Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children; Their Developmental Defects, and Physical, Mental and Moral Peculiarities Considered as Ailments Amena - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... MORAL OBLIQUITY IN CHILDREN. We are all too much disposed to regard moral deviations in children (and in adults, too, for the matter of that) as something separate and apart from any physical basis. What can minister to a mind diseased? Remedies homceopathicallyadapted to each individual case can. How do I know? Because I have done it myself any time and oft during the last twenty years. And it is not even difficult, given a knowledge of homoeopathy and of pharmaco-dynamics, with a little knowledge of diagnostics and physiology. Of course, the more one knows the more one can do, as in all other branches of applied knowledge. Most people one meets with in daily life can play at whist more or less--mostly less. There is whist and whist; likewise there is homoeopathy and homoeopathy. The mental and moral balance in children when disturbed is so disturbed materially and physically, and if we keep this well before our minds, we can restore such disturbed balance just as readily as we can cure any other disease. A child that habitually wets its bed is not dirty, but disturbed in the health of the parts involved. A child that masturbates, or is guilty of any other moral obliquity, is disturbed in the health of the part or parts involved in the several functions. I was sent for some fourteen years ago into Surrey to see a girl of 9 years of age, who was guilty of self-sexual gratification to a dreadful degree, occupying herself hours at a time thereat till she was quite exhausted. Her parents were in a sad state of mind, and communicated the fact to me with much embarrassment, and then volubly anathematizing the poor child as vile, and given over to sinful depravity. Due investigation into the case showed that she had enlarged indurated glands...

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