Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr.

  • Starr, Louis, 1849-1925.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the abdomen until after the age of nine. Between that age and puberty the growth of the lower ex- tremities is usually very rapid, and the well-known 'shooting up' of boys and girls takes place, the whole person growing, but the lower part in par- ticular. Similar changes of location will be noticed by following the quarter-lines, but the changes are not so abrupt. It may be well to mention here that children will often remain, for a considerable time, almost stationary in height, and then have periods of very rapid growth. The latter is often to be observed in the ninth or tenth year, and again at the approach of puberty. Variations in weight-gain are also often to be observed; these seem to hold a defi- nite relation to the fluctuations in the rapidity of height-increase. Besides these points, which are the most reliable evidences of the proper progress of development, there are certain features that appeal more directly to the notice of parents, and on this account deserve consideration. The age at which a child sits erect, at which it creeps, walks or talks, are instances of the class of features referred to. The head can usually be held erect by the end of the third month and the body maintained in the sitting posture a month later. By the sixth month the infant can sit up with ease, accomplish many