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Title: Thus shalt thou live : hints and advice for the healthy and the sick on a simple and rational mode of life and a natural method of cure
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Kneipp, Sebastian, 1821-1897
Subjects: Hydrotherapy Health Naturopathy Hygiene Hydrotherapy
Publisher: Kempten (Bavaria) : Jos. Koesel
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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parts of the body, so also have we different baths whichlikewise affect either single parts or the entire system.How often do people who have a head-ache, take a warmfoot-bath with ashes and salt, which draws the bloodaway from the head and thus relieves them from theirhead-ache! Besides foot-baths, — knee- and thigh-baths,half- and whole-baths may be taken either warm or cold. 378 Miscellaneous Remaeks. They act on single parts or on the whole of the bodyaccording to the requirements of each case. Warm bathsare only used when nature wants warmth und support,or when it becomes necessary to effectually dissolve in-durations, as in gout and similar complaints, before pro-ceding with the more drastic and invigorating applicationsof cold water. This again is sufficiently explained inthe chapter on diseases. For the use of the differentkinds of baths, such as foot-baths, knee-baths, thigh-baths, whole-baths, hand-baths, eye-baths etc., precisedirections are given in each individual case.
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A Word in Conclusion. In the book ^My Water Cure I said that I shouldone day write a separate Httle book on education. Sincethe Water Cure has become universally known, I havereceived a great number of letters asking me when thatnew book would appear. In spite of the best intentions,I could find no time to begin it. At last, determinedas I was to keep my word, I used to lock myself upfor hours in order to devote at least some time to thelittle book. It is now ready and shall go forth likethe Water Cure. From sheer want of time I havenot been able to work it out as I should have likedand my readers have a right to expect. Nor was it myintention to write a scientific book, for I make not theleast pretensions to science and erudition; on the cont-rary, I wished to write this book in the simplest andmost popular language just as a simple country parish-priest is wont to deliver a practical sermon which isunderstood and taken to heart by his people. WhatI w^ant is, to make the knowledge I

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