Third report of the Clinical Hospital, Manchester : containing results on physical development, hooping cough, and transmitted diseases / by James Whitehead.

  • Whitehead, James, 1812-1885.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Third report of the Clinical Hospital, Manchester : containing results on physical development, hooping cough, and transmitted diseases / by James Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Objects of investigation. Development. Good. Medium. Bad. 20 comparatively limited, may nevertheless conduce to render the conclusions more reliable in their scientific application. As the additional materials now to be produced are intended to be incorporated with those of the first report on this subject, some of the observations then offered will also be repeated, modified or qualified as the results may seem to necessitate. The objects aimed at in this particular branch of inquiry are : 1st—The laws of physical development in infancy, as indicated by the age at which the teething process commences, and that at which it is finally accomplished ; the growth of the bony structures, as shown by the age at which that of the skull is com- pleted ; the age at which the faculty of walking is attained: all in a state of health. 2nd—The manner in Avliich one or more of these processes may be delayed by morbid agencies, and which of such agencies is the most commonly operative in its interference with the natural efforts. The actual states of development have deen divided into the good, the medium, and the bad. The children marked as being of good development are those brought under observation for disorders of local or of acute character; of climatic, zymotic, or adventitious origin;— not of inherited or constitutional tendencies to disease,— in whom the process of development has not previously been interfered with, whose bodily health is, as a general rule, faultless, and whose parents are healthy. Those of bad development are they whose health has been deranged by inherited weakness or ten- dency to disease, by want of a due supply of breast milk, by faulty diet, poverty, unhealthy locality, or