The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-26
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cinDati aud Cleveland will fill several
large volumes and no doubt prove inter
esting to the profession and to many in.
telligent outsiders. Many important sub.
jccts were necessarily discussed aud
opinions differed upon numerous points
OF controversy. Take, for example, the
problem of Diptheria and Membranous
Group. DIR. Alexander Harris, of Nir-
gna, contcnded that they were identical.
lie held that the difference between
laryngial and pharyngial false membrane
cannot be detected with the naked eve,
and microscopists, even, are unable To
dterentiate. This paper, we are told,
called forth spirited discussion which
vas participated in by nearly ell the
physicians present, the asscmblage being
about evenly divided for and against the
theory OF unity. DR.. Charles w. Earle,
who occupies the chair on child:cn's
diseases in Il Chicago college, stated that
he was frank TO admit, after practice Of
thirteen years, that he was unable TO tell
one disease from The Other, or. in other
words, that he thought they were identi.
cal The discussion finally took wider
scope, and DIR. Conrad uirich, Of Penn.
sylvania, stated he believed in herculcau
treatment for crnap. He said that he
bad dosed Q child with twenty grain
doses oi calomcl, giving as much as 300
grain in forty.eight hours, and by this
means had saved the patients life.
l'y the way, this DR.. Uhlrich seems to
be genuine refOrmcr. Mothers may be
edIlied ut his emphatic review of baby.
hood. We quote from local report
First lie would get rid Of The old wo.
man notions, the flannel petticoats and
heavy WOODEN clothing. SO soon 81. Il
child is born, he said, it is wrapped in
heavy flannel bandage, which the nurse
draws around its body as tight AS posi-
bic. Next comes wai-tbnnd, large and
heavy enough to envelop its entire body,
attached TO which il Il flannel skirt q
yard or more in length. The little thing
is bundled up in all this mass of cloth
lng-no matter what the temperature of
the room--and tucked into bed. Such
dressing is pernicipus and can result in
nothing but injury TO the child 1t has
lar more to do with the sickness Of small
children than teething. Perniciou- feed
ing !s anois.aE ;.iiEg. The child no
s"oheF mas It's eyes open than q spoon il
at It's mouth anu a stream of sugar aud
wale', CatnIp tea, etc, Is started down i,s
throat. | always leave imperative
orders that q child INST be fed nothing
but milk from the ~. nal iouut
-ay stop feeding and dressing and dpsing
aud let the child 80 to sleep. If it sleeps
vel! it is certainly ull right. Physicians
have too little regard for infants stom-
achs. They usually give too much
medicine. Another thing: If a child
cries lis mother nurses it, and the little
one. soon becomes accustomed to this
mo.c of qnicting it, aud expects it. The
mother does not like TO hear it cry, and
III consequence its stomach il nll the
time filled with milk. much to it's dis.
comfort.
AS the season for infant mortality is
near ut hand. we reproduce the above
treatment, which strikes us rs full Of
wisdom. More children arc killed by
overieeding than anything else, and if
1t were possible to tell the true story of
The causes of the death Of the baby
nearly all the poetry and sentiment
allowed on such occasions would sound
like mockery. God takes the little
ones, and it is good for them, no doubt, to
depart 80 soon, but ignorance and not
an angelic summons must be held respon-
sible for majority Of such premature
dissolutions.
Boys and girls who make wry faces or
break ont into open and lngrunt rebel
lion, when medicine is prescribed, will
hear with much junction. that, ut the bid
ding of DR.. Charles w. Earle, Of
Chicago, the hated doses of the apothe-
cary are to be made more seductive. DR..
Earle said ut is doctors duty to
bring the patient back to health as
speedily as possible, and to do this j, is
necessary to put the medicine in a pula-
table condition. Many doctors would
make up four and eightounce prescrip-
tions Of vile tasting stuff which D child
would not take, and in consequence it
was no uncomn.on thing TO sec q sick
room table covered will, dollars worth Of
medicine which was of no use. Drugs
can be disguised and there is 10 better
vehicle by which Il large number of
them can be conveyed into child's
stomach than water. Quinine can be
disguised in syrup of icorice and other
drugs in sugar. 1T is barbarous," said
the doctor, in conclusion, "to force down
child's throat some Of the vile stuff
prescribed by physicians"
In the discussion that followed several
doctors Expressed the belief that people
might call them homeopaths If they re.
sorIed to sugar, but one physician said
he did not care what people called him.
ho thought it his duty to make the
medicine as pleasant as possible. lie
did ::": !."ar s;sgaT, however, thinking
ficorice good substitute.