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196 which led him to the adoption of the Hunger Cure are briefly these. Whilst on a journey, his horse broke his leg; he applied to a monk, who advised him to wash the tumid leg often in cold water, and probe it with a sharp stick. But instead of complying fully with the monk's directions, he wound cloths about the limb and kept them constantly wet with cold water. The horse laid down and refused to eat or drink, but at length improved, and in ten weeks was well. In this case Schrott thought he saw an extraordinary cure, which he by the use of water, and the horse by his abstinence, had conjointly accomplished, and thereupon he set up an infirmary at Lindewiesse, near Græffenburgh, where he commenced treating patients upon his new plan. Guided by the lesson taught him by his sick horse, he came to the conclusion that sick men should not be allowed either to eat or drink, because sick animals will not. He commences what he calls his strong cure by packing the entire body, except the face, in blankets, which he keeps wet for eight hours every day, and directs entire abstinence from both food