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The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases

Chapter 35: Transcriber's Notes
By Charles West
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About This Book

This practical manual advises mothers on recognizing and managing illnesses of infancy and childhood. It begins by examining causes of infant mortality and general signs of disease, then outlines rules for home care, feeding, bathing, and when to seek medical help. Subsequent chapters survey disorders by age and organ system—neonatal problems, feeding and teething difficulties, nervous system and brain conditions, respiratory and digestive diseases, and common constitutional infections—describing symptoms, basic management, and preventive measures. An appendix discusses the development of mental and moral faculties and their disorders. The guidance is deliberately nontechnical and intended to help mothers cooperate with physicians in the care of sick children.

Transcriber's Notes

Printer's errors have been corrected as follows:
  • Page 2--thoes corrected to those (to those conditions)
  • Page 2--do corrected to does (The experience ... does not apply)
  • Page 99--added comma (more gloomy, more pettish)
  • Page 107--removed space (distinguished)
  • Page 119--fidgetty corrected to fidgety (odd fidgety movements)
  • Page 160--added hyphen to round worm (round-worm)
  • Page 220--added quotation mark (a hospital for adults.')
  • Page 231--203 corrected to 202 (Chicken-pox, 202)
All other spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation has been left as written.

Footnotes have been moved to end of the chapters. The page numbers in the Index which reference these footnotes are the original ones, but the links point to the new locations.

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The medical knowledge represented in this book is over a century old. The publication of this book is for historical interest only, and is not to be construed as a medical advice by Project Gutenberg, its board of directors, or its volunteers. Prescriptions should not be applied without consulting trained medical professionals. Medical science has made considerable progress since this book was written. Recommendations or prescriptions may have been superseded by better alternatives, or invalidated altogether.