Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — A Curious Case. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Case.

There have been all manner of odd health resorts; places people could eat grapes, drink skim milk, or where they could bathe or walk themselves into health. But the most singular cure in Europe is that of Lindewiese, an obscure village in Austrian Silesia. People troubled with the rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, and all allied disorders, throng this place, and many declare they are benefited. Six weeks effects the cure, during which time no water is drank and nothing but dry bread eaten. The patients are subjected to frequent packs in ice-cold water, which induces profuse sweating. There are three days in the week when drink is allowed, but it is a fermented mixture native to the country. Every patient, of course, loses weight, often as much as fifteen or twenty pounds, but very many are benefited by the entire change of life, and what they call the “blood-sweat.” — Demorest’s Monthly.