- Lenore, aged 5 months, 29 days died from "Cholera Infantum"
"The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal", published an article on Cholera Infantum that says, in part:
"Of all the diseases to which children, and especially infants, are liable, particularly in summer and the first months of autumn, cholera is by far the most fatal. It has been truly said that this disease is indigenous to the United States, as it has not been described in many, if any recent works of foreign authors. ...so extensive and frequent has this disease become among us, as to demand every attention that can be given to it by the profession. It is the scourge of childhood.
Among the causes of cholera infantum, in my humble opinion there is none nore conducive to its devastations than over-feeding. The anxious mother seeing her child laboring under other predisposing causes, and perhaps weak and feeble, imanines the "dear little thing" needs more nourishment, and consequently she is never satisfied unless when loading the already weak stomach of her darling with some nice preparation to "give it strength," not realizing that she is to see her kind and unwearied endeavors, and anxious solicitude, rewarded only by a fearful and often fatal disease! She does not realize that she is killing her child with kindness!.....But disease is hourly making fatal inroads upon the vitality of the child, and the storm is gathering and near at hand that will in its fury destroy the tender flower..."
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1908 - 1908 (0 years)
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