Feeding and care of baby / by Sir F. Truby King.

  • Truby King
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: Feeding and care of baby / by Sir F. Truby King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deterioration of many for every one killed outright, the waste of mothers’ travail and tears, and we recall Ruskin’s words:— Nevertheless it is open, I repeat, to serious question, whether among national manufactures, that of Souls of good quality may not at last, turn out a quite leadingly lucrative one. Nay, in some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour I can even imagine that England may cast all thoughts of possessive wealth hack to the barbaric nations among whom they first arose; and that while the sands of the Indus and adamant of Golconda may yet stiffen the housings of the charger, and flash from the turban of the slave, she, as a Christian mother, may at last attain to the virtues and the treasures of a Heathen one, and be aide to lead forth her Sons, saying: “These are MY Jewels.’’ Had all Roman mothers been Cornelias, would Rome have fallen ? Consider the imitation mothers—no longer mammalia—to be found in certain classes to-day—mothers who should be ashamed to look any tabby-cat in the face; consider the ignorant and down-trodden mothers amongst our lower classes, and ask whether these things are not making history. My attention has been called to the following passage, not irrelevant here. It is from the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Book xii, chap, r, written about a.d. 150:— A ROMAN ON MOTHERHOOD Once when I was with the philosopher Favorinus word was brought to him that the wife of one of his disciples had just given birth to a son. “Let us go,’’ said he, “to inquire after the mother and to congratulate the father.” The latter was a noble of senatorial rank. Favorinus having embraced and congratulated the father sat down and inquired how his wife had come through the ordeal. And when he heard that the young mother, overcome with fatigue, was now sleeping, he began to speak more freely. “Of course,” said he, “SHE WILL SUCKLE THE CHILD HERSELF.” And when the girl’s mother said her daughter must be spared and nurses obtained in order that the heavy strain of nursing the child should not be added to what she had already gone through, “1 beg of you, dear lady,” said he, i