Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton].

  • Roberton, John, 1797-1876.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    291 red in the cheek, generally observable in those that have dark hair.* The system of management in every scrofulous family should embrace attention to diet, dress, cleanliness, and bathing, the regulation of the stomach and bowels, and, where it is practicable, to climate and local situation. Children exhibiting symptoms of the strumous diathesis require a more stimulating diet than others. Whether scrofula is simply a disease of debility or not, it is unnecessary at present to inquire. It is certainly, in general, connected with great feebleness of all the functions directly dependant on the circulation of the blood.— With respect to the state of the body in srofu- lous children, says Sir A. Cooper, the blood is less firm, the crassamentum loosely formed, and coagulating weakly ; the quantity of serum abundant; and the solids are feebly formed. * It is the duty of a parent to become acquainted, not only with the appearances that indicate a tendency to such impor- tant diseases as scrofula and insanity, but also with the cha- racter of the constitution of each of his children, when exposed to morbific causes. It may, for instance, be of considerable importance, to be aware that taking cold will affect one with deafness, another with quinsy, a third with bronchitis, a fourth with ophthalmia, and a fifth with diarrhoea;—effects which depend principally on the weakest point in the system being differently situated in each. The breeders of live stock possess a knowledge of this kind, with reference to their charge, which might be profitably imitated in the rearing of children,