The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. Thomas Bull

The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease - Thomas Bull


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       INDIGESTION, FLATULENCE, VOMITING, GRIPING, AND LOOSENESS.

       1. TO THE INFANT AT THE BREAST.

       2. AT THE PERIOD OF WEANING.

       3. TO THE CHILD BROUGHT UP BY HAND.

       MATERNAL TREATMENT OF THE DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS.

       1. IN INFANCY.

       2. IN CHILDHOOD.

       SECT. IV.—WORMS.

       INDEX.

       THE END.

       Table of Contents

      This little book has been written for the young and inexperienced mother. It is intended to furnish her with that information which the experience and observation of some years convince the author, young mothers, almost without any exception, do not possess; and yet, from ignorance of which, the constitution of many an infant has received irretrievable injury, and life itself but too frequently fallen a sacrifice.

      In the first chapters, devoted to the general management of the child in health, the author has endeavoured to teach the young mother, that the prevention of disease is her province, not its cure; that to this object all her best efforts must be directed; and, moreover, that to tamper with medicine, when disease has actually commenced, is to hazard the life of her offspring.

      In the fourth chapter it has been attempted to point out, how the first symptoms of disease may be early detected by the parent. The subject has been felt to be a difficult one, and to give particular directions quite out of the question; but it is hoped that the suggestions thrown out will, in some measure, answer the purpose intended. On the advantage of an early and prompt application of remedies in the diseases of childhood, generally so active in their progress and severe in their character, it is unnecessary to offer any observation.

      The latter part of the work, consisting of the maternal management of disease, the author regards as a subject of high and serious moment. Small as is the attention which has been hitherto paid to it, yet, in the diseases of infancy and childhood, how invaluable is a careful and judicious maternal superintendence to give effect to the measures prescribed by the physician.

      The author has endeavoured to arrange the contents of the work in a manner which shall be most easily understood and readily available; and he now publishes it with the desire to supply, in some degree, a deficiency in this important department of knowledge.

      Finsbury Place, June, 1840.

       Table of Contents

      ON THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

      Sect. - Page

      I. On the Dietetics of Infancy - 2

      1. Maternal Nursing - 3

      Plan of Suckling - 3

      Deficiency of Milk - 11

      The injurious Effects to Mother and Infant of undue and protracted

       Suckling - 15

      Mothers who ought never to suckle - 20

      2. Wet-nurse Suckling - 27

      Choice of a Wet-nurse - 28

      Diet and Regimen of a Wet-nurse - 31

      3. Artificial Feeding, (bringing up by hand) - 34

      The Kind of artificial Food before the sixth Month - 35

      The Kind of artificial Food after the sixth Month to the completion of first Dentition - 44

      The Kind of artificial Food most suitable under the different

       Complaints to which Infants are liable - 48

      II. Weaning - 51

      The Time when - 51

      The Mode - 52

      The drying up of the Mother's Milk - 54

      III. On the Dietetics of Childhood - 54

      General Directions, and of animal Food - 55

      Sugar - 60

      Salt - 61

      Fruits - 62

      Water - 63

      Wine, Beer, and Spirits - 63

      IV. Sleep - 66

      During Infancy - 66

      During Childhood - 69

      V. Bathing and Cleanliness - 72

      During Infancy - 72

      During Childhood - 75

      VI. Clothing - 78

      During Infancy - 78

      During Childhood - 81

      VII. Air and Exercise - 83

      In Infancy - 83

      In Childhood - 89

      Chap. II.

      ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES.

      I. Aperient Medicine - 97

      Castor Oil - 99

      Manna - 101

      Magnesia and Rhubarb - 102

      The Lavement - 105

      The Aperient Liniment - 107

      II. Calomel - 107

      III. Opiates - 110

      IV. Leeching - 113

      V. Blisters and Poultices - 114

      VI. Baths - 117

      The Cold-water Plunge Bath - 118

      Sea Bathing - 120

      The Shower Bath - 123

      Ablution, or Sponging - 125

      The Warm Bath - 188

      Chap. III.

      ON TEETHING, AND HINTS UPON THE PERMANENT TEETH.

      I. On Teething. - 134

      The Manner in which the temporary or milk Teeth appear - 134

      The Management of the Infant when Teething is without difficulty - 136

      The Management of the Infant in difficult Teething - 139

      II. Hints on the permanent or adult Teeth - 148

      The Manner in which they appear


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