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The maternal management of children, in health and disease

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The maternal management of children, in health and disease

Thomas Bull

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A physician to mothers, Thomas Bull wrote this companion on managing children in health and disease: teething, the use and abuse of remedies, and hints for the early detection of illness by a mother's own observation. Victorian advice from a leading London authority on maternal care. The doctor's counsel, kept at the cradle.

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69 chapters

  1. 1CONTENTS.
  2. 2Chapter I.
  3. 3ON THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.
  4. 4ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF CERTAIN REMEDIES.
  5. 5ON TEETHING, AND HINTS UPON THE PERMANENT TEETH.
  6. 6HINTS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OP DISEASE IN THE CHILD BY THE MOTHER.
  7. 7ON WHAT CONSTITUTES THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN.
  8. 8THE MATERNAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN.
  9. 9Chapter I. ON THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.
  10. 101. MATERNAL NURSING.
  11. 11DEFICIENCY OF MILK.
  12. 12THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS TO THE MOTHER AND INFANT OF UNDUE AND PROTRACTED SUCKLING.
  13. 13OF MOTHERS WHO OUGHT NEVER TO SUCKLE.
  14. 142. WET-NURSE SUCKLING.
  15. 15CHOICE OF A WET-NURSE.
  16. 16DIET AND REGIMEN OF A WET-NURSE.
  17. 173. ARTIFICIAL, FEEDING, OR BRINGING UP BY HAND.
  18. 18THE KIND OF ARTIFICIAL FOOD BEFORE THE SIXTH MONTH.

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