The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-04
.oLD WATER CURES ALL.
A UNIVERSAL PANAcEA FOR SUFFER-
ING HUMANITY.

A UNIVERSAL PANAcEA FOR SUFFER-
ING HUMANITY.
''The Able Sebastian Kneipp' and His
Power OF Healing A Patient De-
scrsbes 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 years this
little burg has attracted as many visitors
rs Bayreuth and Oberammergau. 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 at least 10000 in
vaiids make pilgrimage to Woerishofen
and endure all inconvenierces in order
to be cured by the Abbe Kneipp.
The Able Kneipp is celebrity in
Germany He is called genius, a
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-
tenn, will found Kneipp Anstalten at
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 to
consult the Able Kneipp has told me of
| her experience at Woerishofen, and of
her great admiration for the abbe's wis
| dom.
THE ABBE.
! 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 abbe has been compelled
to build large house for the benefit of
the clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere.
| The abbe 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. Thr abbe is fine
| looking man. His regular features and
fresh complexion denote health, and his
broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
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 a 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 able says 81 cannot de-
stroy DEATH still he has cured many
whose diseases baf1led the skill of others.
A man whose face was disfigured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, SIT is easily cured, y
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 Abbe Kneipp every
disease originates in the blood; there
may be a disturbance in its 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 thai
which has been dissolved, restores regu
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortifes the debilitated organism. In &
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 NOR,
hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes the body capable of en-
during all climates, and the best way t.
begin the treatment is to walk barefoo
in the wet grass. After quarter of III
hours promenade without drying tn
, feet, one must put on dry shoes an,
stockings aud exercise until the feet ar
. very warm. tIf you can find NO dew
no wet grass" said the able. '.walk ol
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 accordin;
TO the malady. For some he prescribe
vapor baths, for others wet congresses
S for others baths with oats or hay adde
t to the water, etc. The water must b
as cold as possible, and in winter snow
0 preferred. But cold bath must neve
. last more than five minutes, includin
t the time required for dressing and III
o dressing, and the bather must never us
towels, but always exercise for fftee
y minutes after the bath. Friction onl
a causes unequal circulation, but exercis
d produces a uniform heat.
t Warm baths should always be followe
i by plunge in cold water. The goo
e abbe says one must never drink too muc
J. water, and the least possible during r
!, pasts. Drink little water before ca
n ing, very little while eating, and two {
II three hours after drink as much as yo
wish."-Paris Cor. New York World.