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Title: When to send for the doctor : and what to do before the doctor comes
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lippert, Frieda E., 1867- Holmes, Arthur, 1872-
Subjects: Children First aid in illness and injury
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ok at night.If we do correct him, he will straight-en up for a few minutes, but in lessthan half an hour he is bent again likethe proverbial jack-knife. Andthough we may at last realize the 163 WHEN TO SEND habit/ as we call it, we do not recog-nize the causes of the habit, nor the truththat the habit will go farther and fareworse, causing the lasting deformityof spinal curvature. Causes of Round Shoulders. Defective vision and defective hear-ing, one or both, may be the cause ofthe stooping shoulders, in the effort tobring the poor eye and ear nearer tothe things to be seen and heard. Withshoulders thus perpetually bent, it willnot be long before the next step in na-tures thwarted processes follows, andthe flexible spine will be found yieldingto the same impulse. So it happensthat very soon the backbone is likewisehabitually twisted to the same side towhich the shoulder is inclined, Hencearises the lateral curvature of thespine of which we are hearing so muchin these modern days. 164
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FOR THE DOCTOR Badly adjusted seats and desks inthe school-room will produce the sametrouble; also badly lighted school-roomsand work-rooms where our boys andgirls are employed will do the samething. Careless habits of standing or walk-ing with the weight of the body thrownchiefly upon one side, or with the weightof books and bundles upon one side,will provoke a one-sided twist that maybecome permanent. How Recognize the Condition? How may the mother discover thiscondition? Let her undress the child,and, with the entire back exposed, lether hand travel or feel the lengthof the childs spinal column from theneck to the very tip of the backbone.The rather sharp knobs or projec-tions felt all along the spine should befairly in the centre of the back. If in- 165 WHEN TO SEND stead of this they are felt at one or theother side of the centre, the mischief isprobably begun. Let her look also atthe two shoulders and the shoulder-blades; these should be on an exactlevel. If one is higher or low

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