THE
MOTHER'S MANUAL
OF
CHILDREN'S DISEASES.
BY
CHARLES WEST, M.D.
FELLOW, AND LATE SENIOR CENSOR, OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS: FOUNDER OF, AND FORMERLY PHYSICIAN TO, THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF PARIS: ETC.
AUTHOR OF 'LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.'
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
1885.
ADVERTISEMENT.
I have often asked myself whether it would not be possible to give in a small compass, and avoiding all technical detail, such an account of the diseases of infancy and childhood, as might be of use and comfort to the intelligent mother.
Returning now, with health perfectly restored, to practise my profession for the rest of my life exclusively in my own country, I have brought with me this little book, in which the comparative leisure of my enforced sojourn at Nice has enabled me to realise my purpose.