An essay upon nursing : and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By William Cadogan. 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.

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797.
Date:
1750
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Credit: An essay upon nursing : and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By William Cadogan. 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 1° ) Child cannot well be too cool and loofe in it! Prefs y it wants lefs Cloathing than a growi perfon, in proportion 5 becaufe it is naturall; warmer, as appears by the Thermometer j am would therefore bear the Cold of a Winter3 Night, much better than any adult Perfo whatever. There are many Inftances both an cient and modern of Infants expofed and de ferted, that have lived feveral Days. As: was the Practice of ancient Times, in man Parts of the World, to expole all thofe, whor the Parents did not care to be encumber’ with $ that were deform’d or born under ev Stars; not to mention the many Foundling pick’d up in London Streets. Thefe Inftano may ferve to Ihew, that Nature has mac Children able to bear even great Hardlhip before they are made weak and lickly by the mi ft a ken Nurfes. But belides the Mifchi arifing from the Weight and Heat of the Swaddling-cloaths, they are put on fo tigh and the Child is fo cramp’d by them, that i Bowels have not Room, nor the Limbs ar Liberty, to adt and exert themfelves in tl free eafy manner they ought. This is a vei hurtful Circumftance, for Limbs that are n< ufed, will never be ftrong, and fuch tender B< dies cannot bear much Preflure : The Circi lation reftrained by the C^mpreffion of an one Part, mull produce unnatural Swelling in fome other ; efpecially as the Fibres of Ii fants are fo eafily diftended. To which doub lefs are owing the many Diftortions and D formiti