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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    than iron may be given as gastric sedatives. Iron in its acid forms curiously sometimes cures the irritable state of the stomach. Catarrhal conditions are best relieved by alkaline preparations. Henoch strongly recommends chalybeate waters, and, if the child be strong enough to proceed to some of the spas, doubtless the change of air and scene will also effect some benefit. In children some years old change of scene is not an imaginary therapeutic agent. Mental impressions may produce great changes in a child's health, both in the production of disease and in the amelioration of the same. When arsenic is employed, small doses T7]^ii. of the liquor arsenicalis given four times a day with the meals is the best method. I have used phosphorus in gr. doses to chil- dren five years of age, but without any apparent advantage. (See Rickets for mode of administration.) In one case I tried alone 5-grain doses three times a day for a boy five years old of the black oxide of manganese, but without good results, though it seemed to allay flatulence. Massage is most useful when patients are confined to bed; it must not be roughly done, for bruising readily occurs in these patients. But the child should be encouraged to take walking exercise or play in the open air if he be well enough; since tissue change is thereby promoted, and the supply of oxygen taken in is greater. In such cases both these factors are advantageous. Exercise and gymnastics should not be taken in an impure atmosphere, nor immediately after meals. If the child be in town his muscular exercise should be in open spaces where there is no dust, and where the ground is well drained. Muscular movements must not be carried to the fatigue point, or to the production of palpitation. Much perspiration indicates weakness or too violent exercise. Great care will be needed in such cases to prevent chill. The exercise may have to be dispensed with altogether. If the child has perspired freely he should not cool down out of