Infantile life in connexion with the mother; their management considered1856 |
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Infantile Life in Connexion with the Mother; Their Management Considered Edward Bascome No preview available - 2020 |
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Page 78 - The vital air Pervades the swarming seas and heaving earths, Where teeming Nature broods her myriad births ; Fills the fine lungs of all that breathe or bud, Warms the new heart, and dyes the gushing blood ; With life's first spark inspires the organic frame, And, as it wastes, renews the subtle flame.
Page 21 - Even the sea-monsters draw out the breast : they give suck to their young ones : " The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostrich in the wilderness.
Page 28 - Percy states that 16 died at the instant of birth ; 33 languished for from 8 to 10 months, and then died; 8 became idiotic and died before the age of five years; and 2 came into the world with numerous fractures of the bones of the limbs caused by the cannonading and explosion. Here, then, is a total of 59 children out of 92, or within a trifle of two out of every three, actually killed through the medium of the mother's alarm and the natural consequences upon her own organization.
Page 1 - Tis thine to curb the passions' madd'ning sway, And wipe the mourner's bitter tear away ; 'Tis thine to soothe when hope itself has fled, And cheer with angel smile the sufferer's bed; To give to earth its charm, to life its zest, One only task, — to bless, and to be blest.
Page 27 - ... infant. If, in the child already born, and in so far independent of its parent, the relation between the two is thus strong, is it unreasonable to suppose that it should be...
Page 32 - ... present themselves. A healthy child, properly treated, and not unduly excited, will always be ready for sleep at the usual time ; and, when it appears excited or restless, we may infer with certainty that some active cause has made it so, and should try to find it.
Page 22 - I depriv'cl the mother of her young; Mine was the blame, and I too shar'd the smart, Drain'd was my purse, and anguish wrung my heart. O crime! with herbs and drugs of essence high, The sacred fountains of the breast to dry ! Pour back on nature's self the balmy tide Which nature's God for infancy supplied!
Page 28 - Percy states that 16 died at the instant of birth; 33 languished for from eight to ten months and then died ; 8 became idiotic and died before the age of five years; and 2 came into the world with numerous fractures of the bones of the limbs, caused by the cannonading and explosion. Here, then, is a total of 59 children out of 92, or within a trifle of...
Page 33 - ... health, after which sleep will return as before. From not attending to the true origin of the restlessness, however, and regarding it merely as a state troublesome to all parties ; many mothers and nurses are in the habit of resorting immediately to laudanum, sedative drops, poppy-syrup, spirits, and other means of forcing sleep, without regard to their effects on the disease and on the system ; and are quite satisfied if they succeed in inducing the appearance of slumber...
Page 53 - ... birth, and the poisonous stream of ardent spirits is conveyed through the milk of the mother to the infant at the breast ; so that the fountain of life, through which nature supplies that pure and healthy nutriment of infancy, is poisoned at its very source, and a diseased and vitiated appetite is thus created, which grows with its growth, and strengthens with its increasing weakness and decay.