The Kneipp Cure. Sebastian Kneipp Kneipp

      The Kneipp Cure: A Health Reform For Your Body

      SEBASTIAN KNEIPP

      

      

      

       The Kneipp Cure, S. Kneipp

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849660529

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

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      Contents:

       PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. 1

       TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 2

       PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION. 5

       PREFACE TO THE FIFTIETH GERMAN EDITION. 7

       INTRODUCTION. 8

       PART I. WATER APPLICATIONS. 17

       GENERAL REMARKS. 17

       MEANS OF HARDENING. 22

       WATER APPLICATIONS. 31

       A. WET SHEETS. 31

       B. BATHS. 37

       C. VAPORS. 63

       D. SHOWER-BATHS. 75

       E. ABLUTIONS. 86

       F. BANDAGES. 90

       G. DRINKING OF WATER. 102

       PART II. APOTHECA. 105

       GENERAL REMARKS. 105

       MEDICINES. 110

       CONTENTS OF A LITTLE HOME-APOTHECA. 145

       SEVERAL KINDS OF STRENGTH-GIVING FOOD. 148

       PART III. DISEASES. 151

       INTRODUCTION.. 151

       COMPLAINTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.. 152

       THE GUSHES. 291

      PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

       WHAT is the Kneipp Cure?

      This question has of late been asked again and again, and more than five thousand letters have been addressed to me during these last few months, soliciting anxiously and earnestly information about the healing- and hardening methods of the venerable and humanitarian Priest and Healer, Rev. Seb. Kneipp, in the small village of Wörishofen, Bavaria.

      To quote the words of a brilliant Journalist: "Never before has a health-reform, or any other movement made such rapid and sweeping progress in the United States as the Kneipp Cure; not even the popular adoption of the bicycle excepted." The publishing of a reliable and authoritative popular book of correct and exhaustive information on the subject became consequently a matter of public interest, and the pressing demand is now met by the issue of "The Kneipp Cure."

      But one word more as regards my function as Editor of the American Edition. Animated by a deep spirit of veneration and respect for the philanthropic Reverend gentleman I have made but very few alterations and corrections. I have ventured to amend the translation in so far only as it appeared to me indispensable for the better understanding of the American public.

      1 claim, however, to have effected a great improvement by combining in this edition all pictures and illustrations contained in the many other books on the Kneipp Cure. In conclusion 1 give expression to the sincere wish that every reader of this book may be as much benefited by the Kneipp Cure as 1 have been.

      New York. November 30th, 1896.

      TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

      SCARCELY ever has a book found its way through Europe and the whole civilized world in so incredibly short a time as the little volume of which this is a translation.

      The author in the brief and plain sketch of his life at once endears himself to the reader. From the humble place of his birth we follow him through the toils of his early life: with him we feel grateful to the kind friend under whose hospitable roof the poor traveler found not only shelter but also the longed-for teacher. We, then, accompany him through his college years and witness his indefatigable zeal in the pursuit of his studies, but alas! when about to congratulate him on their prosperous termination, we are suddenly grieved at the saddening aspect of his failing health. Certainly the shortsightedness of human understanding with regard to the plans of Divine Providence cannot be more sorely tried than it was in the poor student's case; but thus it had to be in order to make his life that wonderful illustration of the Apostle's word: "To them that love God, all things work together unto good." (Rom. VIII. 28.)

      Finding help nowhere and lacking both physical and mental strength to achieve what he had commenced, the young man was left to spend his time in the royal library. Here one day an old little book attracts his curiosity, he opens it, it treats of water-cures. This moment was to be a turning-point in his life. The contents of the small unsightly volume were to be the rough outline of a plan which, in its completion, has become a blessing for numbers of his fellow-creatures who, laboring under more or less grievous disease, were restored to the full possession of bodily health and mental vigor; for as soon as the author in this early period of his life had experienced the salutary effects of water, it seemed but natural to his noble heart to make as many as possible partakers of the benefit he then enjoyed in the sense of undisturbed health. Since his endeavors in this respect had for their sole objects