[154]. For the first three or four months never, if you can possibly avoid it, give artificial food to an infant who is sucking. There is nothing, in the generality of cases, that agrees, for the first few months, like the mother’s milk alone.
[155]. Communicated by Sir Charles Locock to the author.
[156]. Dendy. Lancet, October 25, 1851.
[157]. Dr. George Gregory.
[158]. Sir Charles Locock, in a Letter to the Author.
[159]. For the precautions to be used in putting a child into a warm bath, see the answer to question on “Warm Baths.”
[160]. No family, where there are young children, should be without Fahrenheit’s thermometer.
[161]. Ingoldsby Legends.
[162]. The young of animals seldom suffer from cutting their teeth—and what is the reason? Because they live in the open air and take plenty of exercise, while children are frequently cooped up in close rooms and are not allowed the free use of their limbs. The value of fresh air is well exemplified in the Registrar-General’s Report for 1843: he says that in 1,000,000 deaths from all diseases, 616 occur in the town from teething, while 120 only take place in the country from the same cause.
[163]. See answer to Question 63.