The care of the baby : a manual for mothers and nurses, containing practical directions for the management of infancy and childhood in health and in disease / by J. P. Crozer Griffith.

  • Griffith, J. P. Crozer (John Price Crozer), 1856-1941.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The care of the baby : a manual for mothers and nurses, containing practical directions for the management of infancy and childhood in health and in disease / by J. P. Crozer Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. The author has endeavored in the following pages to furnish a reliable guide for mothers anxious to inform themselves with regard to the best way of caring for their children in sickness and in health. The first chapter of the book discusses the hygiene of pregnancy, the method of calculating the date of con- finement, and similar data. The characteristics of a healthy baby are considered in the second chapter, and the growth of its mind and body in the succeeding one. The chapters which follow relate to the methods of bath- ing, dressing, and feeding children of different ages, to the hours for sleeping, to physical and mental exercise and training, and to the proper qualities of the children's various nurses and rooms. A special effort has been made to emphasize details and to make them clear, complete, and thoroughly up to date. The chapter upon the baby's diseases has been written particularly for those mothers who, through various cii- cumstances, are unable to have a physician constantly within a moment's call. It contains a description of the symptoms by which we may know that disease is present; a consideration of the nursing of sick children; a concise resume of the commonest diseases of infancy