_Hooping Cough._--Rub the child well all over, particularly the chest and back of the neck with hands continually dipped in cold water; or use a rubbing sheet. Bandage the chest, breast, and loins. If sufficiently strong, let the child lie in bed until quite hot, then tepid bath 64° and use great friction until quite chilled. If fever be present, a packing-sheet should precede the tepid bath, and afterwards a bandage round the waist. Hooping cough may also be treated thus:-- Tepid bath, with great friction, for ten minutes in the morning; two rubbing-sheets at mid-day; the same in the afternoon: head-bath before going to bed; chest and body bandaged and changed often; drink much water. _Mumps._--Begin with rubbing-sheets; then packing-sheets and tepid-bath. Bandage the throat, loins, and side of the head affected. Change the bandages often, keep the mouth full of water, and change it when warm. _Croup with Sore Throat and Cough._--A child, on awaking in the morning, had face very red and found much difficulty in breathing. Treatment:-- A cold water injection, then two rubbing-sheets, and bandage all round the body from the throat to the hips. An enema did not act, but appeared to cool the body; it remained in the body eight minutes. When discharged, another rubbing-sheet and wet bandage were applied. Breathing free, and child slept until morning. Then well rubbed in bath 62° for ten minutes. Ate little breakfast. Dined on rice pudding. Afternoon. Flushed and feverish. Priessnitz, who now saw the patient, approved of what had been done, and said if the croup had continued, eight or ten rubbing-sheets ought to have been administered; allowing ten to twenty minutes between each; depending upon the violence of attack and strength of patient. Evening. Patient was feverish, when the following was ordered:-- Body, _but not_ the feet, to be enveloped in packing-sheet, and there remain until feet were warm: then tepid-bath 64° ten minutes. If the feet are cold in the bath, rub them with wet hands until a good circulation is produced. In the night, fever abated and the child slept soundly. Next day croup nearly gone and appetite good. Another child with croup was treated in the same way on the first day. At nine o'clock at night, chest, windpipe, and between the shoulders, were rubbed for some time with wet hands; then the waist, throat, and chest were bandaged. Slept well, but flushed and feverish in the morning; complained of sore throat. Packing-sheet until hot, and tepid-bath 64°. Still feverish. At noon, rubbing-sheet, not wrung out. If no fever and appetite, to go out. Repeat rubbing-sheet in the afternoon. Should fever continue, packing-sheet followed by rubbing-sheets. This was not necessary. Second day. Tepid bath in the morning, and rubbing-sheets at twelve and five o'clock. Both children cured in three days.