They fancy
the case is hopeless, and, to use their own expression, "they will not
torment the child with medicine or remedies any longer."
"Whilst there is life, there is hope," is a sentiment which may with
great truth be applied to all the diseases of infancy and childhood.
Striking, indeed, are the recoveries which occasionally present
themselves to the notice of medical men; and those individuals may with
great justice be charged with unpardonable neglect who do not persevere
in the employment of the remedies prescribed, even up to the last hours
of the child's existence.
INDEX.
Ablution, or sponging, 125.
Abstinence, its good effect, in flatulence and griping in the infant,
50. 226.
Accidents and diseases which may occur to the infant at birth or soon
after, 187.
Acids, injurious to the teeth, 159.
Air and exercise, in infancy, 83.
--, in childhood, 89.
--, its importance to the mother whilst a nurse, 33.
Animal food, in childhood, 55.
--, its injurious effects upon the young and delicate child, 58.
Aperient liniment, 107.
--, medicine, 97.
--, poultice, 104.
Artificial feeding; the causes rendering it necessary, 34.
Artificial food; the proper kind for the child before the sixth
month, 35.
--; the mode of administering it, 39.
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