Volume 1

A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood].

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diarrhcea. ]29 ♦ • • chalk-julep^ made warm with tinftu^e of cinna- mon, or of cardamoms; and in cafes of extre- mity, in the decoftion of Logwood, which agrees very well with young children.—In the advanced ftage of watery-gripes, or in the cafe of great debility, the liberal exhibition of aromatics and opiates is eflentially neceflary. Bowel complaints, it was faid, are frequently owing to improper food, which on this account, fliould at all times be peculiarly attended to j and when a purging has taken place, ought to be fuited to the nature of the ftools. In the laft volume of this work, fome further notice will be taken of the article of children’s food ; at prefent I lhall only obferve, that cow’s milk is often found to difagree with them when their bowels are difpofed to be too open, at which times, a little lean mutton broth, or beef-tea is abundantly preferable. On the fame account, rulks, and bifcuit-powder are more fuitable than bread but at other times, I believe, either the Uxbridge, or the French roll, which are already half digefted by a previous fermenta- tion, are more eafily diflblved in the ftomach, * Rufes are preferable to tops and bottoms, as they are calUd, ,^vhich have a good deal of butter in them ; and are the lead difpofed to offend an infant’s ftomach of any thing of the bread kind, VOL. K