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) - Sebastian Kneipp - Bog

Found in this book are hints & advices for the healthy & the sick on a simple & rational mode of life & a natural method of cure. Various sufferings of mind & body render the performance of man's earthly duties difficult & 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 & 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 & means for the cure of diseases. Many books give us useful information about the healing properties of certain herbs & the wholesome effects of mineral substances.