Remarks on the diet of children; and on the distinctions between the digestive powers of the infant and the adult / [George Thompson Gream].

  • Gream, G. T. (George Thompson), 1812?-1888.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Remarks on the diet of children; and on the distinctions between the digestive powers of the infant and the adult / [George Thompson Gream]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when cliildi’en can take sufficient exercise to maintain a proper degree of heat, throughout the body and its extremities. I am far, indeed, from advocating the equally bad practice of confining children to the house throughout the winter, in rooms where the venti- lation is necessarily imperfect; it is easy to ob- seiwe a judicious medium between exposure to extreme cold, and such unnecessary confinement witliiu doors, as tends to relax the system, and renders the child susceptible of disease. An easterly wind has a peculiar influence upon children, and not unfrequently produces in a single night the most serious illnesses; it retards the progress of the convalescent, and often brings back all the symptoms of disease. Without inquiring into the supposed causes of this injurious property of an easterly wind, I may suggest the propriety of protecting children against its well known effect of checking the regular secretions of the body ; and though in summer it is seldom hurtful in the same degree as at other seasons of the year, yet even in the warmest davs it has more or less an unwholesome influence. The clothing of children is a subject that is too little thought of in the earliest months ; much