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Title: Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms

Author: Charles Munde

Release Date: July 9, 2008 [EBook #26008]

Language: English

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HYDRIATIC TREATMENT

OF

SCARLET FEVER

IN ITS DIFFERENT FORMS.

OR

HOW TO SAVE,

THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC APPLICATION OF THE WATER-CURE, MANY
THOUSANDS OF LIVES AND HEALTHS, WHICH NOW ANNUALLY
PERISH.

Being the Result of

TWENTY-ONE YEARS' EXPERIENCE, AND OF THE TREATMENT AND
CURE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED CASES OF ERUPTIVE FEVERS.

BY

=CHARLES MUNDE, M.D., Ph.D.=

New-York:

WILLIAM RADDE, 300 BROADWAY.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

WILLIAM RADDE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New-York.

HENRY LUDWIG, Printer,
_39 Centre-street, N.-Y._

PREFACE.

In offering this pamphlet to the Public in general, and to Parents and
Physicians in particular, I have no other object than that of
contributing my share to the barrier which the medical profession has
attempted, for more than two hundred years, to raise against the
progress of the terrible disease which carries off upon an average, half
a million of human beings annually. All the efforts of medical men to
stop the ravages of Scarlet-Fever have hitherto proved unavailing; every
remedy which was considered, for a while, a specific proved subsequently
inefficient; and, notwithstanding the assertion to the contrary of a
few, the Dr. Jenner who shall discover a reliable prophylactic against
scarlatina, is probably not yet born. The patients die in the same
proportion as they did two hundred and fifty years ago, and the
physicians who h