A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood, M.D. ; licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital ; two volumes in one.

  • Michael Underwood
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth / by Michael Underwood, M.D. ; licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital ; two volumes in one. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r 8 ] Teething. 'T'HE complaints arifing during dentition may next be confidered, many of the foregoing being blended with it, the firfl- paflages and the nervous fyftem being al- ways more or lefs affe&ed. The flate of dentition is likewife not unfrequently an oc- eafion of many complaints afterwards to be mentioned, fuch as cough, fever, the rick- ets, and even confumption ; under each of which heads therefore, occafional references will be made to it. The time of teething is a mod important period of the infant flate, and fubje&s it to manifold complaints and dangers. Some writers, indeed, and particularly Dr. Cado- gan*, and Dr. Armftrong, feem to think otherwife ; and that teething is fcarcely to be ranked amongft the difeafes of infants. They have imagined that children, if other- wife healthy, would cut their teeth with no more danger than adults, who often cut their wife-teeth, fo called, at an advanced age, without any difficulty, and always with- out hazard. They likewife obferve, that many children get their teeth eafily. But this argument mull fuppofe the healthieft, and * Sec his Ejfay on Nurfng, &c.