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THE 



MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT 



OF 



CHILDREN IN INDIA. 



BY ED^WARD A. BIRCH, M.D., 



Surgeofi-Major Bengal Establishment. 



Second Edition ; being the Eighth Edition of Goodeve's " Elints on the 

 Management of Children in India." 



Dr. Goodeve. — " I have no hesitation in saying that the present edition is for many reasons 

 superior to its predecessors. It is written very carefully, and with much knowledge and ex- 

 perience on the author's part, whilst it possesses the great advantage of bringing up the 

 subject to the present level of Medical Science." 



The Medical Titnes and Gazette, in an article upon this work and Moore's " Family 

 Medicine for India," says: — " JNew editions of these two well-known works have recently 

 appeared. They are both intended to supply in some measure the medical wants of our 

 numerous countrymen in India, who may be either far from professional help in emer- 

 gencies of sickness or of accident, or destitute of medical advice regarding the proper 

 management of their own health, and especially that of their children, in the trying climate 

 of Hindostan. Although we are, as a rule, very much opposed to popular medical in- 

 struction, believing that the result is most frequently a minimum of serviceable knowledge 

 along with a vast preponderance of what is but partial, misleading, and dangerous, yet 

 the peculiar circumstances of many of our countrymen in India, together with the 

 special and insidious dangers of its varying climate, fully justify the publication of a 

 few trustworthy popular works to warn the unwary new-comer, before it be too late, 

 of the dangers he has to encounter, and to give judicious counsel to solitary individuals 

 and families who cannot enjoy the advantages of personal professional advice. More- 

 over, the two works before us are in themselves probably about the best examples of 

 medical works written for non-professional readers. The style of each is simple, and as free 

 as possible from technical expressions. The modes of treatment recommended are generally 

 those most likely to yield good results in the hands of laymen ; and throughout each volume 

 the important fact is kept constantly before the mind of the reader, that the volume he is 

 using is but a poor substitute for personal professional advice, for which it must be discarded 

 whenever there is the opportunity. Written with such objects, and in such a spirit, these 

 volumes cannot fail to be of the greatest service ; and that they are appreciated is shown by 

 the rapid appearance of successive editions, the second mentioned and elder treatise having 

 now reached the seventh edition. We would add, that although they are specially written 

 for lay readers, there are few young medical officers proceeding to India who would not 

 receive several useful hints from these unpretentious volumes. But it is to parents or to 

 the guardians of European children in India that they must be of pre-eminent service." 



