An Essay on the Causes of Infant Mortality: Being a Brief Account of the Origin of the Feebleness and Diseases Which Afflict and Destroy So Many Children Under Five Years of Age (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John W. Thrailkill

9780484402118: An Essay on the Causes of Infant Mortality: Being a Brief Account of the Origin of the Feebleness and Diseases Which Afflict and Destroy So Many Children Under Five Years of Age (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484402110 ISBN 13: 9780484402118

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from An Essay on the Causes of Infant Mortality: Being a Brief Account of the Origin of the Feebleness and Diseases Which Afflict and Destroy So Many Children Under Five Years of Age

I noticed in the Republican of the 8th inst. A Challenge to the Medical Faculty, by Chas. Mil ler, F. H. Gerhold and others. The principal pro position contained in this challenge is a de mand upon the medical faculty to explain the wherefore Of such an alarming death rate among children, and why the boasted science of the med ical. Profession does or can do nothing. Such a demand on the part Of the people is perfectly rational and legitimate, and should be responded to by the profession with that alacrity which has ever distinguished them as the philanthropic con servators Of the public weal. The importance of the subject can not be overestimated. It involves the dearest interests Of the race, and demands the attentive and earnest consideration Of all. The limits Of a newspaper article will permit nothing but the briefest possible consideration Of the sub ject; hence I shall enter at once upon the main topics without further preliminaries.

The statement is made in the above mentioned challenge that about forty per cent. Of all the deaths are children under five years. It would be foreign to my purpose either to substantiate or call in question the truth Of this statement. Be sides, such an inquiry would be barren Of practi cal results, because its approximation to the truth will be admitted by all intelligent Observers.

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