The water cure in America : two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading / edited by a water patient.
- Phinney, H. F.
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The water cure in America : two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading / edited by a water patient. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![on three sides by a broad piazza which serves as a fine sheltei'ed place of exercise for the patients in bad weather. One side of the buildings is devoted to gentlemen, the other to ladies, and they are connected by a dancing saloon and parlor in front, and by the plunge and other house baths in the rear. Behind these is a new building containing the kitchen, dining hall eighty feet in length, the Doctor's office, and in the second story a range of single and double rooms. Besides these buildings there is another con- taining a bowling alley, billiard room, and gymnasium. The batks are supplied from springs in the hills back of the town. The gentlemen's and ladies' large plunge-baths are thirty feet long by twenty wide, and five deep. Water is constantly running in and out; there are also small plunge-baths, and similar ones in the ladies' house. Besides this, there are small plunges and douche for winter use, and spacious rooms supplied with warm and cold water for sitz and half-baths. All the bath- ing rooms a*re heated. The out-door baths are situated on the high bank of Whetstone Brook, about half a mile off. They are fed by never-failing springs of water, and consist of the large douche twenty feet high, three small douches, shower, and rain-baths, running sitz-baths, besides eye and ear-baths, &c. A short distance further is the favorite wave-baih supplied by the flume of a small woollen mill. The whole apparatus is believed to be as complete as that of Eu- ropean establishments. The springs in this region are of rare purity. A number are true Silica springs. The silcx slate of which the mountains are formed, is rather a rare formation, and always rich in springs. It was chosen by Dr. Wesselhceft after a careful examination of a great many other localities. The analysis of the water by the distinguished chemist, A. A. Hays, of the Roxbury Laboratory, makes in Spring First. 1. The weight of foreign matter in 1000 grains of this sample, is 0.0933. Spring Second. 1. One thousand grains of this sample con- tain 0.220 grains of dry matter. [The details of the analysis relating to the kind of matter in solution, &c, we omit for want of room.] Brattleboro is but one day's journey, chiefly by railroad, from Boston, New York, and Albany. Patients will be carried direct- ly by the stages to the establishment, where a superintendent will](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147437_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
