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Page 42 - not above one in twenty-four of the poor children received into the work-houses lived to be a year old ; so that, out of two thousand eight hundred, the average annual number admitted, two thousand six hundred and ninety died; whereas since this measure was adopted, only four hundred and fifty out of the whole number
Page 156 - previous to the occurrence of lividness of the lips and other mortal symptoms, it has completely succeeded, both in curing the disease and in preventing any shock to the child's constitution.
Page 42 - an act of parliament was passed, obliging the parish-officers of London and Westminster to send their infant poor to be nursed in the country, at proper
Page 157 - the necessity for carefully watching the progress of the disease, so as to stop the calomel whenever the symptoms begin to yield. In a case where croup occurred after scarlet fever, (the child of a grocer in Richmond Street), along with the calomel, a decoction of snake-root, the favourite remedy of some American practitioners, wine, opiates, and
Page 153 - Immediately upon the attack, the child must be put into a tub of water, heated to the ninetysixth degree of Fahrenheit's thermometer, (that is, to the degree which the hand immersed in it can easily bear), or must be wrapped up in a blanket wrung out of hot water. Whether the bath or
Page 89 - as never to allow much local irritation from the pressure of the tooth, to open the bowels very freely, to regulate the diet, to direct some stimulating substance to be rubbed every six hours on the outside of the throat, and to give frequently some antispasmodic. After having tried the effects of preparations of opium, hyoscyamus, valerian, and
Page 88 - This complaint is of such rare occurrence, that it has been little attended to by practitioners, and has not been accurately described by any author. It has appeared in the most robust as well as the most delicate infants, and, as far as my observation enables me to judge, is ^peculiar to the period of cutting the deciduous teeth. It sometimes continues for
Page 164 - and on several parts of the skin, particularly on the face, the eruption recedes, leaving large portions of the surface of a pale yellow, with a small white blister or vesication in the middle. The eruption disappears in a day or two, and, under proper treatment, the fever soon abates. The alarming appearance of great determination to
Page 89 - Blisters on the throat or breast are to be used as auxiliaries ; and the warm bath and emetics are to be occasionally advised, for the purpose of palliating symptoms.
Page 164 - apt to take place on blistered parts, afford such unequivocal evidences of debility, that no other than a descendant of the renowned Sangrado himself could overlook them.