The maternal management of children, in health and disease
Produced by Albert R. Mann Library. 2003. Home Economics Archive:
Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH). Ithaca, NY: Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. http://hearth.library.cornell.edu (Version January 2003).
By Thomas Bull, M.D.
Physician Accoucheur To The Finsbury Midwifery
Institution, And Lecturer On Midwifery,
And On The Diseases Of Women
And Children;
Author Of Hints To Mothers On The
Management Of Their Health.
1840.
This little book has been written for the young and inexperienced mother. It is intended to furnish her with that information which the experience and observation of some years convince the author, young mothers, almost without any exception, do not possess; and yet, from ignorance of which, the constitution of many an infant has received irretrievable injury, and life itself but too frequently fallen a sacrifice.
In the first chapters, devoted to the general management of the child in health, the author has endeavoured to teach the young mother, that the prevention of disease is her province, not its cure; that to this object all her best efforts must be directed; and, moreover, that to tamper with medicine, when disease has actually commenced, is to hazard the life of her offspring.
Thomas Bull
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THE
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES.
THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN.
Chapter I.
1. MATERNAL NURSING.
DEFICIENCY OF MILK.
THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS TO THE MOTHER AND INFANT OF UNDUE AND PROTRACTED SUCKLING.
OF MOTHERS WHO OUGHT NEVER TO SUCKLE.
2. WET-NURSE SUCKLING.
CHOICE OF A WET-NURSE.
DIET AND REGIMEN OF A WET-NURSE.
3. ARTIFICIAL, FEEDING, OR BRINGING UP BY HAND.
THE KIND OF ARTIFICIAL FOOD BEFORE THE SIXTH MONTH.
THE KIND OF ARTIFICIAL FOOD AFTER THE SIXTH MONTH, TO THE COMPLETION OF FIRST DENTITION.
THE KIND OF ARTIFICIAL DIET MOST SUITABLE UNDER THE DIFFERENT COMPLAINTS TO WHICH INFANTS ARE LIABLE.
ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES.
CASTOR OIL
MANNA.
MAGNESIA AND RHUBARB.
THE LAVEMENT.
THE APERIENT LINIMENT.
THE COLD WATER PLUNGE BATH.
SEA BATHING.
THE SHOWER BATH.
ABLUTION, OR SPONGING.
THE WARM BATH.
RULES FOR THE USE OF THE WARM BATH.
MANAGEMENT OF THE INFANT WHEN TEETHING IS WITHOUT DIFFICULTY.
THE MANAGEMENT OF THE INFANT IN DIFFICULT TEETHING.
SECT. II. HINTS UPON THE PERMANENT OR ADULT TEETH.
THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY APPEAR.
THEIR VALUE AND IMPORTANCE.
THEIR MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION.
CHAP. IV.
OF THE COUNTENANCE.
OF THE GESTURES.
OF THE SLEEP.
OF THE STOOLS.
OF THE BREATHING AND COUGH.
SECT. III.—OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH WILL ASSIST IN THE EARLY DETECTION OF DISEASE.
INJURIES RECEIVED DURING BIRTH.
RETENTION OF URINE.
SWELLING OF THE BREASTS.
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.
HARE-LIP.
BLEEDING FROM THE NAVEL-STRING.
ULCERATION OR IMPERFECT HEALING OF THE NAVEL.
BLEEDING FROM THE NAVEL.
JAUNDICE.
MOLES AND MARKS ON THE SKIN, ETC.
INDIGESTION, FLATULENCE, VOMITING, GRIPING, AND LOOSENESS.
1. TO THE INFANT AT THE BREAST.
2. AT THE PERIOD OF WEANING.
3. TO THE CHILD BROUGHT UP BY HAND.
MATERNAL TREATMENT OF THE DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS.
1. IN INFANCY.
2. IN CHILDHOOD.
SECT. IV.—WORMS.
INDEX.
THE END.
HINTS TO MOTHERS