After a child begins teething any of the following foods may be given:
The food that suits one infant, however, will not agree with another.
The one that I have found the most useful is made as follows: Boil the
crumb of bread for two hours in water, taking particular care that it does
not burn, then add only a little loaf-sugar (or brown sugar, if the bowels
are costive) to make it palatable. Mix a little new milk — the milk of one
cow✪ Infant Food — with it, gradually, as it becomes older, increase the quantity until it
is nearly all milk, there being only enough water to boil the bread; the
milk should be poured boiling hot on the bread. Sometimes the two
milks— the mother's and the cow's milk — do not agree; when" such is the
case, let the milk be left out, both in this and in the foods following and
make the food with water, instead of with milk and water. In other
respects, until the child is weaned, make as above directed; when he is
weaned, good fresh cow's milk must, as previously recommended, be used.
THE NURSERY.
The nursery ought to be the largest and most airy room in the. house.
In town, if it is the top story (providing the apartment is large and airy)
so much the better, as the air will then be purer. The architect, in the
building of a house, ought to be particularly directed to pay attention to
the space, the loftiness, the ventilation, the light, the warming, and the
conveniences of a nursery. A bathroom attached to it will be of great
importance and benefit to the health of a child,
VENTILATION.
The ventilation of a nursery is of paramount importance. There
ought to be a constant supply of fresh pure air in the apartment. But
how few nurseries have fresh, pure air? Many nurseries are nearly her-
metically sealed — the windows are seldom, if ever, opened; the doors are
religiously closed; and, in summer time, the chimneys are carefully stuffed
up, so that a breath of air is not allowed to enter. The consequences are
that the poor unfortunate children are poisoned by their own breaths, and
are made so delicate that they are constantly catching cold; indeed, it
may be said that they are laboring under chronic catarrhs, all arising from
Nature's laws being set at defiance.
A child ought not to be permitted to sit with his back to the fire; it
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weakens the spine, and thus the whole frame; it causes a rush of blood to
the head and face and predisposes him to colds. Pure air and pure
water, let me add, pure milk, are the grand and principal requirements of
health for a child.
DRAINAGE.
Look well to the drainage of the house and neighborhood. A child
is very susceptible to the influence of bad drainage. Bad drains are fruit-
ful sources of scarlet fever, diphtheria, diarrhea, etc.
WALLS OF A NURSERY.
Do not have the nursery wall covered with green paper hangings.
Green paper hangings contain large quantities of arsenic— arsenite of
copper — which is a virulent poison, and which flies about the room in the
form of powder. There is another great objection to having your nursery
walls covered with green paper hangings; if any of the paper should
become loose from the walls a little child is very apt to play with it, and to
put it, as he does everything else, into his mouth.
MAKE A CHILD HAPPY.
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After a child begins teething any of the following foods may be given: The food that suits one infant, however, will not agree with another. The one that I have found the most useful is made as follows: Boil the crumb of bread for two hours in water, taking particular care that it does not burn, then add only a little loaf-sugar (or brown sugar, if the bowels are costive) to make it palatable. Mix a little new milk — the milk of one cow — with it, gradually, as it becomes older, increase the quantity until it is nearly all milk, there being only enough water to boil the bread; the milk should be poured boiling hot on the bread. Sometimes the two milks— the mother's and the cow's milk — do not agree; when" such is the case, let the milk be left out, both in this and in the foods following and make the food with water, instead of with milk and water. In other respects, until the child is weaned, make as above directed; when he is weaned, good fresh cow's milk must, as previously recommended, be used.
THE NURSERY.
The nursery ought to be the largest and most airy room in the. house. In town, if it is the top story (providing the apartment is large and airy) so much the better, as the air will then be purer. The architect, in the building of a house, ought to be particularly directed to pay attention to the space, the loftiness, the ventilation, the light, the warming, and the conveniences of a nursery. A bathroom attached to it will be of great importance and benefit to the health of a child,
VENTILATION.
The ventilation of a nursery is of paramount importance. There ought to be a constant supply of fresh pure air in the apartment. But how few nurseries have fresh, pure air? Many nurseries are nearly hermetically sealed — the windows are seldom, if ever, opened; the doors are religiously closed; and, in summer time, the chimneys are carefully stuffed up, so that a breath of air is not allowed to enter. The consequences are that the poor unfortunate children are poisoned by their own breaths, and are made so delicate that they are constantly catching cold; indeed, it may be said that they are laboring under chronic catarrhs, all arising from Nature's laws being set at defiance.
A child ought not to be permitted to sit with his back to the fire; it
INFANTS— HOW AND WHAT TO FEED THEM. 522
weakens the spine, and thus the whole frame; it causes a rush of blood to the head and face and predisposes him to colds. Pure air and pure water, let me add, pure milk, are the grand and principal requirements of health for a child.
DRAINAGE.
Look well to the drainage of the house and neighborhood. A child is very susceptible to the influence of bad drainage. Bad drains are fruitful sources of scarlet fever, diphtheria, diarrhea, etc.
WALLS OF A NURSERY.
Do not have the nursery wall covered with green paper hangings. Green paper hangings contain large quantities of arsenic— arsenite of copper — which is a virulent poison, and which flies about the room in the form of powder. There is another great objection to having your nursery walls covered with green paper hangings; if any of the paper should become loose from the walls a little child is very apt to play with it, and to put it, as he does everything else, into his mouth.
MAKE A CHILD HAPPY.
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