A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth. / By Michael Underwood, M.D. licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. ; Two volumes in one.
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- A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth. / By Michael Underwood, M.D. licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. ; Two volumes in one.
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- Underwood, Michael, 1736-1820.
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- Philadelphia: :: Printed by T. Dobson, no. 41, South Second-Street.,
- MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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- Children -- Diseases.
- Infants -- Diseases.
- Infants -- Health and hygiene
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"A treatise on the dieases [sic] of children, with general directions for the management of infants from the birth. / By Michael Underwood, M.D. licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians, in London, and physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. ; Two volumes in one." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N20068.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
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A TREATISE, &c.
- RETENTION OF THE MECONIUM.
- ICTERITIA, or INFANTILE JAUNDICE.
- INWARD-FITS.
- DISORDERS arising from COSTIVENESS and WIND.
- WATCHING, or WANT of SLEEP.
- IMPERFECT CLOSURE of the FORAMEN OVALE, and CANALIS ARTERIOSUS; with other PRETERNATURAL CONFOR|MATIONS of the HEART.
- ERYSIPELAS INFANTILIS.
- APTHAE, or THRUSH.
- The RED-GUM, or BENIGN-FRUPTION.
- ERUPTIONS on the SKIN.
- SORE EARS.
- VOMITING.
- GRIPES.
- PURGING.
- WORMS.
- CONVULSIONS.
- SKIN-BOUND.
- TETANUS.
- EPILEPTIC-FITS.
- CHOREA SANCTI VITI, or SAINT VI|TUS's DANCE.
- TEETHING.
- FEVER.
- MESENTERIC-FEVER.
- HECTIC FEVER, and MARASMUS.
- FEBRIS SCARLATINA—SCARLET-FEVER, WITH or WITHOUT ULCERATION of the THROAT.
- CARDIALGIA, or INFLAMMATION of the STOMACH.
- SMALL-POX, (INOCULATION) and MEASLES.
- CHICKEN-POX.
- AGUE.
- HOOPING-COUGH.
- SPASMODIC-COUGH.
- THE CROUP.
- RICKETS.
- SCROFULA, or KING's EVIL.
- HYDROCEPHALUS, or WATERY-HEAD.
- INCONTINENCE of URINE.
- THE SEVEN-DAYS-DISEASE, &c.
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A TREATISE, &c. PART I.
- TINEA, or SCALD-HEAD.
- HERPES MILIARIS, or SHINGLES; (RINGWORM.)
- HERPES EXEDENS, or SERPIGO.
- SCABIES or ITCH.
- OPHTHALMIA, or INFLAMMATION of the EYES.
- LEUCOMA, or SPECK of the EYE.
- CATARACT and GUTTA SERENA.
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The STITHE, or ST
E. - DEAFNESS.
- CANKER of the MOUTH.
- GANGRENOUS EROSION of the CHEEKS.
- PSOAS, or LUMBER-ABSCESS.
- WHITE SWELLING of the JOINTS.
- PALSY of the LOWER EXTREMTIES with CURVATURE of the SPINE.
- DEBILITY of the LOWER EXTREMITIES.
- CURVATURE of the BONES from WEAKNESS.
- PARONYCHIA, or WHITLOW.
- FURUNCULUS or BOIL.
- CHILBLAINS.
- BURNS and SCALDS.
- LUXATIONS and FRACTURES.
- On CUTTING the TONGUE.
- SUFFOCATION from SWALLOWING the POINT of the TONGUE.
- HICCOUGH.
- SNEEZING.
- BLEEDING of the NOSE.
- HEMORRHAGE from the NAVEL.
- HERNIAE, or RUPTURES.
- HYDROCELE, or WATERY RUPTURE.
- RETENTION of the TESTES.
- TUMEFACTION of the PREPUCE.
- PROLAPSUS, or PROCIDENTIA ANI.
- DISCHARGES from the VAGINA.
- OF the VENOM of INSECTS and of CER|TAIN ANIMALS.
- ENCEPHALOCELE, or HERNIA of the BRAIN.
- TUMORS of the SCALP.
- LVMPHATIC TUMORS on the HEAD and SPINE.
- SPINA BYFIDA and PARENCHYMATOUS TUMORS.
- On the HARE-LIP, and other EXTERNAL BLEMISHES, or COMPLAINTS, supposed to be MARKS of the MOTHER.
- VARI and VALGI.
- title page
- GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS FROM THE BIRTH.
- An Alphabetical List of Medicines recommend|ed in this Work, to which the College of Phy|sicians has given new Names.—Both the Latin and English Names are given, of which, that one will stand first which more frequently occurs in the Work.
- Definition of Technical and other Terms, not fully explained in every passage where they may occur; with a view to render the work more familiar to some readers, when consulting particular or detached parts.