I judged from the cover that this was going to be a good book, but would there be beautiful images inside?   I’m a sucker for skulls and skeletons, so when I saw these in the book I knew it was a keeper. I don’t know the German language, not many words at all except Knoblauch means garlic, because that was a family name. I tried to find something about this book, and all I could find in English was that it is a ‘handbook of nature-friendly way of life and salvation’. Granted, I didn’t look that hard, with spring here and a garden to tend to. I do know that Germany is big on homeopathy and plants as medicine, and the twenty botanical plates in this book prove that it goes way back.  Here are three of them:

Plants weren’t a cure-all. You needed exercise too. Here are just a few of the recommended

body movements:

In the beginning of the book are five plates of the human’s internal structure. Here are two of them:

And last but not least the man Kneipp himself from an engraving in the book.

This book is from 1903. I hope you enjoyed taking a peek inside. If anyone want to enlighten me on this book, I’d be grateful. Lastly, here is the title page.