. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. A NATURAL POSITION. AN UNNATURAL POSITION. its development must depend upon some exciting cause,which will be mentioned hereafter. The intermarrying ofpersons of like temperaments and constitutional dispositionsinevitably results in children of scrofulous and consumptivediathesis. A neglected cold, cough, or catarrh may soon develop thisfatality. The peculiar changes in females at certain
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. A NATURAL POSITION. AN UNNATURAL POSITION. its development must depend upon some exciting cause,which will be mentioned hereafter. The intermarrying ofpersons of like temperaments and constitutional dispositionsinevitably results in children of scrofulous and consumptivediathesis. A neglected cold, cough, or catarrh may soon develop thisfatality. The peculiar changes in females at certain periodsof life often awaken the slumbering enemy. Teething in SYMPTOMS. 793 infancy not unfrcqucntly develops the scrofulous clement,ami a wasting of the system — either marasmus or tabesmesenterica — follows, which, under the best treatment, mayprove fatal. The slip-shod, donblcd-up way that many people have oflying, sitting, and standing, arc conducive to consumption. Badly-ventilated school-houses have heretofore been asource of great injury to children, developing scrofula andconsumption in constitutions where it might have remainedlatent during their lifetime. Every reflecting parent shoul
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