NAUGHTY CHILDREN.
USUALLY RHEUMATIC LONDON, May, 12. “Naughty children are usually rheumatic,” said Dr. A. Dingwass-Fordyco, the well-known specialist, who is lecturer on children’s diseases at the University of Liverpool, speaking at the Bath Medical Conference. “They are generally sensitive, mentally alert, and exuberant, and should be treated firmly but sympathetically, and with unending patience.'” If there were more beds in country hospitals and suitable residemtal schools, he added, rheumatic heart disease might bo eliminated. Dr. Richard L. J. Llewellyn, president of the balneological and climatological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, said that the skin s is the first lino of defence against rheumatism. Ho recommended cold baths, but sufferers might also try alternating hot and cold applications.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 8
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