is that their habits are more sedentary; as the best opening medicines
in the world are an abundance of exercise, of muscular exertion, and
of fresh air. Unfortunately, poor girls in this enlightened age must
be engaged, sitting all the while, several hours every day at fancy
work, the piano, and other accomplishments; they, consequently, have
little time for exercise of any kind. The bowels, as a matter of
course, become constipated; they are, therefore, dosed with pills,
with black draughts, with brimstone and treacle--Oh! the abomination!
--and with medicines of that class, almost _ad infinitum_. What is the
consequence? Opening medicines, by constant repetition, lose their
effects, and, therefore, require to be made stronger and still
stronger, until at length, the strongest will scarcely act at all, and
the poor unfortunate girl, when she becomes a woman, _if she ever does
become one_, is spiritless, heavy, doll, and listless, requiring daily
doses of physic, until she almost lives on medicine!
All this misery and wretchedness proceed from Nature's laws having
been set at defiance, from _artificial_ means taking the place of
_natural_ ones--from a mother adopting as her rule and guide fashion
and folly, rather than reason and common sense. When will a mother
awake from her folly and stupidity? This is strong language to address
to a lady, but it is not stronger than the subject demands.
Mothers of England do, let me entreat you, ponder well upon what I
have said. Do rescue your girls from the bondage of fashion and of
folly, which is worse than the bondage of the Egyptian task masters,
for the Israelites did, in making bricks without straw, work m the
open air--"So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land
of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw," but your girls, many of
them, at least, have no work, either in the house or in the open
air--they have no exercise whatever. They are poor, drawling,
dawdling, miserable nonentities, with muscles, for the want of proper
exercise, like ribands, and with faces, for the lack of fresh air, as
white as a sheet of paper. What a host of charming girls are yearly
sacrificed at the shrine of fashion and of folly.
Another, and a frequent cause of costiveness, is the bad habit of
disobeying the call of having the bowels opened. The moment there is
the slightest inclination to relieve the bowels, _instantly_ it ought
to be attended to, or serious results will follow. Let me urge a
mother to instil into her daughter's mind the importance of this
advice.
379. _Young people are subject to pimples on the face, what is the
remedy_?
These hard red pimples (acne--"the grub pimple") are a common and an
obstinate affection of the skin, affecting the forehead, the temples,
the nose, the chin, and the cheeks, occasionally attacking the neck,
the shoulders, the back, and the chest; and as they more frequently
affect the young, from the age of 15 to 35, and are disfiguring, they
cause much annoyance. "These pimples are so well known by most persons
as scarcely to need description; they are conical, red, and hard;
after a while, they become white, and yellow at the point, then
discharge a thick, yellow-coloured matter, mingled with a whitish
substance, and become covered by a hard brown scab, and lastly,
disappear very slowly, sometimes very imperfectly, and often leaving
an ugly scar behind them. To these symptoms are not unfrequently added
considerable pain, and always much unsightliness. When these little
cones have the black head of a 'grub' at their point, they constitute
the variety termed _spotted acne_. These latter often remain
stationary for months, without increasing or becoming red; but when
they inflame, they are in nowise different in their course from the
common kind."--_Wilson on Healthy Skin_.
I find, in these cases, great benefit to be derived from bathing the
face, night and morning, with strong salt and water--a table-spoonful
of table-salt to a tea-cupful of water; by paying attention to the
bowels; by living on plain, wholesome, nourishing food; and by taking
a great of out-door exercise. Sea-bathing, in these cases, is often
very beneficial. Grubs and worms have a mortal antipathy to salt.
380. _What is the cause of a Gum-boil_?
A decayed root of a tooth, which causes inflammation and abscess of
the gum, which abscess breaks, and thus becomes a gum-boil.
381. _What is the treatment of a Gum-boil_?
Foment the outside of the face with a hot camomile and poppy head
fomentation, [Footnote: Four poppy heads and four ounces of camomile
blows to be boiled in four pints of water for half an hoar, and then
to be strained to make the fomentation.] and apply to the gum-boil,
between the cheek and the gum, a small white bread and milk poultice,
[Footnote: Cut a piece of bread, about the size of the little finger--
without breaking it into crumb--pour boiling hot milk upon it, cover
it over, and let it stand for five minutes, then apply the soaked
bread over the gum-boil, letting it rest between the cheek and the
gum.] which renew frequently.
As soon as the gum-boil has become quiet, _by all means_ have the
affected tooth extracted, or it might cause disease, and consequently
serious injury of the jaw; and whenever the patient catches cold there
will be a renewal of the inflammation, of the abscess, and of the
gum-boil, and, as a matter of course, renewed pain, trouble, and
annoyance. Moreover, decayed fangs of teeth often cause the breath to
be offensive.
382. _What is the best remedy for a Corn_?
