Charles Munde

Charles Munde is credited as the author of Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms, a medical work first published in New York in 1857. Library records for that book identify the author as Munde, Carl, suggesting that "Charles Munde" and "Carl Munde" refer to the same writer in English-language publication records.

The book presents him as M.D., Ph.D. and says it was based on twenty-one years' experience treating eruptive fevers. In it, he promoted hydriatic or water-cure methods for scarlet fever, reflecting a period when hydrotherapy held an important place in some nineteenth-century medical practice.

Little else about his life was clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed here, so the surviving picture is mostly that of a doctor writing for both physicians and families during a time of frequent and frightening infectious disease outbreaks. Today, his work is mainly of interest as a historical medical text rather than a guide to current treatment.