Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts.

  • Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    TEETHING. Between 18th and 24tli months, ,; 30th „ 36th „ Order of second set of teeth :- About 7th year, „ 8th „ » 9th „ „ 10th „ . „ nth „ . . „ 12th „ to 12^, . „ 18th „ and upwards, 4 wisdom teeth. The names of the teeth in order from before backwards on each side of the middle line are incisors, canines, bicuspids, molars. The period of dentition in infants is always an anxious one. At the best they are fretful and irritable, difficult to amuse, feverish, with little appetite, and almost constantly dribbling. To this is often added some more severe symptom, varying in different children, and occurring at the cutting of each series of teeth. Thus one child will have the symptoms of a regular catarrh or even of a mild bronchitis at these times, another an attack of diarrhoea, another an eruption of eczema, and another in whom the nervous system seems in a most irritable state, a series of convulsions. If excessive, these symptoms will demand the care of a doctor, but if slight more attention must be given to the ordinary rules of hygiene at these times, such as a rather lighter diet, attention to the bowels, care to prevent cold and the like. Diseases of Children. — The causes of death in children are chiefly convulsions, diseases of the lungs, diarrhoea, and the acute infectious fevers. Convulsions are often B j 2 lower canines. \ 2 upper canines. 2 last lower molars. 2 last upper molars. 4 anterior molars. 4 central incisors. 4 lateral incisors. 4 anterior bicuspids. 4 posterior bicuspids. 4 canines.