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WHAT is the Kneipp Cure?

This question has of late been asked again and again, and more than five thousand letters have been addressed to me during these last few months, soliciting anxiously and earnestly information about the healing- and hardening methods of the venerable and humanitarian Priest and Healer, Rev. Seb. Kneipp, in the small village of Wörishofen, Bavaria.

To quote the words of a brilliant Journalist: "Never before has a health-reform, or any other movement made such rapid and sweeping progress in the United States as the Kneipp Cure; not even the popular adoption of the bicycle excepted." The publishing of a reliable and authoritative popular book of correct and exhaustive information on the subject became consequently a matter of public interest, and the pressing demand is now met by the issue of "The Kneipp Cure."

But one word more as regards my function as Editor of the American Edition. Animated by a deep spirit of veneration and respect for the philanthropic Reverend gentleman I have made but very few alterations and corrections. I have ventured to amend the translation in so far only as it appeared to me indispensable for the better understanding of the American public.

1 claim, however, to have effected a great improvement by combining in this edition all pictures and illustrations contained in the many other books on the Kneipp Cure. In conclusion 1 give expression to the sincere wish that every reader of this book may be as much benefited by the Kneipp Cure as 1 have been.

New York. November 30th, 1896.