{"product_id":"2940015634563","title":"The Nervous Child","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP.                                                  PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I. DOCTORS, MOTHERS, AND CHILDREN                      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II. OBSERVATIONS IN THE NURSERY                        16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. WANT OF APPETITE AND INDIGESTION                   50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV. WANT OF SLEEP                                      64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V. SOME OTHER SIGNS OF NERVOUSNESS                    73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI. ENURESIS                                           89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII. TOYS, BOOKS, AND AMUSEMENTS                        96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. NERVOUSNESS IN EARLY INFANCY                      104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX. MANAGEMENT IN LATER CHILDHOOD                     117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X. NERVOUSNESS IN OLDER CHILDREN                     131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI. NERVOUSNESS AND PHYSIQUE                          145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XII. THE NERVOUS CHILD IN SICKNESS                     160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. NERVOUS CHILDREN AND EDUCATION ON SEXUAL MATTERS  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIV. THE NERVOUS CHILD AND SCHOOL                      182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      INDEX                                             191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NERVOUS CHILD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDOCTORS, MOTHERS, AND CHILDREN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is an old fairy story concerning a pea which a princess once\u003cbr\u003eslept upon--a little offending pea, a minute disturbance, a trifling\u003cbr\u003edeparture from the normal which grew to the proportions of intolerable\u003cbr\u003esuffering because of the too sensitive and undisciplined nervous\u003cbr\u003esystem of Her Royal Highness. The story, I think, does not tell us\u003cbr\u003emuch else concerning the princess. It does not tell us, for instance,\u003cbr\u003eif she was an only child, the sole preoccupation of her parents and\u003cbr\u003enurses, surrounded by the most anxious care, reared with some\u003cbr\u003edifficulty because of her extraordinary \"delicacy,\" suffering from a\u003cbr\u003evariety of illnesses which somehow always seemed to puzzle the\u003cbr\u003edoctors, though some of the symptoms--the vomiting, for example, and\u003cbr\u003ethe high temperature--were very severe and persistent. Nor does it\u003cbr\u003etell us if later in life, but before the suffering from the pea arose,\u003cbr\u003eshe had been taken to consult two famous doctors, one of whom had\u003cbr\u003eremoved the vermiform appendix, while the other a little later had\u003cbr\u003eperformed an operation for \"adhesions.\" At any rate, the story with\u003cbr\u003ethese later additions, which are at least in keeping with what we know\u003cbr\u003eof her history, would serve to indicate the importance which attaches\u003cbr\u003eto the early training of childhood. Among the children even of the\u003cbr\u003ewell-to-do often enough the hygiene of the mind is overlooked, and\u003cbr\u003efaulty management produces restlessness, instability, and\u003cbr\u003ehyper-sensitiveness, which pass insensibly into neuropathy in adult\u003cbr\u003elife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo prevent so distressing a result is our aim in the training of\u003cbr\u003echildren. No doubt the matter concerns in the first place parents and\u003cbr\u003enurses, school masters and mistresses, as well as medical men. Yet\u003cbr\u003ebecause of the certainty that physical disturbances of one sort or\u003cbr\u003eanother will follow upon nervous unrest, it will seldom happen that\u003cbr\u003emedical advice will not be sought sooner or later; and if the\u003cbr\u003ephysician is to intervene with success, he must be prepared with\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of many sorts. He must be prepared to make a thorough and\u003cbr\u003ecomplete physical examination, sufficient to exclude the presence of\u003cbr\u003eorganic disease. If no organic disease is found, he must explore the\u003cbr\u003ewhole environment of the child, and seek to determine whether the\u003cbr\u003eexciting cause is to be found in the reaction of the child to some\u003cbr\u003eform of faulty management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor example, a child of two or three years of age may be brought to\u003cbr\u003ethe doctor with the complaint that defæcation is painful, and that\u003cbr\u003ethere has existed for some time a most distressing constipation which\u003cbr\u003ehas resisted a large number of purgatives of increasing strength.\u003cbr\u003eWhenever the child is placed upon the stool, his crying at once\u003cbr\u003ebegins, and no attempts to soothe or console him have been successful.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not sufficient for the doctor in such a case to make an\u003cbr\u003eexamination which convinces him that there is no fissure at the anus\u003cbr\u003eand no fistula or thrombosed pile, and to confine himself to saying\u003cbr\u003ethat he can find nothing the matter. The crying and refusal to go to\u003cbr\u003estool will continue after the visit as before, and the mother will be\u003cbr\u003eapt to conclude that her doctor, though she has the greatest\u003cbr\u003econfidence in him for the ailments of grown-up persons, is unskilled\u003cbr\u003ein, or at least not interested in, the diseases of little children.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146346086640,"sku":"2940015634563","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015634563","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}