Medical admonitions to families : respecting the preservation of health, and the treatment of the sick. Also, a table of symptoms, serving to point out the degree of danger, and to distinguish one disease from another. With observations on the improper indulgence of children, &c / by James Parkinson.

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Medical admonitions to families : respecting the preservation of health, and the treatment of the sick. Also, a table of symptoms, serving to point out the degree of danger, and to distinguish one disease from another. With observations on the improper indulgence of children, &c / by James Parkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INOCULATION. Tiie remarks which have been just made, are also applicable to those children who derive the small pox from inoculation: since it too frequently happens that many of the advantages derivable from ihe process of inoculation are counteracted, by the evils which proceed from excessive indul- gence. Children who have been faultily indulged, are undoubtedly the worst subjects for inoculation that can be found. During that period, in which some degree of caution is necessary, as to their be placed on the most vigilant attention of the nurse ; since in a moment of time, whilst her head is turned, the mischief may be accomplished. The child should therefore, by an appro- priate and easy contrivance, have its hands so secured as to render their approach to the face impossible. Parents fre- quently object to this practice, on the suspicion that by the struggles which the child will make to obtain a releasfe lrom hib confinement, he will injure himself more than he would were his hands and arms left at liberty. Rut in almost every case where tbe hands of a child are properly secured, a day or two before the maturation of the pock, he will indeed struggle for a while; but when he finds his exertions ineffectual, and that he is as it were conquered, he of necessity yields to his confinement: and indeed it is often astonishing to see how soon, and quietly, children of even violent dispositions submit to this species of coercion. K k 2 food,