The large scope of therapies that Priessnitz used for his cure treatments in Gräfenberg completely fell into oblivion. More than 50 different applications of water, partly created by Priessnitz, dietary therapy for every patient, a lot of physical exercise, air as well as sun baths, improvement of fitness, and a regular life style were included in Priessnitz' treatments. He treated a variety of indications, not only chronic but also severe acute ones. The Vinzenz Priessnitz'sche Familien-Wasserbuch is a real treasury of forgotten facts about the genius who was the first to rediscover and remodel hydrotherapy before Kneipp.

The question is of nephrological interest, whether the secretory product of eccrine sudoriferous glands apart from the well known function for thermoregulation is useful as excretory product for the therapy of renal insufficiency. In 17 healthy subjects and 39 patients with renal insufficiency thermal sweat was obtained by exposition in the sauna and four-tub bath. Control of the trainability of sweating in 23 patients during six weeks in the Kneipp cure sanatory. For the daily fluid balance remarkable quantities of sweat could be achieved. The sweat performance is trainable. The content of soluta in the sweat of patients with renal insufficiency surmounts that of healthy test persons. The excretion of nitrogen metabolites, electrolytes and acidity is quantitatively different and is analysed individually. Apart from the reliable methods of the conservative and invasive therapy of the uraemia the thermically stimulated sweating can be recommended as an adjuvant therapeutic regime.