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Hahn : " Instructions on the Power and Effect of Cold Water, " published at Breslau and Leipzig by Daniel Pietsch, 1749, i n the German language. 120 COLONEL RIPPER'S LETTER " Only through his own exertions, not suddenly, only by degrees, and through continued experi- ments, Priessnitz acquired his knowledge of the different ways of applying cold water. In the beginning of his career he used a sponge, with which he bathed the parts injured by contu- sions, or otherwise wounded, applying also co...m- presses. " Later on, when sought by people suffering from gout, he let them perspire, covered with feather beds, and after that he gave them first tepid and then cold baths, in a big washtub, letting them be well rubbed whilst in the bath. " Mr. T. Knur, from Kuchelnau, near Ratibor in Prussian Silesia, a gentleman in the employ of Prince Lichnowski, wrote, in 1830, a detailed account of this matter to Professor Oertel, of Anspach, who quotes it in his work in German, ' The Latest Water-Cures ' (Part III.
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