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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    [ ] difpofed to be open, and their food to be changed in the manner diredted un- der the article of purging. The Passions of the Mind was the laft article mentioned as included in the Non-naturals, and on which I (hall be very brief, as it can relate to infants merely in its effedts; of which 1 fhall indance only, in Crying. A variety of conliderations induce me to believe that this expreffion of the paffions in infants, is much more harmlefs in itfelf than is generally imagined, and is often, in fome fefpedt, falutary. The firft cries it makes we know to be fo, and that it recovers from the paroxyfms of fome complaints (as was mentioned in regard to the croup) by an effort of this kind. It is evident likewife, how very much health depends on a free circulation of the blood through the lungs, and on their free expanlion from the dilatation of the bronchial, or air