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[Illustration: Courtesy of New York World
These nine little tots are all sound, healthy stock. The generations behind them had unconsciously been practicing Eugenics through the process of natural selection. By luck, as it were, no strain was bred into the several families that would have caused these children to be unsound mentally, morally, or physically.
It is through Eugenics that we shall have more babies like these, and shall eliminate the possibility of children like those shown in the other illustrations to this volume.]
A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association
New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY 1914
COMMON DISEASES OF THE NOSE, MOUTH AND CHEST
"Catching cold"--Sitting on the floor--Kicking the bedclothes off--Inadequate head covering--Subjecting baby to different temperatures suddenly--Wearing rubbers--Direct infection--Acute nasal catarrh--Acute coryza--Acute rhinitis--"Cold in the head"--"Snuffles"--Treatment of acute nasal catarrh, or rhinitis, or coryza, or "cold in the head," or "snuffles"--Chronic nasal catarrh--Chronic rhinitis--Chronic discharge from the nose--Nervous or persistent cough--Adenoids as a cause of persistent cough--Croup--Acute catarrhal laryngitis--Spasmodic croup--False croup--Tonsilitis--Angina--Sore throat--Symptoms of tonsilitis--Treatment of tonsilitis--Bronchitis in infants--Bronchitis in older children--"Don'ts" in bronchitis--Diet in bronchitis--Inhalations in bronchitis-- External applications in bronchitis--Drugs in bronchitis-- Chronic or recurrent bronchitis--Pneumonia--Acute broncho-pneumonia--Symptoms of broncho-pneumonia--How to tell when a child has broncho-pneumonia--Treatment of broncho-pneumonia--The after treatment of broncho-pneumonia--Adenoids--How to tell when a child has adenoids--Treatment of adenoids--Nasal hemorrhage-- "Nose-bleeds"--Treatment of nose-bleeds--Quinsy--Hiccough-- Sore-mouth--Stomatitis--Treatment of ulcers of the mouth-- Sprue--Thrush 497