Vincenz Priessnitz, or, The wonderful power of water in healing the diseases of the human body / by Chr. Charles Schieferdecker.

  • Schieferdecker, Chr. Charles (Christian Charles)
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vincenz Priessnitz, or, The wonderful power of water in healing the diseases of the human body / by Chr. Charles Schieferdecker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    His daughter, who was supposed to be con- sumptive, but who Mr. Priessnitz pronounced had merely outgrown her strength—being, as he ex- pressed it, too tall for her breadth, underwent a similar process, except that to produce perspira- tion, she was enveloped in a wet sheet, instead of a blanket, and at night she wore a wet cloth upon her chest, and another around her body. In less than three months she was perfectly re- covered. According to the statement of Captain Cla- ridge, people ' never say die,' at Grcefenberg; or they never decease, as he expresses it, ' from any acute disorder.' Cold water, and a spare diet, is the prescription for longevity; and, from all accounts, the sovereign panacea ' for all the ills which flesh is heir to.' Plain people become beauties by the obser- vance of this rule ; and the lame are enabled by it to 'rise and walk.' 'One young lady,' says the captain, 'who went to Grasfenberg with scrofula in her face and neck, so bad as to ren- der her quite an object; in nine months she waa
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