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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    peculiar white desquimation, the symptoms are indi- cative that the disease is likely to terminate favourably ; but in those cases where the above symptoms are severe, the lungs becoming inflamed, and the eruption assuming a blue and black colour, we may at once pronounce great danger. An attack of diarrhea in the complaint is al- ways to be looked upon as a favourable symptom. If the complaint suddenly disappears in the midst of its course, it will soon terminate in death, by striking in- wardly on some of the internal organs as the head, chest, &c. unless speedily brought out again on the skin. In such a case the little sufferer should be placed in a warm bath, and mustard poultices should be applied to the legs and chest: warm conjee, in which a little wine is mixed, should be given frequently, and about eight drops of Ipe- cacuanha Wine every half hour. This disease (like the others of a contagious kind) leaves very bad symptoms occasionally behind, and rouses into action any dormant disease, where a tendency to such exists in the system. Great debility generally follows, rendering change of air necessary, as well as great care and attention in the after management; such as nourish- ing plain diet, light tonic medicine, with the occasional use of paregoric for the cough, and carefully avoiding all ex- posure to cold.