An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever / [Samuel Musgrave].

  • Musgrave, Samuel, 1732-1780
Date:
1776
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Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever / [Samuel Musgrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fathers, who are known to have been particularly cautious in the article of fruit, and attributed many of the diforders of children to a too frequent or exceflive ufe of it. And that this apprehension was not wholly unreafonable, will appear, I think, from the follow¬ ing reflection. We have all fre^- quent opportunities ot obferving, and moll of us have experienced, that fruit in no very large quan¬ tity will produce the colic ; which it could not do, without being occafionaliy offenfive and hoflile to the body. Now, whatever is of- fenflve and capable of creating pain, will, by change of circum- ftances, be capable of creating a diforder of a different kind; that is, \