Thus Shalt Thou Live: Hints and Advice for the Healthy and the Sick on a Simple and Rational Mode of Life and a Natural Method of Cure 1897

by Kneipp, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9780766178946
• ISBN10: 0766178943
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Kessinger Pub

Summary

1897. Found in this book are hints and advices for the healthy and the sick on a simple and rational mode of life and a natural method of cure. Various sufferings of mind and body render the performance of man's earthly duties difficult and onerous, for a 'heavy yoke lies on Adam's children from the day they went forth from their mother's womb to the day they return to the earth, the mother of all.' Reason teaches us that it was not always so, for, by his immortal soul and his free will, man is an image of his Almighty creator. At all times there have been men who made it the object of their life to discover ways and means for the cure of diseases. Many books give us useful information about the healing properties of certain herbs and the wholesome effects of mineral substances.

Table of Contents

Introduction	iii
Part the First. Conditions of Health and Means of Preserving it
Influence of Light on the Health of Body and Mind	3	(3)
Air in Relation to Health	6	(2)
Heat and Cold in their Relation to Health	8	(1)
Dress	9	(21)
Protection of the Feetfrom Cold	21	(4)
Absurd Fashions in Dress	25	(2)
Protection from the Heat	27	(3)
Work, Exercise and Rest	30	(16)
Walking, Physical Work, Indoor-Gymnastics	38	(4)
Water as a Means for preserving strength	42	(4)
Dwellings	46	(12)
The Sick-room	56	(2)
On Nourishment	58	(28)
Food	58	(15)
1st Class. Victuals rich in nitrogen	62	(3)
2nd Class. Articles of food poor in nitrogen	65	(7)
3rd Class. Foods void of nitrogen	72	(1)
Drinks	73	(11)
Salt	84	(1)
Mineral Water	85	(1)
On Eating	86	(13)
Breakfast	87	(3)
Luncheon	90	(1)
Dinner	90	(3)
Supper	93	(1)
Drinking at Meals	94	(2)
Moderation in Eating	96	(2)
How often ought we to eat?	98	(1)
Education	99	(14)
The Duties of Parents in General	99	(2)
The Duties of Parents in Particular	101	(4)
Treatment of Children with regard to their skin	105	(1)
How are children to be hardened?	105	(2)
Children's Clothing	107	(3)
Provide for fresh air, especially in Bed-rooms	110	(1)
Exercise	111	(2)
School and Vocation	113	(70)
The Child's first School	114	(4)
The Child's second School	118	(5)
School of Adults	123	(5)
Choice of a Vocation	128	(9)
Higher Schools	137	(11)
Life in Training-Colleges	148	(4)
Board in Training-Colleges	152	(2)
Girls' Boarding-Schools	154	(5)
Hygiene in Girls' Boarding-Schools. --- Water-Applications	159	(3)
Monastic Life	162	(8)
Miscellaneous Remarks
Smoking	170	(1)
Snuff	171	(1)
Water-Application in old age	172	(1)
Vinegar	173	(4)
Curd-Cheese	177	(6)
Part the Second. How can Cures be effected by Rules taken from my Experience?
Asthma	183	(1)
The Eye	184	(11)
General Remarks on weak Eyes and their Cure	189	(6)
Inflammation of the Peritoneum (Peritonitis); its Consequences	195	(2)
Caries	197	(7)
Bed-Wetting	204	(1)
Catarrh of the Bladder	204	(1)
Blood	205	(2)
Importance of a Regular Circulation in the human Body	205	(2)
Anaemia (Poorness of blood)	207	(11)
Blood-Vomiting (through Coughing Fits)	218	(1)
Blood-Vomiting (from the Stomach)	219	(1)
Blood Stagnations	220	(7)
Blood Poisoning	227	(2)
Loss of Blood, its consequences	229	(2)
Inflammation of the Diaphragm (Pleurisy), and its consequences	231	(1)
Chest Affections	232	(1)
Emphysema	232	(1)
Inflammation, not radically cured	233	(1)
Epilepsy	234	(3)
Obesity	237	(1)
Premature birth	238	(1)
Tetters or Herpes on the leg	239	(1)
Sore Feet	240	(2)
Sweating of the Feet	242	(3)
Ear Affections	245	(5)
Abscesses	250	(1)
Tumour (on the knee)	251	(2)
Gout	253	(4)
Articular Diseases	257	(1)
Arthritis	257	(1)
Throat Affections	258	(2)
Urinary Disorders	260	(2)
Skin Eruptions and Sores (Measles, Scarlet Fever etc.)	262	(4)
The Hip (Luxation of)	266	(1)
Some Infants' Diseases	267	(4)
Head Complaints	271	(4)
Spasmodic Affections	275	(1)
Liver Complaints	276	(1)
Pulmonary Diseases (incipient consumption, cold in the head, Emphysema etc)	277	(8)
Stomach Complaints (Diarrhoea, Constipation, Eructations, Indigestion etc.	285	(21)
Marasmus	306	(1)
Nervous Affection	307	(1)
Kidney Affection	308	(1)
Rheumatism and Kindred Affections	308	(10)
Rheumatism with Gout	318	(1)
Tabes (a spinal disease)	319	(1)
Apoplexy	320	(3)
Scrofula	323	(3)
Stone and Gravel Complaints	326	(1)
Typhus	327	(3)
Abdominal Complaints, (Inflammation, Cramp, Weakness etc.	330	(6)
St. Vitus's Dance and similar Maladies	336	(3)
Injudicious Feeding and its Consequences	339	(2)
Mucous Derangement (general)	341	(1)
Injuries, Wounds, and Poisoning	342	(4)
What to do after an involuntary Plunge-Bath	346	(1)
Dropsy	346	(8)
Health ruined by a Bad Life	354	(25)
Miscellaneous Remarks
Arnica (German Leopard's Bane)	358	(4)
Anaemia, (Poverty of blood)	362	(3)
Gout	365	(2)
Something about the Strengthening Soup	367	(2)
On the Effect of Water	369	(10)
Ablutions	369	(3)
Packings	372	(3)
Showers (Gushes)	375	(2)
Baths	377	(2)
A Word in Conclusion	379