[The public health association and the proletarian naturopathy movement (1891-1933)].

The Public Health Association emerged from the proletarian nature healing movement developing in the late 19th century and united organizations that were interested in the preservation of health of the working people. As against the bourgeois nature healing movement, the Association searched for the reasons of the absolutely unsufficient protection of health of the working class in the capitalist society. The fall of this system and the setting-up of socialism were - in the opinion of the Association - the preconditions of social safety and protection of the health of all people. As a self-help organization of the working class, the Association strove for education in the field of health and a healthy life-style and for the application of natural cures. Progressive physicians supported the work of this organization.