Record 002 · Cold · 1826
67%26.02.C
Priessnitz Water Cure
Vincenz Priessnitz
“The Silesian farmer's cold-water method that made hydrotherapy a 19th-century clinic.”
Priessnitz used wet sheets, cold baths, and walks at Gräfenberg. Every later ice bath and Kneipp path is downstream of this stubborn empiricism.
Opened cold water as a systematic protocol.
- Wet-sheet packing
- Cold bathing as cure
- Hydrotherapy clinic
Cold water as medicine.
