Hydriatics, or, Manual of the water cure : especially as practised by Vincent Priessnitz in Graefenberg / compiled and translated from the writings of Charles Munde, Dr. Oertel, Dr. Bernhard Hirschel, and other eye-witnesses and practitioners by Francis Graeter.

  • Graeter, Francis.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Hydriatics, or, Manual of the water cure : especially as practised by Vincent Priessnitz in Graefenberg / compiled and translated from the writings of Charles Munde, Dr. Oertel, Dr. Bernhard Hirschel, and other eye-witnesses and practitioners by Francis Graeter. 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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    cures and mineral baths. More than forty similar regu- lar institutions have formed themselves in other parts of Germany and Europe in general, and we see their number increasing daily, and hundreds of books and pamphlets communicate the principles and particulars of this novel mode of treatment, or carry on the literary war for and against the exclusiveness of the old school. From these publications the compiler has selected prin- cipally the account of Dr. Munde as one of the earliest patients restored by this water method, one of the most observing and constant eye-witnesses of the healing methods and a confidential friend of Pricssnitz, originally himself a layman in medical science, but on that very account more intelligible and unprejudiced; and of the learned and respectable Dr. Hirschel in Dresden, whose history of the medical »se of water and its literature he has partly extracted, in order to show that the preference given to the pure spring arises by no means from igno- rance of the principles and history of learned medicine ; the remainder, and the arrangement of the whole, are