The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases

There remains for consideration a large class of what may be termed _constitutional diseases_, in which the local ailment is the outcome of a previous disorder of the whole syst...

=Infantile Atrophy.=--In by far the greater number of instances, the wasting of young children is due to their being fed upon food which they cannot digest, or which when digest...

It is stated on good authority[11] that more than half of the deaths at all ages from these causes take place in children under five years, a fact which at first sight seems as...

In speaking of the ailments which occur during the first month after birth, I have already noticed the peculiarities of breathing in early infancy, and the difficulties that som...

=Manner of Performance of Digestion.=--The organs situated in what is called in medical language the abdomen, have in the child no other duty to perform than such as subserve th...

The management of the child when ill is difficult or easy in exact proportion to whether it has been ill or well managed when in health. The mother who lives but little with her...

=Still-birth.=--The infant cries almost as soon as it comes into the world. The cry is the evidence that air has entered its lungs, that the blood has now begun to take a differ...

In the infant it is the last of these which very often calls attention to the illness from which it is suffering. Cries are the only language which a young baby has to express i...

The purpose of this little book will probably be best attained, and needless repetition best avoided, if we begin by inquiring very briefly why so many children die, what genera...

The ailments hitherto noticed are by no means all that may occur during infancy and early childhood, but those only which either happen then exclusively, or at least with far gr...

All that has been said hitherto is only introductory to the great purpose of this book, which is to give an account of the nature, symptoms, and course of the more important dis...

Disorders and diseases of the brain and nervous system -- Their mortality and its causes -- Convulsions -- Congestion of the brain -- Sunstroke -- Water on the brain -- Inflamma...

Disorders and diseases of children after the first month, and until teething is finished -- Infantile atrophy -- Rules for artificial feeding -- Management of indigestion -- Thr...

General management of disease -- Mothers who cannot nurse their children when ill -- Importance of truth and keeping child happy -- Rules for management of bed-room and bed -- T...

Diseases of organs of digestion -- Description of process of digestion -- Dyspepsia of weakly children -- Jaundice -- Diarrh[oe]a -- Peritonitis -- Large abdomen -- Worms -- Ulc...