CONTENTS.
| PART I.—INFANCY. | |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Preliminary Conversation | [1013] |
| Ablution | [1016] |
| Management of the Navel | [1024] |
| Clothing | [1028] |
| Diet | [1032] |
| Vaccination | [1056] |
| Dentition | [1062] |
| Exercise | [1075] |
| Sleep | [1077] |
| The Bladder and the Bowels | [1084] |
| Ailments, Disease, etc. | [1085] |
| Concluding Remarks on Infancy | [1119] |
| PART II.—CHILDHOOD. | |
| Ablution | [1120] |
| Clothing | [1123] |
| Diet | [1132] |
| The Nursery | [1150] |
| Exercise | [1172] |
| Amusements | [1177] |
| Education | [1183] |
| Sleep | [1188] |
| Second Dentition | [1194] |
| Disease, etc. | [1195] |
| Warm Baths | [1294] |
| Warm External Applications | [1295] |
| Accidents | [1297] |
| PART III.—BOYHOOD AND GIRLHOOD. | |
| Ablution, etc. | [1318] |
| Clothing | [1327] |
| Diet | [1332] |
| Air and Exercise | [1337] |
| Amusements | [1341] |
| Education | [1347] |
| Household Work for Girls | [1355] |
| Choice of Profession or Trade | [1355] |
| Sleep | [1359] |
| On the Teeth and the Gums | [1364] |
| Prevention of Disease, etc. | [1366] |
| Index | [1403] |
Advice to a Mother.
PART I.—INFANCY.
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection, as that Parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of Children; whether they have, or have not judgment, penetration, or taste, to perform the task.—Greville.
Man’s breathing Miniature!—Coleridge.
PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION.
1. I wish to consult you on many subjects appertaining to the management and the care of children,—will you favor me with your advice and counsel?
I shall be happy to accede to your request, and to give you the fruits of my experience in the clearest manner I am able, and in the simplest language I can command—freed from all technicalities. I will endeavor to guide you in the management of the health of your offspring;—I will describe to you the symptoms of the diseases of children;—I will warn you of approaching danger, in order that you may promptly apply for medical assistance before disease has gained too firm a footing;—I will give you the treatment on the moment of some of their more pressing illnesses—when medical aid cannot quickly be procured, and where delay may be death;—I will instruct you, in case of accidents, on the immediate employment of remedies—where procrastination may be dangerous;—I will tell you how a sick child should be nursed, and how a sick room ought to be managed;—I will use my best energy to banish injurious practices from the nursery;—I will treat of the means to prevent disease where it be possible;—I will show you the way to preserve the health of the healthy,—and how to strengthen the delicate;—and will strive to make a medical man’s task more agreeable to himself,—and more beneficial to his patient,—by dispelling errors and prejudices, and by proving the importance of your strictly adhering to his rules. If I can accomplish any of these objects, I shall be amply repaid by the pleasing satisfaction that I have been of some little service to the rising generation.
2. Then you consider it important that I should be made acquainted with, and be well informed upon, the subjects you have just named?