INDEX.

A BLUTION, or sponging, 51, 98, 103, 151

Abstinence, its good effect in flatulence and griping in the
infant, 70, 247

Accidents and diseases which may occur to the infant at birth or
soon after, 206

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of a subsequent period, 222

Acids, injurious to the teeth, 181

Air and exercise, 115, 121

its importance to the mother whilst a nurse, 32
its importance to the wet-nurse, 51

Ammon, Von, quoted, 34

Animal food, given too early, highly injurious, 67

in childhood, 74

its injurious effects upon the young and delicate child, 75
Anxiety of mind, its effects upon breast-milk, 32

Aperient biscuits, 133

enema, 134
- liniment, 125
medicine, 128

Aqua fortis, 236

Arnott, Dr., quoted, 89

Arrowroot, 60

Arsenic, antidote, 236

Artificial feeding, causes rendering it necessary,

55

food, the milk of animals the best kind until the first teeth

appear, 56

the manner of preparing it, 58, 59

the mode of giving it, 61

the quantity and frequency of giving it, 62

the posture of the infant when fed, 63

the proper kind after the first teeth have appeared, 64

the various kinds when milk disagrees, 60

Hard's farinaceous food, how prepared, 65

tops and bottoms, how prepared, 65

found in a large proportion of female boarding-schools,
where the system we have described is pursued.'
Every physician practising in a large city can most
fully confirm these important statements; and al-
though there are many exceptions to this system, still
it is always desirable that the female children of a scro-
fulous family should be educated at home during their
earlier years,
where a judicious mental as well as phy-
sical training can be more completely followed out.

Such are the principal points comprehended in the
management of the child of scrofulous constitution.
Experience has fully proved their efficacy. Their more
extensive employment would lead to an incalculable
amount of benefit to mankind. Terrible as are the
ravages of this malady, sweeping off, as it sometimes
does, and in the space of a few short years, every
member of a large family, by that most destructive of
all its developements, consumption-it cannot be
doubted that, as just views of its nature become more
widely propagated and the means of prevention more
generally adopted, its prevalence will be largely dimi-
nished, and this scourge be less familiar to us. The
present state of science, however, seems to show that
this happy result must be expected from prevention
rather than cure.

INDEX.

BLUTION, or sponging, 51, 98, 103, 151

A and griping in the

infant, 70, 247

Accidents and diseases which may occur to the infant at birth or

soon after, 206

of a subsequent period, 222

Acids, injurious to the teeth, 181

Air and exercise, 115, 121

its importance to the mother whilst a nurse, 32
its importance to the wet-nurse, 51

Ammon, Von, quoted, 34

Animal food, given too early, highly injurious, 67

- in childhood, 74

its injurious effects upon the young and delicate child, 75
Anxiety of mind, its effects upon breast-milk, 32

Aperient biscuits, 133

-

enema, 134

liniment, 125

medicine, 128

Aqua fortis, 236

Arnott, Dr., quoted, 89
Arrowroot, 60

Arsenic, antidote, 236

Artificial feeding, causes rendering it necessary, 55

- food, the milk of animals the best kind until the first teeth

appear, 56

the manner of preparing it, 58, 59

the mode of giving it, 61

the quantity and frequency of giving it, 62

the posture of the infant when fed, 63

the

proper kind after the first teeth have appeared, 64

the various kinds when milk disagrees, 60

Hard's farinaceous food, how prepared, 65

tops and bottoms, how prepared, 65

Artificial food, Mellin's, 65

Densham's farinaceous food, how prepared, 69

beef-tea, how made, 66

chicken-tea, how made, 66

mutton-tea, how made, 66
veal-tea, how made, 66

the kind most suitable under the different complaints to
which infants are liable, 68

Asparagus for children, 77

Ass's milk, how prepared, 58

- best mode of supplying it, 58

Atmosphere of the nursery, 9, 92, 133; of the bed-rooms, 94,

100

a damp and humid state of, injurious, 116

a very cold condition of, dangerous, 100, 110

Attendants upon children, in health, 95; in sickness, 187

Bathing and cleanliness during infancy and childhood, 103, 107
Bathing, sea, 149

Bed, the infant's, 100; the child's, 102

Bed-room, ventilation and temperature of, 93, 100

Beef-tea, how prepared for an infant, 66

Blisters, mode of applying and dressing, 144, 145

Boiling water, the swallowing of, 225

Bottle, the nursing, 62

Bowel, protrusion of, 254

Bowels, of their mismanagement immediately after birth, 129;

-

-

condition of the stools when healthy, 129

training of, 107

confined, 69, 261

relaxed, 69, 237

- flatulence and griping of, 69, 237

Bread-and-water poultice, how made, 145
Breasts of the infant, swelling of, 216

Breathing of the infant, how affected by disease, 200
Broccoli, for children, 77

Broken limbs, what to do, 228

Broths, how made, 66

Bruises, their management, 226

Bugs, the bites of, how treated, 235

Burns and scalds, their treatment, 223

YALOMEL, danger of, 135; injurious to the teeth, 136
Caps, the use of, for infants and children, 112

Carminative, Dalby's, its danger, 139

Carriage, a good carriage,' how best obtained, 125; and the sad
results of the mode frequently adopted, 122

Carrots, as an article of diet for children, 77

Carrying the infant, the mode of, 116

Castor-oil, its use, 130

Castor-oil emulsion, how made, 130

Cauliflower, for children, 77

Chest, deformity of, 274

Cheyne, Dr., quoted, 201, 314
Chicken-broth, how made, 66
Chicken-pox, 306

Chilblains, 277

Choice of a nurse-maid, importance of, 96

wet-nurse, rules for, 46

Choking, 233

Clysters, what kind best for children, 134

mode of applying, 134

Colds and coughs, 249

Cold and damp, children very su ptible of, 100, 104, 109, 113,

116, 241

Colostrum, 22

Combe, Dr., quoted, 17

Consumption, 3, 329

Convulsions, 1, 32, 140, 171, 173, 194, 327

Cooper, Sir A., quoted, 15

Corrosive sublimate, 236