8

Lavements, their use and abuse, 26

Leeches very useful in some cases, 21
---- how to apply, 21

Liver, disease of, a cause of infantile atrophy, 62

Lungs, imperfect expansion of, 35
---- ---- ---- ---- its symptoms, 36
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- treatment, 38
---- inflammation of, rare in early infancy, 37

Measles, 202
---- its symptoms and dangers, 203
---- ---- management, 204

Medicine, choice and administration of, 23

Mercury, not cause of sore-mouth in children, 165

Mesenteric disease, 179
---- ---- its importance exaggerated, 181

Milk, why proper food of infants, 46
---- mother's, peculiarities of, soon after birth of child, 50
---- ---- best substitutes for, 50
---- ---- and that of animals compared, 50
---- substitutes for, 59
---- condensed, inferior to fresh milk, 53

Moral insanity in childhood, 219-223
---- perversion from epilepsy, 114

Mortality of infants and children, 1
---- varies in different places and times, 1
---- causes of, 2
---- ---- intermarriage and hereditary taint, 2
---- ---- unhealthy dwellings, 3
---- ---- unwholesome food, 4
---- increased during teething, 72 note

Mother not always good nurse, 12

Mouth, how to examine, 10
---- sore, 163

Mumps, 190

Napkins, inconvenience of, 18

Navel, rupture of, 43

Nettle-rash, 78

Neuralgia and headache, 124

Night terrors, 126

Nose, offensive discharge from, 184

Notes, importance of keeping in illness, 28

Ophthalmia of new-born children, 40

Opiates, 27

Palsy, 121
---- form of, peculiar to childhood, 122
---- its cause, 123
---- ---- treatment, 123
---- cases mistaken for it, 124

Peritonitis, 158
---- local, often overlooked, 158

Phantasms in childhood, 215

Pleurisy, 132

Pneumonia, 130
---- its symptoms, 131

Poultices, uses of, 20
---- how made, 20 note

Premature birth, 33
---- ---- its management, 34

Pulse, frequency of, in health and disease, 8

Quinsy, 165

Red-gum, 77

Respiration, frequency of, in health and disease, 8
---- artificial, 33

Rheumatic fever, 188

Rheumatism, connection of, with St. Vitus's dance, 118
---- chief cause of heart inflammation, 149

Rickets, 185

Round-worm, 160

Rupture of navel, 43

Scalp-swellings, 42

Scarlatina, 205
---- its dangers and symptoms, 206
---- characters of rash, 207
---- sore-throat of, 208
---- how recognised, 208
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