A Practical Homœopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Women and Children: Intended for Intelligent Heads of Families and Students in Medicine

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Geo. S. Wilcox, 1866 - 461 pages
 

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Page viii - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Page 210 - Sleep on, sweet babe, and take thy rest, God called thee home; he thought it best.
Page 287 - Such persons are particularly attentive to the state of their own health, to every the smallest change of feeling in their bodies : and from any unusual feeling, perhaps of the slightest kind, they apprehend great danger, and even death itself. In respect to all these feelings and apprehensions, there is commonly the most obstinate belief and persuasion.
Page 176 - I give an ounce every two, three, or four hours, according to the severity of the case — that will be from twelve to thirty-six grains of quinine in the twenty -four hours according to the case.
Page 142 - ... about ten or fifteen minutes. To this is added, with constant stirring, and just at the termination of the boiling, the milk and arrowroot, the latter being previously mixed into a paste with a little cold water. After the addition of the milk and arrowroot, and just before the removal from the fire, the cream is poured in, and a moderate quantity of loaf sugar added. The proportions of milk, cream, and arrowroot must depend on the age and digestive powers of the child.
Page 128 - The only cases," continues Dr. M., " in which a moderate portion of malt liquor is justifiable, are when the milk is deficient, and the nurse averse or unable to put another in her place. Here, of two evils, we choose the least, and rather give the infant milk of an inferior quality, than endanger its health by weaning it prematurely, or stinting it of its accustomed nourishment...
Page 133 - The eruption of the temporary teeth commences at the seventh month, and is complete about the end of the second year, those of the lower jaw preceding the upper. The periods for the eruption of the temporary set are: — 7th month, central incisors.
Page 151 - God and the doctor we alike adore, But only when in danger, not before ; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the doctor slighted.
Page 344 - You are probably aware that belladonna is believed by many to exert a preventive and protecting influence upon the body against the contagion of scarlet fever.
Page 136 - I am convinced that the attempt to bring up children by hand proves fatal in London to at least seven out of eight of these miserable sufferers; and this happens whether the child has never taken the breast at all, or, having been suckled for three or four weeks only, is then weaned. In the country the mortality among dry-nursed children is not quite so great as in London, but it is abundantly greater than is generally imagined.

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