The best remedy for a _hard corn_ is to remove it. The usual method of
cutting, or of paring a corn away, is erroneous. The following is the
right way--Cut with a _sharp_ pair of pointed scissors around the
circumference of the corn. Work gradually round and round and towards
the centre. When you have for some considerable distance well loosened
the edges, you can either with your fingers or with a pair of forceps
generally remove the corn bodily, and that without pain and without
the loss of any blood: this plan of treating a corn I can recommend to
you as being most effectual.
If the corn be properly and wholly removed it will leave a small
cavity or round hole in the centre, where the blood-vessels and the
nerve of the corn--vulgarly called the root--really were, and which,
in point of fact, constituted the very existence or the essence of the
corn. Moreover, if the corn be entirely removed, you will, without
giving yourself the slightest pain, be able to squeeze the part
affected between your finger and thumb.
_Hard corns_ on the sole of the foot and on the sides of the foot are
best treated by filing--by filing them with a sharp cutting file (flat
on one side and convex on the other) neither too coarse nor too fine
in the cutting. The corn ought, once every day, to be filed, and
should daily be continued until you experience a slight pain, which
tells you that the end of the corn is approaching. Many cases of _hard
corn_ that have resisted every other plan of treatment, have been
_entirely_ cured by means of the file. One great advantage of the file
is, it cannot possibly do any harm, and may be used by a timid
person--by one who would not readily submit to any cutting instrument
being applied to the corn.
The file, if properly used, is an effectual remedy for a _hard_ corn
on the sole of the foot. I myself have seen the value of it in several
cases, particularly in one case, that of an old gentleman of ninety
five, who had had a corn on the sole of his foot for upwards of half a
century, and which had resisted numerous, indeed almost innumerable
remedies, at length I recommended the file, and after a few
applications entire relief was obtained, and the corn was completely
eradicated.
The corns between the toes are called _soft corns_. A _soft corn_ is
quickly removed by the strong Acetic Acid--Acid. Acetic Fort--which
ought to be applied to the corn every night by means of a camel's hair
brush. The toes should be kept asunder for a few minutes, in order
that the acid may soak in, then apply between the toes a small piece
of cotton wool.
Galbanum Plaster spread either on wash leather, or on what is better,
on an old white kid glove, has been, in one of our medical journals,
strongly recommended as a corn plaster, it certainly is an admirable
one, and when the corn is between the toes is sometimes most
comfortable--affording immense relief.
Corns are like the little worries of life--very teazing and
troublesome a good remedy for a corn--which the Galbanum Plaster
undoubtedly is-is therefore worth knowing.
_Hard corns_, then, on the sole and on the side of the foot are best
treated by the file, _hard corns_ on the toes by the scissors, and
_soft corns_ between the toes either by the strong Acetic Acid or by
the Galbanum Plaster.
In the generality of cases the plans recommended above, if properly
performed, will effect a cure, but if the corn, from pressure or from
any other cause, should return, remove it again, and proceed as before
directed. If the corn have been caused either by tight or by ill
fitting shoes, the only way to prevent a recurrence is, of course, to
have the shoes, properly made by a clever shoemaker--by one who
thoroughly understands his business, and who will have a pair of lasts
made purposely for the feet. [Footnote: As long as fashion instead of
common sense is followed in the making of both boots and shoes, men
and women will, as a matter of course, suffer from corns.
It has, often struck me as singular, when all the professions and
trades are so overstocked, that there should be, as there is in every
large town, such a want of chiropodists (corn-cutters)--of respectable
chiropodists--of men who would charge a _fixed_ sum for every visit
the patient may make, for instance to every working man a shilling,
and to every gentleman half-a-crown or five shillings for _each_
sitting, and not for _each_ corn (which latter system is a most
unsatisfactory way of doing business). I am quite sure that of such a
plan were adopted, every town of any size in the kingdom would
employee regularly one chiropodist at least. However we might dislike
some few of the American customs, we may copy them with advantage in
this particular--namely, in having a regular staff of chiropodists
both in civil and in military life.]
The German method of making boots and shoes is a capital one for the
prevention of corns, as the boots and shoes are made, scientifically
to fit a _real_ and not an _ideal_ foot.
One of the best preventatives of as well as of the best remedies for
corns, especially of soft corns between the toes, is washing the feet
every morning as recommended in a previous Conversation, [Footnote:
Youth--Ablution, page 250.] taking especial care to wash with the
thumb, and afterwards to wipe with the towel between each toe.
383. _What are the best remedies to destroy a Wart_?
Pure nitric acid, [Footnote: A very small quantity of Pure Nitric
Acid--just a drain at the bottom of a stoppered bottle--is all that is
needed, and which may be procured of a chemist.] carefully applied to
the wart by means of a small stick of cedar wood--a camel's hair
pencil-holder--every other day, will soon destroy it. Care must be
taken that the acid does not touch the healthy skin, or it will act as
a caustic to it. The nitric acid should be preserved in a stoppered
bottle and must be put out of the reach of children.
Glacial Acetic Acid is another excellent destroyer of warts: it
should, by means of a camel's hair brush, be applied to each wart,
every night just before going to bed. The warts will, after a few
applications, completely disappear.
