Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.3

c12.3

A further source of diseases of childhood is the teething. Thus according to AS 6.1.179 f.; AHr 6.2.26 ff., diseases of every kind and on the entire body, particularly fever, headache, thirst, giddiness, dimsightedness, inflammation of the eye, ulcer on the eyelids, vomiting, cough, difficult breathing, diarrhoea and erysipelas are caused thereby. The teeth appear in the eighth month or later if the child is healthy, otherwise at the end of the fourth month. If the children suffer from pains caused by teething in too early an age, they cannot develop normally. The treatment consists of emetics and other medicines which, however, are to be given in very small dose. A child suffering from teething should not generally be subjected to severe cure, since the ailing appearances disappear by themselves when the teeth appear.