Excerpt from Children, Their Hydropathic Management in Health and Disease: A Descriptive and Practical Work, Designed as a Guide for Families and Physicians, Illustrated With Numerous Cases One of the saddest of all pictures to be seen in human life, is that of the great amount of mortality in infancy and childhood. Let us, for a moment, look at the facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.