On the disorders of infantile development, and rickets : preceded by observations on the nature, peculiar influence, and modifying agencies of temperaments / by A. Schoepf Merei.

  • Schoepf Merei, Agost, 1804-1858.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On the disorders of infantile development, and rickets : preceded by observations on the nature, peculiar influence, and modifying agencies of temperaments / by A. Schoepf Merei. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. 0 The first part of this work contains the substance of a few lectures on temperaments, which I had the honour of deliver- ing here in the Chatham-street School of Medicine in 1852, amplified subsequently by further observations. The style in which this part is given will be found to bear marks of such origin, which it would have been difficult otherwise to arrange. Having endeavoured to trace the peculiar features and dispositions of temperaments from the early period of life; and indicated the special kinds of diet, which, according to my experience, are requu'ed by each of the several types for their healthy physical development, I have availed myself of this opportunity, to state also some facts of practical importance which have attracted my attention, relative to the chmatic, pathological, and remedial bearings of temperaments in different countries, and especially in England. The second part contains the results of a long protracted and careful investigation of the principal developmental disorders of infancy, upon an extended scale. Far from attempting to treat this important subject in a comprehensive manner, with such literary references as are required in a systematic work, I propose to do little more than furnish facts and illustrations, which I was enabled to derive from a varied and wide-spread sphere of personal