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THE RATIONALE OF THE RELATION THAT WATER SUSTAINS TO THE BODY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. - Air and water are two fluids necessary to life, and subserve similar purposes in the organism. The elements of air yield to chemical combinations in the organism, by which it furnishes materials for its use, and conveys from the system some of its impurities, while water re- ceives and dilutes the impurities and carries them out of the organ- ism. Three-fourths of the organic world is water, equally true is it that three-fourths of all organized existence is composed of water. Water subserves a similar purpose in the animal economy, to that of our rivers, canals, and lakes in commercial life. It is the medium through which floats the solid materials to their requisite places; carrying from out the organism the waste and worn out matters. Then one of the chief uses of water is the function of transportation, which, in reality, is the most important one of the organism. Nutri- tion is the first and greatest of life's functions, and comprises the break- ing down of the old structures, and the building up of new. This pro- cess necessitates the continual removal of its ashes, and the debris of various depurating organs. Hence water becomes the organism's chief medium of exchange. Without water the excretory matters would be- come solid, and incapable of removal. With the fluidity of the body properly sustained, the tissues are kept soft and pliable and the blood a fluid, nutrition perfect and health the physiological result. When the fluid part of the body is not properly sustained, the mucous surfaces be- come dry and parched with attendant fever, then the inward use of water just as truly radiates internal heat as its application to the external. The great law of radiation is just as applicable to the allay- ing of inward fever, as its use is to its external manifestation. When the channels of navigation get dry or low in the system, it is a most prolific cause of disease. Then it is of the greatest importance to serve the system with the requisite amount of water each day, and at proper times. For this purpose only pure water should be used -- water which contains no elements save its own proper and unvarying con- stituents; and like the air, it is a difficult thing to obtain. The purer and softer the water, the better solvent it is, and the quicker absorbed and circulated through the system. Another important reason why water should be abundantly supplied to the organism, is to facilitate the process of endosmose and exosmorse. This process affords a constant interchange of the fluids of the body. When this function is acting normally there is a perfect depurent from the blood of its impurities. When the blood becomes thick it becomes impure, and this occurs be- cause the system has not been furnished the means for its purification, according to the law of endosmose and exosmorse.
RATIONALE OF HYGIENIC AND HYDRO-THERAPUTIC MEDICATION. ---- This system of medication contemplates the employment as remedial agents those-materials and influences which have normal relations to the living system. These are: air, water, food, sleep, exercise, rest, sunshine, light, temperature, and social recreation. Its philosophy is predicated on the primary premise that those things which are constitutionally adapted to the preservation of health are also the proper remedies for
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disease. It rejects from its materia medica all poisons-all things whose presence in the vital domain is incompatible with the normal play of all the functions, and which are destructive to the living tissue. It regards disease as disordered vital action, consequent on irregularity ; excess or defect in the use of things normal, or as a result of the pres- ence of things abnormal. Then the remedial plan is to regulate the use or application of things normal, and to rid the system of the pres- ence of things abnormal-regulating the one and removing the other. In other words: disease is nature making an effort to rid herself from agrievance, or if from traumatic causes, to repair the injury done. Nor does she cease her efforts until she accomplishes her object, or exhausts herself in an unsuccessful attempt. Then, to assist nature, we first place the patient in normal relations to useful things health-giving agents; and, second, to furnish her with the means to regulate and conorol her morbid actions. Hence the work must not be suppressed but intelligently superintended; her forces marshalled and commanded that the labor to be performed be equally divided among the organs in- volved. The patient is always safe when the remedial action is equally directed to the various depurating organs, or mainly to the skin. There is danger just to the extent that the remedial action is determined from the skin and concentrated on some internal organ. The rule then is to balance the remedial effort. To direct and control the remedial effort we have only to balance the circulation; and to balance the circulation we have only to regulate the temperature. In order to do this the hy- dropathic appliances are successful, because they are in accordance with the great law of radiation. When the temperature rises above 105° Fahrenheit, there is great danger of disorganization, but when kept within the limits of hyperpyrexia, 103° Fahreheit, there is little or no danger to the patient. An acute disease is an active effort on the part of the vital forces against the offending causes; while a chronic disease is a subdued, sullen, or inactive condition against the same causes. One of the first conditions of disease is an unbalanced circulation. Here again the Water Cure appliances are in harmony with the two great natural laws of expansion and contraction, on the principle that cold contracts and heat expands. By these means, then, we have the most efficient remedy known for equalizing and balancing the circulation- Then to radiate heat from the surface we have only to supply the condi- tions of moisture; thus we bring to bear upon the patient two great natural remedial laws. Then this is a practice in harmony with the laws of nature in agreement with every living structure; in accord with science and common sense.
