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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    [ '9 ] has ever delighted in extremes;—no fooner has any thing, formerly judged to be hurtful, or even poifonous, been found in certain cafes, to be very ufeful, than it is fuppofed to be capable of do- ing every thing, and fuperfedes all that the wifdom of former ages has proved to be falutary. Hence, fome advantages experienced from the ufe of antimonial wine, in a variety of children’s com- plaints, as far as they arife from one common caufe, has induced fome people to extol it as an univerfal remedy. But wherefore give an emetic, calculated to empty the ftomach, in order to expel the meconium from the lower bowels ? & B 2 It § On examining the firft paflages of ftill-born infants (newly deadj it appears, that the large inteftines contain the true meconium ; the fmall inteftines only a thin bilious fluid mixed with n little gaftric juice. The ftomach contains {till lefs, as no bile can enter it but by regurgitation from the