Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters to a mother on the watchful care of her infant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are three cogent reasons for a mother being the nurse of her own infant: they are that, in this manner, a troublesome state of the nipples, present inflammation, and future can- cer of the breast, are best prevented. Generally speaking, the application of the infant to the breast is too tardy : some pretend that it should not be made until the third day ; how those persons came to be so wise, it is difficult to say. Is nature usually so improvident, so wrong in her calculations? Do we observe that animals of necessity pine for three days ? If the infant be not early applied, the