Disease in Childhood: Its Common Causes, and Directions for Its Practical ManagementG. Cox, 1852 - 288 pages |
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adult advice ailment animal appear arrowroot attack attention Beef Tea birth body bowels bread castor oil causes chapter child childhood circumstances Cocoa cold condition consequence CONSTIPATION convulsions danger deaths debility dentition diarrhoea diet digestive digestive apparatus direct disease in children domestic management dose dyspepsia early Eau de Cologne eruption evil exer exercise existence fact fatal feeble frequently gelatine gentle give heat hydrocephalus importance improper infant influence instances irritation isinglass jaundice kind lactation less light lungs management of children meal measles medicine ment metropolis Milk and Water months mortality mother nature necessary neglect new-born nurse nursery observations occasionally organic painful parent period pint poor present proper regarded remarkable remedies removal render require respiration result scarcely scarlatina scrofulous serious sick skin stomach suckling suffering sugar symptoms teeth temperature tion towns treatment unfrequently vaccination ventilation vomiting warm weaning wet-nurse young children
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Page 34 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the Genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. But tell me further...
Page 34 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it, and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of...
Page 46 - These little children, brought up in unclean dwellings, and impure streets, -were left alone long days by their mothers to breathe the subtle sickly vapours — soothed by opium, a more ' cursed' distillation than ' hebenon' — and when assailed by mortal diseases, their stomachs torn, their bodies convulsed, their brains bewildered, left to die without medical aid, which, like hope, should
Page 34 - As I looked more attentively, I •saw several of the passengers drop through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared.
Page 34 - ... there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and Liy closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 46 - ... and when assailed by mortal diseases, their stomachs torn, their bodies convulsed, their brains bewildered, left to die without medical aid, which, like hope, should ' come to all' — the skilled medical man never being called in at all, or only summoned to wituess the death, and sanction the funeral.
Page 85 - ... explained. If air be passed through water, a certain amount of the organic matter poured off from the lungs is to be detected in it. By continuing this experiment for three months, Dr. Smith detected sulphuric acid, chlorine, and a substance resembling impure albumen. These substances are constantly being condensed upon cold bodies, and in a warm atmosphere the albuminous matter very soon putrifies and emits disagreeable odours. The changes which this substance undergoes by oxidation, lSrc.
Page 37 - RegistrarGeneral that a sudden fall of the mean temperature of the air from 45° to 4° or 5° below the freezing point (32°) of water, destroys from 300 to 500 lives in London, and produces the same results on a larger scale all over the country.
Page 46 - England — in the midst of a population unmatched for its energy, industry, manufacturing skill — in Manchester, the centre of a victorious agitation for commercial freedom — aspiring to literary culture — where Percival wrote and Dalton lived —»13,362 children perished in seven years over and above tho mortality natural to mankind. These little children...
Page 45 - Who can doubt that their bringing up is harder and much more difficult ? that the existence of a class of men, bound to society by few or no family ties, is not a matter of indifference to the State ? The great majority of foundlings are illegitimate, which of itself shows how. little, as a...