384. _What is the best remedy for tender feet, for sweaty feet, and
for smelling feet_?
Cold water: bathing the feet in cold water, beginning with tepid
water; but gradually from day to day reducing the warm until the water
be quite cold. A large nursery-basin one-third full of water, ought to
be placed on the floor, and one foot at a time should be put in the
water, washing the while with a sponge the foot, and with the thumb
between each toe. Each foot should remain in the water about half a
minute. The feet ought, after each washing, to be well dried, taking
care to dry with the towel between each toe. The above process must be
repeated at least once every day--every morning, and if the annoyance
be great, every night as well. A clean pair of stockings ought in
these cases to be put on daily, as perfect cleanliness is absolutely
necessary both to afford relief and to effect a cure.
If the feet be tender, or if there be either bunions, or corns, the
shoes and the boots made according to the German method (which are
fashioned according to the actual shape of the foot) should alone be
worn.
385. _What are the causes of so many young ladies of the present day
being weak, nervous, and unhappy_?
The principal causes are--ignorance of the laws of health, Nature's
laws being set at nought by fashion and by folly, by want of fresh air
and exercise, by want of occupation, and by want of self-reliance.
Weak, nervous, and unhappy! Well they might be! What have they to
make them strong and happy? Have they work to do to brace the
muscles? Have they occupation--useful, active occupation--to make
them happy? No! they have neither the one nor the other!
386. What diseases are girls most subject to?
The diseases peculiar to girls are--Chlorosis--Green-sickness--and
Hysterics.
387. What are the usual causes of Chlorosis? Chlorosis is caused by
torpor and debility of the whole frame, especially of the womb. It is
generally produced by scanty or by improper food, by the want of air
and of exercise, and by too close application within doors. Here we
have the same tale over again--close application within doors, and the
want of fresh air and of exercise. When will the eyes of a mother he
opened, to this important subject?--the most important that can engage
her attention!
388. What is the usual age for Chlorosis to occur and what are the
symptoms?
Chlorosis more frequently attacks girls from fifteen to twenty years
of age; although unmarried women, much older, occasionally have it. I
say _unmarried_, for, as a rule, it is a complaint of the _single_.
The patient, first of all, complains of being languid, tired, and out
of spirits; she is fatigued with the slightest exertion; she has
usually palpitation of the heart (so as to make her fancy that she has
a disease of that organ, which, in all probability, she has not); she
has shortness of breath, and a short dry cough; her face is flabby and
pale; her complexion gradually assumes a yellowish or greenish
hue--hence the name of chlorosis; there is a dark, livid circle around
her eyes; her lips lose their colour, and become almost white; her
tongue is generally white and pasty, her appetite is bad, and is
frequently depraved--the patient often preferring chalk, slate pencil,
cinder, and even dirt, to the daintiest food, indigestion frequently
attends chlorosis, she has usually pains over the short-ribs, on the
_left_ side, she suffers greatly from "wind"--is frequently nearly
choken by it, her bowels are generally costive, and the stools are
unhealthy, she has pains in her hips, loins, and back, and her feet
and ankles are oftentimes swollen. _The menstrual discharge is either
suspended or very partially performed_, if the latter, it is usually
almost colourless. Hysterical fits not unfrequently occur during an
attack of chlorosis.
389. _How may Chlorosis be prevented_?
If health were more and fashion were less studied, chlorosis would not
be such a frequent complaint. This disease generally takes its rise
from mismanagement--from Nature's laws having been set at defiance. I
have heard a silly mother express an opinion that it is not _genteel_
for a girl to eat _heartily!_ Such language is perfectly absurd and
cruel. How often, too, a weak mother declares that a healthy, blooming
girl looks like a milk maid! It would be well if she did! How true and
sad it is, that "a pale, delicate face, and clear eyes, indicative of
consumption, are the fashionable _desiderata_ at present for
complexion."--_Dublin University Magazine._
A growing girl requires _plenty_ of _good_ nourishment--as much as her
appetite demands, and if she have it not, she will become either
chlorotic, or consumptive, or delicate. Besides, _the greatest
beautifier in the world is health_, therefore, by a mother studying
the health of her daughter, she will, at the same time, adorn her body
with, beauty! I am sorry to say that too many parents think more of
the beauty than of the health of their girls. Sad and lamentable
infatuation! Nathaniel Hawthorne--a distinguished American--gives a
graphic description of a delicate young lady. He says--"She is one of
those delicate nervous young creatures not uncommon in New England,
and whom I suppose to have become what we find them by the gradually
refining away of the physical system among young women. Some
philosophers choose to glorify this habit of body by terming it
spiritual, but in my opinion, it is rather the effect of unwholesome
food, bad air, lack of out-door exercise, and neglect of bathing, on
the part of these damsels and their female progenitors, all resulting
in a kind of hereditary dyspepsia."
