_Where there is a will, there is a way!_--I am sure that when once your mind is made up to use the treatment, it will not be difficult for you to find the means for it. There is always water, and there are always hands enough, where there is _resolution_. And who would mind a little trouble, when he can save a fellow creature's, perhaps a darling child's life and health? As for the rest, the few days' trouble, which the hydriatic mode of treatment gives, is largely recompensed by the much shorter duration of the disease, and by the immediate relief the patient derives from almost every application of water. I have generally found that those parents who had confidence in the treatment, had also the courage to resort to it. _Confidence and courage_ create _resolution_, and when once you have begun to treat your patient, you will be sure to persevere. _Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute_, as the French say: only the first step is difficult. 127. PREJUDICE OF PHYSICIANS AGAINST THE WATER-CURE. The greatest, and the most serious, difficulty lies in the prejudice of physicians against the Water-Cure. This prejudice, although in the treatment of the diseases before us, it is founded on no other reasons but ignorance, lack of courage and the habit of travelling the old trodden path--the same _regular path_ which thousands and millions have travelled not to return--neither you, dear reader, nor I, shall be able to conquer by words. But we may succeed by actions. Take the matter in your own hands, before it is too late. Do not plead your want of knowledge and experience: a whip in the hand of a child is less dangerous than a double-edged sword in the hand of a fencing-master. I have known many a mother to treat her child for scarlet-fever, measles, small-pox, croup, &c., after my books, or after prescriptions received in Graefenberg and other hydriatic establishments, and I scarcely remember a case of accident, whilst those treated in the usual mode by the best physicians would die in numbers. I repeat it: there is no danger in the _wet-sheet pack_, and should a patient die under the treatment prescribed by me, you may be sure, he would not have lived under any other mode of treatment. 128. REBELLION! _This is preaching rebellion!_ I know it is, and it is with great reluctance that I preach it, as I am by no means in favor of taking medical matters out of the hands where they belong, to place them into the hands of such as have had no medical education. I despise quackery, and I wish physicians could be prevailed upon to take the matter in their own hands. But, the following anecdote will enable you to judge what we may expect in that quarter, and whether I am justified in preaching rebellion against the old routine--for I deny going against science and the profession--and for a new practice which has proved to be safer than any hitherto adopted. 129. FACTS.