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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    arms, and, pressing its stomach, caused it to disgorge the contents, declaring that no other milk than her own, should, with her consent, pass into her infant’s veins ! How beautiful an example of what is at once tender and noble in the maternal character! and how sad is the contrast between this truly royal mother and multitudes amongst the noble and rich of our land, who, without the shadow of a reason or necessity, commit their infants to the breast of an alien! The mother’s milk, and the mother’s warmth, are the proper sources of nu- trition and of heat to her own infant. It should draw no other breast, and lie upon no other arm. In order that the milk may be whole- some, the health of the nurse must also