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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Most persons are accustomed to think of Btarvation merely in ifs acute form, with the accompaniments of a death preceded by horrible Buffering; and they can scarcely realize to themselves the less conspicuous bnt not less fatal influence which in its partial form it exerts as an abettor of disease. Let us try and realize what this influence is, under two or three different sets of circumstances. And first with regard to its mis- chievons action upon the infant population. We are well accustomed to speak of the period of infancy as a perilous one; and the public is tolerably familiar with the fact that an enormous proportion of the whole mortality occurs in subjects under the age of five years; but people seldom reason out to themselves the cause of this extraordinary and disproportionate fatality of disease in the very young: it does not seem to occur to them that the very diseases which decimate the infant population are just those which always fall with most crushing force on the ill fed. But ask the physician of any children's hospital what are the maladies which make most havoc with their little patients, and they will tell you, first of all, the epidemic fevers, the inflammatory diseases which are common at certain Masons of the year, intestinal complaints, and next to these, consumption, rickets, scrofula, diseases of the nervous system of a low type. If you have any doubt that starvation plays a large part in the production of mch diseases as these, go to the homes of these children, and look at the multiplied appliances of it which meet the eye on every side. The poor, pallid, ill-fed mothers can hardly give a very rich supply of food to their infants during the time of their dependence on them, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217580304 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217580300 |
| Weight | 2.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.62 In |
| List Price | $44.73 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 736 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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