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Diseases of children and their homoeopathic treatment
Diseases of children and their homoeopathic treatment Author:Franz Hartmann Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. PART I. The Diseases Of Infants From The Period Of Their Birth, To The Commencement Of DenTITION. ... more » Although the entrance of man into life is a strictly physiological process, yet it is such a violent act, that the smallness of the number of those who are injured by it, must excite our wonderment. If we consider that in the place of the foetal life, the child is ushered into an independent existence, that it is exposed to unwonted influences, that it is called upon to acquire a self-existing organism, with a digestive, assimilative and circulatory apparatus of its own, that all its vital functions undergo a radical change; if we dwell attentively upon all these great facts, we must wonder that a mother, even if perfectly healthy, should accomplish the act of parturition easily and safely, without the intervention of any foreign agent. Nevertheless, morbid conditions will sometimes occur which may require the interference of art. They are the following. CHAPTER I. ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM (APPARENT DEATH OF NEAV BORN INFANTS.) Infants are sometimes born without any, or at least with but few signs of vitality, and they would be pronounced still-born, but for the absence of all symptoms of decomposition. This condition of apparent death may be occasioned by various causes, such as stoppage of the circulation in the vessels of the neck, pressure on the umbilical cord, constriction of the neck by the folds of the umbilical cord; too sudden expulsion; retarded delivery of the head, protracted labor, artificial delivery, injury of the spinal marrow by pulling the feet, accumulation of mucus in the mouth, fauces, windpipe,« less