An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants / Englished by W[illiam] C[ockburn] M.S. With a preface in vindication of the work.

Walter Harris

Date:: 1693

Credit: An exact enquiry into, and cure of the acute diseases of infants / Englished by W[illiam] C[ockburn] M.S. With a preface in vindication of the work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( (23°) hs mmoft hurtful-and inconvenient for ne Nature and Conttitution of Infants, “ipeing it is the moft different andre: “iinote from that of old men’s “for their “Mery weak Nerves are moft eafily de- #royed with it,and their tenderBodies ire either colliquated by degrees, or itiladdenly caft’ into Fevers with the ‘‘Wabtile flame and heat of Wine. iM) There are fomé who would alloy wi@Vine to Infants, ‘becaufe oF their un. imgmely eating of flefh. For that they wi@nink, that Wine, even in that “Age, ioth much advance and further the miyoncogion and Fermentation of Cru. wities, to which, no doubr, ‘thefe ingpoung Ravens are very fobje&. But ifhall not fo much here debate, whe. fer’ one miftake fhould-cure another, le both be efchewed, as I thal] offer iP the impartial confideration of an an, who may compare the Children aE Poorer People who have a fimple jd fober Diet, and thofe ‘of the wich?’ whe have all things in plenty ind excels, | Truly, -all kinds 6f Wine and fpi- \itaous Liquors <’mote liberally drunk,$