Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-12-10
COLD WATER CURES ALL
A UNIVERSAL PANAceA FOR SUFFER-
ING HUMANITY:

ING HUMANITY:
''The Able Sebastian Kneipp" and His
Power of Healing A Patient Do
scribes the Method of the Priests Treat
ment-Cold Water Used Externally.
Few Americans have seen the little
village Of Woerishofen, between Mem
miugen and Augsbourg, in Bavaria, and
yet for the past four or five years this
little burg has attracted rs many visitors
rs Bayreuth and Oberamnergau. Woer-
ishofen is celebrated not for its mineral
waters, not for its bracing air, but for
its marvellous cures performed by the
priest of the village, the Able Sebastian
Kneipp. Each year ut least 10000 in-
valids make pilgrimage to Woerishofen
and endure all Inconvenience in order
to be cured by the Able Kneipp.
The Able Kneipp is Il celebrity in
Germany. He is called genius,
savant, a benefactor of the human race.
Everything in the village is named for
the wise priest. For instance, there is
Kneipp coffee, Kneipp bread, Kneipp
linen, etc. Always at least dozen
physicians are present at the consulta-
tions Of the priestly healer, and these,
after thoroughly understanding his sys-
TEN, will found kneipp Anstalten ut
Stuttgart. Munich. Wurtzbourg, etc.
This good abbe believes that water
will cure all the ills to which flesh is
heir. A friend who went from Paris 10
consult the Able Kneipp has told me of
her experience at Woerjshofen, and Of
her great admiration 70, Tie abbe's wis
dom.
THE Able.
In the village there are only three or
four primitive inns. but most Of the in
vali1s lodge in private houses no less
primitive. Theabbe has been compelled
to build large house for the benefit OF
the clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere
The able receives at the presbytery,
, and begins consultations at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The great physician sits
in large room OH the ground floor, sur
rounded by pupils. The able is fine
looking man. His regular features and
fresh complexion denote health, and his
broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
q wrinkle, is framed in white hair.
His eyes are the bluest and brightest
have ever seen, for his soul seems to be
concentrated in these eyes, and they pene-
trate you through and through-in fact,
to make diagnosis, the abbe only looks
at patient and IN diagnosis he never
errs. Some who went to the priest with
despair in their hearts left him buoyed
up by courage and with the assurance
that their diseases were not incurable.
Although the abbe says 81 cannot de-
stroy DEATH" still he has cured many
whose diseases baftled the skill of others.
A man whose face was disigured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, 1T is easily cured"
and after several weeks of lotions and
baths the cancer disappeared The blind
have recovered their sight and the lame
have walked
According to the Able kneipp every
disease originates in the blood; there
may be II disturbance in its circulation,
where may be a arrangement of its CON.
position.
WHAT WATER DOES.
Water alone can act thoroughly on til.
blood, and water produces four notice
able effects. 1t dissolves the injurious
principles OF the blood, eliminates tina,
which has been dissolved, restores regu
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortities the debilitated organism. In /;
talk with the abbe after consultation
hours, he said that fifty years ago people
did not take cold as ut the present time
Why! Simply because the body was more
hardened to changes in temperature
Water makes the body capable of Ell
during all climates, and the best way tt
begin the treatment is to walk barefoo
i'll the wet grass. After quarter of III
hours promenade without drying the
feet, one must put on dry shoes anl
stockings aud exercise until the feet are
very warm. IF you can find no dew
no wet grass" said the abbe, walk o,
cold, wet stones, or even On the SHOW
That is my remedy for those who are al
ways taking cold"
The abbe's treatment varies according
to the malady. For some he prescribe.
vapor baths, for others wet congresses
for others baths with oats or hay addeG
to the water, etc. The water must b,
as cold as possible, and in winter snow il
preferred. But cold bath must never
last more than five minutes, includin:
the time required for dressing and un
dressing, and the bather must never ust
towels, but always exercise for hfteer
; minutes after the bath. friction onl,
causes unequal circulation, but exercise
produces uniform heat.
Warm baths should always be followed
by Il plunge in cold water. The goot
abbe says one must never drink too mucl
water, and the least possible during re
pnsts. 'Drink little water before eat
ing, very little while eating, and two o
three hours after drink rs much vs. yea
wish. Paris Cor. New York World.
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