ronic water on brain -- Brain disorder from
exhaustion -- Spasmodic croup -- Epilepsy -- St. Vitus's Dance --
Palsy -- Neuralgia and headache -- Night terrors

CHAPTER VII. 128
Disorders and diseases of the chest -- Catarrh and snuffles --
Bronchitis and pneumonia -- Influenza -- Pleurisy -- Croup --
Diphtheria -- Hooping-cough -- Asthma -- Diseases of the heart

CHAPTER VIII. 151
Diseases of organs of digestion -- Description of process of
digestion -- Dyspepsia of weakly children -- Jaundice --
Diarrh[oe]a -- Peritonitis -- Large abdomen -- Worms -- Ulcerated
mouth -- Quinsy -- Enlarged tonsils -- Abscess at back of throat --
Diseases of kidneys -- Incontinence of urine

CHAPTER IX. 173
Constitutional diseases -- Their nature -- Chronic constitutional
diseases -- Consumption -- Scrofula -- Rickets -- Acute
constitutional diseases -- Rheumatic fever -- Ague -- Mumps --
Typhoid fever -- Small-pox -- Inoculation and vaccination --
Chicken-pox -- Measles

APPENDIX. 213
Mental and moral faculties in childhood, and the disorders to which
they are liable

INDEX 231

THE MOTHER'S MANUAL

OF

CHILDREN'S DISEASES.

PART I.

_INTRODUCTORY._

CHAPTER I.

ON THE MORTALITY OF CHILDREN, AND ITS CAUSES.

The purpose of this little book will probably be best attained, and
needless repetition best avoided, if we begin by inquiring very briefly
why so many children die, what general signs indicate that they are ill,
and what general rules can be laid down for their management in
sickness.

The first of these inquiries would be as useless as it would be sad, if
the rate of infant mortality were fixed by determinate laws, such as
those which limit the stature of man or the age to which he can attain.

But this is not so; the mortality in early life varies widely in
different countries, in different parts of the same country, and in the
same country at different times. Thus, while in some parts of Germany
the mortality under one year was recently as high as 25 to 30 per cent.
of the total births, and in England as 15, it was only a little above