The Kneipp Cure

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Sebastian Kneipp Kneipp. The Kneipp Cure

Contents:

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIFTIETH GERMAN EDITION

INTRODUCTION

PART I. WATER APPLICATIONS. GENERAL REMARKS

MEANS OF HARDENING

WATER APPLICATIONS

A. WET SHEETS

B. Baths. I. Foot-baths

II. Half-baths

III. Sitting-baths

IV. Full-baths

V. Part-baths

C. Vapors

D. Shower-baths

E. Ablutions

F. Bandages

G. Drinking of water

PART II. APOTHECA. General Remarks

Medicines

1. Almond-oil

2. Althea

3. Alum

4. Anise

5. Barbados Aloos

6. Bark of oak

7. Bilberry

8. Bitter Aloe

9. Black-thorn-blossoms

10. Bog-bean

11. Bone-dust

12. Bran

13. Brier

14. Chamomile

15. Camphor

16. Centaury

17. Chalk-dust

18. Cloves

19. Coal-dust

20. Cod-liver oil

21. Colt's-foot

22. Common Elder

23. Common Nettle

24. Cowslips

25. Dwarf Elder

26. Eyebright

27. Fennel

28. Fenugreek

29. Gentian

30. German Leopard's-bane

31. Grains of resin or incense

32. Honey

33. Juniper

34. Knot-grass

35. Lavender-oil

36. Lime tree-blossoms

37. Linseed

38. Mallow

39 Mint

40. Mistletoe

41. Mullein

42. Oats

43. Ribwort

44. Rosemary

45. Rue

46. Sage

47. Salad-oil

48. Santala

49. Sauerkraut

50. Secretive oil

51. Shave-grass

52. Silver-weed

53. St. John's-wort

54. Strawberries

55. Succory or Chicory

56. Tonic laxative I and II

57. Valerian, common

58. Violet

59. Wild Angelica

60. Wormwood

CONTENTS OF A LITTLE HOME-APOTHECA

SEVERAL KINDS OF STRENGTH-GIVING FOOD

PART III. DISEASES. Introduction

Complaints in alphabetical order. Abscesses

Apoplexy

Asthma

Bed-wetting

Births

Bladder, catarrh of the

Bladder, complaint of the

Blood, decomposition of the

Blood poisoning

Blood vomiting

Bloody flux

Bowels, complaints of the

Bowels, inflammation of the

Brain, disease of the

Brain, inflammation of the

Burns

Cancer

Caries

Catarrh

Chlorosis (Green-sickness)

Cholera

Cholerine

Colic

Congestions

Consumption

Costiveness

Cramps

Croup

Debility

Decline

Delirium tremens

Diarrhea

Diphtheria

Dropsy

Dysentery

Ears, diseases of the

Ears, humming in the

Epilepsy

Eruptions

Erysipelas

Eyes, cataract of the

Eyes, catarrh of the

Fever

Giddiness

Gout

Hemorrhoids. (Piles.)

Head complaints

Heart complaints

Hoarseness

Hypochondriasis

Inflammation

Influenza

Insanity

Itch

Jaundice

Kidney complaints

Knee, tumor on the

Lumbago

Lungs, complaint of the

Lungs, inflammation of the

Megrim. (Migraine.)

Melancholy

Mucous Fever

Nervous complaint

Nervous disorder

Nervous exhaustion

Nervous headache

Nervous over-excitement

Perspiration

Rheumatism

Rupture

Saint Vitus's dance

Scarlet Fever

Sciatica

Sleeplessness

Small-pox

Spine, complaints of the

Stomach, acidity of the

Stomach complaints

Stomach cramp

Stomach tumors

Stone complaint

Tetters

Throat complaint

Typhus

Ulcers

Urinary difficulties

Vaccination, bad effects of

Voice, loss of the

Worms

THE GUSHES

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The Kneipp Cure: A Health Reform For Your Body

SEBASTIAN KNEIPP

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What man, when coming home from work with his face and hands bathed in perspiration, would have the least fear to wash them, perhaps even his chest and feet as well? Everyone does so; for it is very refreshing and comforting. Should not the effect on the whole body, as a necessary conclusion, be the same? Should a thing which is of excellent effect for single parts of the body, which is a benefit to them, be a disadvantage, an injury to the whole?

I believe that the fear of the bad effect of cold baths when taken in perspiration, proceeds from the facts that many persons, who, bathed in sweat, have suddenly come into the cold, or into the fresh air, especially into draught, have sometimes entirely ruined their health for life.

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