How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne.

  • Milne, Alexander.
Date:
1880
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Credit: How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    478 vous system, delirium, then unconsciousness, followed in some cases by death within twenty-four hours. So bad and rapid are the symptoms and end, that such cases have been supposed to be those of suppressed scarlet fever, until it was discovered afterwards that the child had been eating poisonous stuff. The treat- ment in such cases should be skilled and prompt. Promote vomiting, give drinks of barley tea, or isin- glass ; stimulate with brandy and sal volatile; put a mustard poultice over the stomach j surround the child with hot bottles, and rub his spine. Fool’s Parsley.—This has been eaten by children, who have mistaken it for that used in cookery. It causes sickness, severe pain in the stomach and bowels, vomiting, giddiness, etc. The treatment is the same as in that of the poisons previously named. Drowning.—Children frequently stray from home and tumble into a pond or river, and get drowned, or nearly so. They often faU into a pool of water, or a tub of water, beside or within their own dwelling. What is the treatment in cases where the child has not teen too long in the water; where there is a 'prospect, however faint, of resuscitating and recovering it ? Place the child in hot blankets with the face at first downwards, so as to allow the water to escape from the mouth and air passages; draw the tongue forwards with a pair of forceps, or with two fingers, and then turn the child round on the back, the head being well elevated. The body should be steadily rubbed for a considerable time with a little whisky, or turpentine