Nathaniel Hawthorne was right. Such ladies, when he wrote, were not
uncommon, but within the last two or three years, to their great
credit be it spoken, "a change has come o'er the spirit of their
dreams," and they are wonderfully improved in health, for, with all
reverence be it spoken, "God helps them who help themselves," and they
have helped themselves by attending to the rales of health--"The women
of America are growing more and more handsome every year for just this
reason. They are growing rounder of chest, fuller of limb, gaining,
substance and development in every direction. Whatever may be urged to
the contrary we believe this to be a demonstrable fact. When the
rising generation of American girls once begin to wear thick shoes, to
take much exercise in the open air, to skate, to play at croquet, and
to affect the saddle, it not only begins to grow more wise but more
healthful, and which must follow as the night the day--more
beautiful"--_The Round Table_.
If a young girl had plenty-of wholesome meat, varied from day to day,
either plain roast or boiled, and neither stewed, nor hashed, nor
highly seasoned for the stomach, if she has had an abundance of fresh
air for her lungs, if she had plenty of active exercise, such as
skipping, dancing, running, riding, swimming, for her muscles, if her
clothing were warm and loose, and adapted to the season, if her mind
were more occupied with active _useful_ occupation, such as household
work, than at present, and if she were kept calm and untroubled from
the hurly-burly and excitement of fashionable life--chlorosis would
almost be an unknown disease. It is a complaint of rare occurrence
with country girls, but of great frequency with fine city ladies.
390. _What treatment should you advise_?
The treatment which would prevent should be adopted when the complaint
first makes its appearance. If the above means do not quickly remove
it, the mother must then apply to a medical man, and he will give
medicines _which will soon have the desired effect_. Chlorosis is very
amenable to treatment. If the disease be allowed for any length of
time to run on, it may produce either organic--incurable--disease of
the heart, or consumption or indigestion, or confirmed ill-health.
391. _At what period of life is a lady most prone in Hysterics, and
what are the symptoms_?
The time of life when hysterics occur is generally from the age of
fifteen to fifty. Hysterics come on by paroxysms--hence they are
called hysterical fits. A patient, just before an attack, is
low-spirited; crying without a cause; she is "nervous," as it is
called; she has flushings of the face; she is at other times very
pale; she has shortness of breath and occasional palpitations of the
heart; her appetite is usually bad; she passes quantities of
colourless limpid urine, having the appearance of pump water; she is
much troubled with flatulence in her bowels, and, in consequence, she
feels bloated and uncomfortable. The "wind" at length rises upwards
towards the stomach, and still upwards to the throat, giving her the
sensation of a ball stopping her breathing, and producing a feeling of
suffocation. The sensation of a ball in the throat (_globus
hystericus_) is the commencement of the fit.
She now becomes _partially_ insensible, although she seldom loses
_complete_ consciousness. Her face becomes flushed, her nostrils
dilated, her head thrown back, and her stomach and bowels enormously
distended with "wind." After a short time she throws her arms and her
legs about convulsively, she beats her breast, tears her hair and
clothes, laughs boisterously and screams violently; at other times she
makes a peculiar noise; sometimes she sobs and her face is much
distorted. At length she brings up enormous quantities of wind; after
a time she bursts into a violent flood of tears, and then gradually
comes to herself.
As soon as the fit is at an end she generally passes enormous
quantities of colourless limpid urine. She might, in a short time,
fall into another attack similar to the above. When she comes to
herself she feels exhausted and tired, and usually complains of a
slight headache, and of great soreness of the body and limbs. She
seldom remembers what has occurred during the fit. Hysterics are
sometimes frightful to witness, but, in themselves, are not at all
dangerous.
Hysterics--an hysterical fit--is sometimes styled hysterical
passion. Shakspeare, in one of his plays, calls it _hysterica
passio_--
"Oh how this, mother, swells up toward my Heart! _Hysterica
passio!_"
Sir Walter Scott graphically describes an attack--"The hysterical
passion that impels tears is a terrible violence--a sort of throttling
sensation--then succeeded by a state of dreaming stupidity"
392. _What are the causes of Hysterics_?
Delicate health, chlorosis, improper and not sufficiently nourishing
food, grief, anxiety, excitement of the mind, closely confined rooms,
want of exercise, indigestion, flatulence and tight-lacing, are the
causes which usually produce hysterics. Hysterics are frequently
feigned, indeed, oftener than any other complaint, and even a genuine
case is usually much aggravated by a patient herself giving way to
them.
393. _What do you recommend an hysterical lady to do_?
To improve her health by proper management, to rise early and to take
a walk, that she may breathe pure and wholesome air,--indeed, she
ought to live nearly half her time in the open air, exercising herself
with walking, skipping, etc., to employ her mind with botany, croquet,
archery, or with any out-door amusement, to confine herself to plain,
wholesome, nourishing food, to avoid tight lacing; to eschew
fashionable amusements; and, above all, not to give way to her
feelings, but, if she feel an attack approaching, to rouse herself.
