Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms

"Hydriatic Treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms" by Charles Munde is a medical text from the 1800s about using water-based therapies to combat scarlet fever, a serious illness. The author uses his decades of experience treating many patients to argue for his systematic methodology, believing it can greatly improve survival and healing. Munde, in his introduction, makes clear how dangerous scarlet fever is and how he disagrees with current medical practices from other physicians. He discusses his own success with water treatments performed over two decades, claiming a very strong survival rate among his patients, wanting to reach both doctors and parents and provide them with the knowledge and methods needed to fight the dangerous illness through the careful application of water treatments.