Hungern und Diät nach dem Vinzenz Prießnitz'schen Familien-Wasserbuch von 1847
secondary literature · 2007
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SUMMARY
History-of-medicine analysis of the diet and lifestyle regimen attached to the Priessnitz family water book of 1847, published in Forschende Komplementärmedizin (Complementary Medicine Research). Used in this case to ground the point that the Gräfenberg cure was more than water applications: Priessnitz also prescribed movement therapy and aerial and solar (air and sun) baths, together with a specific diet emphasizing cold-water drinking, milk and cold dishes (pastry, compote, buttermilk), vegetables, fruit and strawberries, and little or no meat. Establishes the regimen dimension of the intervention beyond baths and wraps.
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Rohde’s 2007 paper in Forschende Komplementärmedizin examines the diet and regimen set out in the Priessnitz family water book of 1847. The abstract records that Priessnitz did not confine the cure to water treatments but also prescribed movement therapy and air and solar baths, alongside a diet built on cold-water drinking, milk and cold dishes, vegetables, fruit, and little or no meat. This case uses the paper to establish that the Gräfenberg cure was a whole regimen of living (water applications plus exercise, open-air exposure, and a restricted diet), which bears on both the intervention description and the disconfirmation note that several hygienic components overlapped with measures later associated with health.