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The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D.

Nils Rosén von Rosenstein

Date:: 1776

Credit: The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1. By the child’s frequently putting its finger, or any thing it lays hold of, into the mouth, or by _piting hard upon the nipples of the breaft; the rea- fon of its doing this, is, to allay the itching which the preflure of the growing teeth occafions in the ums. 3 | 2. If the child fpits much, or fwallows its fpittle. In the latter cafe, it will for the moft part have reach- ings or adiarrhoea, which is of great relief in the cutting of teeth. a | 3. if the gums are tender, fwelled, or already in- famed ; the firft of thefe we may know by the nurfe’s feeling in the child’s mouth, and the latter may be feen by looking at them. ‘The child will alfo feel fome kind of pain or fmart by fucking, 4. If the tonfils, eyes, or cheeks, {well and be- come red, | : ' Should all thefe figns be obferved, the child is beyond a doubt affected by its teeth, and every thing: will happen in the above-mentioned order. When the teeth are emitted one by one, the child’s pain will be trifling, but if feveral pierce the gums at the fame ‘time, dentition will be accompanied with fever, an- xiety, ftartings, convulfions in the mufcles of the face and whole body, and fometimes much worfe, ending either ina lethargy or death itfelf. Dentition is both | early and eafy, when the child is born the full time Neorte two lamine (of which the jaw confifts) being diftended a little afunder, fo that the tooth might find room to make its exit. See his Comment. iv. p. 745. Ihave feen chil- dren with thofe figns obferved at No. 1. and No. 2. before the teeth came out, and after having recovered from being very fick for fix or feven days before; but three weeks after that I-obferved a final] hole in the gums, thro’ which ® the tooth was protruded one or two days after without any kind of pain. This feems to confirm what Dr. Harris ob-— ferves in his Treati/e on the Difeases of Children, which is, - that dentition has two periods; the one when-the laming of the jaw begin to divide, confequently extend more the ' membrane and gums covering their fockets; the other, when the tooth is piercing through this membrane and ARES Os Rc See or RieW aha} after$