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  • It is not exactly known what amount of property Priessnitz left, but it is supposed to be nearly £100,000.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • When it is considered how small, compared to that given to other physicians, was the remuneration he received from his patients, and that thirty years ago, Priessnitz was a poor peasant, this fortune gives some measure of his immense success.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • [38] I think of the obstinacy of a medical friend, who refused to take a lesson from Priessnitz, and constantly looked for advice, in cases of need, in works written by learned practitioners.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • Nor did the physicians before Priessnitz know anything about the use of the _sitz-bath_ for affections of the brain in torpid reaction, which in such cases, is the only anchor of safety.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • Priessnitz was up and stirring at an early hour, but complained of the cold, and had wood brought in to make a large fire.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • I need scarcely assure my readers, that my feelings were far from agreeable, and that my resolution required all the reminiscence of the bad success of allopathic treatment of former cases in my family, and the confidence I had in Priessnitz and his system, to support it.

    Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

  • Hence, the rude huts and châlets of the peasant Priessnitz were crowded with battered dukes and princesses, and notables of every degree, who came from the hot, enervating luxury which had drained them of existence to find a keener pleasure in peasants 'bread under peasants' roofs than in soft raiment and palaces.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

  • Even the sweet incense to me fails of its effect if Paracelsus is to figure on a level with Priessnitz, and 'Jane'!

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

  • In this country, Dr. Trall of New York, Dr. Jackson of Danville, Dr. Kellogg of Battle Creek, and others caught the infection and crossed the ocean to become students of Priessnitz.

    Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

  • About seventy years ago this greatest and most beneficent of reformation movements was inaugurated by Priessnitz in Grafenberg, a small village in the Silesian mountains.

    Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

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