How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne.

  • Milne, Alexander
Date:
1880
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Credit: How to nurse a child, or, The management of children and their diseases / by Alexander Milne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    healthy condition of the evacnations leads to swollen and inflamed external parts. As regards the proper form of dusting-powder, we have numerous kinds in vogue, such as violet powder, fine starch, native car- bonate of zinc, and Fuller’s earth. On the whole, there is nothing better, in our estimation, than Mr Foulkes’ (of Birkenhead) toilet and nursery powder. It is an impalpable, pure emoUient and elegant dusting- powder, and safer in its use than the preparations of zinc, etc. We recommend it in preference to aU others. Clothing'.—This is a matter of vital importance, hut in regard to it there is much mismanagement in many quarters yet. We have, I heheve, got rid of the thick flannel cap and tight bandaging of the frail head of the infant; hut do we not sometimes yet see the body too firmly hound 1 Some, moreover, though not using a flannel cap for the head, employ a hnen one. How, unless the child he very delicate, and the climate a trying one, this also may he dispensed with. As re- gards the body clothing, the main objects are to secure due warmth, and to avoid undue restraint. A mode- rately firm hinder of flannel is applied around the abdomen. This should come down to the lower part of the belly, and he fastened only with safety-pins or stitched. Many a heUy pain, as elsewhere remarked, has been due to the prick of an ordinary pin, and not to gripes. The upper part of the body—the chest— should not be much burdened with clotliing, at least there should be nothing put on fitted to impede the
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