An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan].

  • Cadogan, William, 1711-1797
Date:
1749
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Credit: An essay upon nursing, and the management of children, from their birth to three years of age / By a physician [i.e. W. Cadogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Foundlings under the Care of theHo- fpital, I prefume, will be bred in a very plain, Ample Manner : They will therefore infallibly have the more Health, Beauty, Strength, and Spirits j I might add underftanding too, as all the Faculties of the Mind are well known to depend upon the Organs of the Body 5 fo that when thefe are in good Order, the thinking Part is mod alert and adfive; the contrary, when they are difturbed or difeafed. When thefe Advantages appear in Favour of Children fo brought up, as I am confident in time they will, it may ferve to convince moft Nurfes, Aunts, Grand-mothers, &c. how much they have hitherto been in the wrong, what Mil- chief is done to Children, and what Multitudes are deftroyed or fpoiled, as well by cramming them with Cakes, Sweetmeats, &c. till they foul their Blood, choak their Veflels, pall the Appetite, and ruin every Faculty of their Bo¬ dies ; as by cockering and indulging them, to the utter Perverfion of their naturally good Temper, till they become quite froward and indocile. When a Man takes upon him to contradict received Opinions and Prejudices fanCtified by Time, it is expeCted he fhould bring valid Proof of what he advances. The Truth of what I fay, that the Treatment of Children in general is wrong, unreafonable and unnatural, will in great meafure appear, if we but confider what a puny valetudinary Race moft of our People of Condition are 5 chiefly owing to bad Nurfing,