The Child Welfare Manual Volume 1; A Handbook of Child Nature and Nurture for Parents and Teachers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...forms of acute intestinal obstruction. This obstruction is associated with the occurrence of blood in the stools and sudden attacks of acute abdominal pain. With such conditions a doctor must be seen at once, as immediate operation is necessary. Occasionally, for a short time after birth, milk is present in the breasts of the infant, and the breasts are large, swollen, and perhaps somewhat painful. This is a condition which quickly passes off. and on no account must the breasts be rubbed, as, by so doing, inflammation may be caused. Much trouble and difficulty in later years may be avoided by careful training in infancy. Even in early infancy training should be commenced and steadily persevered with. During life's opening days it is abundantly true that 'prevention is better than cure," and prevention can be ensured only by knowledge and perseverance in rightdoing. BETTER BABIES EDITED BY CECILIA FARWELL It was not only in fairy tales that the brave youth who called a wood cutter "father" would learn in due season that he was a king's son, and that the peasant was only his foster father. It was really true in Europe for many hundred years that the wealthy and great despaired of bringing up their children in cities, and would take them, often secretly, to some trusted family, where the robust peasant mother would nurse and the strong, honest father would train the heir of some great house with their own hearty children, for this seemed the only way to escape the mysterious fate that hung over the lives of little children. Queen Anne bore and buried seventeen children before she came to the English throne. Had this occurred in the days of Queen Elizabeth, when the court could not stay in any one palace for more than three months, because the fl...