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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. 1887. Excerpt: ... Bathing of infants.--Cleanliness an important requisite.--Consequence of neglect.--Healthful impressions from early practices.--The virtues of the different baths discussed.--The writer digresses.--A tribute to intelligent mothers.--Thermometers.--Actually necessary in the nursery.--The temperature of the infant's bath.--When cold sponging is permissible.--Warm baths must be quickly administered.--When to bathe.--The preparations. T T 7TTH the child's debut at the table, to share henceforth the food of its parents, the subject of diet may now be dismissed, with the ardent hope that among the readers some mothers at least have found this rambling discussion a source of instruction, and the writer has been permitted to aid them in the feeding of their little ones. Returning again to early infant life, there are a few points on bathing which may properly engage attention. At no period is cleanliness of the skin a more important requisite than in infancy. If frequent bathing is not practised, then not only is the general health impaired, but there is an especial tendency in a neglected child to suffer from indigestion, or other stomach and intestinal disorders. There is also an influence more remote, yet no less important, which must be considered. Children, says an old writer, who are early accustomed to the comfortable and healthful impressions of washing and bathing, will rarely, in after life, neglect the observance of personal cleanliness; and those, on the contrary, who are neglected in this respect during childhood, will seldom manifest a proper regard for this physical virtue, in the subsequent stages of their lives. The subject of bathing may seem to many mothers one too trifling for discussion, as doubtless all feel themselves eminently capable of...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151316946
- ISBN 13 9781151316943
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages28
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