Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children - Their Developmental Defects, and Physical, Mental and Moral Peculiarities Considered as Ailments Amenable to Treatment by Medicines #263343

IN 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 influenza or a child is glum, taciturn.