The Physical Training of Children

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND; FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICO CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, BIRMINGHAM; AU...

Certainly. I deem it to be your imperative duty to _study_ the subject well. The proper management of children is a vital question,—a mother’s question,—and the most important t...

A baby’s clothing ought to be light, warm, loose, and free from pins. (1.) _It should be light_, without being too airy. Many infants’ clothes are both too long and too cumberso...

It must first be ascertained, _beyond all doubt_, that a mother is not able to suckle her own child. Many delicate ladies do suckle their infants with advantage, not only to the...

When he is two months old, as the sooner he is protected the better. Moreover, the older he is the greater will be the difficulty in making him submit to the operation, and in p...

I would apply no external application to cure it, as I should look upon it as an effort of the constitution to relieve itself; and should expect, if the “breaking-out” were repe...

_What to do in a case of convulsions from hooping-cough._—There is nothing better than dashing cold water on the face, and immersing him in a warm bath of 98 degrees Fahr. If he...

_What to do._—If the child be at the breast, keep him to it, and let him have nothing else, for dysentery is frequently caused by improper feeding. If your milk be not good, or...

If the head be wetted before he be placed in the tub, and if he be washed as above directed, there can be no valid objection to it. He must not be allowed to remain in the tub m...

Milk contains every ingredient to build up the body, which is more than can be said of any other known substance. A child may live entirely, and become both healthy and strong,...

The nursery ought to have a large fire-guard, to go all round the hearth, and which should be sufficiently high to prevent a child from climbing over. Not only must the nursery...

Let every word and action prove that you love your children. Enter into all their little pursuits and pleasures. Join them in their play, and “be a child again!” If they are cur...

I do, if the arrangements be such that health is preferred before learning. “According to Aristotle, more care should be taken of the body than of the mind for the first seven y...

Water on the brain is, as a rule, a disease of childhood; after a child is seven years old it is comparatively rare. It more frequently attacks delicate children—children who ha...

If a medical man cannot be procured, I will tell you _what to do_: Confine the child to his bed-room, and if very ill, to his bed. If it be winter time, have a little fire in th...

These old women—this jury of matrons—stumbled on the right remedy, “all the doors in the house ... were thrown wide open,” and thus they thoroughly ventilated the apartment. Wha...

_What to do._—_In the first stage_, the commencement of hooping-cough: For the first ten days give the ipecacuanha wine mixture, a teaspoonful three times a day. (For the prescr...

Certainly not: if you wish to take away his appetite and to weaken and depress him, give him brimstone! Brimstone is not a remedy fit for a child’s stomach. The principal use an...

Let him have every morning, if it be summer, a thorough cold water ablution; if it be winter, let the water be made tepid. Let either two handfuls of table salt or a handful of...

Give him your entire confidence. Be truthful and be candid with him. Tell him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Have no reservations; give him, as near as y...

Instantly, but tenderly remove, either by means of a camel’s-hair brush or by a small spill of paper, any bit of lime that may adhere to the ball of the eye, or that may be with...

The art of learning to swim is quite as necessary to be learned by a girl as by a boy; the former has similar muscles, lungs, and other organs to develop as the latter. It is ve...

Walking exercise is not sufficiently insisted upon. A boy or a girl, to be in the enjoyment of good health, ought to walk at least ten miles every day. I do not mean ten miles a...

Certainly not. The natural and the graceful curve of the back is not the curve of a straight-backed chair. Straight-backed chairs are instruments of torture, and are more likely...

But do not despair; many scrofulous patients are cured by time and by judicious treatment. But if desperate remedies are to be used, the poor patient had better _by far_ be left...

Iron medicines ought always to be taken _after_ instead of _before_ a meal. The best times of the day for taking either of the above mixtures will be eleven o’clock, four o’cloc...

The time of life when hysterics occur is generally from the age of fifteen to fifty. Hysterics come on by paroxysms—hence they are called hysterical fits. A patient, just before...

Before presenting a few from the numerous commendations to this invaluable work, we desire to furnish the _verbatim_ copy of an able letter addressed to the editor by JOHN BELL,...