. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . INFANT TEETH, AND RUDIMENTS OF THE PERMANENT. Teething.—This is not naturally a process of disease. In the pres-ent state of things, however, children often suffer severely from it,and not unfrequently life is destroyed in this way. These, and allkindred topics, I have endeavored to explain fully in my work on• Children, to which the reader is referred. I here simply remarkthat the more carefully and
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . INFANT TEETH, AND RUDIMENTS OF THE PERMANENT. Teething.—This is not naturally a process of disease. In the pres-ent state of things, however, children often suffer severely from it,and not unfrequently life is destroyed in this way. These, and allkindred topics, I have endeavored to explain fully in my work on• Children, to which the reader is referred. I here simply remarkthat the more carefully and judiciously the child is managed fiom thefirst, the less will it suffer from the process of dentition, and that themorbid symptoms that are causec by the process are those of febril* 532 Of the Teeth, and theik Diseases. action usually, in some pt rt or the whole of the system, in which thetreatment will be tolerably obvious. Fig. COMPLETE BET OP PERMANENT TEETII, SHOWING THEIR NERVOUS CONNECTIONS. Cutting the Gums of Infants.—It is customary with many physi-cians always to carry a gum lancet with them, so that when they find1 -• ,m any thing the matter with a child that is teething, in goes the instrument uponone or more of the teeth that are aboutto protrude. Now, it is natural for aphysician to want to do something whencalled to a child; and, besides, it is aninbred notion among people that the doc-tor must do something that hurts, orgive something that nauseates and dis-gusts. Hence this practice of cuttingthe gums. And there are physicians,cutting the gums of an iniant. too, who honestly belife re that it saveslife often, and who wouU do it just as soon upon a child of their ownas upon that of another My own opinion is, that cutting the gumsdoes neitl sr much good \Z harm. I have often done it at the solici-
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