The more you know about it the better you like it; the more you see of it the more you are convinced it is correct in theory, and in practice based upon the immutable laws of nature, while Drug-opathy is not demonstrable in science, and in practice is not based upon one law in nature, hence it cannot bear examination; to explain it would be to destroy it; to defend it would be to damage it; to keep the people ig- norant of its philosophy consists only in its safety; to hold an intelli- gent court of inquiry over its theories and practices, it would fall to pieces like a baseless fabric, or be driven into thin air like the vapors of a poisonous miasma before a rising sun. It does not seek explana- tion; it wants the people to believe that medical science is in its infancy and that its practices and theories cannot be explained by its most bril- liant advocates. Its existence is a good thing for those who follow it for a livlihood, and palm it off on the dear people as philosophy, as science -- but what about the people? Do the people exist for the bene- fit of the profession, or does the profession exist for the benefit of the people? But occasionally the most liberal and educated of the profes- sion talk heteropathic. Professor Parker says: " As we place more con- fidence in nature and less in the preparations of the apothecary, mor- tality diminishes." Professor Smith says: "Drugs do not cure dis- eases; diseases are cured by the vis medicatrix natura. " Medicine is as yet in a very imperfect state. The philosophy of diseased action is very little known."-Professor Nunnely. "All of our cogitations of the mo- dus operandi of medicines are purely empirical."-Professor Meigs. Professor Campbell, in a clinical lecture, said: "When you get into practice you will think that your medicines cure, and that moment you will begin to kill your patients." "The whole nation is groaning under the present practice of the medical profession, which fosters disease more than it cures it, and debases and ruins our constitutions."-Mor- ison. "The science of medicine is founded upon conjecture, improved by murder." -- Sir Anthony ('arlisle. "It is not less certain, but still more deplorable, that the majority of the people are yet a prey to med- ical credulity, superstition, and delusion."-Professor Rafinesque. "I have long enough been tossed on the sea of unfounded hypothesis to feel convinced that absolute darkness prevails in the medical practice." -Reil. "Universities are but dull repositories of exploded opinions.'
