The care of infants : a manual for mothers and nurses / by Sophia Jex-Blake.
- Sophia Jex-Blake
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The care of infants : a manual for mothers and nurses / by Sophia Jex-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![any chemist’s. From five to ten grains is an average dose for a yoimg baby, and immediate relief will often be obtained by its use. Dill- water, too, is a good old-fashioned remedy; and its allies, carraway and anise waters, are also harmless, in occasional doses of about half a tea- spoonful in milk. A little lime-water mixed with milk (about a tablespoonful to half a pint) will sometimes prevent indigestion, but it should not be used habitually without medical advice. The only other medicines which I should be willing to include in the nursery pharmacopoeia partake rather of the nature of food than of physic, and will be useful only in the case of ill nourished children of less than average vitality; —I refer to cod-liver oil, and to that mixture of the phosphates of iron, soda, and lime, which is commonly sold under the name of Parrish’s Chemical Food. These, either separately or in combination, fre(][uently act like magic when given to weakly children; and in my Dispensary practice I use very large quantities of both, with the best possible results. They are not often required in the nurseries where unlimited milk of the best kind, with abundant air and sunlight, are attain- able ; but I mention them here with a view to babies in poor homes, where none of these essen- tials can be had in full measure. I believe that few greater charities could be practised than the purchase of these articles at wholesale rates, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717776_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
