s, 169

Diarrh[oe]a in childhood, 154
---- simple, 156
---- inflammatory, 157

Digestion, how performed, 151

Digestive organs, peculiarities of, in infancy, 46

Diphtheria, 136
---- its gradual progress, 136
---- caution not to overlook it, 137.
---- various dangers of, 138
---- management of, 139
---- opening windpipe in, 140
---- paralysis after, 141

Diseases of infants and children, their signs, 5
---- management, 12

Doctor, proper relation of parents to, 28

Dream images vivid in childhood, 215

Dyspepsia of weakly children, 153

Earache, symptoms of, 103
---- treatment of, 105
---- inflammation of brain from disease of ear, 102

Eczema, 79
---- its symptoms and course, 79
---- treatment, 81
---- alleged dangers of curing, 84

Epilepsy, its two forms, 112
---- prospects of recovery from, 113
---- moral perversion, from, 114
---- treatment of, 116
---- moral management of, 117

Exhaustion a cause of brain disorder, 106

Farinaceous food, why unsuitable, 46
---- ---- results of its excess, 47
---- ---- best forms of, 60

Feeding-bottle, best form of, 55

Feigned illness, 221

Fingers, scrofulous disease of bones of, 183

Food, quantity required by an infant, 54
---- best mode of giving, 54

Galvanism, in cases of paralysis, 123

German measles, 204

Glandular enlargement in infantile consumption, 61
---- swellings from scrofula, 183

Gravel, 170

Grimacing, distinct from St. Vitus's dance, 119

Gums in teething, when to be lanced, 75
---- management when ulcerated, 76

Head, varieties in shape of, unimportant, 106

Headache, neuralgic, 124
---- from defective sight, 126

Heart, malformation of, 146
---- ---- management of, 148
---- frequency of disease of, from rheumatic fever, 149, 188
---- inflammation of, 148

Hooping-cough, 141
---- management of, 143
---- its dangers, 144

Hysteria, relation of, to epilepsy, 115

Idiocy, 224, 225
---- its management, 227

Incontinence of urine, 171

Indigestion in infancy, 47, 56
---- its management, 65

Infants and children, mortality of. _See_ Mortality
---- rules for artificial feeding of, 50
---- substitutes for mother's milk, 51
---- quantity of food required, 54
---- feeding-bottles, 55

Influenza, 132

Inoculation and vaccination, 196

Jaundice of new-born children, 39
---- in childhood, 154

Kidneys, disease of, 16