Volume 1

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

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1799
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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.

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

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    [ *ii ] fuccedive writers, and particularly in a trea- tife written above thirty years fince, by Dr. Armstrong. It is aptly remarked by this writer, that the fame difficulty occurs in a variety of the mod dangerous complaints of adults at every period of life, which con- feffiedly require the greated affidance; fuch are attacks of phrenzy, delirium, and fome kinds of convuldons : to which may be ad- ded, all the diforders of idiots and lunatics. But thele have been fuccefsfully treated in every age, not excepting even lunacy itfelf, and the melancholy fubjedt happily redor- ed to fociety, his family, and himfelf. It has likewife been obferved, that if in- fants for the reafons above-mentioned are to be excluded the benefit of a phyfipan’s ad- vice, it is difficult to fay at what age chil- dren may fafely be intruded to his care; fince at the age of five or fix years, they would frequently midead the Inquirer, who fhould trud to their own account of their