Poultices, uses of, 20 ---- how made, 20 note
Premature birth, 33 ---- ---- its management, 34
Pulse, frequency of, in health and disease, 8
Respiration, frequency of, in health and disease, 8 ---- artificial, 33
Rheumatism, connection of, with St. Vitus's dance, 118 ---- chief cause of heart inflammation, 149
Scarlatina, 205 ---- its dangers and symptoms, 206 ---- characters of rash, 207 ---- sore-throat of, 208 ---- how recognised, 208 ---- management of; duties of parents, 209
Scrofula, 181 ---- abscesses under skin, 182 ---- disease of bones of fingers, 183 ---- glandular swellings, 183 ---- offensive discharge from nostrils, 184
Small-pox, 195 ---- after vaccination, 201
Sore-mouth, 163 ---- ---- not diphtheritic, 164 ---- ---- not due to mercury, 165 ---- throat of scarlatina, 208
Spasmodic croup, 107 ---- ---- its nature and symptoms, 108 ---- ---- ---- treatment, 111
Stomach, how to examine, 9 ---- ache, cry in, characteristic, 5
St. Vitus's dance, 118 ---- ---- ---- its connection with rheumatism, 118 ---- ---- ---- its symptoms, 118 ---- ---- ---- distinct from mere grimacing, 119 ---- ---- ---- its treatment, 120
Suckling, importance of, to mother and child, 40, 50 ---- unfitness of some mothers for it, 49 ---- sometimes has to be abandoned, 57
Tears, their value as a sign of disease, 11, 101
Teething, takes place later in man than in other animals, 47 ---- order in which teeth appear, 73 ---- when the gums should be lanced, 75 ---- rules for management of, 76
Temperature, in health and disease, 7 ---- of sick-room, 14 ---- increase of, in infantile consumption, 61
Throat, white spots on, not always diphtheritic, 137 ---- sore, inflammatory, or quinsey, 165 ---- abscess at back of, 168
Tonsils, enlarged, 166 ---- inflamed, 165 ---- when to be removed, 167
Typhoid fever, 191 ---- ---- its symptoms, 192 ---- ---- ---- management, 194
Vaccination, 196 ---- M. Pasteur's experiments, 197 ---- death from, 198 ---- re-vaccination, 199 ---- animal, 200 ---- alleged transmission of disease by, 200 ---- conclusions with reference to it, 200 ---- small-pox after, 201
Vomiting in infancy, 63 ---- its treatment, 64 ---- as sign of congestion of brain, 95
Water on the brain, acute, its early symptoms, 99 ---- ---- ---- ---- symptoms of its progress, 101 ---- ---- ----- ---- chronic, two kinds of, 97, 105