The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases - Charles West

Abdomen, large, its importance exaggerated, [158]
Abdomen, tenderness of, very important, [158]
Acute constitutional diseases, [187]
Aperients, [23]
Artificial feeding, its dangers, [45]
Artificial feeding, rules for, [50]
Artificial feeding, sometimes necessary, [49], [58]
Artificial feeding, substitutes for milk, [59]
Asses' milk best substitute for human, [51]
Asthma, [145]
Atrophy, infantile, [45]
Atrophy, its causes and symptoms, [47]
Atrophy, symptoms essentially different from consumption, [48], [62]
Atrophy, may depend on consumption, [61]

Backwardness, [224]
Bath, warm, management of, [19]
Bath, warm, when to be used in convulsions, [91]
Bed, importance of, in illness, [16]
Bedsores, how to prevent, and treat, [18]
Bedstead, best form of, for children, [17]
Brain, disease of, cry in, [5]
Brain, disease of, proofs of absence of, [10]
Brain and nervous system, mortality from diseases of, [88]
Brain, disease of, convulsions as a sign of, [89]
Brain, congestion of, [95]
Brain, disorder of, from exhaustion, [106]
Brain, inflammation of, [99]. See Water on the Brain.
Brain, disease from disease of the ear, [102]
Brain, disease of, symptoms of, [103]
Brain, disease of, treatment of, [105]
Breathing, frequency of, in health and disease, [8]
Bright's disease of the kidneys, [169]
Bronchitis, [130]
Bronchitis, more serious than pneumonia, [131]
Bronchitis, its symptoms, [131]

Catarrh, [128]
Catarrh, its prevention and treatment, [129]
Chafing, [77]
Chest, cry in disease of, [5]
Chicken-pox, [202]
Childhood, characters of second period of, [85]
Childhood, mental and moral faculties, peculiarities in, [213]
Childhood, difference between child and adult, [213]
Childhood, patience of child, [214]
Childhood, vividness of imagination, [215]
Childhood, phantasms and sounds, [216]
Childhood, sensibility intense, [217]
Childhood, craving for sympathy in, [218]
Children and infants, mortality of, [1]; see Mortality.
Children, diseases of, their signs, [5]; see Diseases of Children.
Children, management, [12]
Children, spoiled, [13]
Children, sick, importance of truth with them, [13]
Children, 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]
Congestion of the brain, fatal termination of, [96]
Congestion of the brain, chronic water on brain from, [97]
Congestion of the brain, treatment of, [97]
Constitutional diseases, [173]
Consumption, how distinguished from non-expansion of lungs, [38]
Consumption, its symptoms when cause of infantile atrophy, [61]
Consumption, its nature, [174]
Consumption, recovery from, [176]
Consumption, causes of, [176]
Consumption, symptoms, [177]
Consumption, dependent on disease of glands of lungs, [177]
Consumption, in infancy, [178]
Consumption, galloping, [178]
Consumption, of the bowels, [179]
Convulsions, as sign of brain disorder, [88]
Convulsions, less serious than in grown person, [89]
Convulsions, signs of their approach, [93]
Convulsions, causes of, various, [90]
Convulsions, description of a fit of, [94]
Convulsions, treatment of, [91]
Convulsions, now and then without apparent cause, [111]
Cough, from disease of glands of lungs, [177]
Cow's milk, excess of curd in, [51]
Cow's milk, easily deteriorated, [52]
Cow-pox, its nature, [198]
Croup, its nature, [133]
Croup, its two kinds, [134]
Croup, catarrhal, [134]
Croup, distinction from diphtheria, [135]
Croup, treatment of, [135]
Croup, spasmodic, [107]. See Spasmodic Croup.
Cry in illness, various meanings of, [5]
Cry when lungs are imperfectly expanded, [36]

Diabetes, [169]
Diarrhœa in childhood, [154]
Diarrhœa, simple, [156]
Diarrhœa, inflammatory, [157]
Digestion, how performed, [151]
Digestive organs, peculiarities of, in infancy, [46]
Diphtheria, [136]
Diphtheria, its gradual progress, [136]
Diphtheria, caution not to overlook it, [137]
Diphtheria, various dangers of, [138]
Diphtheria, management of, [139]
Diphtheria, opening windpipe in, [140]
Diphtheria, paralysis after, [141]
Diseases of infants and children, their signs, [5]
Diseases of infants and children, management, [12]
Doctor, proper relation of parents to, [28]
Dream images vivid in childhood, [215]
Dyspepsia of weakly children, [153]

Earache, symptoms of, [103]
Earache, treatment of, [105]
Earache, inflammation of brain from disease of ear, [102]
Eczema, [79]
Eczema, its symptoms and course, [79]
Eczema, treatment, [81]
Eczema, alleged dangers of curing, [84]
Epilepsy, its two forms, [112]
Epilepsy, prospects of recovery from, [113]
Epilepsy, moral perversion, from, [114]
Epilepsy, treatment of, [116]
Epilepsy, moral management of, [117]
Exhaustion a cause of brain disorder, [106]

Farinaceous food, why unsuitable, [46]
Farinaceous food, results of its excess, [47]
Farinaceous food, best forms of, [60]
Feeding-bottle, best form of, [55]
Feigned illness, [221]
Fingers, scrofulous disease of bones of, [183]
Food, quantity required by an infant, [54]
Food, best mode of giving, [54]

Galvanism, in cases of paralysis, [123]
German measles, [204]
Glandular enlargement in infantile consumption, [61]
Glandular swellings from scrofula, [183]
Gravel, [170]
Grimacing, distinct from St. Vitus's dance, [119]
Gums in teething, when to be lanced, [75]
Gums, management when ulcerated, [76]

Head, varieties in shape of, unimportant, [106]
Headache, neuralgic, [124]
Headache from defective sight, [126]
Heart, malformation of, [146]
Heart, malformation of, management of, [148]
Heart, frequency of disease of, from rheumatic fever, [149], [188]
Heart, inflammation of, [148]
Hooping-cough, [141]
Hooping-cough, management of, [143]
Hooping-cough, its dangers, [144]
Hysteria, relation of, to epilepsy, [115]

Idiocy, [224], [225]
Idiocy, its management, [227]
Incontinence of urine, [171]
Indigestion in infancy, [47], [56]
Indigestion, its management, [65]
Infants and children, mortality of. See Mortality
Infants, rules for artificial feeding of, [50]
Infants, substitutes for mother's milk, [51]
Infants, quantity of food required, [54]
Infants, feeding-bottles, [55]
Influenza, [132]
Inoculation and vaccination, [196]

Jaundice of new-born children, [39]
Jaundice in childhood, [154]