Physiology of the uterus, placenta, and foetus, with observations on the membrana meconii and rete vasculare, newly-discovered structures existing in the foetus and young of man and animals / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1845
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    syruj) will relieve them, which may be followed by three grains of the grey powder and a small dose of castor oil, as ])reviously directed. Attention to warmth is a most important matter in their management; if children get cold feet or hands, they will continue uupacified lor hours. There may be and are times when children re- (juire a sedative; and although I have condemned the use of opiates in a wholesale way, I do not deny their bene- ficial action. When I have occasion to administer them, it is with the greatest caution: a few drops of the syrup of poppies, combined with vinum ipecacuanha, and never without; and I am inclined to think that the eftect of the sedative is quicker in its action, the purpose sooner answered, and the duration of its effect shoitcr and more efficient when so combined, and as a consequence less hurtful, than when given alone. The progress of diseases in children can be more readily detected by Glossological means than any other: hence the value of this study. But, upon this subject, I beg to refer the reader to Plate VI. and page 74 of my Paper “ On the AUDITION At, Means of Diagnosis of Disease to be derived from Indications and Appearances of the 'longue.” The drawing shows the gradual fouling and cleaning of the longue in infancy. One point, more particularly, in the management of children, I should hold out a caution against: namely, the treatment which some parents inconsiderately adopt, “ to bring them up hardily,” by the free use of cold applica- tions and baths. When we know that the circulation of the child is carried on more superficially than in the adult, and that a greater degree of heat is generated on its sur- face than internally, care must be taken not to cheek it, even for a moment, by undressing it in a cold room, or