An essay upon nursing and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to a governor / Published by order of the General Committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan].

  • William Cadogan
Date:
1764
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Credit: An essay upon nursing and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to a governor / Published by order of the General Committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    family diftempers : indeed, when we find them affefted with fcrophulous, venereal, or high fcorbutick complaints, we may reafona- bly conclude the taint to have been tranfmit- ted to them ^ but thefe cafes are very rare in comparifon of the many others, that are falf- ly, and without the leaft foundation, imputed to Parents, when the real .caufe is either in the complainants themfelves, or bad nurfing, that has fixed them early in wrong habits. In one fenfe many difeafes may be faid to be hereditary, perhaps all thofe of male forma¬ tion ; by which I mean not only deformity and diftortion, but all thofe cafes where the fibres and veflels of one part are weaker in proportion than the reft ^ fo that upon any ftrain of the body, whether of debauch or too violent exercife, the weak part fails firft, and diforders the whole. Thus complaints may be produced fimilar to thofe of the Parent, owing in fame meafure to the fimilitude of parts, which polJibly is inherited, like the features of the face; but vet thefe difeafes might never have appeared, but for the im¬ mediate adting caufe, the violence done to the body. Moft diftempers have two caufes; the one, a particular ftate of the folids and fluids of the body, which difpofe it to receive certain infections and impulfes; the other,^ the infection or impulfe itfelf. Now what I contend for is, that though this predifponent ftate or habit of the body be heritable, yet I) 2, the
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