A Hand-book on the diseases of children and their homeopathic treatment

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Medical Century Company, 1895 - 905 pages
 

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Page 662 - Pneumonia is a self-limited disease, and runs its course uninfluenced in any way by medicine. It can neither be aborted nor cut short by any known means at our command.
Page 520 - ... absence of constitutional symptoms. It may also be used as a permanent article of diet in infants incapable of digesting the casein of milk. Meat juice is one of the most valuable and easiest digested of the albuminous foods. It is indicated when the symptoms indicate that the disease is caused by an acid fermentation, and in chronic cases when other albuminous foods disagree. It may also be used as a permanent article of diet in infants...
Page 28 - Water is an essential ingredient of the food supply of the infant, and should be administered freely. 8. Foods which are deficient in one or more of the necessary ingredients lead to the development of various forms of innutrition, particularly rickets and scurvy. 9. The infant should be fed at regular intervals, and not overfed. 10. The best artificial food for a healthy infant is pure milk from healthy cows, properly diluted and sweetened and sterilized, if the conditions of nutrition permit.
Page 519 - ... treatment. Cream contains so little albumin that theoretically it is never contra-indicated. It can do no harm in any form of the disease, but will be found to serve the best purpose in chronic cases and after the third or fourth day in acute cases.
Page 67 - LOWER EXTREMITY. Anterior tibial and popliteal ............................... Drain the deep lymphatics of the leg, and receive some vessels from the skin of the leg and foot, chiefly the outer side.
Page 44 - If the infant is small and light, it will be found more convenient and easier to hold it in the same way by the ankles, instead of the knees, allowing the calves instead of the thighs to rest in the palm of the hand. The next step is to depress the pelvis and lower extremities so as to allow the abdominal organs to drag the diaphragm downward, and with the left hand to gently bend the dorsal region of the spine backward. This enlarges the thoracic cavity, and produces inspiration.
Page 67 - Mouth, tonsils, palate, lower part of pharynx, larynx, posterior part of tongue, nasal fossae, parotid, and submaxillary glands, interior of skull, deep parts of neck and head.
Page 149 - ... but if possible (in accordance with my new synthetical principle) to obtain a remedy whose peculiar mode of action was calculated to produce in the healthy body most of the morbid symptoms which I observed combined in this disease. My memory and my written collection of the peculiar effects...
Page 519 - Meat broths contain so little albumen and carbohydrates that they are never theoretically contraindicated. They may be given at any time in either acute or chronic cases, but they are especially indicated in acute cases after the first twelve or twenty-four hours
Page 519 - Barley water and oatmeal water may be mixed with milk to advantage, as they mechanically facilitate the digestion of casein. In this combination they may be useful in chronic cases and in convalescent acute cases. White of egg is contraindicated in all cases of summer complaint when there are marked constitutional symptoms present, or when the diarrhoea is putrid or mucous, but it may be used in that form of the disease dependent on an abnormal acid fermentation...

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