The nurse and mother ; a manual for the guidance of monthly nurses and mothers.

  • Coles, Walter, 1839-1892.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The nurse and mother ; a manual for the guidance of monthly nurses and mothers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Persons generally lay much stress upon tlie importance of obtaining the milk from *' one cow^''^ but this is not essential, ]3rovidecl the milk is good. Whenever there is any reason to be- lieve that this is not the case, milk from some other source should be tried, until there is a cer- tainty of a proper article. I^^urses and others frequently prepare a sur- plus of food for the baby, and allow what is left after feeding to remain in the bottle until it becomes slighly tainted, before it is consumed. It should be remembered that milk is the most delicate of all fluids, and is liable to partial change under the slightest provocation, hence, when it is used, it ought always to be as freshly drawn as possible, and kept in a cool place and in a clean vesseh Only such quantity should be put in the bottle as is necessary for one meal, after which it should be thoroughly cleansed. The practice of putting a baby to bed, with a bottle of milk by its side, to be sucked through a tube at intervals during the night, is one of the greatest of follies, for the warmth of the body renders the milk unwholesome, and the child contracts the unfortunate habit of sleeping with