An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . ECZEMA RUBRUM DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 1103 is more apt to evoke eczema than under-feeding in children. Very few chil-dren are properly fed, and it is no uncommon thing to find very young infantsallowed everything that appears on the table. The writer has long maintainedthat oatmeal is a pernicious food for the eczematously disposed, especially theha


An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . ECZEMA RUBRUM DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 1103 is more apt to evoke eczema than under-feeding in children. Very few chil-dren are properly fed, and it is no uncommon thing to find very young infantsallowed everything that appears on the table. The writer has long maintainedthat oatmeal is a pernicious food for the eczematously disposed, especially thehastily-cooked article reinforced by rich cream and great quantities of of Edinburgh doubts that oatmeal in itself can initiate an eczema,but he thinks it is quite probable that it can light up an imperfectly curedeczema or perpetuate one already existing, as any other cause of eczema may. Spoon-fed babies are more apt to develop eczema than those nursed byhealthy mothers, but here also it is to be remembered that they are liable todisorders of the alimentary canal. The local and reflex irritations of the eruption of teeth plays no inconsid-erable role among the exciting of eczema, but to regard teething as thesole cause


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