_If the fit be upon her_, the better plan is, to banish all the _male_
sex from the room, and not even to have many women about her, and for
those around to loosen her dress; to lay her in the centre of the
room, flat upon the ground, with a pillow under her head, to remove
combs and pins and brooches from her person; to dash cold water upon
her face; to apply cloths, or a large sponge wetted in cold water, to
her head; to throw open the window, and then to leave her to herself;
or, at all events, to leave her with only one _female_ friend or
attendant. If such be done, she will soon come round; but what is the
usual practice? If a girl be in hysterics, the whole house, and
perhaps the neighbourhood, is roused; the room is crowded to
suffocation; fears are openly expressed by those around that she is in
a dangerous state; she hears what they say, and her hysterics are
increased ten-fold.
394. _Have you any remarks to make on a patient recovering from a
severe illness_?
There is something charming and delightful in the feelings of a
patient recovering from a severe illness: it is like a new birth: it
is almost worth the pain and anguish of having been ill to feel quite
well again: everything around and about him wears a charming aspect--a
roseate hue: the appetite for food returns with pristine vigour; the
viands, be they ever so homely, never tasted before so deliciously
sweet; and a draught of water from the spring has the flavour of
ambrosial nectar: the convalescent treads the ground as though he were
on the ambient air; and the earth to him for a while is Paradise: the
very act of living is a joy and gladness:--
"See the wretch that long has tost
On the thorny bed of pain
Again repair his vigour lost
And walk and run again.
The meanest flow'ret of the vale,
The amplest note that swells the gale,
The common air, the earth, the skies,
To him are opening Paradise."--_Grey_
* * * * *
CONCLUDING REMARKS
If this book is to be of use to mothers and to the rising generation,
as I humbly hope and trust that it has been, and that it will be still
more abundantly, it ought not to be listlessly read, merely as a novel
or as any other piece of fiction; but it must be thoughtfully and
carefully studied, until its contents, in all its bearings, be
completely mastered and understood.
* * * * *
In conclusion: I beg to thank you for the courtesy, confidence, and
attention I have received at your hands; and to express a hope that my
advice, through God's blessing, may not have been given in vain; but
that it may be--one among many--an humble instrument for improving the
race of our children--England's priceless treasures! O, that the time
may come, and may not be far distant, "That our sons may grow up as
the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished
corners of the temple!"
INDEX.
ABLUTION of a child
of an infant
of a youth
thorough, of boy and girl
Accidents of children
how to prevent
Acne, symptoms and treatment of
Advice to a mother if her infant be poorly
to _Mr Pater familias_
Ailments, the distinction between between _serious_ and _slight_
of infants
Air and exercise for youth
the importance of good
the necessity of fresh, and changing the
Airing an infant's clothes
Alternately to each breast
American ladies
Amusements for a child
for a boy
for a girl
Ankles, weak
Antipathies of a child
Aperients for a child
for an infant
for a new-born babe
for a youth
danger of frequent
Appeal to mothers
Appetite, on a child losing his
Applications, hot
Apron, washing
Archery
Arnold, Dr, on corporal punishment
Arrow-root for an infant
Artificial food for an infant at breast
Asses' milk
BABES should kick on floor
Babe's clothing
Babe himself taking exercise
Babyhood, the language of
Baby daughter
Baked crumb of bread for an infant
flour for an infant
Bakers' and home made bread
Bathing after _full_ meal
Baths, cold, tepid, and warm
warm, as a remedy for flatulence
Beard, best respirator
Bed, on placing child in
Beds, feather
purification of
Bed-rooms, the ventilation of
cool
large
a plan to ventilate
Bee, the sting of
Beef, salted or boiled
Beer, on giving child
Belladonna, poisoning by
Belly-band, best kind
when to discontinue
Beverage for a child
"Black-eye," remedies for
Bladder and bowels of an infant
Bleeding from navel, how to restrain
of nose
Blood, spitting of
Blows and bruises
Boarding schools for females
on cheap (note)
Boiled bread for infants' food
flour for infants' food
Boils, the treatment of
Boots and shoes
Bottles, the best nursing
Boulogne sore-throat
Bow-legs
Bowels, large, of children
looseness of
protrusion of lower
regulation of, by diet
Boys should be made strong
Brain, water on the
Bran to soften water
Bran Poultices
Breakfast of a child
of a youth
Breast on early putting an infant to
Breathing exercise
Brimstone and treacle
Brown and Polson's Corn Flour
Bronchitis, the treatment of
Broth for Infants
for a new born infant
and soup
Brothers and sisters
Bruises, remedies for
Bullying a child
Burns and scalds
Butter, wholesome
CADBURY'S Cocoa Essence
