Hydropathy; Or, The Cold Water Cure: As Practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Graefenberg, Silesia, Austria |
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Page 35 - Tho" I look old, yet I am strong and lusty : For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility : Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but
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Page 142 - by active exercise, and thus to proportion the waste to the amount of food taken; disease of some kind therefore ensues. " The cooling of the body, by whatever cause it may be produced, increases the amount of food necessary. The
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Page 105 - and drank of that divinest well, Fresh from the rock of ages where it ran ; It had a heavenly quality to quell All pain : I rose a renovated man ; And would not now, when that relief was known, For worlds the needful suffering have foregone.
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| Title | Hydropathy; Or, The Cold Water Cure: As Practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Graefenberg, Silesia, Austria |
| Author | R. T. Claridge |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Madden, 1843 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | May 8, 2006 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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