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.

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    and apply daily ablutions, and they will prevent manifold sufferings. EFFECTS OF COLD-WATER-BATHING AND WASHING. We do not fear to anticipate the particulars, later ad- duced on occasion of the method peculiar to Priessnitz, in advancing the following remarks : Bathing operates chiefly upon the functions ol'the skin and raises their activity. The most salutary baths for healthy persons are those taken in the fresh water of rivers. Ancient physicians, especially the learnedAgathinus, speak aloud in their favor: Those who want to be and to remain in very good health must frequently use cold baths, for I can hardly express in words what great advantages they afford. Hufeland, also, confirms this, and'finds in them a pro- minent preventive against disease. Bathing is a constituent part of national education, and ought, particularly in populous places, to be culti- vated among the gymnastic exercises of youth. Its effect manifests itself especially upon the skin. The skin is the natural dress of man; the cover in which he walked, innocent and harmless, in Paradise. It not only serves him for a cover, and protects against influen- ces from without, but it is at the same time the seat of the sense of touch and feeling, the most comprehensive of all senses; as the ends of the nerves—organs of sensitive-