How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints.

  • Page, Charles Edward, 1840-1925.
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    vital organs is roused. If the amount of poison is small a gentle excitement begins, perhaps exhilarat- ing, the circulation being accelerated without being really unbalanced. So is it sometimes at the begin- ning of yellow fever, cholera, and other malignant diseases, when the vital forces begin to rally. There is, for a while, a sense of unwonted energy and a pleasurable excitement pervading the whole system, attended often with unusual buoyancy of spirits, and intense mental activity. But perhaps in an hour the patient is powerless, fatally prostrated, the intensity of the vital struggle (' reaction') having exhausted life. This disturbance is disease. It wastes one's capital of strength or sensibility in the ratio of its violence and continuance.* Catching Cold.—As before intimated, a majority of these troubles arise from causes entirely remote from exposure to cold, whether the victims be the infants or their parents. After a long term of steady cold, during which old and young continue in health and little complaint is heard about colds, a sudden change occurs and there is perhaps a week of very mild, even warm, weather. Then it is that colds are the prevailing complaint. I have an awful cold—and can't imagine how I caught it, says one. Another, We've all got colds at our house. The baby has a terrible ' cold,' * Although tobacco-poisoning is here referred to, the description is so completely applicable to the condition I am considering, that I feel that no apology is required for adopting the language.