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"internal medication as well
as by hypodermic injection"
using the Mt. Clemens water
would make liquor repulsive
to the user.
A patient who used the
Springer Method wrote:
"It is now five years since I
took your treatment for
alcoholism, and during this
time I have never felt better
in my life. No pains, aches or
weakness, in fact I am
supremely happy. As you
know I handle liquor all the
time, and could wash my
hands and face in it and not
have the slightest desire or
thought of ever trying a drop
of it, and to think I used it
for over twenty years .. .
The Mt. Clemens bath era
lasted from the 1880s until
the 1940s, although a few
bathhouses and hotels
operated for several decades
after on a small scale. Mt.
Clemens was a popular site
because of its accessibility.
Two direct rail routes came
from Detroit, making travel
from Chicago, Buffalo, Toron-
to and Montreal simple and
relatively fast. With the ad-
vent of the automobile, it was
an easy drive to Mt. Clemens.
Says Longstaff, "It was pro-
gress in reverse if you look at
Mt. Clemens today. The
number of trains into the
town itself daily was incredi-
ble. They were interurban
trains from Detroit. You could
even get here by boat. It is a
lot more difficult these days."
Several boarding houses
and a few of the hotels were
kosher. It was not an uncom-
mon sight to see a bearded
Orthodox Jew in Mt.
Clemens. Regular religious
services were held in the
town's Beth Tephilath Moses
synagogue, and in the boar-
ding houses and hotels. Of-
ficiating were visiting cantors
and rabbis, or any Jew who
had the ability to conduct
services.
Mt. Clemens never had a
large Jewish population. The
current 60 families who
belong to the synagogue are
not far below the peak
population. In 1984-85,
former city councilwoman
Ada Eisenfeld served as
mayor of the city. But at its
height, the town's Jewish
population was swollen dur-
ing "the season" by the influx
of summer visitors.
Ethel Dworkin, a resident
of the Fleischmann Jewish
Home for Aged in West
Bloomfield, remembers her
mother annually staying
three weeks in Mt. Clemens
for many years. On occasion,
she would even stay for six
weeks, a series of 42 baths in
all.
"My
mother
had
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