Calomel, the danger of a mother prescribing
the ill effects of
Camphor makes teeth brittle
Caning a boy
Caps, flannel
Care in preparation of food
Carpets in nurseries
Carriage exercise
Carron oil in burns
Castor oil to heal the bowels
Cat, bites and scratches of a
"Chafings" of infants, the treatment of
Chairs, straight backed
Change of air
linen in sickness
Chapped hands, legs, &c
lips
Chest, keeping warm the upper part of the
"Chicken breasted" and narrow breasted children
pox
Chilblains
Child should dine with parents
"Child-crowing"
the treatment of a paroxysm of
Children's hour
parties
Chimneys, on the stopping of
Chiropodists (_note_)
Chloralum as a disinfectant
Chlorosis and green sickness
not in rural districts
Choking, what to be done in a case of
_Cholera infantum_
Cisterns, best kind of
Clothes, on airing an infant's
the ill effects of tight
Clothing of children
of infants
during winter
of youths
Coffee as an aperient
and tea
Coin, on the swallowing of a
Cold bed-room healthy
Cold, a feverish
on child always catching
feet, method to warm
Concluding remarks on infancy
Conclusion
Constipation, prevention and cure of
Consumption attacks the _upper_ part of the lungs
the age at which it usually appears
causes of
death rate
importance of early consulting a medical man in
spitting of blood in
symptoms of
Consumptive patient, the treatment of a
Convulsions of children
cause insensibility
from hooping-cough
no pain in
Cooked fruit for child
Corns
Corn plaster, an excellent
Coroners inquests on infants
Corporal punishment at schools
Costiveness of infants, the means to prevent
remedies for
the reason why so prevalent
in weak children
Cough, the danger of stopping a
Cow, the importance of having the milk from one
pox lymph direct from heifer
from healthy child
Cream and egg, 200
and water for babe
Crinoline and burning of ladles
Crib, covering head of
Croquet for girls
Crossness in a sick child
Croup
the treatment of
Cry of infant
Cure, artificial and natural
"Curious phenomenon" in scarlet fever
Cut finger, the application for
DANCING, and skipping
Danger of constantly giving physic
Delicate child, plan to strengthen a
Dentition
lancing of gums
second
painful
Diarrhoea of infants
treatment of
Diet of a child who has cut his teeth
of children
of a dry nursed child
of infants
on a mother being particular in attending to
variety of for child
of youth
Dietary in infants
Dieting a child
Dinner for a child
youth
Diphtheria symptoms, causes, and treatment of
Dirty child
Diseased nature and strange eruptions
Diseases of children
girls
infants
obscure
the prevention of
produced by tight lacing
symptoms of _serious_
Disinfectants in scarlet fever
Doctor on early calling in
Dog the bide of a
Doleful child
Don't
Dowle on _The Foot and its Covering_
Drainage
Dress, female
of a child while asleep
of a babe, child, and youth
Dresses, high for delicate child
Dressing babe for sleep
Dribbling bibs
Drinking fountains
Dropping child, danger of
Dry nursed children, the best food for
"Dusting powder" for infants
Dysentery, symptoms and treatment of
EAR, discharges from
removal of a pea or bead from
Ear-ache, treatment of
wig in ear
Early rising
Education of children
infant schools
home, the best for girls
Education, modern
for youth
Eggs for children
Electuary of figs
Emetic tarter dangerous for child
Eneme apparatus (_note_)
of warm water
Engravings in nurseries
Eruptions about the mouth
Excorations applications for
best remedy for
Exercise
best composing medicine
during teething
for children
in wet weather
on violently tossing infants
horse and pony
an infant himself taking
in very cold weather
in wet weather
for youth
Eve, substances in
FAECAL matter in pump-water
Fainting
from constipation
from debility
from disordered stomach
Falling-off of hair
Falls on the head
Farinaceous food give _babes_ wind
Fash on dangerous effects of strictly attending to
the present, of dressing children
Fashionable _desiderata_ for complexion
Favouritism
Feeding bottles
infants, proper times for at breast
new born babe with gruel
Feet smelling
sweating
tender
Female dress
Fire, on a child playing with
danger of back to
in night nursery
the manner of extinguishing, if clothes be on
guards
Fire-proof, making dresses
Flannel cap for babe
night-gowns
shifts for a delicate child
waistcoats
to wash child with
Flatulence, remedies for
Fleas, to drive away
Flute, bugle and other wind-instruments
Fly pole
Fog, on sending a child out in
Folly, of giving physic after vaccination
Food, artificial, during snacking
care in preparing infant's
for dry-nursed infants
for infants who are sucking
Formula, for milk, water, salt, and sugar
Friction after ablation
Frightening a child
Fruit as an aperient
during teething
GARTERS impede circulation
Gently speak to child
Gin or pepperment in infant's food
Giving joy to a child
Glass, a child swallowing broken
Gluttony
Glycerine
Goats' milk
_Godfrey's Cordial_
poisoning by treatment
Grazed skin
Green dresses poisonous
paper hangings for nurseries
peas as a vegetable
"Gripings" for infants
