Children's diseases : first report of the Clinical Hospital for Diseases of Children, Stevenson Square, Manchester : containing an account of the results of the first 530 patients there treated / by A. Schoepf Merei and J. Whitehead.

  • Schoepf Merei, Agost, 1804-1858.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Children's diseases : first report of the Clinical Hospital for Diseases of Children, Stevenson Square, Manchester : containing an account of the results of the first 530 patients there treated / by A. Schoepf Merei and J. Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Good development. In 49 at the ago of from 12 to 13 months, we have ascertained that 1 had no teeth 2 77 2 2 77 4 12 77 6 15 77 8 13 77 10 2 7? 12 2 77 14 77 77 77 77 77 77 77 Bad development. Of 45, all seen about the time by our- selves, at the age from 12 to 13 months: 9 of them had no teeth. 10 » 13 » 5 0 2 » » 2 4 6 8 12 )> » » » »> 49 All these we have seen ourselves at the age in question. Of 85 we have partly ascertained our- selves, partly according to statement of the mothers, at the age of 2 years : 1 had 12 teeth. 2 7 16 59 85 45 Of 73, partly seen at the age from 2 to 3 years, partly according to their mothers’statement, at the age of 2 years 1 had 6 teeth. 8 77 8 77 9 77 10 77 15 77 12 77 9 7 14 77 16 77 16 77 5 77 18 7? 10 77 20 77 73 16 18 20 77 >7 77 From the preceding table it will be seen that— setting- aside the children noted down in the books as being of a medium development—in the great majority of those with a favourable progress of development, namely, in 128 out of 161 children (79 per cent.), the first teeth appeared before the eighth month was past; hi 38 of them at eight to nine months; in 12 after the ninth ; in 3 after the twelfth ; and in none after the fourteenth month ; while in the great majority of children with an unfavourable development, namely in 71 out of 119 children (60 per cent.), the first teeth were cut at eight months and upwards; in 46 from nine to twelve months, and in 16 even after twelve months; and only in 48 (44 per cent.) before eight months. From the same table it follows that the appearance of the first teeth at five, six, or seven months had relatively the best significance for the after progress of development; whilst, with