The mother's book of health and family adviser / by Gordon-Stables.

  • William Gordon Stables
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mother's book of health and family adviser / by Gordon-Stables. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHAT MAKES BABY CRY. “ The tear fell gently from her eye, When ]a->t we parted on the shore. ” Old Lay, Yes, the tear fell gently from her eye, but in the case to which I allude, the lady was not parting with anyone on the shore. Mrs. Moir was a young mother, and she sat at the open window of her snug little parlour in the evening of a warm summer’s day, gently rocking her baby in her arms, the tears falling silently over her face. Baby had just dropped off. She looked up at me wistfully, wofully, as I came quietly towards her, and said almost in a whisper— “It is the first time, doctor, that he has slept for many hours. He will just fret and cry in his peevish way for hours, night and day, and I can do nothing v/ith him. I am nearly worn out myself” And, indeed, she looked it, poor thing! I didn’t know which to pity most, the child or the mother. “ What do you think can ail him, doctor ? What medicine must I give him?” “ Before we talk about medicine we must find out the cause of his trouble.