A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two PartsCrumpler, Rebecca Lee
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A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts
Crumpler, Rebecca Lee
Child care; Children -- Health and hygiene; Infants -- Care; Infants -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Health and hygiene
Frequently when whooping-cough intervenes during the time of teething,
the irritation of the gums somewhat abates. Some children have
whooping-cough and diarrhœa for some length of time, and upon recovery,
show quite a number of teeth. I am not all in favor of encouraging any
increased discharge from the bowels, but sometimes in congestive
whooping-cough a little looseness is beneficial. Cholera often sets in
just as the teeth have begun to break through the gums. The treatment,
however, should be the same as if not teething. Great caution should be
observed not to administer drugs containing laudanum; for by so doing,
air and mucus collect in the air or bronchial tubes, inducing a stoppage
in the breathing. Possibly suffocation and death have resulted from this
cause in numbers of cases. Whooping-cough, if gently treated, seldom, if
ever, proves fatal. I have had patients under my charge with it from
four weeks old, upwards. It would, nevertheless, be well to keep the
tender infant from exposure to whooping-cough for a while. It does seem
as if sooner or later in life we are to encounter these peculiar
complaints. The main thing to do to relieve the force of whooping-cough
is to keep the chest and air-tubes warm, and, most of the time, moist.
If there is danger of congestion, a warm poultice of flaxseed meal
spread over the chest and throat, and keeping clear of dust, smoke, or
smells of any kind, will aid much. By all means the nose should be kept
running, which may be done by sweating the forehead and nose. Bronchitis
or wheezing, like whooping-cough, is a disease that affects the
air-tubes in a greater or less degree, the inflammation sometimes
becoming very distressing. The treatment should be about the same as for
whooping-cough.
PNEUMONIA.
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