Groin rupture
"Gross superstition,"
"Grub-pimple"
Gums, the lancing of the
Gum-bod, cause and treatment
Gum-sticks, the best
Gymnasium, value of
HAIR, the best application for
falling off
making tidy
management of
Half-washed and half starved child
Hand-swing
Happiness to a child
Happy child
Hard's Farinaceous Food
Hardening of children's constitutions
of infants
Hartehorn, on swallowing
Hats for a child, the best kind
Hawthorn, Nathaniel, on American ladies
Head, fall upon
Heat, external application of
Hectic flush, description of
Hiccups of infants
Hints conducive to the well-doing of a child
Home of childhood--the nursery
Hooping-cough
obstinate
treatment of
Horse exercise for boys or girls
and pony exercise
Hot-water bag or bottle
Household work for girls
Hurdle on early rising
Hydrophobia
_Hysterica passio_
Hysterics
ICE, on the value of
Illness, recovery from
Importance of our subject
India-rubber hot-water bottle
Ingoldsby Legend on thumb-sucking
Infants should be encouraged to use exertion
Infant schools
Ipecacuantis wine, preservation of
JOYFUL to bed, on sending child
LADIES "affecting the saddle"
Laudanum, poisoning by
Laugh of a child
Law, physic, and divinity
Leaden cisterns
Learning without health
Leech bites, the way to restrain bleeding from
Lessons for child
Lice in head after illness
Light, best artificial, for nursery
the importance of, to health
Lightly clad child
Lime in the eye
to harden the bones
Lime-water and milk
"Looseness of the the bowels" the treatment
Love of children
Lucifer-matches the poisonous effects of
Luncheon for a child
Lungs, inflammation of
precautions to
symptoms of
treatment of
Lying lips of a child
MAD DOG, the bite of
description of
Magnesia to cool a child
Management of child's mother's question
Massacre of innocents
Mattresses, horse-hair, best for child
May, the month of
Meals, a child's
Measles
and scarlet fever
treatment of
Meat, daily, on giving
raw in long-standing diarrhoea
in exhaustive diseases
when a child should commence taking
Meddlesome treatment
Medical man, a mother's treatment towards
Medicine, the best way of administering
on giving new-born infants
on making palatable (_note_)
Menstruating female during suckling
Mercury, on the danger of parents giving
Milk, on the importance of having it from ONE cow
bad, very nasty
for babe indispensable
in every form
or meat, or both
a plan to make a child take
sugar of, and water
the value of, for children
unboiled
a way to prevent, turning sour
-crust
Mismanaged baby
Modified small-pox and chicken-pox
Mother fretting, injurious to infant
a foolish
of many diseases
Mother's and cow's milk, on mixing
health during suckling
influence
Motions, healthy, of babe
Mumps
NAAMAN, the Syrian
Napkins, when to dispense with
Nature's physic
Navel, management of the
rupture of
sore
-string separation of
Neaves' Farinaceous Food
Nervous and unhappy young ladies
Nettle-rash
New-born infants and aperients
when feeble
Night-commode
Night-terrors
Nose, removal of foreign substances from
bleeding from, means to restrain
Nurse, on the choice of a
a lazy
strong and active
young, not desirable
for the sick
Nursery-basin
of a sick child
a child's own domain
selection, warming, ventilation, arrangements of
on the light of a
must be airy
observations, further
windows to be often opened
Nursing-bottles, the best
OPIUM, a case of poisoning by
the danger of administering to infants
the treatment of poisoning by
Over-education
Over-lying a child
PAIN, convulsions, and death
Paint-boxes dangerous as toys
Parental baby-slaughter
Parritch, the halesome
Peevishness of a child, the plan to allay
Perambulators
Physicking a child, on the frequent
Pies and Puddings
Pimples on the face, treatment of
Pin, on a child swallowing
Pins, in dressing of babe
Play, a course of education in
Play-grounds for children
and play
Pleasant words to a child
Poisoning, accidental
by the breath
Poppy-syrup
Pork an improper meat for children
Position of a sleeping child
Potatoes for children
Poultice, a white-bread
Powder, "dusting"
_Precocity of intellect_
Precocious youths, the health of
Prescriptions for a child
Princess of Wales and her baby (note)
Professions and trades
Proper person to wash an Infant
Prunes, the best way of stewing
Profession or trade, choice of, for delicate youth
delicate youth should be brought up to
Puddings for children
Pals of child
Pye Chavasse's Fresh Air Treatment of scarlet fever
Milk Food
QUACK MEDICINES
Quacking an infant
Quick lime in eye
RAIN WATER
Recapitulation of ablution
Red gum
Respiration, products of poisonous
Rest, the best time for a child to retire to
Re-vaccination, Importance of
every seven years
recommended by Jenner
Revalenta Arabica
Rheumatic fever, flannel vest and drawers
Ribs, bulging out of
Rice, prepared as an infant's food
Rich children
_Richardson, Dr, ether spray_
Rickets
various degrees of
Roberton on child-crowing
Rocking-chairs, and rockers to cradle,
Rocking infants to sleep
Rooms ill effects, of dark
Round shoulders
Round worm
Running scall
Rupture
Rusks
