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 230 - A child of five years may take five or six grains every two, three, or four hours, according to the urgency of the case. After the first week it should be given less frequently, and finally omitted. The practice of some physicians, of continuing the use of the bromide in frequent large doses after the first or at least second week, is to be deprecated, for after a time it is apt to produce symptoms which can with difficulty...
Page 210 - Sleep on, sweet babe, and take thy rest, God called thee home; he thought it best.
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 21 - The dose is from two to four grains, and the most convenient mode of administering it is in the form of pill. During the whole period of the intermission, the dose of quinine should be repeated every hour, or every two hours, according to the urgency of the case. If the biliary secretion be unhealthy, which it almost always is, it will be useful to combine with every alternate dose of the quinine, from the sixth to the half of a grain of blue pill, together with two grains of the extract of gentian.
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.
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 - ... them a solid basis of support. 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 278 - A weak dyspeptic stomach acts slowly, or not at all, on solid lumps and tough masses of food. The delayed morsels undergo spontaneous changes, promoted by the mere warmth and moisture of the stomach : gases are extricated : acids are formed : perhaps the half-digested mass is at length expelled by vomiting; or it passes undissolved into the duodenum, and becomes a source of irritation and disturbance during the whole of its journey through the intestines.

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