[138]. Communicated by Sir Charles Locock to the Author.
[139]. “The Princess of Wales might have been seen on Thursday taking an airing, in a brougham in Hyde Park, with her baby—the future King of England—on her lap, without a nurse, and accompanied only by Mrs. Bruce. The Princess seems a very pattern of mothers, and it is whispered among the ladies of the Court that every evening the mother of this young gentleman may be seen in a flannel dress, in order that she may properly wash and put on baby’s night-clothes and see him safely in bed. It is a pretty subject for a picture.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
[140]. Communicated by Sir Charles Locock to the Author.
[141]. “Tous-les-mois” is the starch obtained from the tuberous roots of various species of canna; and is imported from the West Indies. It is very similar to arrow-root. I suppose it is called “tous-les-mois,” as it is good to be eaten all the year round.
[142]. If there is any difficulty in obtaining prepared oatmeal, Robertson’s Patent Groats will answer equally as well.
[143]. British Medical Journal, Dec. 18, 1858.
[144]. The Cook’s Guide. By C. E. Francatelli.
[145]. I consider it to be of immense importance to the infant, that the milk be had from ONE cow. A writer in the Medical Times and Gazette, speaking on this subject, makes the following sensible remarks: “I do not know if a practice common among French ladies, when they do not nurse, has obtained the attention among ourselves which it seems to me to deserve. When the infant is to be fed with cow milk, that from various cows is submitted to examination by the medical man, and if possible, tried on some child, and when the milk of any cow has been chosen, no other milk is ever suffered to enter the child’s lips, for a French lady would as soon offer to her infant’s mouth the breasts of half a dozen wet-nurses in the day, as mix together the milk of various cows, which must differ even as the animals themselves, in its constituent qualities. Great attention is also paid to the pasture, or other food of the cow thus appropriated.”—December 29, 1860.
[146]. For further reasons why artificial food is not desirable at an early period of infancy, see answer to 35th question, p. [1043].
[147]. The Nurse, a Poem. Translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo. By William Roscoe.