A domestic guide to mothers in India : containing particular instructions on the management of themselves and their children / By a medical practitioner of several years experience in India.

Date:
1836
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Credit: A domestic guide to mothers in India : containing particular instructions on the management of themselves and their children / By a medical practitioner of several years experience in India. 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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    Doctor. You must now give him two grains of James' Powder every four hours. Continue the drinks be- fore recommended. There is a great tendency to inflammation in this com- plaint, as you may now observe by the eyes, nose, and throat, being so much affected ; but as long as it is confined to these parts it is of no consequence, for it generally subsides when the eruption goes off. If inflammation of the lungs comes on, it is unfavourable : it may commence after the eruption has left, therefore great care is neces- sary. When it does attack the patient, there is great op- pression on the chest, difficulty of breathing, and rest- lessness. Mother. The cough is troublesome. What must I do for it ? Doctor. For the cough you may give these * pills twice a day, and let him inhale the steam from a bason of hot water. Mother. Must I bathe him ? Doctor. No; the strong tendency to inflammation of important organs in measles preclude this. In the small- pox this is highly desirable, but not so in measles. The child's room should be airy, and of as uniform a tem- perature as possible. REMARKS. Where the attack in mild, with a moisture upon the skin, relaxed state of the bowels, moderate fever, and the eruption appearing early, and going off in that * Extract of Henbane half a grain ; Ipecacuanha grain one ; Mucilage of Gum Arabic enough to make into a pill