Hygiene of the Nursery1898 - 293 pages |
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... bottle , some information can be obtained of the condition of the mouth and throat , and of the respiratory organs . A healthy child drinks continuously without stopping to breathe , and swallows easily . Examples of Variations in ...
... bottle , some information can be obtained of the condition of the mouth and throat , and of the respiratory organs . A healthy child drinks continuously without stopping to breathe , and swallows easily . Examples of Variations in ...
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... Bottle - fed infants are most likely to show this irregularity , which is of some importance as an indication of general feebleness . In other instances , however , it is merely a family peculiarity , and , as such , bears no special ...
... Bottle - fed infants are most likely to show this irregularity , which is of some importance as an indication of general feebleness . In other instances , however , it is merely a family peculiarity , and , as such , bears no special ...
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... bottles , implements for the heating and preparation of food and for bathing , also belong to the furniture of the nurseries , but their consideration may be conveniently postponed to later sections . - Heating . Each room requires an ...
... bottles , implements for the heating and preparation of food and for bathing , also belong to the furniture of the nurseries , but their consideration may be conveniently postponed to later sections . - Heating . Each room requires an ...
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... bottle and goes to bed . The first is perhaps the better hour , but regularity is the more important point . At the time selected , place the tub containing the water , heated to a proper temperature , in a warm and sheltered part of ...
... bottle and goes to bed . The first is perhaps the better hour , but regularity is the more important point . At the time selected , place the tub containing the water , heated to a proper temperature , in a warm and sheltered part of ...
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... bottle , by the method known as artificial or hand- feeding . Ist . Feeding from the maternal breast . There can be no doubt that this , being the natural , is at the same time the proper method of nourishing the human infant ; and ...
... bottle , by the method known as artificial or hand- feeding . Ist . Feeding from the maternal breast . There can be no doubt that this , being the natural , is at the same time the proper method of nourishing the human infant ; and ...
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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.