The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. | Page 2

- 97
Castor Oil - 99
Manna - 101
Magnesia and Rhubarb - 102
The Lavement - 105
The Aperient Liniment - 107

II. Calomel - 107

III. Opiates - 110

IV. Leeching - 113

V. Blisters and Poultices - 114

VI. Baths - 117
The Cold-water Plunge Bath - 118
Sea Bathing - 120
The Shower Bath - 123
Ablution, or Sponging - 125
The Warm Bath - 188

Chap. III.
ON TEETHING, AND HINTS UPON THE PERMANENT TEETH.
I. On Teething. - 134
The Manner in which the temporary or milk Teeth appear - 134
The Management of the Infant when Teething is without difficulty -
136
The Management of the Infant in difficult Teething - 139

II. Hints on the permanent or adult Teeth - 148
The Manner in which they appear - 248
Their Value and Importance - 152
Their Management and Preservation - 154

Chap. IV.
HINTS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OP DISEASE IN THE
CHILD BY THE MOTHER.
I. Signs of Health - 163
II. Signs of Disease - 164
Of the Countenance - 165
Of the Gestures - 169
Of the Sleep - 171
Of the Stools - 172
Of the Breathing and Cough - 175

III. Other Circumstances which will assist in the early Detection of
Disease - 178
The Influence of the Seasons in producing particular Forms of Disorder
- 178
The Influence of an hereditary Predisposition to certain Diseases - 179

Chap. V.
ON WHAT CONSTITUTES THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF
THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN.
I. Accidents and Diseases which may occur to the Infant at Birth, or
soon after - 187
1. Still-born - 187
2. Injuries received during Birth - 193
3. Retention of Urine - 194
4. Swelling of the Breasts - 195
5. Inflammation of the Eyes - 196
6. Hare-lip - 199
7. Bleeding from the Navel-string - 201
8. Ulceration or imperfect Healing of the Navel - 20l
9. Bleeding from the Navel - 203
10. Jaundice - 204
11. Tongue-tied - 205
12. Moles and Marks on the Skin, etc. - 206

II. Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels; viz., Indigestion - Flatulence
- Vomiting - Griping and Looseness - 208
1. In the Infant at the Breast - 21O

2. At the period of Weaning - 217
3. In the child brought up by Hand - 221
Maternal Treatment - 222

III. Costiveness - 229
In Infancy - 229
In Childhood - 231

IV. Worms - 234
Not so frequent as popularly supposed; an error productive of mischief
- 234
How produced and how best prevented - 237

V. Scarlet Fever - 239
Mild Form - 239
With Sore Throat - 242
Scarlet Fever compared with Measles - 245
Maternal Management - 246

VI. Measles - 253
Description - 253
Compared with Scarlet Fever and Small Pox - 255

Maternal Management - 256

VII. Small-Pox - 262
Natural Small-Pox - 263
Small-Pox in the Vaccinated - 266
Maternal Management - 268
VIII. Hooping Cough - 275
Description - 276
Maternal Management - 279

IX. Croup - 286
Signs of its Approach - 286
Maternal Management - 289
Its prevention - 289

X. Water in the Head - 291
Its Prevention - 292
Maternal Management - 298

THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN.

Chapter I.

ON THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY AND
CHILDHOOD.

The line of demarcation made between infancy and childhood, both by
ancient and modern writers, has always been arbitrary. I would draw
the line between the two, at a period of time which appears to me to be
the most natural, the most simple, and least likely to lead the reader
into the danger of misapplying any part of the practical directions of
this, or any future chapter of the work. We will consider, then, that--
Infancy, commencing with birth, extends to about the end of the second
year, when the first dentition is completed.
Childhood extends from about the second, to the seventh or eighth year,
when the second dentition is commenced.

Sect. I. DIETETICS OF INFANCY.

In the early months of infancy the organs of digestion are unsuited to
any other food than that derived from the breast of the mother. So little
capable are they, indeed, to digest any other, even of the blandest and
most digestible kind, that probably not more than one infant in six or
seven ever arrives at the more advanced periods of life when deprived
of the kind of nourishment nature intended for this epoch.
It is not every parent, however, who is able to become a nurse; and with
many this office would not only be highly injurious to their own health,
but materially so to that of their