Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms

The full title of Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Charles Munde promises to show how to save, through a systematic application of the water-cure, many thousands of lives and healths, which now annually perish. The title page describes the work as "the Result of TWENTY-ONE YEARS' EXPERIENCE, AND OF THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED CASES OF ERUPTIVE FEVERS."

The preface is addressed to the Public in general, and to Parents and Physicians in particular. The contents list entries such as Priessnitz's Method and the wet-sheet-Pack, Treatment of Scarlatina simplex and an item reading "There is neither a Specific nor a Prophylactic to be relied on," among others. The text describes a torpid reaction as one with the pulse small, weak, quick, the skin dry, the rash slow to appear. For such a case the text says that cold and short tonic baths or affusions and long packs are required, in proportion to the degree of the reactive power of the patient.