Show HEALTH HINT ETC COMPILED BY MAC cut out these hints 11 and keep them concluding quotations from how to feed the baby I 1 I 1 1 I am far f from born asserting that infant mortality would wholly cease with the adoption of this system confining infants infanti from birth to two or three meals a day although it is my tirra firm belief that it would pi deserve the lives of three fourths of the healthy born infants who dj die e before entering the third year there will still be occasion tor for the exercise of care to guard against excess and improper substances and and there can be no absolute security a against ainest disease without due regard jor lor all mr the laws of life says dr oswald the representative nurse believes in cramming babies like prize piss pigs are most admired when they are ready to die with fatty degeneration the child is coaxed to S suckle almost every halt hour day after day till habit begets a morbid appetite to the dyspeptics stomach distress which no food can relieve till brings on a sort of gastric lethargy where there was positive vive evidence of an inefficient supply of breast milk where the nursing infant should show positive signs of inanition grow row at all weak or emaciated I 1 would would arize in place of trying an extra nursing t that at the effort be made to increase the flow ow of milk by means of a more nourishing diet than the usual one unleavened bread or mush made from the unbolted meal of corn has very much more inore nutriment p pound aund for pound than is ie cont contained mined in beef or mutton notwithstanding the fallacy that classes the latter as hearty heart food A generous ye nerous I 1 diet of bread breay milk andar and fruit ag t will enable any natural mother to furnish an abundance of rich ich milk to nourish her infant on three meals and is the diet best adapted in any case for the nursing woman WHEN TO leoin BEGIN FEEDING when the mouth bristles with teeth allow the baby a little chew able bread best made from unald ted whole wheat meal honest graham give it dry and also begin the use of fruit after the dry bread is eatn eaten then offer the bottle increase the bread and fruit ration gradually I 1 would strongly recommend the abe continued use of the bottle so do long bougas as milk forms any part of the childs diet in no other way will he take it slowly enough to prevent flooding the stomach and consequent indigestion all milk eat ing creatures are and should ever be suc klings at least milk should sever never be drank like water finally Final lyof of one thing we may rest assured when weaning time comes no child will suffer himself to become too hungry ae J he will never refuse needed food to his hurt 11 D true mother mothe r love seeks first of all the comfort and well being of helpless infancy babies are often tortured b by y too many and too light fitting garments through the ignorance or carelessness of their attendants or ebirt ciul ply to gratify the mothers silly pride and are treated in all respects in man many case more like a doll in the andt hands of its make believe mother than like a sensitive little human being entitled tak ditled to every possible com comforting comfor fortin tm atre free use of the developing body limbs muscles and or gans dr hanaford speaking of the needless and injurious bands or swathes says if possible there is far less occasion for these for the child than the mother this is true from the f fact act that the bones of the babe are exceeding yielding being little more than cartilage cart ilane af if the swathe is worn tight so much so as to diminish dir ninish the size of the abdomen bringing the ends of the floating ribs nearer than while in their natural position their yielding nature will soon admit of malformation a permanent contraction ot of the size of the he waist and of course any such crowding together of the viti vital organs by this early bandaging of the chest and bowels must just to that extent maim mahn aud and cripple the body interfering with the action of all the internal organs more especially of the stomach heart and lungs bringing the walls of the air cells in contact resulting in adhesion and in serious diseases of the lungs it it not in consumption that scourge of civilization 11 where diapers are used at all the of oftener tener they are changed chanced for fresh ones the better they should never be used after being stained till washed thoroughly rinsed and reed freed f from f rom soap the best kind to use are the ones that are always dropping off I 1 the superstitious fear Jear of night air has done and is doing its share in breeding disease as well I 1 as preventing recover recovery y of the sick the creator his has seen lit to give us no other between sunset and sunrise and the question 19 S simply shall we take it as pure as possible by sufficient and perpetual ventilation or shall we shut up a broomf room all full or house bouse houe ho usefull full and breathe it over and over again making it more damp and more impure with every breath in the latter case all the ahe members of the household are starving for want of oxygen and are poisoned by carbonic caro onic acid and the tender infant is the sufferer the face of an infant should biever bever be covered but bat should be fully exposed when in its crib and the bedclothes not brought up up in a manner likely to cover the face or any part of lit f from rom movements on the part of the babe babies are often tucked up so nice that there is no escape from breathing the air emanating from their own bodies as it escapes about the face even if it Is I 1 is possible os to see vie the babas nose by inking a sharp effort babies have