The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-01-28
COLD WATER CURES ALL,
A UNIVERSAL PANACEA FOR SUFFER.
ING HUMANITY.

Power of Healing Patient De-
scribes the Method of the Priests Treat
ment-Cold Water Used Externally.
Few Americans have seen the little
village OF Woerishofen, between Mem
mingen and Augsburg, in Bavaria, and
yet for the past four or five wears this
little burg has attracted as many visitors
as Bayreuth and Oberammergau Woer-
lshofen is celebrated not for its mineral
waters, not for its bracing air, but for
It's marvellous cures performed by the
priest of the village, the Able Sebastian
Kneipp. Each year at 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 a celebrity in
Germany. He is called genius. a
savant, 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 a dozen
physicians are present at the consulta-
lions OF the priestly healer, and these,
after thoroughly understanding his sys-
tenn, will found Kneipp Anstalten at
Stuttgart, Munich. Wurtzbourg, etc.
This good able believes that water
will cure all the ills to which flesh is
heir A friend who went from Paris to
consult the Able Kneipp has told Inc of
her experience at Woerishofen and Of
her great admiration for the abbe's wis
dom.
THE Able.
In the village there are only three or
four primitive inns. but most of the in
valids lodge in private houses no less
primitive. The able has been compelled
to build large house for the benefit Of
the clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere. N
The able receives at the presbytery,
and begins consultations at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The great physician sits
IN large room on 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
a 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 able 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 able says 81 cannot de-
stroy DEATH" still he has cured many
whose diseases baffled the skill of others.
A man whose face was disfgured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, cit 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
disease originates in the blood; there
may be disturbance in it's circulation,
where may be arrangement of its COM
position.
WHAT WATER DOES.
Water alone can act thoroughly on the
blood, and water produces four notice
able effects. 1t dissolves the injurious
principles of the blood, eliminates that
which has been dissolved, restores regu-
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortifies the debilitated organism. In a
talk with the able after consultation
hours, he said that fifty years ago people
did not take cold as at the present time.
Why? Simply because the body was more
hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes the body capable of en-
during all climates, and the best way to
begin the treatment is to walk barefoot
in the wet grass. After quarter of an
hours promenade without drying the
feet, one must put on dry shoes and
stockings and exercise until the feet are
very warm. eff you can find no dew,
no wet grass" said the able, "walk on
cold, wet stones, or even on the snow.
That is my remedy for those who are al
ways taking cold"
The abbe's treatment varies according
to the malady. For some he prescr1bes
vapor baths, for others wet congresses,
for others baths with oats or hay added
to the water, etc. The water must be
as cold as possible, and in winter snow is
preferred. But cold bath must never
last more than five minutes, including
the time required for dressing and I'M
dressing, and the bather must never use
towels, but always exercise for fifteen
minutes after the bath. Friction only
causes unequal circulation, but exercise
produces a uniform heat.
Warm baths should always be followed
by a plunge in cold water. The good
aE@e says one must never drink too much
water, and the least possible during re-
pasts. Drink little water before eat
ing, very little while eating, and two or
three hours after drink as much as you
wish. Paris Cor New York World.
Proceeds of Jackknife.
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