Hygiene of the Nursery1898 - 293 pages |
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... according to cer- tain definitely fixed rules . Length increases most rapidly during the first week of life ; afterward the progress is almost uni- form up to the fifth month , and then it becomes less rapid , though still uniform ...
... according to cer- tain definitely fixed rules . Length increases most rapidly during the first week of life ; afterward the progress is almost uni- form up to the fifth month , and then it becomes less rapid , though still uniform ...
Page 37
... according to the age . If the quantity of food con- sumed at the regular meals does not come up to the parent's standard of sufficiency , it does nothing but harm to resort to too dainty feeding and to an encouragement to eat between ...
... according to the age . If the quantity of food con- sumed at the regular meals does not come up to the parent's standard of sufficiency , it does nothing but harm to resort to too dainty feeding and to an encouragement to eat between ...
Page 100
... according to circum- stances . Elastic fastenings , as in so - called congress shoes , are not good for children ; and when buttons are used , the nurse must not necessarily leave them in the position fixed by the shoemaker , but move ...
... according to circum- stances . Elastic fastenings , as in so - called congress shoes , are not good for children ; and when buttons are used , the nurse must not necessarily leave them in the position fixed by the shoemaker , but move ...
Page 114
... according to their own pleasure , visit the garden or the farm , and involuntarily take that kind and degree of exercise best calculated to promote the growth and development of their bodies . Delicate , scrofulous and consumptive ...
... according to their own pleasure , visit the garden or the farm , and involuntarily take that kind and degree of exercise best calculated to promote the growth and development of their bodies . Delicate , scrofulous and consumptive ...
Page 118
... according to the strength . Before closing this chapter a protest must be entered against roller - skates , as they are dangerous to life and limb . Bicycles with wheels of equal size are not objectionable , if the proper upright ...
... according to the strength . Before closing this chapter a protest must be entered against roller - skates , as they are dangerous to life and limb . Bicycles with wheels of equal size are not objectionable , if the proper upright ...
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Page 7 - Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 6 - STARR. The Digestive Organs in Childhood. The Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancy and Childhood. With Chapters on the Investigation of Disease and the Management of Children, 2d Edition, Enlarged.
Page 209 - The cows were milked at the unusual and abnormal hours of midnight and noon, and the noon's milking— that which alone was followed by illness— was placed, while hot, in the cans, and then, without any attempt at cooling, carted eight miles during the warmest part of the day in a very hot month.
Page 206 - Cows must not be allowed to drink stagnant water ; but must have free access to pure, fresh water. 4. Cows must not be heated or worried before being milked. 5. The pasture must be free from noxious weeds, and the barn and yard must be kept clean. 6. The udders should be washed, if at all dirty, before the milking.
Page 7 - The Hygiene of the Nursery. Including the General Regimen and Feeding of Infants and Children, and the Domestic Management of the Ordinary Emergencies of Early Life, Massage, etc.
Page 183 - For each portion ; to be given every two hours ; amounting to thirty fluidounces per diem. Diet from the beginning of the third month to the sixth month : — Milk 5 tablespoonfuls. Cream I tablespoonful.
Page 223 - ... and tie a piece of cloth over the top. Place the jar in a pot half full of boiling water, and keep the pot on the fire for four hours, simmering.
Page 120 - One cannot too soon begin to form the good habit of regularity in sleeping hours, and so far as circumstances will admit, the following rules may be enforced: — From birth to the end of the sixth or eighth month, the infant must sleep from...
Page 184 - ... hard and dry, it having been baked by the long-continued heat. This hard mass may be used for infant feeding in the latter part of the first year, but it should not be given more than twice a day. The flour ball is grated fine, and it may then be prepared, according to Starr's rule, as follows: " Rub one teaspoonful of the powder with a tablespoonful of milk into a smooth paste, then add a second tablespoonful of milk, constantly rubbing until a cream-like mixture is obtained. Pour this into...
Page 207 - ... ice water, the water being of the same depth as the milk in the can. It would be well if the water in the tank could be kept flowing, indeed this will be necessary unless ice water is nsed.