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Credit: The dynamic cure / by Laroy Sunderland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![food, received into the stomach; and they are made in other cases where no water can be applied externally; and, in others, where there is no exercise, or but very little; and others, still morenumerous, where there are no medicines, Botanic, Eclectic, Allopathic, or in Homoeo- pathic doses. Hence to designate the cure, by one of the means used, is not a dictate of sound Philosophy, if in- deed, it is allowable to designate it by the means used at all. For, otherwise, we might have as many Cures as there are means, and hence, we should call one the water cure, another the Pill cure, the steam cure, the sirup cure, &c., &c. And this very practice now obtains in Switzerland, where they have the Whey cure, and the Raisin cure, because the sick are con- fined to these articles during the treatment. In Germany, some years since, a Mr. John Schrott in- troduced what has taken the name of the Hunger cure, because the treatment consisted, very much, in restrictions imposed on the invalid's diet. But, the cure is not, per- formed, directly, by medicine, nor by water, nor by hun- ger ; although hunger, and water, and food, may hold conspicuous places among the means of cure. Hence it would be more correct to say, what is indeed, true, that all that is really good in the water cure, or any other sys- tem, is comprehended in this, because, as we have seen, whenever a cure is effected. Nutrition is the immediate cause by which it is brought about. This Principle is not only the nearest to life, but it is Life, precisely what is wanted in all cases of disease.* * The author has prepared a Pamphlet of Information expressly for the Blind and all who are in poor Health, who wish his services in the treatment of disease [sent by mail for 1 Dime, post free], and, from 17*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21079584_0203.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
