My Will.  A Legacy to the Healthy and the Sick by Sebastian Kneipp, Translated from the 14th German Edition, Second Edition, Jos. Kesel, Bavaria, 1889, 380pp, cloth, 5 x 8", 12mo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to boards.  Title in black ink on spine and gilt on front board.  Hinges are cracked.  Provenance in ink on flyleaf (Agnes Holtz, September 22, 1926).  Frontispiece opposite title page.  Toning and minor instances of age-staining throughout textblock.  Illustrated.  Please see photos.

Sebastian Kneipp (17 May 1821 - 17 June 1897) was a German Catholic priest and one of the forefathers of the naturopathic movement.  He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy (often called "Kneipp therapy" or "Kneippism"), the application of water through various methods, temperatures, and pressures, which he claimed to have therapeutic or healing effects, thus building several hospitals in Bad Worishofen.