Grimacing, distinct from St. Vitus's dance, 119 Gums in teething, when to be lanced, 75 ---- management when ulcerated, 76 Head, varieties in shape of, unimportant, 106 Headache, neuralgic, 124 ---- from defective sight, 126 Heart, malformation of, 146 ---- ---- management of, 148 ---- frequency of disease of, from rheumatic fever, 149, 188 ---- inflammation of, 148 Hooping-cough, 141 ---- management of, 143 ---- its dangers, 144 Hysteria, relation of, to epilepsy, 115 Idiocy, 224, 225 ---- its management, 227 Incontinence of urine, 171 Indigestion in infancy, 47, 56 ---- its management, 65 Infants and children, mortality of. _See_ Mortality ---- rules for artificial feeding of, 50 ---- substitutes for mother's milk, 51 ---- quantity of food required, 54 ---- feeding-bottles, 55 Influenza, 132 Inoculation and vaccination, 196 Jaundice of new-born children, 39 ---- in childhood, 154 Kidneys, disease of, 168 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