Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children

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Excerpt from Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children: Their Developmental Defects, and Physical, Mental and Moral Peculiarities Considered as Ailments Amenable to Treatment by MedicinesIN his daily work the practical phy sician meets with a number of abnormal states that are not readily classified: I refer more particularly to those ah normal conditions of children that I have attempted to indicate in the long title of this little treatise. We say of certain children that they are delicate, backward, peculiar, odd, stunted, puny, and the like, without being able exactly to state what disease they are suffering from. The development of a given child receives a shock from a fall or fright, or its further growth is arrested by some acute disease, such as measles or in¿uenza or a child is glum, taciturn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.