---- ---- convulsions as a sign of, 89
---- congestion of, 95
---- disorder of, from exhaustion, 106
---- inflammation of, 99. _See_ Water on the Brain.
---- disease from disease of the ear, 102
---- ---- symptoms of, 103
---- ---- treatment of, 105

Breathing, frequency of, in health and disease, 8

Bright's disease of the kidneys, 169

Bronchitis, 130
---- more serious than pneumonia, 131
---- its symptoms, 131

Catarrh, 128
---- its prevention and treatment, 129

Chafing, 77

Chest, cry in disease of, 5

Chicken-pox, 202

Childhood, characters of second period of, 85
---- mental and moral faculties, peculiarities in, 213
---- difference between child and adult, 213
---- patience of child, 214
---- vividness of imagination, 215
---- phantasms and sounds, 216
---- sensibility intense, 217
---- craving for sympathy in, 218

Children and infants, mortality of, 1; _see_ Mortality.
---- diseases of, their signs, 5; _see_ Diseases of Children.
---- management, 12
---- spoiled, 13
---- sick, importance of truth with them, 13
---- keeping happy, 16

Chloroform in convulsions, 92

Chronic constitutional diseases, 173

Cold to the head, how to apply, 22

Colic, characters of, 158

Congestion of the brain, 95
---- fatal termination of, 96
---- chronic water on brain from, 97
---- treatment of, 97

Constitutional diseases, 173

Consumption, how distinguished from non-expansion of lungs, 38
---- its symptoms when cause of infantile atrophy, 61
---- its nature, 174
---- recovery from, 176
---- causes of, 176
---- symptoms, 177
---- dependent on disease of glands of lungs, 177
---- in infancy, 178
---- galloping, 178
---- of the bowels, 179

Convulsions, as sign of brain disorder, 88
---- less serious than in grown person, 89
---- signs of their approach, 93
---- causes of, various, 90
---- description of a fit of, 94
---- treatment of, 91
---- now and then without apparent cause, 111

Cough, from disease of glands of lungs, 177

Cow's milk, excess of curd in, 51
---- ---- easily deteriorated, 52

Cow-pox, its nature, 198

Croup, its nature, 133
---- its two kinds, 134
---- catarrhal, 134
---- distinction from diphtheria, 135
---- treatment of, 135
---- spasmodic, 107. _See_ Spasmodic Croup.

Cry in illness, various meanings of, 5
---- when lungs are imperfectly expanded, 36

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