Hygiene of the nursery : Including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / By Louis Starr.

  • Starr, Louis, 1849-1925.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : Including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / By Louis Starr. 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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    longer, though these, too, soon begin to move about with method, feeling the ground, in preparation, as it were, for creeping and walking. Examples of Variations in Disease.—Restless sleep with a desire to be rocked, fondled or walked in the nurse's arms, are common symptoms of acute attacks of illness, especially when attended by pain. Children beyond the age of infancy toss about uneasily in bed or demand a change from the bed to the lap, under similar circumstances. Extreme and long-continued drowsiness and quiet- ness, on the other hand, often precede the onset of such specific fevers as scarlatina or measles. Sleeping with the head thrown back and the mouth open indicates enlarged tonsils ; a tendency to sleep high, or with the head and shoulders elevated by the pillow accompanies disease of the heart and lungs, and sleeping cool; that is, resting only after the bed clothing has been kicked off, is an early symptom of rickets. Frequent carrying of the hand to the head, ear or mouth shows headache, earache, or the pain of a coming tooth, as the case may be, while constant rubbing of the nose is a feature of irritation of the bowels or stomach. Should the thumbs be drawn into the palms of the hands, and the fingers tightly clasped over