991. A plentiful draught of water will sometimes be suffi.
sient, when the substance is merely engaged in the folds of the
gullet. We would, however, particularly recommend in. this
case the white of an egg, and, if necessary, a second.
992. Diseases of Infants.
The most frequent of these are—1, disorders of the stomach ;
2, disorders of the bowels ; 3, exhaustion ; 4, febrile affections ;
5, exanthematous diseases, or those which are attended with
eruptions of the skin; 6, affections of the head ; 7, diseases of
the thorax, or chest ; 8, affections of the abdomen, or belly.
Disorders of the stomach generally depend on improper
diet ; or they may he secondary, and the effects of a disordered
or confined state of the bowels. ‘They are often detected by
acid or fcetid eructations and breath, or by the unusually ie-
quent regurgitation or vomiting of food.
Disorders of: the bowels can never be mistaken or overlooked
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274 Tue Duminton Cook Book.
Dy an aticntive nurse, the evacuations in their number and
appearance being the perfect index to these disorders.
It inust never be forgotten that whenever the system has~
been exposed to sources of exhaustion, this condition may be-
come, in its turn, the source of various morbid affections which
are apt to be ascribed to other causes, and treated by improper, ’
and therefore dangerous, measures. If the infant has had
diarrheea, or if, without this, its cheeks be pale and cool; and ~
if, under these circumstances, it be taken with symptoms of
affection of the head, do not fail to remember that this affec-
tion may be the result of exhaustion. This important subject
seems to have been generally misunderstood.
Fever is sooner detected. Inevery such case it is advisable
not to tamper nor delay, but to send for the medical man, and
watch the little patient with redoubled care and attention.
Especially examine the skin, hour after hour, for eruptions.
It may be measles or scarlatina, etc. It will be especially de-
sirable to detect these eruptions early, and to point them out
to the physician. Above all things, let not a contracted brow,
an unusual state of the temper or manner, unusual drowsiness
or wakefulness, or starting, and especially unusual vomiting,
escape you.
Be alive to any acceleration, or labor, or shortness of the
breathing, or cough, or sneezing, or appearance of inflammation
about the eyes or nostrils. These symptoms may portend
inflammation within the chest, hooping-cough, measles. Pain
of the body, with or without vomiting; or diarrhcea, with or |
without a morbid state of the bowels, or of the discharges,
ought also to excite immediate attention: One caution should
be given on this subject: some of the most alarming and fatal
affections of the bowels, like some affections of the head, are
unattended by acute pain or tenderness ; their accession, on the
contrary, is insidious, and it will require great attention to detect
them early.
Another view, and another mode of the classification of the
diseases of infants, full of interest, full of admonition is—1, as
they are sudden ; or 2, as they are zzszdious ; or 3, as they are,
in the modes of accession, intermediate between these two
extremes.
Of the sudden affections, are fits of every kind, croup, and
some kinds of pain, as that of colic; of the second class are
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hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, and tubercles in the lungs
or abdomen, constituting the two kinds of consumption. Fits,
again, are cerebral, and arise from diseases within the head, or
from irritation in the stomach and bowels, or from exhaustion « ;
or they are evidence of, and depend on, some malformation o1
disease of the heart,
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
991. A plentiful draught of water will sometimes be suffi. sient, when the substance is merely engaged in the folds of the gullet. We would, however, particularly recommend in. this case the white of an egg, and, if necessary, a second.
992. Diseases of Infants.
The most frequent of these are—1, disorders of the stomach ; 2, disorders of the bowels ; 3, exhaustion ; 4, febrile affections ; 5, exanthematous diseases, or those which are attended with eruptions of the skin; 6, affections of the head ; 7, diseases of the thorax, or chest ; 8, affections of the abdomen, or belly.
Disorders of the stomach generally depend on improper diet ; or they may he secondary, and the effects of a disordered or confined state of the bowels. ‘They are often detected by acid or fcetid eructations and breath, or by the unusually iequent regurgitation or vomiting of food.
Disorders of: the bowels can never be mistaken or overlooked
274 THE DOMINION COOK BOOK.
By an attentive nurse, the evacuations in their number and appearance being the perfect index to these disorders.
It inust never be forgotten that whenever the system has~
been exposed to sources of exhaustion, this condition may become, in its turn, the source of various morbid affections which
are apt to be ascribed to other causes, and treated by improper, ’
and therefore dangerous, measures. If the infant has had
diarrheea, or if, without this, its cheeks be pale and cool; and ~
if, under these circumstances, it be taken with symptoms of affection of the head, do not fail to remember that this affection may be the result of exhaustion. This important subject seems to have been generally misunderstood.
Fever is sooner detected. Inevery such case it is advisable not to tamper nor delay, but to send for the medical man, and watch the little patient with redoubled care and attention.
Especially examine the skin, hour after hour, for eruptions. It may be measles or scarlatina, etc. It will be especially desirable to detect these eruptions early, and to point them out to the physician. Above all things, let not a contracted brow, an unusual state of the temper or manner, unusual drowsiness
or wakefulness, or starting, and especially unusual vomiting,
escape you.
Be alive to any acceleration, or labor, or shortness of the breathing, or cough, or sneezing, or appearance of inflammation about the eyes or nostrils. These symptoms may portend inflammation within the chest, hooping-cough, measles. Pain
of the body, with or without vomiting; or diarrhcea, with or |
without a morbid state of the bowels, or of the discharges, ought also to excite immediate attention: One caution should be given on this subject: some of the most alarming and fatal
affections of the bowels, like some affections of the head, are
unattended by acute pain or tenderness ; their accession, on the contrary, is insidious, and it will require great attention to detect them early.
Another view, and another mode of the classification of the diseases of infants, full of interest, full of admonition is—1, as they are sudden ; or 2, as they are insidious ; or 3, as they are, in the modes of accession, intermediate between these two extremes.
Of the sudden affections, are fits of every kind, croup, and
some kinds of pain, as that of colic; of the second class are
as Be
THe Docror. | 275
a
hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, and tubercles in the lungs or abdomen, constituting the two kinds of consumption. Fits, again, are cerebral, and arise from diseases within the head, or from irritation in the stomach and bowels, or from exhaustion « ; or they are evidence of, and depend on, some malformation o1 disease of the heart,