Volume 2

A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood].

  • Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    13G Exompiialos. a piece of bees-wax as broad as a fliilling, and half an inch thick : the upper part of it may be round, and the other flat, which fhould be placed on the navel. But if the child be a twelvemonth old, thefe remedies will then require a pretty tight bandage round the waift; and fuch a compreffion, I have frequently obferved nurfes afraid of, who often loofen the bandage fo much as to render it of very little ufe. On this account, I have for feveral years recom- mended Squire’s elaftic bandage, which il this rupture be complicated with the ventral, becomes the more neceflary; and fitting quite hollow on the fides, and making no kind of compreffion but on the part affe&ed, and the oppofite point of the back, perfeflly anfwers the end, and generally in three or four months. But for the Ample exomphalos in young children, I have for fome years fucceeded equally well by the ingenious contrivance of Mr. Kelson of Seven-Oaks. This conflfts only in bringing the parts to- gether by means of three or four ftrips , of