Practical observations on the diseases most fatal to children : with reference to the propriety of treating them as proceeding from irritation and not from inflammation.

Hood, Peter, 1808-1890.

Date:: 1845

Credit: Practical observations on the diseases most fatal to children : with reference to the propriety of treating them as proceeding from irritation and not from inflammation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$What has already been said relates more particu- larly to the infant at the breast. In delicate chil- dren, constipation is frequently a symptom of debility. The best way to overcome this is to order a generous diet, and to administer tonics in the form of vegetable infusion, as cascarilla, gen- tian, or calumba, with a few drops of some warm stimulating tincture, such as the ammoniated tinc- ture of bark. If there be much languor in the circulation, the milder preparations of steel will be of great service, according to the following pre- scription. ^c. Ferri sulphatis gr. ss. ad gr. i. Acidi sulphurici diluti ])\y. ad x. Tincturse cardam. comp. 5SS—5j- Infusi gentiana? comp. 5J.:—Fiat mistura. Half to be taken twice a day. An alterative powder, if the tongue be foul, will be of much service. Hydrarg. cum creta gr. ss; Sacchari purif. gr. ij.$