A crisis of boils ensued, and after they healed, patient was perfectly well. The patient writes to a friend--"I now leave Gräfenberg with a clean body, and a sincere wish for your own speedy cure, and that of all the agreeable acquaintances that I leave behind me, under the safe care of our virtuous and sagacious friend V. Priessnitz." _Chronic Rheumatism, Chronic Headache, Constipation, Piles, &c._--A Gentleman, aged about 45, was treated as follows:-- Morning, sweating process and cold bath, three minutes; noon, douche, three minutes; an hour afterwards, sitz-bath fifteen minutes; foot-bath fifteen minutes; head-bath ten minutes; one following the other immediately; afternoon, noon treatment over again; all night--loins, feet, legs, and thighs, to the fork, were encased in bandages. In a few months, rheumatism, piles, and constipation were cured, but head-ache returned at intervals. _Rheumatic attack in the Back, Shoulders, and Neck._--The sweating process, followed by three rubbing-sheets not much wrung out, applied without intermission for five minutes each, put an end to the attack at once. If this number of rubbing-sheets had not cooled the body, more must have been used. Had rheumatism continued, rubbing-sheets must have been resorted to again in the afternoon, and the sweating resumed the next day. _Rheumatic Fever._--For a slight attack of rheumatic fever, three rubbing-sheets three times a-day were found sufficient. _Rheumatic Gout._--A gentleman named Heymann, about 34 years of age, at the fire at Hamburg was exposed to the wet from the engines for several days and nights. The result was, a violent attack of rheumatic gout; first in the knees and feet, then neck and arms; afterward in hip and both breasts, which confined him to bed a whole year, from April 1843 to April 1844. During this time he took large quantities of medicine, and used steam and sulphur baths: about seventy of the former, and near a hundred of the latter. Also mud and sulphur baths, which enabled him to walk for about a month, when he was again confined to bed. Gout having attacked the breast, both his medical attendants declared they could do no more. 1st May, 1844, he was conveyed to Gräfenberg, so crippled that he could not dress himself. He began the treatment as follows:-- Morning, packing-sheet and tepid bath; noon, three rubbing-sheets, at intervals of five minutes, with open windows; afternoon, packing-sheet one hour, and tepid bath; bandage round the body, and from ankles to knees during the night. Pain increasing, parts affected were rubbed with wet hands both day and night until they became hot. Body entirely bandaged by night. Bandage changed three or four times as pain resulted from the bandages being dry. At the expiration of three months, patient enabled to walk out. Treatment changed.