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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    302 From what has been said above, it is hoped that parents will plainly perceive that the ease, the health, and even the life of their children, must frequently depend on the due regulation of their passions and temper, in even their infantile days,—in other words, that the obtaining of such a degree of influence over the mind of a child as may procure its prompt submission to the will of its parents, either in yielding up that which may be injurious, or in acceding to that which, though not pleasant, may be absolutely necessary, will greatly contribute to the present, as well as the future comfort and tranquillity, both of the parent and the child. The fond parent cannot, even with a little attention, avoid discovering, that the object of his affection will, when thus educated, be the less likely to fall the victim of disease: that by having been rendered thus manageable, when disease does unavoidably occur, he will not deprive himself of the chance of recovery, by ob- stinately opposing the efforts- of art; and that, should even a fatal termination take place, his mourning relatives will not have to accuse them- selves with having occasioned his death, by having, in fact, excited that opposition which the lamented object has made to every rational endeavour for his recovery. Other effects on the health are produced by excessive indulgence, which, though highly in- jurious.