Treatment of disease in children : including the outlines of diagnosis and the chief pathological differences between children and adults / by Angel Money.

  • Money, Angel.
Date:
1887
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    same organisfti. I do not believe with Parrot that all rickets^ is a final expression of syphilis. Tubercle and rickets occa- sionally co-exist. Mothers who have produced rickety children require medical attention, and a wet-nurse should be pro- cured. The treatment of a rickety child frequently requires minute attention to details. The stomach has contracted bad habits. Re-education of it may be wanted. The diet must be set to rights. It is particularly necessary to ensure fine division of all food. Hence minced meat, pounded chicken, and milk guarded by mucilage (see general rules for feeding) are good. A little good wine is valuable. The child must be restricted in its sugar as well as in its starchy food. Both cause acidity from fermentations. Mellin's food and other malted foods are valuable, because their starch is partly predigested. If there be diarrhoea, this must be controlled. The stools should be examined. As a rule they contain much slime and undigested starchy matter, as may be tested with iodine and examination under the microscope, are extremely offen- sive, acid. Careful regulation of the quality, quantity^ and times of giving the food, as elsewhere laid down, will often alone be sufficient to remove the diarrhoea. The Mist. 01. Ric. will also be found of much value. R Olei. Ricini, TT^^v. Mucilag. Tragac, ir^xv. Syrupi, 353. Aq. Menth. Pip. ad 3]. t.d.s. for a child a year old. If acidity be not thus overcome—it is usually, however, due to fermentation and undigested starch or fat—some bicar- bonate of soda, with rhubarb, may be prescribed. If the number of stools be more than two or three a day, a drop of tinct. opii will correct the excessive action. Sometimes con-