SALLOWNESS, cause of in young girls
Salt water and fresh water
should be added to an infants food
bag of hot
necessary to human life
Salt-and water ablations for a delicate child
for teeth and gums
meats for children
Scalds and burns
of mouth
Scarlatina
Scarlet-fever
and diphtheria
the contagion of
the danger of giving aperients in
the dropsy of
Fresh Air Treatment of
hybrid
management of child after
and measles, the importance of distinguishing between
the principal danger of
purification of house after
treatment of
utter prostration in
Schools, female boarding
public
Screaming in sleep
Scrofula
prevention of
Scurfy head
Sea-bathing and fresh-water bathing
for a young child
Secrets, talking, before child
Senna as an aperient
Shivering fit, importance of attending to a
treatment of
Shoes, _plan to waterproof_
preferable to boots
sound and whole
and stockings for children and youths
the ill effects of tight
"Shortening" an infant
Shoulder-blades "growing out"
Sick child, the nursing of a
not to be staffed with food
Sick-room, management of,
Sickness of infants
Singing and reading aloud
beneficial to a child
Single-stick
Sitting with back to fire
Sitz-bath for protrusion of bowels
Skating for boys and girls
Skin, grazed
Sleep of children
Sleep, infant's
in middle of day beneficial
much, necessary for infants
temperature of an infant's bedroom during
right time of putting a child to
putting infants to
of youth
-walker
Sleeping on lap
-rooms, importance of well-ventilating
Sleepless child
Slippers, the best for sick-room (_note_)
Small-pox
a pest and disgrace
modified
when in neighborhood,
to prevent pitting of
Smoking, on a boy
Smothering of infants, the cause
Socks and Stockings for a child
Soda, ill effects of washing clothes with
Sounds, joyful
Soups and broths
Speak gently to a child
Spencer, a knitted worsted
Spines, distorted
Spine, injury to
curvature of
twisted
Spirits, deadly effects of, to the young
Spitting of blood
precautions
Spurious croup
Stammering, cause of
cure of
Stays, the ill effects of
Stillness of sick-room
Sting of bee or wasp
Stir-about and milk
Stockings and shoes
Stooping in a girl
Stopping of chimneys
Stoves in nursery
Strawberry-tongue
Stuffing a sick child with food
a babe
"Stuffing of the nose" of infants
Stunning of a child
"Stye," treatment of
Substitute for mother's milk
Sucking of thumb
Suckling, the proper times of
Suet pudding
Sugar for infants
confectionery
-of-milk
_raw_, as an aperient
Sun-stroke
Sunday
Supper for a child and for a youth
Surfeit water and saffron tea
Sweet things and sour digestion
Sweetmeats and cakes
Swimming, on boys and girls
Symptoms of serious diseases
TAPE-WORM
Taste for things refined
Tea, on giving a child
green, the ill effects of
Teeth, attention to, importance of
child should not have meat till he have cut several
the diet of a child who has cut all his
and gums
right way of brushing
appearance and number of _first_ set of
_second_ set of
second crop of
Teething
causing convulsions
eruptions from
frequent cause of sickness
fruitful source of disease
purging during
restlessness from
second
symptoms and treatment of painful
in town or country
Temperature and ventilation of a nursery
of a warm-bath
Thread-worm
Throats, sore, precautions to prevent
Thrush, cause, symptoms, prevention and cure of
Thumb best gum-stick
Tight bands, belts, and hats
Tight-lacing, the ill effects of
Times for suckling an infant
Tobacco-smoking for boys
cases illustrating the danger of
Toe-nails, the right way of cutting,
Tongue-tied, an infant
"Tooth-cough,"
Tooth-powder, an excellent
Top-crust of bread as infant's food
Tossing an infant
Tous-les-mois
Toys, children's
painted with arsenic
Trade or profession for delicate youth,
Treatment of a delicate child
of some urgent serious diseases
Troubles of child
Truth, the love of
Tub, commencement of washing infant
in
Tubbing a child
Tumbling and rolling of a child
VACCINATION
appearance of scab
arm after
giving medicine after,
making babe poorly
Veal for a child
Vegetables for a child
Ventilation, and stopping of chimneys
and sleep
of a nursery
Violet-powder
WALKING, on the early, of infants
exercise, value
in his sleep, a child
Warm-bathe for children
external applications
Warts
Washing of boys and girls
Washing a child
an infant
a new-born infant's head with brandy
Washing a nursery floor
Wasp, the sting of a
Water, on the importance of good,
on the brain
closet, on going regularly to,
cold and warm for ablution,
hard for drinking
-fright
pure, essential to health
to whole of skin
Weaned child, the diet of a
Weaning, proper time and manner of
Weather, on a child almost living in the air in flue
on the sending a child out in wet
Weight of new-born infants (_note_)
Wet flannel application
Wet-nurse
diet of
for feeble babe
management of
"Wetting the bed" during sleep
Wheezing of a new-born infant
White lily leaf for bruises
"Wind," babe suffering from
Windows of a nursery
Wind pipe, foreign substance in
Wine and youth
Wine for children and youths
Winter clothing
Woolen garments
Worms
quick medicines for