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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ON NURSING. Though it is not now the custom, as formerly, for every opulent mother to throw her infant on the bosom of a stranger, for that nourishment which nature commands her to administer from her own, yet it is still far too common for women of a certain rank, and their imitators, to submit to this barbarous refinement, which is often injurious to the health of both mothers and children ; and which all who see it in a just point of view should use their utmost endeavours to abolish. It is certain that there are women who, from a principle of conscience, should refrain from suckling ; but the number of those unfortunate persons is comparatively so small, that if no others abstained from the performance of this first maternal duty, the exceptions would be scarcely observable. Women of a very scrophulous constitution, those who have strong symptoms of pulmonary consumption, and such as are liable to some sorts of uterine debility, should endeavour to remedy their own defects by procuring for their infants the milk of more healthy nurses. Some few, also, there may be, who, either by excessive debility of nerves or uncommon weakness of stomach, are rendered unfit for this office ; but, generally speaking, every woman who is capable of bringing forth a robust, healthy child, is capable of supplying its appropriate nourishment. Many women are discouraged from suckling their children, by apprehensions of the great confinement and excessive fatigue attendant on the duties of a nurse ; and many others are induced to give it up, after the trial of a few days or weeks, on account of some tempo
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Advice to Young Mothers on the Physical Education of Children, by a Grandmother
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