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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    The other fact is also a result of experience. Those mothers who have suckled their own children have been far less subject to cancer, in later life, than those who have not done so. In recommending mothers to be nurses, it is important however to add the remark—that the breast, and the general health, and the infant, all suffer from lactation too long continued. The breast, the strength, and the secretion, become alike morbidly affected. APPENDIX TO LETTER III. I think it important to remark that, as a forerunner of serious indisposition in infancy, a remarkable pallor of the countenance is frequently observed. This appearance must not, therefore, be disregarded. L