CHAPTER XXI

THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER

What mothers should know about the care of children during illness--A sick child should be in bed--The diet of the sick child--A child is the most helpless living thing--The delicate child--How to feed the delicate child--How to bathe the delicate child--Airing the delicate child--Habits of the delicate child--Indiscriminate feeding--Poor appetite--Loss of appetite--Treatment of loss of appetite--Overeating in infancy--What correct eating means--Bran as a food--Breakfast for a child at school--Lunch for a child at school--Bran muffins for school children--Bran muffins in constipation--Hysterical children--What a mother should know about cathartics and how to give a dose of castor oil--Castor oil--Calomel--Citrate of Magnesium--When to use castor oil--When to use calomel--Vaccination--Time for vaccination--Methods of vaccination--Symptoms of successful vaccination ... PAGE 277