CHAPTER III. 12 General management of disease -- Mothers who cannot nurse their children when ill -- Importance of truth and keeping child happy -- Rules for management of bed-room and bed -- The bath -- Poultices -- Leeches -- Cold applications -- Medicines -- Note-taking and relation to the doctor _PART II._ PLAN PROPOSED TO BE FOLLOWED 31 CHAPTER IV. 32 On the disorders and diseases of children during the first month after birth -- Still-birth -- Premature birth -- Imperfect expansion of lungs -- Jaundice -- Ophthalmia -- Scalp-swellings -- Ruptured navel CHAPTER V. 45 Disorders and diseases of children after the first month, and until teething is finished -- Infantile atrophy -- Rules for artificial feeding -- Management of indigestion -- Thrush -- Teething -- Affections of the skin -- Eczema _PART III._ DISORDERS AND DISEASES INCIDENT TO ALL PERIODS OF CHILDHOOD 85 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SECOND PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD 85 CHAPTER VI. 88 Disorders and diseases of the brain and nervous system -- Their mortality and its causes -- Convulsions -- Congestion of the brain -- Sunstroke -- Water on the brain -- Inflammation from disease of the ear -- Chronic water on brain -- Brain disorder from exhaustion -- Spasmodic croup -- Epilepsy -- St. Vitus's Dance -- Palsy -- Neuralgia and headache -- Night terrors CHAPTER VII. 128 Disorders and diseases of the chest -- Catarrh and snuffles -- Bronchitis and pneumonia -- Influenza -- Pleurisy -- Croup -- Diphtheria -- Hooping-cough -- Asthma -- Diseases of the heart CHAPTER VIII. 151 Diseases of organs of digestion -- Description of process of digestion -- Dyspepsia of weakly children -- Jaundice -- Diarrh[oe]a -- Peritonitis -- Large abdomen -- Worms -- Ulcerated mouth -- Quinsy -- Enlarged tonsils -- Abscess at back of throat -- Diseases of kidneys -- Incontinence of urine CHAPTER IX. 173 Constitutional diseases -- Their nature -- Chronic constitutional diseases -- Consumption -- Scrofula -- Rickets -- Acute constitutional diseases -- Rheumatic fever -- Ague -- Mumps -- Typhoid fever -- Small-pox -- Inoculation and vaccination -- Chicken-pox -- Measles APPENDIX. 213 Mental and moral faculties in childhood, and the disorders to which they are liable INDEX 231