Excerpt from The Female Monitor, Consisting of a Series of Letters to Married Women on Nursing and the Management of Children: With Occasional Notes and a Compendium of the Diseases of Infants
When infants are past this period, the danger in cutting their teeth is justly to be feared. This difficulty proceeds altogether from a weakness of constitution, arising from the same first management in point of diet and here a train of dreadful symp. Toms present themselves; the head, the stomach, the bowels, are all at times term ribly affected; a general wasting of the body frequently ensues; and unconquer-t able fevers prevail, which generally termif-i nate in convulsions and death.
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