An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, George, 1719-1789.
Date:
MDCCLXVII
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Credit: An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and fmall inteftines being fufficient to prevent the fuccefs of any me¬ dicine whatever. I come now to the article of Convulsions, which I diftin- guiilied before into two forts, viz. the Jymptomatic (or thofe which are owing to a jlimulus, communicated to the nerves by an irritation in the ftomach or bowels, or the gums in time of teething, &c. which are by much the mo ft frequent) and the idiopathic, in which the brain k primarily affeded. As for the fir ft, whatever removes the Jlimu¬ lus above-mentioned, or, in other F z words,