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A mother feeding her baby water: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.

50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (8vo)

A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

<p>A photograph of a boy top right and bottom left is accompanied by speech bubbles: 'Healthy Henry says, when your child is sick do the following to help her or him get well fast'; 'Give the child plenty to drink, at least 2 or 3 large tumpecos a day ...' (1 tumpeco is equivalent to 1 half litre-cup)</p>
<p>CHILD or Community and Home Initiatives for Long term Development) project was initiated by the Ministry of Health and the World Bank to promote the health and development of children in Uganda. Running from March 1998 to June 2004; it aimed to raise awareness of caregivers of the risks and negative implications of stunting and to address behavior changes needed to prevent it. Communication activities focused on three practices: hygiene and sanitation (including de-worming), complementary feeding, and positive parental interaction. (Source: http://siteresources.worldbank.org)</p>

1 print : lithograph, printed in colour ; sheet 59.6 x 42 cm

Eighteenth Century collections online

An attempt to establish the original sameness of three phenomena of fever, (principally confined to infants and children), described by medical writers under the several names of hydrocephalus internus, cynanche trachealis, and diarrhea infantum. By Charles Caldwell, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, &c.

An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever. By Samuel Musgrave, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, And Corresponding Member of the Academy of Belles Letters at Paris.

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A practical treatise on the remittent fever of infants : with remarks on hydrocephalus internus or water on the brain, and several other diseases : and cases and observations designed to illustrate the influence exerted by a certain disordered state of the chylopoietic viscera, upon local and constitutional diseases / [James Milman Coley].

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A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

A mother feeding her baby water: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.

An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever. By Samuel Musgrave, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, And Corresponding Member of the Academy of Belles Letters at Paris.

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A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

A mother feeding her baby water: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.

An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever. By Samuel Musgrave, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, And Corresponding Member of the Academy of Belles Letters at Paris.

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