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Mortality of children and its causes—Causes fourfold: Intermarriage—Hereditary taint—Unhealthy dwellings—Unwholesome food

General signs of disease—Shown by the cry, the temperature, the pulse and breathing—Rules for examination as to these points—Signs of absence of disease of the brain

General management of disease—Mothers who cannot nurse their children when ill—Importance of truth and keeping child happy—Rules for management of bed-room and bed—The bath—Poultices—Leeches—Cold applications—Medicines—Note-taking and relation to the doctor

On the disorders and diseases of children during the first month after birth—Still-birth—Premature birth—Imperfect expansion of lungs—Jaundice—Ophthalmia—Scalp-swellings—Ruptured navel

Disorders and diseases of children after the first month, and until teething is finished—Infantile atrophy—Rules for artificial feeding—Management of indigestion—Thrush—Teething—Affections of the skin—Eczema

Disorders and diseases of the brain and nervous system—Their mortality and its causes—Convulsions—Congestion of the brain—Sunstroke—Water on the brain—Inflammation from disease of the ear—Chronic water on brain—Brain disorder from exhaustion—Spasmodic croup—Epilepsy—St. Vitus's Dance—Palsy—Neuralgia and headache—Night terrors

Disorders and diseases of the chest—Catarrh and snuffles—Bronchitis and pneumonia—Influenza—Pleurisy—Croup—Diphtheria—Hooping-cough—Asthma—Diseases of the heart

Diseases of organs of digestion—Description of process of digestion—Dyspepsia of weakly children—Jaundice—Diarrhoea—Peritonitis—Large abdomen—Worms—Ulcerated mouth—Quinsy—Enlarged tonsils—Abscess at back of throat—Diseases of kidneys—Incontinence of urine

Constitutional diseases—Their nature—Chronic constitutional diseases—Consumption—Scrofula—Rickets—Acute constitutional diseases—Rheumatic fever—Ague—Mumps—Typhoid fever—Small-pox—Inoculation and vaccination—Chicken-pox—Measles

Mental and moral faculties in childhood, and the disorders to which they are liable