[128]. Pye Chavasse’s Advice to a Mother.
[129]. Romeo and Juliet.
[130]. Good Words, Dr. W. Lindsay Alexander, March, 1861.
[131]. Woman’s Mission.
[132]. Tupper.
[133]. A nursery-basin (Wedgwood’s make is considered the best) holding either six or eight quarts of water, and which will be sufficiently large to hold the whole body of the child. The basin is generally fitted into a wooden frame, which will raise it to a convenient height for the washing of the baby.
[134]. Sir Charles Locock strongly recommends that an infant should be washed in a tub from the very commencement. He says: “All those that I superintend begin with a tub.”—Letter to the Author.
[135]. Mrs. Baines (who has written so much and so well on the Management of Children), in a Letter to the Author, recommends flannel to be used in the first washing of an infant, which flannel ought afterward to be burned; and that the sponge should be only used to complete the process, to clear off what the flannel had already loosened. She also recommends that every child should have his own sponge, each of which should have a particular distinguishing mark upon it, as she considers the promiscuous use of the same sponge to be a frequent cause of ophthalmia (inflammation of the eyes). The sponges cannot be kept too clean.
[136]. In one case related by Koop (Journ. de Pharm., xx. 603), a child was destroyed by it.
[137]. 2 Kings, v. 13, 14.