Kneippism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kneippism \Kneipp"ism\, n. Also Kneipp's cure \Kneipp's cure\,
     or Kneipp cure \Kneipp cure\,
     Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking
     barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold
     affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian
     Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]