An account of the diseases most incident to children, from the birth till the age of puberty. With a successful method of treating them. To which is added, an essay on nursing: with a particular view to children who are brought up by hand. Also a short general account of the Dispensary for the Infant Poor / [George Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, George, 1719-1789.
Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the diseases most incident to children, from the birth till the age of puberty. With a successful method of treating them. To which is added, an essay on nursing: with a particular view to children who are brought up by hand. Also a short general account of the Dispensary for the Infant Poor / [George Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    load their tender bowels, and occafion moft of the complaints to which infancy is fubje&. For as they cannot of themfelves ule exer- cife for promoting digeftion, and as their nurfes too often negle& to give it them, and to rub them, the contents of their ftomach and bowels muft flagnate; and, either by their vifcidity, or acrimony, or both, produce various complaints, and often death itfelf. And here I cannot help ob- ferving, that this very want of exercife may be one great reafon, why a much greater number of our fpecies die in their infancy, than of the young of other animals, even reckoning for the firft two or three months only. Some of them, fuch as puppies, kit- tens, and rabbits, foon begin to crawl about, and the mothers encourage them to it by playing with them: colts, calves, and lambs, are forced to ufe their limbs very foon after the birth, being obliged to follow their dams fcr nourifhment. But to return toinfants. — for his complaints, except the above vifcid quality of the bile in the gall-biadder, which had tinged the neighbour- ing parts of a deep orange colour. The father ‘of this child was a native of the Wet nae and fubjedt to bili- ous complaints.