Medical admonitions to families, respecting the preservation of health, and the treatment of the sick ... With observations on the improper indulgence of children / [James Parkinson].

  • James Parkinson
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical admonitions to families, respecting the preservation of health, and the treatment of the sick ... With observations on the improper indulgence of children / [James Parkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( sin ) tion will, in confequence of their impatience and violent agitations, be loaded with the eruption to a much greater degree, than thofe children whole pliability of temper renders them more eafily manageable. »-ji C i lOvK' k i .... i % * Nor is it merely in the commencement of the difeafe, that mifchief is liable to be produced by the Tallies of impatience and petulance; fince through the whole of the eruptive period, ex- cefiive augmentation of the febrile heat will mod frequently be followed by a 1 overabundant crop of puftules. In the more advanced ftages of this loathfome difeafe, the fcenes which the parent mull wit- nefs will be dreadfully convincing, that exceflive indulgence of children is generally productive of tenfold diftrefs and differing. As the erup- tion proceeds, a troublefome heat and itching of the (kin takes place : and where this is not borne with a tolerable (hare of patience, the nails of the poor child are employed to overpower the irritation of the lkit>; but with fo much vehe- ... mence, that the fkin becomes more inflated, being in parts even abraded, by which the num- ber
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