been smothered to death beneath their wraps on long rides and as a rule they are al allowed owed to suffer lor for want of the pure outdoor air even when taken out for an airing if the weather is at all cool A weh ventilated room gives them better belter air than they can have out of doors if talt face is covered by an ordinary veil they should go out every day except in severe weather but the face should not be covered ventilation I 1 oxygen is the mightily scavenger in t the be vital economy the general purifier and clearer everywhere among the crevices and interstices of the vital plexus it lies lu la wait seizing upon all stray stuff waste products of functions f unc matt matters rs of all kinds and converting these forthwith into harmless and co compounds and this true friend always ready and free as air so vital at all times and in a tenfold ten fold degree to the sick nick is la in most cases treated worse than a decent tramp and the windows and doors sealed against it sick or well we should always avoid standing sitting ing or lying in a direct current of air either day or night but owing to the stupid interpretation of this rule the draught and night air bugbears have sent thousands to premature graves graved and should themselves have been burled buried years ago with the companion humbug no water in fever when we reflect that the whole volume of the blood makes the circuit of the body once in every halt minute or thereabouts passing through the lungs to exchange carbonic acid lor for oxygen it is easy to see why the brIm breathing thing of a vitiated atmosphere for only two or three hours out of the 24 is sufficient to produce scrofula consumption pump tion and othet other alarming conditions while causing a predisposition to croup diphtheria fevers fever and aad the infantile diseases the true theory of ventilation is to obtain a perpetual and sufficient e hange change of air twit without hout sensitize xena sens ihle itile arau drau draught tue following simple plan as I 1 have Z 6 proved by years y ears of t experience perfectly f these requirements aud anu leaves nothing to be desired y the scientific Ante american rican endorses the plan ian and places it above many in fact most of the elaborate and expensive devices A three inch strip placed beneath the lower sash of each window has the effect to mismatch the sashes causing them to overlap each other in the middle middie the stream of air thus admitted is thrown directly upward and slowly mixes with the heated air in the upper part of the zoom loom As several windows in bagh room are thus provided the vitiated air is constantly passing out oat at one or another of the strip being perfectly fitted or listed no a air r can enter at the sill and abdall all ou can n be so nicely finished at as in no manner to mar the appearance of the most elegant drawing room A dwelling thus ventilated will never emeli I 1 close I 1 to the most sensitive nose upon reentering entering re even af after ter a iod long g stay in the open air aest eit that would condemn as unfit for occupancy ninety in the hundred sitting tin g a and nl sleeping rooms as well as churches halls etc the world over an eminent imminent has said As a medical man I 1 have visited thousands of sick rooms and have not found in one in a hundred of them a pure atmosphere I 1 have of often ten returned from church doubting whether I 1 had not committed a sin gin in exposing myself so long to its poisonous air in 1361 1061 1 I visited a legislative hall the legislature being in session I 1 remained half an hour in the most impure air I 1 ever breathed it is no wonder that we have bad laws jaws our oar schoolhouses school houses are some ot of them so vile in this respect that I 1 would prefer to have my children remain in utter ignorance of books rather than to breathe six hours every day 18 uch such a poisonous atmosphere twelve hound iu in a railway car exhausts one often not no b by the journey journeying iX but bat because of the devitalized air no two persons whatever their relationship should habitually occupy the same bed there are many instances where this habit goes a great way toward hasten I 1 ing the decline and premature death of M the weaker individual the baby should by all means have nis his own single cot if possible worms will never trouble a well fed child indigestible food or overeating is usually the cause of these natural scavengers bread of unbolted grato ripe fruits alad vegetal ve vegetables getiL simply boiled or baked infrequent meals and temperance cV constitute tu te eplin aplan of medication that is death on worms and better than au all tile the nos arums and fuges in existence remember that if you would save the babies health and life they must not be nursed or fed oftener than three times daily milk is the natural and best food for infants they must hive have a plentiful supply of fre freh frech h air they must be allowed perfect freedom to exercise their limbs no article tot of clothing should fit tight or corf compress press any part of the body remember also that excessive lat fat in babies bable sor or grown rown people as well as in pigs pig sandal and all I 1 other animals isal is a danger signal indicating di disease the same remarks apply to children of a larger growth except that after the age of eighteen months a gradual change in diet may be made from milk to grain products f fresh trait and vegetables et no child under seven years year of age should ever be allowed to eat any kind of flesh food 25 tracts on health topics for loats A book about what slid and how to cook and eat for health loats mailed by D M mcallister 66 centre st salt lake city |