Practical treatise on the diseases of children and infants at the breast : including the hygiene and physical education of young children / translated from the French of M. Bouchut, with notes and additions, by Peter Hinckes Bird.

  • Bouchut, E. (Eugène), 1818-1891.
Date:
1855
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    ha9 been directed to its translation, after having obtained the author's sanction. The first part includes the hygiene and physical education of young children. As prophylaxis, or the prevention of disease, forms the most noble aim of our science, this subject is most important, but it must be owned, is one which has been too much neglected by medical men. In this part lactation by the mother and nurse is fully described, and the important question of the influence of anterior and actual diseases of the nurse on the health of children. The second part comprises the general pathology of infancy ; the external characteristics of infantile disease, and the study of the physiognomy, gesture, attitude, cry, &c, for the diagnosis of these diseases. In the third part all the diseases to which children are subject, both medical and surgical, will be found systematically arranged and described. Various notes, distinguished by smaller type with the addition of initials, have been added where there seemed occasion for the expression of the opinions and practice of other continental and English writers ; for these I must confess myself much indebted to the work of West, and to the various able articles on pœdiatrics contained in the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. The weights and measures have all been reduced to the corres- ponding English ones, except in some very few instances of tabular arrangement. P. H. BIRD. 1, Norfolk Square, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, London. January, 1855.