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Show Where People Are Being I Cored of all Afflictions I SANITARIUM OF V. S. RAYMOND AT 366 THIRTY-SECOND THIRTY-SECOND STREET, IS OFFERING RELIEF TO SUFFERERS SUF-FERERS AND WORKING REMARKABLE CURES-BATHS, CURES-BATHS, MASSAGE, ELECTRIC TREATMENTS, DIETING, BREATHING ARE EMPLOYED FASTING AIDS IN RESTORING HEALTH MANY RECEIVE BENEFITS AND PRAISE THE SANITARIUM Out on Thirty-second street No. 385 to be more explicit resides a young man who is attracting much attention at the present time because of the stories he relates of his wonderful won-derful achievements in curing ailments. ail-ments. He has built him a neat cottage cot-tage and has turned a great portion of It Into a modern sanitarium, where ailments are treated by nature's methods meth-ods Thither go a number of people dallj who have decided to try the new method, because all others have failed, or they go because they know of friends or relatives who were cured. As new cures are effected the cured patients tell others, and tho number frequenting the cottage grows larger and larger until it is evident that larger quarters must soon be secured The joung man is V. S. Raymond, oocior of naturopothv The title 60unds formidable, but it does no' frighten one when it is considered thar the owner of the title has completed com-pleted a prescribed course in an institution insti-tution where the students are taught to aid nature In restoring people to health by means of natural methods, and has also followed up his school work with practical work in sanitariums sanitari-ums that are celebrated throughout the country and frequented from all parts of the United States. Raymond believes, as do thousands of others, physicians and surgeons included, in-cluded, that abnormal conditions of the system resulting in diseases can in moot instances be brought back to normal by letting nature do her work. In some Instances It is necessary to assist nature by methods that coincide coin-cide with her own and in other cases extreme cases medicine is necessary neces-sary aud surgery Ravmond has studied methods of assisting nature, and that his methods are effectual Is made evident by the number of cures that h?.ve resulted to patients who have been treated at his establishment establish-ment In Raymond's nature-cure sanitarium sanita-rium all appliances uecessarv In his work are to be found. He has seveu rooms fitted up for the convenience of his patients There are massage rooms, turkish bath rooms, rooms for various baths, and a room for electric light baths Believing that plunges are not sanitary, for the reason that each bather does not have fresh water, the director at the sanitarium uses only pure sanitary tubs for his patients A compact boiler assures an unlimited supply of hot water at all timeB. Among all enlightened nations water is recognized as a stroug therapeutio factor, and Raymond himself 1 a etrong believer in the power of water applied in various forms as a renewer and preserver of health Therefore he has surrounded himself in bis sanitarium with all the means of hydrotherapy and his years of experience expe-rience In the famous water-cure nanl-Urium nanl-Urium of New York are the service of his patients. Dr Raymond speclaii7.es in the fol- lowing ailments: Rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, lumbago, appendicitis, gall stones, liver, kidney, bladder and stomach troubles. In fact he is prepared pre-pared to treat almost any ailment. He does not accept cancer cases. For different ailments different treatment is given. In most instances the patient is first given breathing exercises designed to strengthen the various Internal organs and bring about a better condition there Then massage treatment is given combined with baths of the sort that have proven prov-en effective in curing the illness of the patient. At the same time, the patient is told what to eat and how to live, 60 that upon leaving the institution, insti-tution, if the rules given are obeyed, there will be no necessity for a return. re-turn. Dr Raymond calls his sanitarium a school as well as a sanitarium, for the reason that after taking treatment ODf is able to ward off ailments because be-cause of the knowledge of nature s laws gained. Dr Ramond is also an experienced faster, and in part man of his remarkable re-markable cures are brought about by scientific and conservative fasting When asked if he did not find many of his patients afraid to fast, he said: "If a patient is given medicine by an inexperienced man there is danger: dan-ger: so, too, there is danger when a, radical faster attempts to direct fasting fast-ing without proper knowledge As for myself, I have had much experience experi-ence and frequently fast I am not an advocate of long fasts and believe that short fasts repeated bring better bet-ter results. For that reason the fasts that I direct seldom exceed a week and are often shorter, sometimes lasting last-ing but a day " If you are fat, Dr Raymond will reduce re-duce you and show how you can live eo as to remain at the desired weight-If weight-If you are abnormally thin the naturo-p'athiBt naturo-p'athiBt will show you how to increase your weight. He emphasizes the fact, however, that when a patient is naturally natu-rally thin he can do little, but if the patient is tbin because of illness or any abnormal condition of the system, sys-tem, proper reconstructive measures will bring about the desired Increase In weight. Rajmond Is not radical by any means. While he maintains that he can treat appendicitis in such a manner man-ner that 98 per cent of his cases will not require an operation, he holds that in ertreme cases surgical methods meth-ods are necessary. Also, he does not condemn the medical or other professions pro-fessions having for their alms the relief of human suffering, but he does believe that nature should be aided by his methods before surgical or medical treatment Is secured. Although the creed he preaches of right living and right methods of curing cur-ing diseases caused from Incorrect living Is unknown to many and sounds strange, there are plenty who believe with him aud are taking treatment that he directs at his pleasant sanitarium sani-tarium In the pleasant part of the city. |