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![CHILDREN. hunful they muft prove to the tender bodies of infants, we fhall leave any one to judge. Whoever confiders thefe things wit] not befur- Piiled, that fo many children die of convulfionv oon a tci the birth. Thefe fits are generally at- tributed to fome inward caufe; but, in faft, they o mer proceed from our own imprudent conducl.. have known a child feized with convulfion-fits, oon after the midwife had done fwaddling it, who, upon taking off the rollers and bandages, was im- mediately relieved, and never had any convulfion- fits afterwards. Numerous examples of this might be given, were they neceflary. It would be fafer to fix on the clothes of an infant with firings than pins, as thefe often gall and irritate their- tender fkins, and occafion con- vulfions. Pins have been found fiicking above half an inch into the body of a child after it had died of convulfion-fits, which, in all probability, proceeded from that caufe. Childr£n are not only hurt by the tightnefi of their clothes, but alio by the (Quantity. Every child has fome degree of fever after the birth j and, if it be loaded with too many clothes, the fever muft be increafed. But that is not all; the child is generally laid in bed with the mother, who h often likewife feverilh ; to which we may add the heat of the bed-chamber, the wines, and other i heating](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721907_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
