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Charles West. The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases
The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases
Table of Contents
PART I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I
ON THE MORTALITY OF CHILDREN, AND ITS CAUSES
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
THE GENERAL SIGNS OF DISEASE IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF DISEASE IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
FOOTNOTES:
PART II
CHAPTER IV
ON THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF CHILDREN DURING THE FIRST MONTH AFTER BIRTH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
ON THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF CHILDREN AFTER THE FIRST MONTH, AND UNTIL TEETHING IS FINISHED
FOOTNOTES:
PART III
ON THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES INCIDENT TO ALL PERIODS OF CHILDHOOD
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
THE DISORDERS AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST
CHAPTER VIII
DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF DIGESTION
CHAPTER IX
CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
APPENDIX
ON THE MENTAL AND MORAL FACULTIES IN CHILDHOOD, AND ON THE DISORDERS TO WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE
INDEX
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Charles West
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Little precautions, so trifling that few think of noticing them, have much to do with the quiet of the sick-room, and consequently with the patient's comfort. A rattling window will keep a child awake for hours, or the creaking handle of the door rouse it up again each time anyone enters the room; and to put a wedge in the window, or to tie back the handle, and so quietly open and close the door, may do more than medicine towards promoting the child's recovery. There can, however, be no abiding quiet without a well-ordered room, and the old proverb carried out, 'A place for everything, and everything in its place.' A table covered with a cloth so that things may be taken up and put down noiselessly, and set apart for the medicine, the drink, the nourishment, cups, glasses, spoons, or whatever else the patient is in frequent need of; with a wooden bowl and water for rinsing cups and glasses in, and a cloth or two for wiping them, will save much trouble and noise, and the loud whispers of the attendants to each other, 'Where is the sugar? where is the arrowroot? where did you put down the medicine?' of which we hear so much in the sick-room, so much especially in the sick-room of the child, who is unable to tell how extremely all this disturbs him.
It is consoling to bear in mind that how grave soever a child's illness may be, the power of repair is greater in early life than in adult age, that with few exceptions the probability of recovery is greater in the child than it would be from the same disease in the grown person. This too is due not simply to the activity of the reparative powers in early life, but also in great measure to the mental and moral characteristics of childhood.