-Dr. Adam Smith. "I am wearied of guessing."-D' Alembert. "The people are a goose and I'm going to pluck it," -- Beale. "I was a dog- matic at twenty, an observer at thirty, an empiric at torty, and now at fifty I no longer have any system."-Borden. The great physiologist and pathologist of France, M. Magendie, in a clinic to a medical class, said: "Gentlemen, medicine is a great humbug." When the advanced physician dropped the large pill and adopted the small pill the revolu- tion began. Statistics show that the practice of Homoeopathy is a great saving in human life over the Allopathic. This is already opening the eyes of the blind. One step more and Hygeio-Therapy will remove all the scales, and poor faculty-fooled humanity will be emancipated. Hygeio-Therapy is in the sience of health what the steamship, the loco- motive, the gas light, and the telegraph are in the science of locomotion and progress. Drug-opathy is the stage coach, the canal-boat, the mail bag, the tallow candle system of advancing backward. Hygeio-Therapy's perscriptions need not be written in Latin. Rest, regularity, recreation, diet, sunshine, exercise, and early hours are nature's phyiscians. It says meat once a day, plenty of water inside and out, no alcohol drinks, and no drug poisons. It tells you that cleanliness is next to godliness, while Allopathy says he that is filthy let him be filthy still. The crimi- nality of Drug-opathy is apparent. It inoculates the heathiest of our race with the seed of death. It is pitiful to see an innocent babe, whose blood is pure, inoculated with some terrible disease by the introduction of poisonous vaccine matter. It is a blight on the delicacy of woman to submit to the demoralizing use of the speculum. It sets all habits of temperance aside and plants forever the seeds of drunkenness by re- commending bourbon, or some one of its train of fashionable narcotics Hygeio-Therapy ignores all these pestilential contrivances of the faculty, and is undermining, by acts and facts, this system which is only perpet- uated by a blind and ignorant faith in delusive appearances; grown out of the false idea of the relations of poisons to the living system; and the ignorance entertained of the essential nature of disease; and in not com- prehending the functions of vitality wherein it makes its grand de- marcation between foods and poisons. Then this new system of medi- cine is a practice in harmony with all the laws of nature, and in agreement with every stricture and function of the living system, and in accord with science and common sense, and is the only successful and satisfactory system of the healing art known to man.
With these truths, scientific and self-evident, in the name of science that classifies all knowledge, in the name of science that truthfully in- terprets the teachings of nature, let the edicts issue and drive from pop- ular use and favor this poisonous plague, drug medication, and with it its train of fashionable and debasing poisons. When this is secured a heavenly halo of light will open up over the poisonous wastes of the world, a broad and bright, and beautiful pathway of crimson and gold, wherein garlanded angels will gladly gather, proclaiming from highest heaven over all the earth, man's emancipation from the ruinous and depressing practice of pupularized poisons, which have for centuries been wasting his highest and holiest possibilities.
Dr. Haldeman, as a medical investigator, was not satisfied with mere statements, mere incoherent expressions of incoherent ideas, but searched for a philosophy of the healing art based in and upon the immutable laws of nature. His new medical philosophy comprises a solution of the following fundamental problems :
The essential nature of disease ; the essential nature of the functions of vitality ; the essential nature of the conditions of cure ; the essential nature of the vis medicatrix nature; the essential nature of the vis conservatrix naturæ; the relation of organic and inorganic matters; the relation of remedies to disease ; the relation of disease to the vis medicatrix natura ; the rationale of the nature and source of remedies: These propositions comprehend all the premises of medical science; all the principles of the healing art. Each is fundamental. Without an exact knowledge of the truth of each, the physician can have no true medical science, nor no rational nor successful practice. Dr. Halde- man, as a medical reasoner, is eloquent and cogent in his arguments, and is destined to stand at the head of the great therapeutic movement of this enlightened nineteenth century. His forthcoming book will be entitled the "Principles of Hydro-Therapy and Hygienic Medication." It will show their relation and adaptation to the treatment of diseases, and the preservation of health. Its teachings will be predicated upon the philosophy that nature has so related man to this life on earth that in order to live and keep well and finally die of old age (accident aside), he has only to be so circumstanced, and conditioned, that he may know and obey the laws which govern and regulate his organism. It will show that the different drug schools are in darkness in regard to what constitutes the true healing art. It will show that their practices are based on mere assumptions, and that every dose is a blind experi-
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ment on the patient's vitality ; and that it is diametrically opposed to every great natural preservative law in nature. It will show that drug medication is a Bohon Upas, grown out of a false doctrine of the rela- tion that poisons sustain to the living system ; and that to perpetuate a system that is so fearful in its consequences as that of poisoning a person because he is sick, should belong only to the dark ages where it originated, and not any more be a part of the medical practice of our boasted civilization. It will explain the relation that stimulation sus- tains to the economy of life. It will show that a stimulant is any poi- sonous substance that abnormally increases functional activity without imparting nourishment. It will teach that alcohol increases the work of the heart by increasing its beats, and that every heart beat that is evoked outside of its natural rate per minute is a draw on constitutional power out of time. It will teach how alcohol produces paralysis of the raso-motor nerve centres, thus weakening the contractile force of the
minute blood vessels which fill the heart with blood at each of its strokes, and that these vessels, when once paralyzed, offer insufficient resistance to the force of the heart, and the pulsating organ quickens its action like the main spring of a clock, from which resistance has been removed. Thus this quickened action becomes a pathological action, and as pathology is disease, and disease is waste of vital power, so it will show that stimulation and disease is one and the same thing. It will show how water produces disintegration of the tissues, and keeps nutrition perfect, while alcohol prevents it, because alcohol checks de- composition of tissue. It will show why plethora abdominalis is a fashionable disease among whiskey drinkers, and why they fall such easy prey to disease. It will show why the temperance cause has never succeeded ; why it stands to-day a mere childish farce. It will consider the whole range of scientific medical subjects, and their relation to health and disease.
