This has been written primarily for parents to supplement the services of the public health or visiting nurse in the home of a family with a rheumatic fever patient. It shows through the text and through many photographs, the course of an 11 year old child with rheumatic fever; first in bed at rest, then the successive stages of recovery back to full activity, pointing out the physical, emotional, mental and social care needed at these stages. The photographs are excellent and illustrate the application of the written material in the text.