The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

  • Wakley, Thomas, 1795-1862.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is amply demonstrated by reflection upon Nature’s in¬ tention, and by observing the inconveniences which inevitably attend and follow any irrational attempt to supersede her operation. COLLARS, SCARFS, STOCKS, &C. These, if too tight, are extremely dangerous, espe¬ cially in young children or aged persons; they render swallowing difficult, by pressing on the gullet and wind¬ pipe, and frequently become the primary cause of in¬ flammation of the latter; also by pressing upon the jugular veins, and so retarding the return of blood from the head to the heart, induce giddiness, stupor and apoplexy. STAYS. As an article of dress, stays have been so long in use, that much expectation cannot be entertained that anv thing which can now be said will have the effect of inducing any mother to forbid the use of them for her children, or that she will herself discard them. When manufactured so as perfectly to be adapted to the shape of the body, and to possess elasticity, in addition to being loosely laced, they certainly arc of service in giving support to the trunk; but when, as is almost invariably the case, they are ill made and tightly laced, they produce the effect of distorting the chest, lessening the capacitv for the lungs to act, and, by unequal pressure, prevent¬ ing the natural action of the respiratory muscles. SLEEVES, BRACELETS, AND GARTERS, are all, in their respective situations, equally perniei m> when too tight. Wasting of the limbs from pressure upon the blood vessels, varicose or swelled veins, drop¬ sies of the limbs, numbness and unsteadiness of tin* hands are produced.