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OFFICIAL CENSUS.
The following is the official footing of the population of the several States and territories as developed by the census of 1880, which is published in this volume for the benefit of its readers.
POPULATION OF STATES.
Alabama
1,262,794
Arkansas.
802,564
California
864,686
Colorado.
194,649
Connecticut
622,683
Delaware.
146,654
Florida
267,351
Columbus, Georgia
10, 132
7,401
Illinois
3,078,769
Indiana.
1,978,362
Iowa
1,624,620
Kansas
995,966
Kentucky
1,648,708
Louisiana
960, 103
Davenport, Iowa
21,885
20,078
Maryland
934,632
Massachusetts
1,783,012
Michigan
1,636,331
Minnesota
780,806
Dubuque, Iowa.
22,276
18,434
Missouri
2, 168,804
Nebraska
452,433
Nevada
62,265
New Hampshire
346,984
New Jersey
1, 130,983
New York
5,083,810
North Carolina
1,400,047
Ohio
3, 198,230
Oregon
174,768
Grand Rapids, Michigan
32,037
16,507
Rhode Island.
276,528
South Carolina
995,622
Tennessee
1, 542,463
Texas
1,592, 574
Vermont
332,286
West Virginia
618,443
Wisconsin
1,315,480
Total of States.
49, 369, 595
The District of Columbia.
117,368
POPULATION OF TERRITORIES.
Arizona
40,441
Dakota
135, 180
Idaho.
32,611
Montana
39,157
New Mexico
118,430
Washington
75, 120
Wyoming
20,788 Total of territories, 605,633. Grand total of the United States, 50,- 152, 866.
POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES.
1880.
1870.
Albany, New York.
67,216
69,422
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
18,162
13,883
Altoona, Pennsylvania
19,987
10,610
Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
78,472
53, 180
Atlanta, Georgia.
45,000
21,978
Attleborough, Massachusetts.
11, 105
6,769
Austin, Texas
11,000
4,428
Auburn, New York
33,927
17,225
Aurora, Illinois.
12,007
11, 162
Baltimore, Maryland
333,000
267, 304
Bay City, Michigan
20,650
13,690
Belleville, Illinois
10,712
8, 146
Binghamton, New York
17,110
12,692
Bloomington, Illinois
17,280
14,590
Nashville, Tennessee.
43,377
25,865
Boston, Massachusetts
363.565
250, 536
Brooklyn, New York.
554,465
306,099
Brocton, Massachusetts.
13,598
8,007
Buffalo, New York
149,500
117,714
Burlington, Iowa
18,975
14,930
Cambridge, Massachusetts 51,693
39,631
Camden, New Jersey . 41,714
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
10,176
20,045 5,041
Charleston, South Carolina
49,027
48,965
Chester, Pennsylvania
Chicopee, Massachusetts.
