A Practical Treatise on the Management and Diseases of Children

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Marvin, 1848 - 430 páginas

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Página 368 - The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened. Inflamed spots now begin to appear on different parts of the hands of the domestics employed in milking, and sometimes on the wrists, which quickly run on to suppuration, first assuming the appearance of the small vesications produced by a burn.
Página 47 - V. discovered that the proportion of deaths within a very limited period after birth, compared with the total births, was much greater in winter than in summer, in the northern and colder than in the southern and warmer departments, and in parishes where the inhabitants were scattered over a large surface of ground, than in others where they were more closely congregated around the mayor.
Página 373 - JBryce proposes that, a second inoculation be performed about the sixth day after the first, the vesicle produced by this second inoculation is accelerated in its progress, so as to arrive at maturity, and again fade, at nearly the same time as the affection arising from the first inoculation. • Mr. B. considers the acceleration of the second...
Página 52 - who labour under any mortal or weakening disease — as phthisis, haemorrhages, epilepsy — are obviously disqualified from the office of nurse. Some who are in other respects healthy, have breasts incapable of secreting a sufficient supply of milk. In other instances, the breast may perform its functions well, but the nipple may be naturally so small, or may be so completely obliterated by the pressure of tight stays, as not to admit of its being laid hold of by the child. These are actual physical...
Página 56 - ... examined the mother, we must next turn to the child, which should be well nourished, clean, and free from eruptions, especially on the head and buttocks. We should also carefully examine its mouth, to ascertain that it is free from sores or aphthae. If both woman and child bear such an examination, we may with tolerable security pronounce the former to be likely to prove a good nurse.
Página 59 - A healthy child, of two or three years old, commonly awakes hungry and thirsty at tive or six o'clock in the morning, sometimes even earlier. Immediately after awaking, a little bread and sweet milk should be given to it, or (when the child is too young to eat bread) a little bread-pap. The latter should be warm ; but in the former case, the bread may be eaten from the hand, and the milk allowed to be drunk cold, as it is well at this meal to furnish no inducement for eating beyond that of hunger....
Página 56 - It should be thin, and of a bluish-white colour ; sweet to the taste ; and when allowed to stand, should throw up a considerable quantity of cream. A nurse should not be old, but it is better that she should have had one or two children before, as she will then be likely to have more milk, and may be supposed to have acquired experience in the management of infants.
Página 381 - ... most active state. It was taken from the arm of a boy just before the commencement of the eruptive fever, and instantly inserted. It very speedily produced a sting-like feel in the part. An efflorescence appeared, which on the fourth day was rather extensive, and some degree of pain and stiffness were felt about the shoulder : but on the fifth day these symptoms began to disappear, and in a day or two after went entirely off, without producing any effect on the system.
Página 64 - ... are taken ; because, cold being relative, it is difficult from our own feelings to judge of its effects on others, and because it does not always manifest itself by determinate and uniform sensations. They do not feel the cold, but they have an uneasiness or an indisposition which arises from it; their constitution becomes deteriorated by passing through the alternations of health and disease ; and they sink under the action of an unknown cause. It is the more likely to be unknown because the...
Página 64 - ... sensations. They do not feel the cold, but they have an uneasiness or an indisposition, which arises from it ; their constitution becomes deteriorated by passing through the alternations of health and disease, and they sink under the action of an unknown cause. It is the more likely to be unknown, because the injurious effects of cold do not always manifest themselves during, or immediately after, its application. The changes are at first insensible; they increase by the repetition of the impression,...

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