How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints.

  • Page, Charles Edward, 1840-1925.
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    pation so commonly attending this trouble should be met at the start by full, free injections of warm watei to thoroughly empty and wash out the lower bowel. There should be entire abstinence from food until the symptoms of convalescence are well established, when feeding may be resumed, but with extreme moderation at first. Pure water—never tee-water—may be taken freely, as indicated by thirst, or in sufficient amount, little and often, to prevent thirst, but never so profusely as to cause discomfort later. This method of action would prevent many an attack of pneumonia; and at any stage of this dreaded disease it forms an im- portant part of the treatment. Vigorous exercise of the arms and shoulders, with persistent deep breathing, in a pure atmosphere, will often cut short threatened congestion of the lungs. Candies, liquorice, syrups, etc., are commonly taken for coughs, hoarseness, tickling in the throat, and, even, for cold on the lungs, and although tempo- rary relief seems to be obtained in this way, these substances being highly carbonaceous will secondarily impose an additional labor on the lungs, and aggra- vate instead of relieve the difficulty. Concerning the White Flour so generally in use among rich and poor, it has been often enough point- ed out as an impoverished article of food. Its white appearance is due to the removal of a great share of the gluten of the wheat in milling. Along with the