A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the king's evil.

  • White, Thomas
Date:
1784
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Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the king's evil. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 5§ ] keep them at the bread until their domachs naufeate, is very improper; and it is not uncommon to fee children empty their domachs from the load it contained ; but the next moment they are again applied to the bread, becaufe they cry ; the crying was mod probably occafioned by the quan- tity of milk already didending the domach, rendering refpiration difficult, and creating that uneafy fenfation, which is felt from naufea, and vomiting: therefore to fuckle them again, is to renew that complaint, as well as to lay the foundation of others. If the mother’s, or nurfe’s milk diould be infufficient,. which is fometimes the cafe, or, that it becomes neceflary to fub- ditute another kind of food, the milk of animals, with the addition of the dif- ferent farinacious fubdances, is preferable to folid food : when they are more ad- vanced, a fmall quantity of animal food, once a day, may be very proper, and is certainly preferable to heavy puddings and bad padry. Children diould be diverted from that ffiocking general cudom of eat-