Wilhelm Winternitz

He was an influential neurologist[1] and hydropathist who at the time was commonly characterized as "the father of scientific hydrotherapy".

In 1858 he entered the Austrian Navy, but resigned his position as surgeon in 1861 and established a practice in Vienna.

[6] One of the people influenced by Winternitz was one of the Kellogg brothers involved in the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

Winternitz was a collaborator for hydropathy on Von Ziemssen's Handbuch der Allgemeinen Therapie (ed.

[7][8] In addition to several essays and monographs in medical journals, Winternitz was the author of the following works:

Winternitz in 1895