11,327
9,607
Chicago, Illinois
503,053
298,907 8,920
Chillicothe, Ohio,
10,792
Cincinnati, Ohio.
255,804
216,289
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
13,580
6,193
Cleveland, Ohio
159,404
92,829
Cohoes, New York
20, 122
15,357
Georgia
1,539,048
Columbus, Ohio,
51,337
31,274
Concord, New Haven.
13,841
12,241
Council Bluffs, Iowa
18,509
10,020 4,500
Danbury, Connecticut.
11,810
8,754
Dayton, Ohio.
39,000
30,473
Maine.
648,945
Des Moines, Iowa
22,696
12,035
Denver, Colorado
35,719
4.759 79,577 9,294
Mississippi
1, 131,592
East Saginaw, Michigan. 19,065
27,222
19,646 7,000
Elizabeth, New Jersey
28,241
20,830
Elmira, New York.
20,578
15,863
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
13.564
12,764
Fall River, Massachusetts
47,883
26,766 17.718 10, 158
Pennsylvania
4,282,786
Galveston, Texas
22,350
13,818 11,08I
Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania
30,412
23, 105
Hartford, Connecticut
42,024
37,180
Houston, Texas.
16,664
9,382
Indianapolis, Indiana
75,031
48,274
Jackson, Michigan
16,500
11,447
Jacksonville, Illinois
11,009
9,203 82,546
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
12,078
11,750
Kansas City, Missouri.
56,946
32,260
Keokuk, Iowa
12, 176
12,766
Kingston, New York
18,376
20,474 8,682
La Crosse, Wisconsin
16,054
11,012
Lawrence, Massachusetts
39,400
28,921
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
25,846
20,233
Lafayette, Indiana
14,791
13,506
Little Rock, Arkansas.
15,000
12,380
Lincoln, Nebraska
12.771
2,975
Logansport, Indiana.
11, 172
8,950 100,000
Lowell, Massachusetts
61,200
40,928
Los Angeles, California
11,050
5.728
Lynn, Massachusetts.
38,387
28,233
Lynchburgh, Virginia
16,300
6,826
Madison, Wisconsin
10,427
9,176
Manchester, New Hampshire
32,473
23,536
Malden, Massachusetts
12,004
7.367
Macon, Georgia
12,695
10,810
Marlborough, Massachusetts.
10, 14I
8,474
Memphis, Tennessee
33,200
40,226
Meriden, Connecticut 18,108
15,595
Milwaukee, Misconsin
130,000
71,440 12,066
Mobile, Alabama
35.037
32,034
Muskegon, Michigan
11,300
8,505
Nashua, New Hampshire
13,453
10,543
Detroit, Michigan.
119,700
Dover, New Hampshire
17,693
11,350
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Elgin, Illinois. .
10,040
Fort Wayne, Indiana
26,048
Galesburgh, Illinois.
11,451
Hamilton, Ohio
12,300
Jersey City, New Jersey
105,000
Knoxville, Tennessee
13,928
Louisville, Kentucky.
126,566
Minneapolis, Minnesota
48,323
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9,485
Dallas, Texas
33,466
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Newark, New Jersey.
135,983
105,059
San Antonio, Texas.
20,594
12,556
Newburgh, New York.
18,075
17,014
Sandusky, Ohio.
15,000
13,000
New Albany, Indiana.
17.500
15,396
Stamford, Connecticut
11,319
9,724
New Haven, Connecticut.
63,000
50,840
Springfield, Illinois.
19,683
17,364
New Orleans, Louisiana
215,123
191,418
Springfield, Ohio.
20,500
12,652
New York, New York
1, 206,577
942,292
Saginaw City, Michigan
10,430
10, 004
Norwalk, Connecticut
14,000
12,120
Salt Lake, Utah.
11,000
12,000
Norristown, Pennsylvania
13,200
10,753
Savannah, Georgia.
