A treatise on the diseases of children ; with directions for the management of infants.

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children ; with directions for the management of infants. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no less on meeting the same attentive creature, which nothing could induce to leave her young ones before, at the top of an adjoining staircase ! Even from the little puppies themselves a lesson might be learnt; their contention was not, like that of the world, which should be uppermost, but which should be under the rest, and so protected by them from the chilling influence of the atmosphere. “ There is no protection so light, and at the same time so effectual, as a lace, muslin, or crape veil. An atmosphere is formed between this and the face or person of the infant, and is the best non-conductor of heat; whilst the limbs are not encumbered by a weight of clothes. Lace, muslin, or crape, may be used, according to the degree of cold. “ The air requires to be considered in other relations besides that of its temperature. The difference between the salubrity of the atmosphere of a crowded population, and of the open country, and especially of the vicinity of the sea, is very re- markable. Sometimes this alone is the hidden source of indisposition, pining, or withering, in an infant or young child. I have known a little patient exhibit in its cheeks, flesh, and spirits, the effects of this difference in the short space of a few days.”—pp. 78—82 ; 136—139; 82—87.] ON SHORT COATING. It will be advisable, in order to inure infants to the air, that this change in their dress be made as early as the season of the year will permit: but their dress should be still loose and easy. Children are frequently kept without stockings till they are three or four years old, and boys often till they are breeched; but, on many occasions, this exposure of the legs to cold is attended with ill consequences. For want of caution in this particular, tender children suffer exceedingly in severe winters, and are distressed with chilblains, merely i) 2
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