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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    Women long afflided with jaundice, during any part of their pregnancy, and even adlually broucrht to bed in that date, do not'infed their children,* unlefs they aifo fuckle them; but from fome ftriking inftances, I have found, that fuckiing in that ftate is capable of communicat- ing the true jaundice to a great degree, and that it will not be cured, but by the recovery of the fuckiing mother or nurfe, or by the infant being weaned, as well as properly treated. The true jaundice, diftinguifhed by the fkin being every where difcoloured, as well as the whites of the eyes, feems to be much more * I have myfelf never met with fuch an inftance; but Mr. Baumes, who has been very attentive to the dileafe, is fatisfied, that he once faw an infant fo infefted from the womb: but in this cafe, the child died very foon in a very difeafed ftate, the internal part of the liver being in a ftate of fuppuration. Other inftances are given, but they are not tmexceptionable. Vide, J. N. Curious. Dec, i.A. vj. Obf. 241. Dec, iij. A. ij. Ohf. 40. Fr. Ddaboe Silvius, Pi ax. Med. Lib, ]. Cap. 46, No. p. 302. Lheod. Kerkring, Spied. Obf. jy, p, T 18. I have, indeed, lately feen an infant (the motherof which however, was not ifteric) whofe finger nails were, at the birth, of a deep yellow as in any ideric adults, and very fenfibly from a tinge underneath them ; but thofe of the tqes were not at all difcoloured, nor had the infant any other fymptom of jaundice. It, indeed, brought up, by puking, ■’a confiderable quantity of yellow matter, apparently bile, very foon after it was born ; but the tinge of the nails dif- appeared the next day, and the infant throve very well.