An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital / Published by order of the general committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan].

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
1752
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Credit: An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age. In a letter to one of the governors of the Foundling Hospital / Published by order of the general committee for transacting the affairs of the said hospital. By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (?') tural Evil, and fo is fubmltted to without Examination. But this is by no means the Cafe; and where it is entirely owing to Mif- management, and poffibly may admit of a Remedy, it is ridiculous to charge it upon Nature, and fuppofe that Infants are more fub- jeft to Difeafe and Death than grown Perfons; on the contrary, they bear Pain and Difeafe much better. Fevers efpecially, (as is plain in the Cafe of the Small-Pox, generally moft fa¬ vourable to Children) and for the fame Reafon that aTwig is lefs hurt by a Storm than an Oak. In all the other Produdlions of Nature we fee the greateft Vigour and Luxuriancy of Health, the nearer they are to the Egg or the Bud : They are indeed then moft fenfible of Injury, and it is Injury only that deftroys them. When was there a Lamb, a Bird, or a Tree, that died becaufe it was young ? Thefe are un¬ der the immediate Nurfing of unerring Na¬ ture, and they thrive accordingly. Ought it not therefore to be the Care of every Nurfe and every Parent, not only to protedl their Nurfelings from Injury, but to be well aflured that their own officious Services be not the greateft the helplefs Creatures can fuffer ? In the lower Clafs of Mankind, efpecially in the Country, Difeafe and Mortality are not fo frequent, either among the Adult, or their Childi 'en. Health and Pofterity are the Por¬ tion of the Poor, I mean the Laborious. The Want of Superfluity confines them more with¬ in