Volume 2

Practical observations on the management and diseases of children. With additional observations and a biographical notice of the author / by Thomas Alcock.

  • Haden, Charles Thomas, 1786-1824.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Practical observations on the management and diseases of children. With additional observations and a biographical notice of the author / by Thomas Alcock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the day, the excretion having the appearance of custard, and being discharged slowly as through a syringe ; it has a vacant look of content; and lastly, it is easily pleased by the attentions which are bestowed on it. Symptoms like these suffi- ciently show that a child’s sensations are agree- able, and the actions of its system going on in a healthy manuer. Any deviation from this state is a prelude to disease. Moral treatment, however, has some influence on the infant, even at this early period of existence. Infants under some nurses will lie down quietly when awake, and go to sleep without further iterference; whilst under other nurses the same infants would pro- bably require rocking, or at least would cry, if it were attempted to lay them down awake. This crying is not from disease, and may be easily distinguished from that which is. Infants cry too on being washed, but, even here, much may be done to prevent it by proper manage- ment; as may be seen very frequently, where children are attended by mothers or by ob- serving nurses. , 3 The cry of disease is very different from all this; and is moreover accompanied by other symptoms of illness, which are in general! suffi- ciently unequivocal. 7 It is not necessary to give the reverse of the signs of health alluded to above, and say, this is