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> Vorwort von Dr.
Grewers
24-page booklet:
"Die Atmungs-Kur,
Leitfaden
für
Lungengymnastik"
[The Breathing Cure:
A Pulmonary Exercise
Guide]
Here we reproduce the Foreword written by Dr. med. L. Grewers of Essen in 1930 for Katharina Schroth's 24-page booklet entitled "Die Atmungs-Kur, Leitfaden für Lungengymnastik" [The Breathing Cure: A Pulmonary Exercise Guide]:
"This little book is intended to be "simple and unpretentious": so writes Käthe Schroth in her "Preface" to the third edition - words of modesty for a treatment modality that, sooner or later, once it has become better known, will probably have a great deal to say for itself.
The "Breathing Cure" is not a résumé of meaningless words, but is rather the result of years of careful thought, supported by experience gained as the author worked on her own body. As Pastor Kneipp was once able to say about himself: Anyone who has personally been in need and misery knows best how to appreciate the needs of their fellow human beings. In the same way, Frau Schroth has personally experienced in her own body the "need and misery" of those whom she now seeks to help with her improved method.
I have repeatedly had the opportunity to convince myself personally of her magnificent successes, and even medical colleagues cannot help but express their appreciation to Frau Schroth - again something that is also only possible on the basis of observed successes. What is being applied here is not something artificial, but rather something that is in essence extremely simple and innocuous; in applying this method, those performing it need only an abundance of patience and selfless sacrifice. Encountered so often in popular medicine, the saying that "Truth is to be found in simplicity" also finds its fullest confirmation here.
As Frau Schroth herself has said, this booklet is not meant to be an exhaustive treatise. However, the explanations given will probably be sufficient to furnish ample evidence that this is a valuable healing method in the truest sense of the word. I personally can already give an opinion only on those things that I have seen, and, where appropriate, I will always make patients aware of this method because I know that they will be helped by it - and helped when all else has failed.
And so I believe I am not overstating my case when I claim that this healing system too is fully justified on medical grounds and that unprejudiced physicians will be able to set it alongside existing healing systems as being of equal value and rank with them.
In saying this, I permit myself to express the wish that Frau Schroth's booklet will find acceptance in many circles, and that it may be of benefit and blessing for the good of suffering humanity. Whoever acts according to the principles laid down here can only do good, because if we follow Nature as our guide, we will never go astray." And that was back in 1930!
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