The laws of health / by W.H. Corfield.

  • William Henry Corfield
Date:
1896
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Credit: The laws of health / by W.H. Corfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    porary teeth, render children at this age irritable and fractious, and cause them sometimes to suffer from convulsions. Children require not merely to replace the losses that take place from their bodies, but, as they are growing fast, they require to add new material. They therefore must be fed often ; for, as Hippocrates truly said, ‘Children do not well sup- port a fast.’ They also require plenty of sleep, and their exercises, whether mental or bodily, ought not to be too prolonged, and should be varied as much as possible. Bad air is especially fatal to children, and a high children’s death-rate is a sure sign of general insanitary conditions, especially as regards the want of removal-of refuse matters. (3) Youth..—This is the period of life at which consumption is most prevalent and most fatal, its de- termining causes being especially overcrowding, which results in the same air being breathed over and over again, living on a damp soil, and working in places where there is much dust in the air. Anaemia, or bloodlessness, characterised by paleness of the skin, palpitation of the heart and hurried respiration, is also very common among young people who work for hours in overcrowded, badly-lighted rooms. While most of the communicable fevers are diseases of childhood, enteric or typhoid fever is especially' a disease of youth. This may be due partly to the fact that infants and young children, being fed largely upon milk, do not run so great a chance of drinking the poison as persons who drink water ; for children, and even infants, suffer equally from typhoid fever when milk diluted with water containing the
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