30,767
28,235
New Castle, Pennsylvania
10,292
7,599
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
45,756
35,072
New Brunswick, New Jersey
17,311
15,055
South Bend, Indiana.
13,492
7,196
Oakland, California
35.006
10, 500
Springfield, Massachusetts
33,139
26,703
Omaha, Nebraska. .
30,605
16,083
St. Louis, Missouri.
350,915
310,864
Oswego, New York.
20,732
20,910
St. Paul, Minnesota
41,619
20,030
Ogdensburgh, New York
16,277
10, 176
St. Joseph, Missouri.
35,900
17,565
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
15.758
12,653
20,350
11,750
Patterson, New Jersey
58,000
38,579
Syracuse, New York
52,210
43.051
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
19.530
12,000
Stockton, California
10,066
10,000
Peoria, Illinois
31,708
22,859
Terre Haute, Indiana
26,516
16, 103
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
847.542
674,622
Toledo, Ohio.
49,992
31,284
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
121,977
86,076
Trenton, New Jersey.
30,500
22,874
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
13,246
12,384
Troy, New York.
56,594
46,465
Portland, Maine
33,765
31,413
Utica, New York.
38,923
28,804
Poughkeepsie, New York.
20,203
20,080
· Vicksburgh, Mississippi.
11,660
12,445
Providence, Rhode Island.
104,500
68,904
Waltham, Massachusetts.
11, 800
9.065
Quincy, Massachusetts.
10,571
7.442
Washington, District of Columbia
160,000
109, 199
Quincy, Illinois
27,428
24,052
Wheeling, West Virginia.
31,600
19,280
Racine, Wisconsin.
16,043
9,880
10, 560
9,010
Reading, Pennsylvania.
43,230
33,930
10,615
9,336
Richmond, Virginia
62,500
51,038
Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
16,000
11,527
Rock Island, Illinois.
11,614
7,899
22,000
10,826
Rockford, Illinois
13,088
11,049
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania
23.340
17,264
Rochester, New York
89,498
62.389
Wilmington, Delaware.
43,000
30,841
Rome, New York
12,045
11,000
Wilmington, North Carolina
17,605
13,416
Rutland, Vermont.
12,223
6,000
Winona, Minnesota
10, 187
7,200
San Jose, California.
12,635
9,089
Worcester, Massachusetts
58,233
40, 105
Sacramento, California ..
21,352
16,283
Woburn, Massachusetts
10,782
8,560
San Francisco, California.
233,066
149,478
Yonkers, New York
18,924
17,269
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Watertown, New York.
Waterbury, Connecticut.
St. Augustine, Florida.
HISTORY OF OHIO.
BY A. A. GRAHAM.
CHAPTER I.
TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND PRIMITIVE RACES.
THE present State of Ohio, comprising an extent of country nearly two hundred and ten miles north and south, two hundred and twenty miles east and west, in length and breadth-twenty-five million five hundred and seventy- six thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine acres-is a part of the old Northwest Territory. This territory em- braced all of the present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illi- nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and so much of Minnesota as lies east of the Mississippi river. It became a corporate existence soon after the formation of the Virginia colony, and when that colony took on the dignity of State gov- ernment it became a county thereof, whose exact outline was unknown. The county embraced in its limits more territory than is comprised in all the New England and Middle States, and was the largest county ever known in the United States. It is watered by the finest system of rivers on the globe; while its inland seas are without a parallel. Its entire southern boundary is traversed by the beautiful Ohio, its western by the majestic Missisippi, and its northern and a part of its eastern are bounded by the fresh water lakes, whose clear waters preserve an even temperature over its entire surface. Into these reservoirs of commerce flow innumerable streams of lim- pid water, which come from glen and dale, from moun- tain and valley, from forest and prairie- all avenues of health, commerce and prosperity. Ohio is in the best part of this territory -south of its river are tropical heats; north of Lake Erie are polar snows and a polar climate.
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