An essay on the management and nursing of children in the earlier periods of infancy : and on ... pregnancy and ... lying-in.

  • Moss, William
Date:
1781
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Credit: An essay on the management and nursing of children in the earlier periods of infancy : and on ... pregnancy and ... lying-in. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    medicine can readily and juftly comprehend, and which he can fcarcely mifconceive. For which reafon, thole fubje£ts, or difeafes, which are in their nature difficult, or intricate, and are liable to great and frequent varieties and changes in their different ftages and appear- ances, lliould be either totally omitted, or very fparingly and cautioufly touched upon j otherwife, from perhaps a flight miftake in the nature of the complaint, and the confequent mifapplication of remedies, independent of the confequences of delay, the difeafe may be in- creafed and aggravated, or another may be produced which would not have happened or exifted had nature been fuffered to take her own courfe, or been timely or properly affifted by a judicious practitioner. Fevers, and feverilh complaints, are among the number of thofe which are difficult to diftinguifh and fix to ftated rules, periods, and forms j as a fingle cafe of feyer may af- fume, and run through, all the different changes and varieties of fevers or, may put on all, 01 molt, of the appearances of different fevers at the fame time, fo as to make it difficult to determine which is moft predominant ■, and this is not fo unufual as may be fuppofed. The difficulty therefore of applying general rules to C pradlice
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