When to Send for the Doctor; And What to Do Before the Doctor Comes (Paperback)

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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...the child should be sent to a medical specialist or to a psychologist; and if it is not possible to send the child to a specialist, she preeminently must know enough of this class to decide on the pedagogical individual needs of the case. Otherwise she may by mistaken training inflict injury on the weakened intellect instead of improving it. In the following pages we will give in the simplest way possible the signs of, first, those physical defects which should be called to the attention of a medical specialist; and, second, those which should lead the parent or teacher immediately to take the child to a mental specialist for a full examination. Note.--For a complete discussion of this subject the reader is referred to The Conservation of the Child, by Arthur Holmes, 1912, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia; price, $1.25. Of these purely physical defects we find defective hearing, defective vision, defective breathing, defective speech, defective teeth, defective posture, most often. We are paying more attention to the conditions to-day because we are obliged to do so. Health in these days is regarded as a " civic obligation," or, in other words, a public duty; as much so as the cleanliness of a city's streets and the disposal of its garbage. Value of Present-day Physical Examination. Our school-children are expected to undergo quite as careful and frequent physical examinations and re-examinations as they were made formerly to pass in arithmetic and geography. Therefore it behooves us to have an intelligent idea of these common physical defects and to be able to recognize the first danger signals they throw out. Within the last five years Dr. Leonard Ayres made an examination of 3300 school-children in New York City, from ten...