Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-17
A NEW CURE
Knsipp has Invented System
which T. Becoming Popular.

which Il becoming Popular.
MUNICH, Nov. l6.--The Iates
panaeea for the ills Of humanity 4
the cure Of Father Kneipp, Voeris
iiOken, aud 10 seek II Is now tn,
fashionable It'd OF the day. FOl
some years the system has beeT
gaining favor, but now that Baf0I
Nathaniel Rothschild has come Il
Voerishofen all the grand monds
of Vienna will follow in his trair
aud the obscure hamlet will riva
Carlsbad and Gastein In fame. A
curious part Of the Ub6l- business
is that no one is making Of viii
make any money out OF it. Fathei
Kn-ipp makes no charge whatever
for his treatment. Wealthy patients,
h0Never, pay a fee OF twenty fire
cents a dag for the use Of the "kur
Anstalt. ''and that is all. ffthey wish
full bDard, they pay fifty cents A.
for villagers, they follow their pas
tors example, aud only accrpt from
visitors who lodge in their cabins
the smallest possible sum, just
enough to meet the actual expenses.
The head OF this remarkable insti-
tuition, Sebastian Hneiyp, is a
village priest. Half a century ago
he was -erF i'll, and the doctors
said he must SURELY die. Then, he
says, he Investigated a system Of
self cure, which speedily restored
him TO health. He is himself at
past 40, as -ssrtiy and fresh in body
and mind as many IN the prime Of
life, and he attributes his wOn-gerful
health to the rules by which lie
lives.
Father Kneipp does not believe IN
skin. He declares that 1t renders
the skin delicate, aud his great aim
Is 10 harden aud invlgorate, not, be
il Observed, by violent means, which
he strongly deprecates, but by
natural and gradual ONES. He
recommends thai all undertaking
he made Of very coarse linen, the
rUughusss Of which stimulates the
skin without enervating it as wool
does, and, moreover. possesses the
advantage Of allowing Precipitation
to pass through It quickly.
Water plays an important part in
Father Kneipp's system, but his
node Of water cure differs greatly
from that usually known Under the
name of nydrOpathy. He prefers
cold 10 warm water, but employs it
caUtisusly, anu allows cd or
ncy :ous persOns 10 use iepid water.
Before everything, he enjoins
rIpidIty in bathing. According to
him, a cold hath, including undress-
ing and dressing, shouli only last
five minutes.
One Of the mHst startling rules in
Kneipp's method is, the patient is
10 attempt TO dry himself |
after n bath, but is told to put his
coarse linen undeFclotbss straight on
10 his wet hOIy, then his outer
clothes ami then to take at least a
quarter Of au hours exercise. An
other means Of hardening and in
the body and promoting
adopted by Father
kneiyp, is the practice Of walking
or running In the wet grass, in coid
water OF IN freshly fallen snow. This
exercise at first lasts only five
minutes, but the period is gradually
Increased to half an hour. At the
eud Of the prescribed time the pa
Eient is instructed 10 put dry socks
made OF coarse yarn, precisely SINH
rir 30 that Of which the linen Tor
undertaking j. mlnufactureul,
dry ing his feet, then his
boots, aud then 10 take a smart walk.
By this exercise In freshly fallt II
snow, Father Kneipp entirely cureu
4 woman Of chilbisins aud IA girl o.
ThSse are only two
typical cases among numerous SINH
lar ones.