The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D.
- Müller, H.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The household medical adviser. A complete, popular-scientific work of reference ... compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure ... with over 320 illustrations, coloured plates and unfolding anatomical models / by H.Muller. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![The Nevv-born Infant and Congenital Imperfections. A VIGOROUS crying informs us that the painful hour of labour is ended, and that the long expected little citizen of the world has made his appearance. Whether the child be boy or girl, the parents have every reason to be thankful if the new comer lies before them whole and healthy. If they are sensible their most earnest hope will be that the child may grow up sound in body and mind. If they secretly breathe in their hearts a wish for the future of the little creature, they will do well to wish it neither wealth and possessions, nor fame and honour, but good health and—again good health. Health is, and will ever remain, man's really highest good. But the following pages will show how many perils threaten the infant from the very day of its birth; and how many dangei-ous diseases may rob the parents of their precious possession. It is certain that no child ever grows up without passing through some sickness. And the high average mortality of children during their first year proves how dangerous sickness is to the little life whose powers of resistance are still feeble. Now, in the battle of life, a prudent man labours to protect himself against every foe; and knows, too, that he may most reasonably hope to come off victorious, if he first learns thoroughly to understand against whom and what he is fighting, and arms himself accordingly. Our aim is this, to supply weapons against all the diseases which can attack the family and the home ; and not only to explain to anxious parents how they should treat their children, and have them treated both in sickness and in health, but also to point out to them how they may in many cases inake and keep both themselves and their children whole and sound by paying attention to advice that is often very simple. We will now, however, turn to the little creature who is reminding us of ]iis existence by vigorous cries. We shall see how the midwife proceeds to attend to him after that she has first taken care that the mother is warmly covered. 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23983619_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
