The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

  • Wakley, Thomas, 1795-1862.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ness and drowsiness, and occasional irritability of temper. The treatment should consist in first administering an emetic of ipecacuanha, which should shortly be fol¬ lowed up by small doses of carbonate of magnesia. The tepid bath usually increases the irritation, but a mild lotion, consisting of Vinegar, half an ounce ; Spirits of wine, half an ounce ; Water, a pint, well mixed, and applied over the surface of water, allays the itching. TOOTH RASH usually occurs from the fourth to the sixth or seventh month during dentition; it affects the cheeks, neck and ears, and depends in a great measure upon the irrita^ tion caused by the teeth, and also upon the state of the bowels. The treatment for this disease is to administer small and frequent doses of equal parts of blue powder and rhubarb, and to foment the eruptic parts with a lotion, composed of Tincture of benzoin, ten drops; Water, four ounces, well shaken. SCARLET FEVER, or, as it is usually termed, scarlatina, like measles, may affect the child either in a mild or severe form; should the attack be mild, the symptoms will commence with slight feverish action. The eruption appears on the second day, first about the neck and face, in the form of innumerable red points, which in twenty-four hours or less cover the whole body. Upon the limbs, but espe¬ cially about the fingers, there is a diffuse and continued efflorescence, but on the trunk of the body the rash is distributed in irregular patches.