A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth; especially such as are brought up by hand / by Michael Underwood.

Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth; especially such as are brought up by hand / by Michael Underwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    t sS4 ] not been difcufled in the former part of this treatife. It were needlefs therefore to fay more, than to remind common readers, that infants are rarely healthy Jong together, who have not two or three ftools every day, or fhould they be more, for the firft three months, and the child be brought up at the bread, and the nurfe have a fufficiency of milk, it will generally thrive the better. The ftools likewife ought to be loofe, of a yellow color, free from lumps, or curdly matr ter, and fhould come away without grip-? ing. On the other hand, if an infant be brought up by hand, the danger generally lies in the other extreme, fuch children being difpofed to be purged, and to have griping and four fiools, from the acefcent, and often indigeflible na- ture of their food, efpecially if fed by the fpoon; and therefore require an early attention when their bowels are difpofed