do the tenth part of the service
which may with certainty be expected from the systematic use of water as
I give it in this treatise.

Owing to the reluctance of the profession to allow Hydro-therapeutics an
honorable place among medical systems, I address myself more to parents
than to physicians. Had I intended to write for the latter, exclusively,
the important subject which I am treating, would have received another
coat. However, nothing of value to the physician has been omitted,
whilst much has been said, which though _he_ does not need it, seemed to
me indispensably necessary for people not initiated in the medical art.

In regard to the style and language in general, I solicit the reader's
indulgence. I may appear pretentious in publishing the present pamphlet,
written in a tongue which is not my own, without submitting it,
previously, to the correction of an English or American pen; but this
publication has been called forth by the tears of mothers mourning over
the bodies of their darlings during the present winter, and too much
time has been lost already in preparing it, for those whose life might
have been saved, by an earlier publication, whilst I am fully aware of
the imperfections of a work, which has been done during the few, often
interrupted, leisure-hours left to me by the position I occupy. But
whatever may be its defects, I feel convinced, that it cannot fail doing
some little good; and should but one mother's tears remain unshed, I
would never regret having published it. The good it will do, must depend
on the favor with which it is received.

CHARLES MUNDE.

FLORENCE WATER-CURE,}
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. }

_March, 1857._

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART THE FIRST.

DESCRIPTION OF SCARLET-FEVER.
PAGE

1. Definition--Scarlet-Fever or Scarlatina 13

2. Division of the process of the disease into _Periods_ 13

3. Period of Incubation, or Hatching 13

4. Period of Eruption, or Appearing of the Rash 14

5. Period of Efflorescence, or Standing out of the Rash 15

6. Period of Desquamation, or Peeling off 16

7. Period of Convalescence 17

8. Varieties of Forms of Scarlatina 17

9. _Scarlatina simplex_, o