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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 592 of 653perfect ossification.This remedy likewise renders efllcient service in cases of hereditary disposition and, like Calcarea^ is often administered withvantage in alternation with Sulphur 6 to 80.If Silicea is not suflicient, we resort to Phosphorus 8 to 6, witwhich we have obtained the most satisfactory results in the caseof feeble and exhausted children who did not acquire the use oftheir legs until very late. (See the article "Menin^tis Spinalis,Spondylitis.")Children who learn to walk with diflSculty or at a late period,must not be made to stand upon their feet ; every attempt at making them walk, is an injury to them. It is better for them to liedown as much as possible. Carrying them in a sitting posture orCongenital Anaemia. * 705without changing from one arm to another, frequently gives riseto spinal curvatures. To afford them the enjoyment of fresh air,they have to be dragged about lying on their backs in a little cariage.In all cases of congenital ansemia, country-air and a meat dietare very beneficial.We have already cautioned parents against overfeeding. In orderto keep the children quiet, some parents and nurses are in the haof keeping them at the breast the whole night. As soon as thechildren cry a little, they are put to the breast, or tits are putheir mouths, or they are stuffed with farinaceous paps or thickgruels. Even after weaning them, this system of overfeeding iscontinued ; children are constantly eating bread, pieces of boilepotato, cake, etc. These vicious habits are the beginning of impefect chylification. The habit of keeping the digestive organs constantly employed, leads afterwards to an insatiable voracity. Thedigestive organs, being constantly excited to an uninterruptedactivity, become weak; the children have to vomit frequently, theare suffering from acidity of the stomach, accumulations of phleggastric disorders, painful diarrhcea or flatulent colic, bloatedweakness and thinness of the extremities and other disorders resuing in the final development of scrofulosis, rickets and preparinthe road for the invasion of tuberculosis.Nurselings may be put to the breast every two or three hours ;and after they are weaned, children should have their meals atregular periods ; between meals they may be allowed to run outand play in the open air. Atmospheric oxygen is as necessary toan improvement of the quality of the blood as adequate nourishment is to sound nutrition. Digestion, says Moleschott, transformthe food into constituents of the blood, atmospheric oxygen transforms the bl6od-disks into tissue-making substances.Good food and an abundant supply of pure air are often sufficientto impart to feeble and rickety children an appearance of healthand strength.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt