Practical observations on diseases of children : comprehending a description of complaints & disorders, incident to the early stages of life, and method of treatment / by George Logan.

  • Logan, George, 1778-1861
Date:
1825
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on diseases of children : comprehending a description of complaints & disorders, incident to the early stages of life, and method of treatment / by George Logan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    167/228
    heat and a pricking sensation, but differing from prick- ly-heat. The child is sometimes restless, feverish, and has a furred tongue, for two or three days before the eruption appears, which consists of numerous red mi- nute specks, with watery heads. The complaint may continue two or three weeks, receding at times, and re- appearing in patches, without any serious constitutional disorder. Young children are not as subject to this disorder, as those who are older, and take more active exercise, which is the usual exciting cause. This affection ma}r also be produced by exposure in some damp place, after being heated. Saline laxatives, mixed with magnesia, are here pro- per ; or, an emetic may be necessary, when the sto- mach is disordered, or the disorder continues. The *;hild should neither be kept too warm, nor cool. SECTION vm. ANOMALOUS ERUPTIONS. A variety of cutaneous diseases, have been describ- ed by Drs. Willan, Clark, Underwood, and other medi- cal authors, under the heads of exanthemata, erythema, fashes, &c. Some of these have occurred under my notice, and are, accordingly, treated of under the res- pective heads of complaints, incident to infancy, denti- tion, &c. Those, in early life, for the most part, when not symptomatic, or connected with some febrile disease, ♦14
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3