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Rh —but the novelty gradually wore away, and their impatient patients began to want something more than simple water to satisfy their demands. The wily managers were not slow to take the hint, and soon commenced administering medicines in conjunction with their aqueous manipulations. Although this is in direct violation of the principles upon which they started, yet it serves to prop up their ephemeral institutions. But the moss is already beginning to collect upon their humid walls; according to their own reports, a revolution by way of an improvement has sprung up in Germany, which has already lowered the water-cure ensign to half-mast, and erected over it Hunger Cure!!

The writer is chiefly indebted to Joel Shew, M.D., a talented advocate of hydropathy, for what information he has upon this subject. It appears that a German, by the name of John Schrott, is the author of a plan of treatment denominated the Hunger Cure. Schrott had long been acquainted with the water-cure process, and even claims to have been before Priessnitz in some of its modes of application. The