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... diseases of children , have always been my favourite study : the writing and revising of the following pages have therefore been to me a recreation and a pleasure . Although this edition is much enlarged and greatly improved , the price ...
... diseases of children , have always been my favourite study : the writing and revising of the following pages have therefore been to me a recreation and a pleasure . Although this edition is much enlarged and greatly improved , the price ...
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... be managed ; I will use my best energy to banish injurious practices from the nursery ; I will treat of the means to prevent disease , where it be possible ; I will show you the way to preserve the health of 1 ADVICE TO A MOTHER. ...
... be managed ; I will use my best energy to banish injurious practices from the nursery ; I will treat of the means to prevent disease , where it be possible ; I will show you the way to preserve the health of 1 ADVICE TO A MOTHER. ...
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... disease . Luke - warm RAIN water will be the best to wash him with . This , if it be summer , may have its temperature gradually lowered , until it be quite cold ; if it be winter , a dash of warm water may still be added , to take off ...
... disease . Luke - warm RAIN water will be the best to wash him with . This , if it be summer , may have its temperature gradually lowered , until it be quite cold ; if it be winter , a dash of warm water may still be added , to take off ...
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... disease , in causing him to cut his teeth easily and well ; in short , the mother's milk is the greatest temporal blessing an infant can possess . As a general rule , then , where child and mother are tolerably strong , the infant is ...
... disease , in causing him to cut his teeth easily and well ; in short , the mother's milk is the greatest temporal blessing an infant can possess . As a general rule , then , where child and mother are tolerably strong , the infant is ...
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... A mother should be careful not to over - feed a child , as over - loading an infant's stomach is a prolific source of disease . * See answer to question 24 , page 18 . 27. How would you choose a wet - nurse ? 24 ADVICE TO A MOTHER .
... A mother should be careful not to over - feed a child , as over - loading an infant's stomach is a prolific source of disease . * See answer to question 24 , page 18 . 27. How would you choose a wet - nurse ? 24 ADVICE TO A MOTHER .
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allowed appearance apply approve attack attended attention bath become better blood body bowels bread breast breath called cause chest child clothes cold consequence consider consumption course dangerous death delicate diet disease dress early effect especially exercise face fire flannel frequently fresh girl give given gums habit hand head importance infant keep leave light live look lungs means Medical medicine mild milk mind months morning mother nature necessary never night nurse objection occur pain parents patient persons play possible practice prevent produce proper quantity recommend remarks remedy requires rubbed rule severe sick skin sleep sometimes soon stomach strong suffer symptoms taken teeth things tion treatment usually vaccination warm washed whole young youth
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Page 217 - UNHAPPY White * ! while life was in its spring, And thy young Muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When science...
Page 217 - And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 217 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 102 - tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Page 107 - ... mens sana in corpore sano" (a sound mind in a sound body).
Page 217 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest regret that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume.
Page 96 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Page 212 - Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The breath of night's destructive to the hue Of every flower that blows. Go to the field, And ask the humble daisy why it sleeps Soon as the sun departs: Why close the eyes Of blossoms infinite, ere the still moon Her oriental veil puts off? Think why, Nor let the sweetest blossom be exposed That nature boasts, to night's unkindly damp.
Page 97 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Page 200 - ... the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them. The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumption, nor have I ever known but one instance of spitting blood among them.