• 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 , 50
• Milk, mother's, and that of animals compared, 50
• Milk, substitutes for, 59
• Milk, condensed, inferior to fresh milk, 53
• Moral insanity in childhood, 219-223
• Moral perversion from epilepsy, 114
• Mortality of infants and children, 1
• Mortality, varies in different places and times, 1
• Mortality, causes of, 2
• Mortality, causes of, intermarriage and hereditary taint, 2
• Mortality, causes of, unhealthy dwellings, 3
• Mortality, causes of, unwholesome food, 4
• Mortality, increased during teething, 72 note
• Mother not always good nurse, 12
• Mouth, how to examine, 10
• Mouth, sore, 163
• Mumps, 190

• Napkins, inconvenience of, 18
• Navel, rupture of, 43
• Nettle-rash, 78
• Neuralgia and headache, 124
• Night terrors, 126
• Nose, offensive discharge from, 184
• Notes, importance of keeping in illness, 28

• Ophthalmia of new-born children, 40
• Opiates, 27

• Palsy, 121
• Palsy, form of, peculiar to childhood, 122
• Palsy, its cause, 123
• Palsy, its treatment, 123
• Palsy, cases mistaken for it, 124
• Peritonitis, 158
• Peritonitis, local, often overlooked, 158
• Phantasms in childhood, 215
• Pleurisy, 132
• Pneumonia, 130
• Pneumonia, its symptoms, 131
• Poultices, uses of, 20
• Poultices, how made, 20 note
• Premature birth, 33
• Premature birth, its management, 34
• Pulse, frequency of, in health and disease, 8

• Quinsy, 165

• Red-gum, 77
• Respiration, frequency of, in health and disease, 8
• Respiration, artificial, 33
• Rheumatic fever, 188
• Rheumatism, connection of, with St. Vitus's dance, 118
• Rheumatism, chief cause of heart inflammation, 149
• Rickets, 185
• Round-worm, 160
• Rupture of navel, 43

• Scalp-swellings, 42
• Scarlatina, 205
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