Thermalisme

1903 · 63254 — Leipzig: Louis Kuhne 1903. Tall 8vo. x 460 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. numerous text illustrations. Olive-green coloured publisher’s cloth black decoration front cover gilt lettering decorated endpapers slight shelfwear very slight rubbing NF copy. Revised & expanded 14th edition of this famed work on alternative medicine by Kuhne 1835-1901 whose favorite method of treatment was sitting in a cold water bath and active proponent of vegetarianism. Kuhne considered cooked foods as less optimal for the body and in fact ranked “all foods which we have to change by cooking smoking spicing salting pickling and putting in vinegar lose in digestibility and as regards vitality are far inferior to food in its natural condition Kuhne What shall we eat Herald of Health and Naturopath 1918. Louis Kuhne, hardcover