The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

By means of the water the food is kept in a state of minute subdivision or in solution, so that the delicate organs of a young infant can digest it. It is also necessary to enab...

A healthy child should have at least one movement each day; many have two and some more than two; but it is the character of the stools rather than their number which is to be t...

Throughout this period the largest meal should always be in the middle of the day, and a light supper given, very much like that described for the third year. During the first h...

It should not be given sooner than one hour after feeding. The room should be warm; if possible there should be an open fire. The head and face should first be washed and dried;...