his lengih, and feels him=elf instantly enveloped In itï folds. Then bhnket after blanket laid over and tucked in, till he takes the form and hassomewhat the feelngs of an Egyptian mummy, jusl dead and cold, bouud linnd and foot, and wrapped up for the tombi He is then left to his own reflections and the active powers of nature. He considers thnt if the building should take fire, he would probably, in his helpless condition, be roasted al've; and makes up liis mind tliat he would not mind a roas'ing much provided it were in a warm fire. Sooi), however, nature rallies her Torces, and the blood vessels are in excited action. First, the surftice of the body becomes warm, then the sheet, then every thing is heated to the steaming point ; and Ihere ensues a most soothing, sweet, and henrt-softening sensation, in which he ngain falls asleep, and dreams of paradise and a bed of leaves. 'Ah, whence b tl at speclre tliat pulls o(T hie clotties. Ah, whence is thai splash ilut now 'larunis hit cnr V' It is the same kind-licartrd villain as hefore, who, without deigning a single word, throws off" blanket after blanket, and comfortable nfter comfortable, till only one envelope is left, when ho seizes him by the shoilldcrs, lifs him upright In the bed, uncovers his fort, puts on a pair ui' slippers, throws a blanket over the head, nnd says, "follow me." With one eyc open, as docile asa lamb led to sacrificc, feeling like a fooi, nnd looking jlii like Lazarus coming out of the grave, he gocs slipshod don stairs, scals himself in a tub of water at 72deg. wherc a buckot full is pon red over him, and tvo rough hands rub him well. "But thal is noihing i - that ain't." Before him is the terrible plunge bath, 14 feel by 20, and 4 or 4j depp. lts surCace is so ctear ihnt it seenis only n tank of air witl) a slight emernld lingo. Vain imagination ! That liquid is as real as j rock, and as cold as the doublé extract of. icebergs- and into thal - wretched mortal - must you plunge. So liere goes ; one splasli, and he rises to the top, feeling nn icicle ihrust through his henrt. Out he se ramblos and back igain to the holf bath, which now feels like hot water, to be again rubbed. Then a dry rubbing with n sheet and he is clothed quickly for a walk, and he struts forlh to meet the sun, with nerves braced up to such a pitch that he cares not what he meets. Over hill and throug' dell he stumps it j with vigor, till presently the reactiou is j complete, and he feels as it' he had swapped himself away for annther man. If he has even the humblest knowledge of i whistling, he puts ii in practico, or speeds along meditatirig, the first half of the walk, upon the beaulies of nature, and ] the latter half on the probable quantity of breakfast required to salisfy an appetite that hr.s become more shark-like than 1 man."